• Royce Fellowship
Akanksha
Mehta

Concentration 

International Studies

Award Year 

2001

Akanksha will study the significance of chronic diarrhea as an opportunistic infection among HIV-positive patients in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He will examine the history, clinical presentation and causative pathogens associated with chronic diarrhea in an in-patient hospital setting.

Dr. Akanksha Mehta is a Senior Associate and Health Services Scholar in the Department of Urology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Mehta graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with double Bachelor degrees; Science (Biology) and International Relations. Dr. Mehta attended medical school at Alpert Medical School at Brown University in Providence, RI, where she also did her General Surgery internship and Urology residency. She then completed a fellowship in Male Infertility and Microsurgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, NY, before joining Emory Urology in 2013. Outside of Urology, Dr. Mehta maintains a keen interest in International Health; she has been involved in providing clinical care in Cambodia and Kenya, and has more recently completed a medical mission in Pediatric Urology to Bangladesh.