Baran Ak, DO

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Baran Ak, DO

Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine


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Baran Ak is an Emergency Medicine resident at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He graduated from Fordham University with a degree in pre-med Biology. He graduated with a medical degree from William Carey University. His clinical interests include POCUS and EMS.

    • DO 2026, William Carey University
    • BS 2021, Fordham University
    • Ciaccio J.A., Ak B., Hassan K. Isolation of Sesamin from Consumer Goods and Investigation of Its Acid-Catalyzed Epimerization: An Introductory Organic Lab Experiment Combining Natural Product Isolation and Spectral Analysis Journal of Chemical Education. 2023;100(7):2739-2745.

    • Kehrer T., Cupic A., Ye C., Yildiz S., Bouhaddou M., Crossland N.A., Barrall E.A., Cohen P., Tseng A., Çağatay T., Rathnasinghe R., Flores D., Jangra S., Alam F., Mena I., Aslam S., Saqi A., Rutkowska M., Ummadi M.R., Pisanelli G., Richardson R.B., Veit E.C., Fabius J.M., Soucheray M., Polacco B.J., Ak B., Marin A., Evans M.J., Swaney D.L., Gonzalez-Reiche A.S., Sordillo E.M., van Bakel H., Simon V., Zuliani-Alvarez L., Fontoura B.M.A., Rosenberg B.R., Krogan N.J., Martinez-Sobrido L., García-Sastre A., Miorin L. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 and its variant polymorphisms on host responses and viral pathogenesis Cell Host and Microbe. 2023;31(10):1668-1684.e12.

    • Ciaccio J.A., Ak B. Rapid Isolation of Plant Essential Oil Components by Small-Scale Dry Column Vacuum Chromatography: An Experiment Combining Natural Product Isolation and Antibacterial Testing Journal of Chemical Education. 2022;99(7):2704-2709.