Victor (Ran) You
Summary
Recent Johns Hopkins graduate focused on stroke, aphasia, acute neurologic injury, and global injury prevention. Experience spans post-stroke neuroimaging, behavioral language outcomes, road safety epidemiology, public health operations, and patient-facing navigation, with technical strengths in lesion tracing, data management, statistical workflows, and implementation-focused public health.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Researcher
Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit
Baltimore, USA
08.2025 - Current
- Analyze observational road safety data from Mombasa, Kenya for a Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety project on helmet use, seatbelt use, and speeding.
- Contribute to data cleaning, variable construction, statistical analysis, and interpretation within Safe Systems and public health policy frameworks for global injury prevention strategy.
Neuropathology Research Intern
Koliatsos Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, USA
08.2024 - Current
- Investigate programmed axonal degeneration and neuronal cell body loss after diffuse traumatic brain injury, focusing on SARM1 and DLK/LZK signaling in corticospinal and other long tracts.
- Quantify axonal degeneration and neuronal morphology using Fiji/ImageJ, AIVIA machine learning-assisted segmentation, stereology, confocal z-stacks, expansion microscopy, and reproducible image-analysis pipelines.
Clinical Research Intern
SCORE Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, USA
11.2022 - Current
- Conduct post-stroke aphasia research examining Western Aphasia Battery outcomes, lesion burden, race, education, brain age, and clinical-neuroimaging correlates in acute and chronic stroke survivors.
- Processed 400+ post-stroke MRI scans using MRIcron, SPM12, MATLAB, OsiriX, WSL-based workflows, and BrainageR for lesion tracing, lesion volume quantification, enantiomorphic normalization, and brain age estimation.
- Contributed to fNIRS, discourse comprehension, language testing, and longitudinal stroke recovery projects; co-authored ongoing manuscript work and delivered a first-author invited oral presentation at CAC 2026 RSCA Extended Panel.
Administrative Intern
Baltimore City Health Department
Baltimore, USA
07.2023 - 12.2025
- Supported administration of a $6.7M CDC COVID-19 disparities grant and mini-grants program distributing $1.6M across 12 under-resourced neighborhoods serving 80,000+ residents.
- Co-authored APHA 2024 poster abstract on subcontractor-based grant distribution; supported Community Health Assessment, clinics assessment, and Community Health Improvement Plan workflows.
- Built Excel and Power Automate tools to streamline grant monitoring and operations for a $5M CDC-funded Baltimore Diabetes Prevention Program.
Strategy Intern
Maryland Office of Resilience, Maryland Department of Emergency Management
Hanover, USA
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Contributed text, appendices, data, and design components for the Maryland Resilience Strategy; represented the Office in meetings with agencies and external stakeholders.
- Developed stakeholder engagement SOPs, AI-assisted grant identification workflows, GIS mapping of funding streams, and statewide systems to track resilience projects, contractors, outreach, and agency coordination.
Administrative Contractor
Canadian Red Cross
Vancouver, Canada
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Streamlined Health Equipment Loan Program operations, increasing processing efficiency by 2.5x, reducing client wait times by up to six months, and training 20+ volunteers in equipment loan workflows.
Health Advocate
Hopkins Community Connection
Baltimore, USA
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Navigated resource cases for 45 patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital Outpatient Center, documented encounters in Epic, and connected patients to essential services such as SNAP, OHEP, Medicare, Medicaid, housing, transportation, and legal aid.
Volunteer and Finance Coordinator
Johns Hopkins Hospital Adult Emergency Department
Baltimore, USA
05.2023 - Current
- Conduct comfort rounding, restocking, fall-risk support, and patient communication in a high-acuity ED environment with exposure to stroke alerts, traumatic injuries, seizures, cardiac arrests, and other emergencies.
- Support volunteer program operations, including training 5+ volunteers, uniform distribution, and financial logistics.
Education
BS - Molecular & Cellular Biology And Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD05-2026
Skills
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Visualization
- REDCap
- Epic EHR
- MRIcron
- SPM/SPM12
- OsiriX
- Fiji/ImageJ
- GraphPad Prism
- AIVIA
- Confocal microscopy
- Power BI
- Excel
- Dedoose
- Project Management
- WSL
Presentations and Publications
- You, V., Tilton-Bolowsky, V., & Bunker, L. D., A re-examination of aphasia severity as modulated by race and lesion size in Black and White chronic stroke survivors., Invited oral presentation, Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2026 RSCA Extended Panel, 2026
- Tilton-Bolowsky, V., Durfee, A. Z., Bunker, L. D., You, V., Kang, J., Kim, H., & Hillis, A. E., Affective prosody and facial expression cues differentially augment spoken discourse comprehension for acute left and right hemisphere stroke survivors., Manuscript under review, Neuropsychologia, 2025
- You, V., Tilton-Bolowsky, V., & Bunker, L. D., A re-examination of aphasia severity as modulated by race and lesion size in Black and White chronic stroke survivors: A partial replication., In preparation
- Author order TBD., Helmet use, seatbelt use, and speeding among road users in Mombasa, Kenya: A cross-sectional analysis of behavioral risk factors., In preparation
- You, V., Peralta, M., Green, T., Dambreville, C., Shrestha, S., Forrestal, C., & Morgan, M., Dispersal of mini-grant funding through a subcontractor to address COVID-19 health disparities., Poster, APHA Annual Meeting & Expo, 2024
- Shayesteh Far, M., Asimakopoulos, T., Alexandris, A. S., You, V., Ahmed, T., Li, S., Welsbie, D., & Koliatsos, V. E., Axonal degeneration in long tracts following diffuse traumatic brain injury., Poster, NCANS Annual Meeting, 2026, First Place Poster Award
- Peralta, M., You, V., & Green, T., Aligning hospital Community Health Needs Assessments and the local Community Health Assessment in Baltimore City., Poster, PHI
- Con/NACCHO360 Conference, 2026
Timeline
Researcher
Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit
08.2025 - Current
Strategy Intern
Maryland Office of Resilience, Maryland Department of Emergency Management
05.2025 - 08.2025
Neuropathology Research Intern
Koliatsos Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine
08.2024 - Current
Administrative Contractor
Canadian Red Cross
06.2024 - 08.2024
Health Advocate
Hopkins Community Connection
08.2023 - 05.2024
Administrative Intern
Baltimore City Health Department
07.2023 - 12.2025
Volunteer and Finance Coordinator
Johns Hopkins Hospital Adult Emergency Department
05.2023 - Current
Clinical Research Intern
SCORE Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine
11.2022 - Current
BS - Molecular & Cellular Biology And Public Health
Johns Hopkins University