Rida Ismail is a Study Coordinator and Lab Manager for the Bickart Lab. She completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Biomedical Research from UCLA, earning Summa Cum Laude Latin honors and Highest Departmental Honors. Throughout Rida’s undergraduate career, she volunteered at the BrainSPORT Clinic and supported a football mouthguard study and a pediatric clinical trial searching for autonomic, imaging, and blood biomarkers for concussions, which formed the basis of her Neuroscience Capstone. Rida’s current research interest include acute and chronic sleep and menstrual disturbances in concussions.