Omneya Kandil is a sixth-year medical student from the Alexandria Faculty of Medicine in Egypt. Throughout medical school, the cardiovascular system has always piqued her curiosity and her interest was heightened when she travelled on a research exchange program to Indonesia for a month. It was there that she witnessed how research trials are conducted and where she attended multiple journal club sessions held by residents on recently published work in cardiology. She also got a glimpse of different innovative therapies under development such as the Enhanced External Counterpulsation, which was developed for patients with chronic stable angina who are unfit for surgery. Her love for cardiology reached its climax when she underwent an observership at Magdy Yacoub's Aswan Heart Center which allowed her to take a deep dive into the cardiology world with its different fields by attending complex cardiac surgeries, catheterization laboratories, adult and pediatric clinics, and the adult and pediatric ICU. She said, "When you attend a congenital cardiac surgery and then see how this mini human being hangs on to life in the NICU, you can't be anything but mesmerized, and your eagerness to be one day, able to touch their lives exponentiate."

Her keen interest in cardiology and dedication to research stems from multiple factors including having witnessed the TIPS3 trial, an international trial in Indonesia, making a difference in the field she loves so much, and from her belief in the importance of research in shaping our medical guidelines. Thus, she has invested her time in research and now has over 11 published manuscripts some of which were represented in national cardiology conferences. Her research covers different topics in cardiology from polypills for primary prevention to ultrafiltration during cardiopulmonary bypass. Her contributions to literature were internationally recognized when she received the Paul Dudley White Award for her abstract presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions.

Impressively, she also started a YouTube channel to disseminate medical information through minutes length videos, because she believes that some medical misconceptions need to be known by everyone. She was inspired to launch her channel when she first knew about absence seizures, in which a child stares into space, usually in class, but could mistakenly be considered as inattentive and punished by the teacher and this repeatedly happens which may affect the child's psychology. From her reflection on this situation, she thought that there are many similar conditions (i.e, vitiligo, congenital heart disease), in which people's lives could be improved if the scientific community and the community in general were more informed about these rare yet deadly diseases.