Dr. Javaneh Jabbari

High School Graduation Year: 2007
Year First Awarded the Carson Scholarship: 2005
Sponsored by: The Abell Foundation

Dr. Javaneh Jabbari was 3-time Carson scholar, who was awarded in 2005. After high school she went on to Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 2011 with her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and her B.A in History of Science. After her undergraduate studies, Dr. Jabbari went on to earn her masters in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and graduated in 2013. She then went to Medical school in Omaha at Creighton University and graduated in 2018. Dr. Jabbari completed her General Surgery Residency at the University of Kansas in 2023 and her Vascular Surgery fellowship at University of Maryland in 2025. She is currently a vascular surgeon at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD and the Site Director for the University of Maryland Vascular Surgery Fellowship.

When asked what guided her towards the career that she has now, she responded “I think generally I knew I wanted to focus on biology and science, but I did not know the specifics. I didn’t even know what vascular surgery was when I was in high school. If you had told me that I would become a vascular surgeon I wouldn’t have even known what that is. It is ok to not know your exact path in high school. In college, I took different classes to find my exact passion and also realized there were some things I was not very good at. For instance, I took a philosophy class, and I was not good at that, and that’s ok. I think it is important to keep an open mind. There are going to be some people in college who are going to be very adamant about what they want to do, and they might know it. And there are going to be some people who don’t know. But most people are just going to be somewhere in the middle. I think you are going to have some idea, but it is okay to explore other things, and I think that is what college is really about. So don’t be discouraged if you don’t have your next 10 years planned out in high school, you will figure it out.”

Dr. Jabbari has a passion for mentoring and helping her community. She serves as a mentor for Mercy High school students who are interested in a career in medicine. She is interested in teaching at every level and also serves as a faculty for the Vascular Surgery fellowship and residency at University of Maryland. She is a fan of Baltimore and likes it best of all the places she has lived at. She grew up in Baltimore and being able to come back and work there has been very full circle for her and that Baltimore holds a special place in her heart.

When recalling her memory from being a Carson Scholar, she remembers the banquets that she attended as a scholar being a highlight of her year. Dr. Jabbari loved being able to bring her family to the banquets and to meet and interact with other CSF students. She said that earning the Carson scholarship gave her a sense of pride and it inspired her to apply every year. She loved sharing the day with so many other people who worked hard.

We asked Dr. Jabbari if there is any advice that she would like to share with our current scholars, “The biggest advice that I would share with people is to remember that everyone’s path is different. If you look at somebody that is a doctor or engineer or artist or whatever you want to be in your life, there are no two paths that are similar. So don’t be discouraged if your path looks a little bit different than someone else’s. You pave your own way, and I think that kind of goes back to seeing all of the different people at the Carson Scholars Dinner and just realizing everyone is trying to get to maybe a common goal of achieving something or getting to college but everybody’s path is going to be different and that is okay. That is what is nice about life.”