Karen Khalil earned her bachelors and doctorate of pharmacy from Northeastern University in Boston and subsequently went on to complete a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA where her interest in Solid Organ Transplant began. She then completed a PGY2 in Solid Organ Transplant at University of Illinois at Chicago and joined the NYU Langone Health Transplant Team in 2018 where she managed kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant recipients for 4 years. She is currently the Xenotransplant Project Manager, facilitating and overseeing the ongoing xenotransplant research at NYU Langone Health.