OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENT · CLASS OF 2028

A future in medicine.
Rooted in Florida.

I’m Tryfon Theophilopoulos, a third-year medical student at Burrell College of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine. My training brings together biology, psychology, research, and community service.

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2028D.O. classCOMLEX Level 1PassedMelbourne, FLMedical school

Tryfon Theophilopoulos wearing a navy suit and tie — TRYFON THEOPHILOPOULOSBurrell College of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine

01 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WHITE COAT

Learning across disciplines.
Showing up for people.

I grew up in Tarpon Springs and earned degrees in Biological Sciences and Psychology at Florida State University, graduating magna cum laude with University Honors and Honors in the Major.

From the Tampa Bay area to Tallahassee and now medical school in Melbourne, Florida has shaped my education and service. I hope to build my career caring for people across the state.

WHY MEDICINE

The difference it makes to be heard.

My own experience as a patient taught me how vulnerable it can feel to be in pain, uncertain, and afraid that your concerns are not being heard. A physician who listened closely and kept searching for an answer showed me the value of combining clinical skill with persistence and compassion. That experience continues to shape the kind of physician I hope to become.

LOOKING AHEAD / PSYCHIATRY

Understanding the person as well as the illness.

I intend to pursue psychiatry. Studying psychology alongside biology helped me appreciate how mental health, family relationships, and lived experiences shape the way people navigate illness. I’m drawn to a field where careful listening and scientific inquiry work together.

FEATURED / BURRELL STUDENT PROFILE

A closer
introduction.

Watch my student profile, shared by Burrell College of Health Sciences.

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02 / RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP

Questions worth
following further.

From molecular mechanisms to mobility and complex clinical cases.

POSTER PRESENTED · 2026

Six-Week Changes in Mobility and Dual-Task Performance in Rock Steady Boxing Participants With Parkinson’s Disease

A two-site observational study evaluating six-week changes in standard and dual-task mobility among 36 participants with Parkinson’s disease continuing community-based Rock Steady Boxing.

My role: Research collaboration and poster preparation
Output: 2026 poster

Project details

Research collaborator, Burrell College of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine, October 2025–present. Poster presented at Medical Student Research Day at Burrell in Melbourne, Florida, in 2026. Mentor: Bob Coni, DO, EdS, FAAN.

Preview of the 2026 Rock Steady Boxing mobility research poster

View 2026 research poster (PDF) ↗

Burrell SOM
2026 poster

LABORATORY RESEARCH · 2025 POSTER

Engineering vascular grafts

Investigated epsin-mimetic peptide delivery in electrospun tissue-engineered vascular grafts in the Bashur Lab at Florida Institute of Technology.

My role: Cell culture, peptide-release and endothelial-migration assays; microvascular surgery training and assistance
Output: 2025 poster

Project details

May–July 2025. Work included cell culture, peptide release and endothelial migration assays, and microvascular rat aorta surgery training and assistance. “Epsin Mimetic Peptide” poster presented at Burrell Student Research Day, September 9, 2025, Melbourne, FL. Authors: Mukhopadhyay E, Goodarzinia F, Jasperson R, Theophilopoulos T. Research mentor: Christopher Bashur, PhD.

Preview of the 2025 Epsin Mimetic Peptide vascular graft research poster

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Florida Tech
2025 poster

HONORS THESIS · FSU REPOSITORY

Dengue protease & cGAS

Characterized DENV-NS2B3 protease cleavage of human and mouse cGAS at Florida State University’s Institute of Molecular Biophysics.

My role: Laboratory investigation of protease cleavage and authorship of an Honors in the Major thesis
Output: 2023 thesis

Project details

Undergraduate researcher, September 2019–May 2023. “DENV-Protease Cleavage of cGAS,” Honors in the Major thesis, 2023, published in the DigiNole Repository.

Defended April 20, 2023 · Thesis director: Dr. Qian Yin.

Read my honors thesis (PDF) ↗
View thesis in FSU’s repository ↗

Florida State
Honors in the Major

Additional scholarship · 2020 presentation & digital humanities

RESEARCH PRESENTATION · 2020

Reconstituting mouse cGAS-DENV NS2B3pro interaction in vitro

Presented at the 2020 Florida State University Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Bhattacharya M, Theophilopoulos TG, Yin Q.

Florida State
2020 symposium

DIGITAL HUMANITIES · ACADEMIC PROJECT

Medical history through a digital lens

Student contributor to FSU’s Digital Egyptian Gazette in fall 2019, encoding historical newspaper articles and medical terminology. My author page brings together work on medical terminology, medicine analysis, and the history of Doan’s Kidney Pills.

Explore my Digital Egyptian Gazette work ↗

Florida State
Digital Microhistory Lab

ONGOING / MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

Clinical questions I’m working on.

Three manuscripts in progress; none is published yet.

Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) Case Series StudyCase series · Working project title
Not Everything That Deposits Is Amyloid: Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis Amid a Multisystem Diagnostic MysteryCase report · Vilchez G, Ramirez O, Theophilopoulos T
When the Criteria Fail the Patient: Reclaiming the Internist as Diagnostician in Atypical IgG4-Related Lung DiseaseCase report · Vilchez G, Ramirez O, Theophilopoulos T

03 / EDUCATION & CLINICAL TRAINING

A foundation.
Expanding clinical experience.

COMLEX Level 1 passed
ACLS & BLS provider · July 2026

2024–PRESENT

Burrell College of Health Sciences

School of Osteopathic Medicine

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Class of 2028 · Melbourne, FL

Honors Distinction in Principles of Clinical Practice, April 2025.

2019–2023

Florida State University

B.S. Biological Sciences & B.S. Psychology · Chemistry minor

Magna cum laude · University Honors & Honors in the Major.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Learning in Florida’s clinical communities

Infectious disease · 2026 · Four weeks
Rotated with Gabriel Vilchez, MD, and Oriana Ramirez, MD, at Orlando Health Melbourne Regional Hospital, Health First Holmes Regional Hospital, and Bluegrass ID Associates Clinic.

General surgery · 2026 · Four weeks
Rotated with Mohamad Hammoud, MD, at Health First Palm Bay Hospital.

Obstetrics & gynecology · 2026 · Four weeks
Rotated with Jennifer Escobar Diaz, MD, at Hibiscus / Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center.

Additional shadowing experience in hand surgery, orthopedics, general surgery, and sports medicine.

04 / LEADERSHIP & SERVICE

Community is part
of the work.

Rock Steady Boxing

50+ hours supporting exercise sessions for people with Parkinson’s disease in Melbourne. Volunteer coach, January 2025–March 2026; helped support a Parkinson’s fundraiser in April 2025.

Beach Medicine Club

Founder and founding president, April 2025–March 2026. Promoted water safety, beach stewardship, mental health, and Stop the Bleed training, and organized a beginner surf lesson day for medical students.

Teaching & mentorship

Big-Little mentor to first-year medical students, former high school substitute teacher, and former FSU learning assistant in biochemistry and eukaryotic diversity.

More leadership, service & teaching

Student leadership

Treasurer, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Club, January 2025–March 2026. Co-author of the Class of 2028 Honor Code, October 2024. Student Advisory Board, FSU Center for Undergraduate Research, 2021–2022.

Community volunteering

100+ hours as a front-desk volunteer at Florida Hospital North Pinellas in Tarpon Springs, 2018–2019. Clinic volunteer at Orthopedic Specialists in Palm Harbor, 2020–2022.

Teaching experience

Substitute high school teacher, Pasco County Schools, January–May 2024. FSU learning assistant in General Biochemistry I, August–December 2021, and Eukaryotic Diversity, January–May 2022.

Beach Medicine Club · Photos from the water

Beach Medicine Club members smiling together on the beach with a surfboard — Beach Medicine Club · Learning to surf together

Surfboards on the sand and a club member beside the ocean at dawn — Boards ready · A morning by the water

More background · awards, skills & shadowing

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS & EXPERIENCE

Recognition along the way

FSU Dean’s List across multiple semesters, 2019–2023; University Freshman Scholarship, 2019–2023; Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program participant, 2019–2020. Undergraduate GPA: 3.756.

Professional development

Health First’s Dine With Our Docs, April 23, 2026.

Laboratory & research skills

Cell culture, electrospinning, fibrin scaffold fabrication, protein purification, SDS-PAGE, Western blot, and rodent microvascular surgery anesthesia and preparation. Literature review, database searching, spreadsheet analysis, and data visualization.

Additional clinical shadowing

Hand surgery with Brian Williams, DO (124 hours); orthopedics with Scott Brotherton, MD (30 hours), Brian Maiocco, MD (21 hours), and Taylor Beatty, DO (6 hours); general surgery with Alan Graves, MD (16 hours) and Christopher James, MD (2 hours); sports medicine with Brandon Taylor, MD (8 hours).

KEEP IN TOUCH

Research, training, and community.

I welcome connections with colleagues and collaborators.

Download CV ↗Get in touch ↗

Tryfon riding a wave, photographed from the front of his surfboard — Time on the water · Surfing

05 / BEYOND MEDICINE

Saltwater.
Strategy.
A little curiosity.

I enjoy traveling to new places, surfing, cycling, college football, and intramural flag football. At home, I’m usually playing Dota 2, building a PC, or troubleshooting hardware.

ON THE WATERSurfing videos on YouTube ↗Watch clips from my channel · @tryfontheo

Strava ↗Instagram ↗Apple Music ↗

Dota 2 · Immortal rank & match activity

Dota 2 · Immortal rank

A personal milestone in Dota 2, one of the most difficult competitive multiplayer video games.

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DOTA 2 / IMMORTAL

Among the top 4.29%

Immortal bracket · STRATZ snapshot, October 15, 2026.

How this is calculated

Herald

10.25%

Guardian

16.57%

Crusader

18.72%

Archon

18.35%

Legend

15.86%

Ancient

10.02%

Divine

5.94%

Immortal

4.29%

↑ Tryfon · Immortal

Percentile is the entry threshold for the Immortal bracket among 8,364,018 calibrated accounts, not my exact standing within it. Uncalibrated accounts excluded.

Source: STRATZ rank distribution ↗ · October 15, 2026 · My STRATZ profile ↗

Dota 2 · 2026 match activity

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Ancient V → Immortal

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August 15–September 23 · Ancient V → Immortal
Dates mark my first and last recorded ranked games during this period; the exact promotion date is not confirmed by the public medal history.

Snapshot: October 15, 2026 · OpenDota public match history ↗. Includes bot matches, Turbo, and Ability Draft. Dates in Eastern time. Green means more wins, red means more losses, and yellow means an even record. Public history may be incomplete.