Dr. Chahla’s Research Team 2025 – 2026
Tommy Vega
Research Fellow
He enjoys hiking, mountain biking, and cooking up meals for friends and family with a cold beer in hand. An added fun fact is that he has paddled across the Panama Canal three times in a wooden boat known as a cayuco.
Jacob Morgan
Research Fellow
Jacob Morgan is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who earned his BA in Integrative Physiology from the University of Colorado Boulder and began his research training in basic science studying centriole assembly and ciliogenesis. During medical school, he completed a yearlong orthopaedic research fellowship with Drs. Jorge Chahla and Nikhil Verma at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, focusing on joint preservation and reconstruction, return to sport, orthobiologics, patient-reported outcomes, and biomechanics, and also helped secure grant funding to expand access to mental health care for high school student-athletes in Colorado.
Logan Moews
Research Fellow
Logan Moews was a clinical research fellow for Dr. Jorge Chahla at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. He received his medical degree in 2026 from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Prior to graduating medical school, he played four years of Division 1 football at the University of Dayton. Logan is interested in clinical outcomes and biomechanical research in orthopedic sports medicine. He is currently a PGY-1 orthopedic surgery resident at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, IL.
Tanner Nishioka
Research Fellow
Tanner Nishioka is a medical student at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed a clinical research fellowship with Dr. Jorge Chahla at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, focusing on sports medicine outcomes in athletes. A 2017 Boston Red Sox draft pick, Tanner played professional baseball before medicine and brings a firsthand perspective on injury and return-to-play to his work.