Evangelia Lazaris is a 2nd year fellow in the University of Michigan Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Fellowship. She has a MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and attended the University of Utah for both medical school and ObGyn residency. She has a passion for underrepresented populations, such as the LGBTQIA+ community and the chronic pelvic pain patient population. In fellowship, her research is focused on incorporation of her background in Narrative Medicine in better evaluating social support's effect on chronic pelvic pain patients and their daily functioning, and using this data to help develop non-pharmacologic interventions for chronic pain.