GUESTS
CARDIOLOGY
ZAID ALMARZOOQ, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Zaid Almarzooq is a Clinical Fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and completed his internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine; where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. He is also an active member of the board of directors of the National Residency Matching Program. He is an avid equestrian show jumper and enjoys playing soccer.
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SANJAY Divakaran, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Sanjay Divakaran is a current cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Originally from Long Island, NY, he attended MIT for college, followed by Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at BWH, where he also served as chief resident. He enjoys a fierce New York-Boston sports rivalry with his wife, fantasy football with his college and high school friends, and spending time with his wife and two children.
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JOSHUA LANG, MD
Cardiology
Joshua Lang received his MD at UCSF and master's degree at UC Berkeley. He then pursued training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he is currently a cardiology fellow. He has performed research using large datasets both in chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. Outside of medicine he has published several long-form journalism stories, one of which was anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing.
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EMILY LAU, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Emily Lau is currently a chief resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She grew up in Southern California, attended Brown University for medical school, trained at BWH for internal medicine, and at MGH for her cardiology fellowship. She is a clinician educator and clinical researcher focusing on cardiac disease in women.
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VICTOR NAUFFAL, MD
Cardiology
Victor Nauffal is a Clinical Fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was born in Sydney, Australia and earned his medical school degree from the American University of Beirut. He completed his internal medicine training at the Osler Housestaff Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He will be pursuing subspecialty training in cardiac electrophysiology. His research efforts are focused on the intersection of genetics and cardiac arrhythmias. In his free time he enjoys skiing and playing basketball.
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JASON RYAN, MD, MPH
Cardiology
Dr. Jason Ryan trained in internal medicine and cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is currently a faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is the creator and voice of Boards and Beyond, a popular USMLE Step 1 study resource.
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LISA ROSENBAUM, MD
Cardiology
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum attended Stanford for her undergraduate education and UCSF for medical school. She is a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the National Correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Mary Montgomery, MD
Infectious Disease
Dr. Mary Montgomery is a clinician educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from UCSF, completed her internal medicine residency at BWH and her infectious diseases fellowship at the combined BWH/MGH program with a specialty focus on HIV. Dr. Montgomery takes care of cohort of HIV patients and teaches residents and fellows on the inpatient ID consult service. She is also interested in the care of LGBT patients, patients with substance use disorders and the overlaps between human and animal medicine. At HMS she is the director of the internal medicine sub-internship and co-directs the BWH Practice of Medicine course. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her wife and daughter. Dr. Montgomery serves as a Faculty Advisor for the LAHMS student group.
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ARI MOSKOWITZ, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Ari Moskowitz is a Pulmonary and Critical Care attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is originally from New York and completed medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He trained in internal medicine at BIDMC before starting the Harvard Combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program.
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MOSES MURDOCK, MD
Dr. Moses Murdock is an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is interested in hematology-oncology, medical education, and diversity/inclusion efforts. He loves running and getting engrossed in a good novel.
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WALKER REDD, MD
Internal Medicine
Dr. Walker Redd is an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is interested in gastroenterology, medical education, health equity, burnout and wellness.
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Rachel Blair, MD
Endocrinology
Dr. Rachel Blair is originally from Maryland, attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed internal medicine residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is currently an endocrinology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is interested in medical education and the intersection of women’s health and endocrinology.
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Ole-Petter (OP) HAMNVIK, MB BCH
Endocrinology
Dr. Hamnvik went to medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and served as Chief Medical Resident from 2012-2013. He completed his Endocrinology Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s and is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Program Director for the Brigham and Women’s Endocrinology Fellowship. He is also the Education Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine. His clinical interests include endocrine disorders in the cancer patient, and gender-affirming hormonal therapy.
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ANNA GOLDMAN, MD
Endocrinology
Dr. Anna Goldman received her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She trained in internal medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she also served as chief resident. She did her fellowship training in endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s hospital, conducting research in andrology. She is currently the associate program director for the endocrinology fellowship training program at BWH. Her career focus is on patient care in the areas of andrology, transgender care, diabetes, and medical education.
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NADINE PALERMO, DO
Endocrinology
Dr. Nadine Palermo is the Associate Director of Acute Diabetes Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. She attended the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pennsylvania and completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following her Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship at Boston University Medical Center, she joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as an Associate Physician and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also a consulting physician in endocrinology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to directing the inpatient diabetes service, she has an outpatient practice in general endocrinology, endocrinology and pregnancy in collaboration with maternal fetal medicine and is part of the Brigham and Women’s Transitions Program in collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital with focus on patients with cystic fibrosis related diabetes. Her clinical and research interests include management of acute diabetes and interdisciplinary systems improvement, specifically focused on transition of care, barriers to diabetes care and health literacy for patients with diabetes. She is also very invested in clinician education and has developed several tools for inpatient diabetes management and serves as core clinical faculty for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Endocrinology Fellowship Program.
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Anand Vaidya, MD
Endocrinology
Anand Vaidya is the Director of the Center for Adrenal Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vaidya is an endocrinologist whose clinical specialty focuses on adrenal disorders. He also runs a research program that focuses on studying the pathophysiologic role of adrenal hormones in cardiovascular and kidney disease. Dr. Vaidya teaches the HMS pre-clerkship endocrinology curriculum and designs interactive medical cases for the New England Journal of Medicine.
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NAVIN KUMAR, MD
Gastroenterology
Dr. Navin Kumar is an attending gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a medical educator at Harvard Medical School. He loves any and all Wisconsin sports teams and is constantly trying to get his young son to cheer alongside with him.
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Titi Afolabi
Health Equity
Titi Afolabi is a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School. She completed her undergraduate degree at Yale before joining Teach for America, through which she taught high school science in her hometown of New York City. While in medical school, she led efforts to promote equity in the medical curricula and greater Boston area. Titi aspires to be a cardiologist, medical educator, and advocate for global health equity.
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Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH
Health Equity
Promoting excellence through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) guides Dr. Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie. Dr. Burnett-Bowie’s core values were shaped by growing up in both the USA and Barbados. Dr. Burnett-Bowie is graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is an adult endocrinologist, clinical researcher, and DEI change agent at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.
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UTIBE ESSIEN, MD, MPH
Health Equity
Dr. Utibe Essien is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and health equity researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His research focuses on racial disparities in the management of cardiovascular diseases and he has applied this disparities framework to COVID-19, exploring the health disparities that are disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities during the pandemic. His work has been published in leading medical journals and he has been interviewed by national news outlets including The Hill, NPR, and CNBC.
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VALERIE STONE, MD, MPH
Health Equity
Dr. Valerie Stone is Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Stone is an academic general internist as well as an infectious disease specialist and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and did her residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve - University Hospitals of Cleveland. She completed a health services research fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and BWH, and an infectious disease fellowship in the Boston University School of Medicine program. Dr. Stone is a nationally recognized expert on HIV/AIDS and is the author of numerous publications on HIV/AIDS care and policy, including the book, HIV in U.S. Communities of Color. Her scholarship has also examined current issues in healthcare leadership, diversity and inclusion in medicine, and innovations in residency training.
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LASH NOLEN
Health Equity
Lash is a Los Angeles native deeply passionate about the concerns of underserved and marginalized communities. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 2017 and is the first in her family to study medicine. She is a Fulbright, Gilman, and Foster Policy Scholar, and second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School where she is serving as student council president of her class, the first documented black woman to hold this leadership position. As a rising leader in medicine, she has been named a 2020 National Minority Quality Forum “40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health”, a “2020 Young Futurist” by The Root Magazine, and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association’s “Racial Justice in Medicine” Award. In her spare time she enjoys co-hosting the Clinical Problem Solvers Anti-Racism in Medicine podcast, writing about social justice and health equity, rapping and making music, and spending time with her loved ones. We Got Us is her proudest endeavor and she can’t wait to work with this amazing team of Black student activists and allies to uplift our community.
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PILAR ORTEGA, MD
Health Equity
Dr. Pilar Ortega is an Emergency Physician and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education, where she directs and teaches the Medical Spanish program for the College of Medicine’s Hispanic Center of Excellence. Dr. Ortega is Co-founder and Immediate-Past President for the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), and the Founder and Director of the National Association of Medical Spanish (la Asociación Nacional de Español Médico). Dr. Ortega is a nationally and internationally recognized author, speaker, and researcher focusing on preparing medical students, physicians, and health systems to care for linguistically and culturally diverse patient populations.
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RAQUEL SOFÍA SANDOVAL, MD
Health Equity
Raquel Sofía Sandoval is a 4th year MD/MPP student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a current Zuckerman Fellow and part of the 2021 Latinx Leadership Initiative Cohort, both at the Center for Public Leadership at HKS. She is a student organizer, creator of anti-racist medical education curricula and a health equity researcher focusing on the intersection of COVID, immigration policy, and undocumented communities.
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MAUREEN ACHEBE, MD, MPH
Hematology/Oncology
Maureen Achebe is currently the Director of the Center for Sickle Cell Disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Clinical Director of Hematology at DFCI and Medical Director of Ambulatory Infusion at BWH. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical research focuses on improving clinical care of patients with hematologic disorders. She enjoys travelling and spending time with her family.
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Jean Connors, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Jean M. Connors, MD is a hematology attending at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute; the Medical Director of the Anticoagulation Management Services, and the Hemostatic Antithrombotic Stewardship Program; and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She went to Wellesley College for undergraduate studies, received a medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and completed her residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, as well as fellowships in transfusion medicine and hematology & oncology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Connors is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and is a member of or holds a leadership role in many professional societies. She has participated in numerous clinical trials for patients with venous thrombosis and for the use of reversal agents for direct oral anticoagulants, and is leading trials in the area of mechanical circulatory support and cancer associated thrombosis.
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ARIELLE LANGER, MD, MPH
Hematology/Oncology
Arielle Langer is currently an attending hematologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She attended Dartmouth College and then obtained her MD & MPH at Columbia University. She did internal medicine residency and a Chief Resident year at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She then went on to complete her fellowship in Hematology/Oncology and served as a Chief Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Langer is interested in benign hematologic disorders including anemia, venous thromboembolism, and hematologic issues affecting pregnancy. Outside of medicine, she enjoys hiking and black & white photography.
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MARLISE LUSKIN, MD, MSCE
Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Luskin has been a clinician and clinical researcher in the Adult Leukemia Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) since 2016. She grew up in Minnesota but has trained and lived on the East Coast since attending Harvard University as an undergraduate. She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and then completed a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Boston to serve as a Chief Medical Resident and then join DFCI. Dr. Luskin is interested in developing novel treatment approaches for acute leukemia. She also is interested in studying the unique therapeutic challenges for both younger (adolescent young adult) and older adults with acute leukemia.
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Aric Parnes, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Aric Parnes grew up near Detroit, MI, and attended medical school at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Residency in Internal Medicine was at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and fellowship in Hematology/Oncology split between Yale and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is the Associate Director of the Boston Hemophilia Center and the Assistant Program Director for the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at DFCI/BWH/MGH. His clinical interests focus on bleeding disorders, hemostasis/thrombosis, and platelet disorders. When not looking at peripheral blood smears with residents and students, he can be found hiking or playing tennis with his wife and 9 year old twins.
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DAVID steensma, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Dr. David Steensma is the Edward P. Evans Chair in Myelodysplastic Syndromes at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, was a resident and fellow at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and did post-doctoral research in molecular genetics at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine of the University of Oxford. His interests include myelodysplastic syndromes and related myeloid neoplasms, clonal hematopoiesis, marrow failure disorders, and medical history.
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RobERT Stern, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Stern is an instructor of medicine in the Division of Hematology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was a resident and chief resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s and a fellow and chief fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Most importantly, he has 4 year old twin daughters and listens to an inordinate number of sports podcasts.
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MATTHEW WEINSTOCK, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Weinstock is a hematologist-oncologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. He went to the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and served as Chief Resident before training in hematology and oncology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His primary area of interest is lymphomas and he is passionate about medical education.
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REBECCA ZON, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Becky Zon is a current Hematology/Oncology fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Massachusetts General Brigham program. She attended undergrad at Duke University, medical school at the University of Michigan Medical School, and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research interests include therapy-related MDS/AML and thromboembolism in patients with COVID-19. Outside of medicine, she is a dedicated Boston, Duke, and Michigan sports fan and loves music, including Lizzo and Beyonce. Her forever idol is Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
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WILLIAM BERNSTEIN, MD
Misc.
William Bernstein is a neurologist, co-founder of Efficient Frontier Advisors, an investment management firm, and has written several titles on finance and economic history. He has contributed to the peer-reviewed finance literature and has written for several national publications, including Money Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. He has produced several finance titles, and also four volumes of history, The Birth of Plenty, A Splendid Exchange, Masters of the Word, and The Delusions of Crowds about, respectively, the economic growth inflection of the early nineteenth century, the history of world trade, the effects of access to technology on human relations and politics, and the history and social psychology of mass manias. His was also the 2017 winner of the CFA Institute’s James R. Vertin Award. His personal website: efficientfrontier.com
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ANUJ K. DALAL, MD
Misc.
Dr. Anuj K Dalal is an academic hospitalist and informatics researcher in the Hospital Medicine Unit and Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has led a number of projects focused on designing, developing, implementing and evaluating innovative digital health tools and solutions to improve quality and safety in the acute care and care transitions setting. He is the principal investigator of an AHRQ-funded Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) at BWH for which he leads a multidisciplinary team focused on improving diagnostic and therapeutic safety in the hospital setting.
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LINDSEY WU, MD
Misc.
Dr. Lindsey Wu did medical school at Duke and internal medicine residency at UCSF, as well as a chief residency at Kaiser San Francisco. She then worked at Brigham and Women's Hospital for several years, where she directed a teaching unit and became interested in diagnostic uncertainty. Most recently, she moved back to North Carolina where she is currently a teaching hospitalist at the Durham VA Medical Center. Some of her other interests include point of care ultrasound and hiking with her husband and her 11-month-old son.
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ANKIT PATEL, MD, PHD
Nephrology
Dr. Ankit Patel is currently a nephrology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is interested in medical education, renal physiology, regenerative medicine, and spending time with his two beautiful daughters, though not necessarily in that order.
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SUSHRUT WAIKAR, MD, MPH
Nephrology
Dr. Sushrut Waikar attended Amherst College and, after brief skirmishes with journalism and the law, he decided to pursue medicine after his namesake, Sushruta. He trained at Yale for medical school, University of California, San Francisco for internal medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital for nephrology. He is on the faculty at BWH and Harvard Medical School. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, traveling, working out, and reading as much non-nephrology/medicine as time permits.
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