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Current Scholars
Third Year Scholars
Peggy Chen, MD, MSc |
Peggy Chen, MD, MSc is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in English at Stanford. She received her medical degree at Columbia and a masters degree in science in health policy, planning and finance at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics. Dr. Chen completed her pediatric residency at Yale. She has a particular interest in immigrants and their interactions with the US healthcare system and in dissemination of research results. |
Second-Year Scholars
Katherine Goodrich, MD |
Katherine Goodrich, MD is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in biology from Rhodes College and her medical degree from Louisiana State University. Dr. Goodrich completed her residency at George Washington University Hospital after which she stayed on and was most recently the Division Chief of Hospital Medicine. Her primary research interest is in transitions of care from hospital to community/nursing facility especially for vulnerable populations and patients of low health literacy. She is also interested in various inpatient quality topics, most of which revolve also around health literacy as well as patient safety and palliative care. |
Lara Johnson, MD |
Lara Johnson, MD is a pediatrician and pediatric hospitalist who received her undergraduate degree in cell and molecular biology at Texas Tech University. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Dr. Johnson is interested in the quality of care provided to hospitalized children, and in understanding the challenges of pediatric care delivery in rural settings. |
Adam Landman, MD, MIS, MS |
Adam Landman, MD, MIS, MS (VA Scholar) is an emergency physician who received his undergraduate degree from Cornell and then earned a Master of Information Systems (MIS) and a Master of Science (MS) in Healthcare Policy and Management from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Landman received his medical degree from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. His research interest is the innovative application of information technology (IT) to improve the delivery of emergency care. |
Danil Makarov, MD |
Danil Makarov, MD (VA Scholar) is a urologist who received his undergraduate degree in economics from Yale University and his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed a surgical internship in the William S. Halsted Department of Surgery and residency in urology at The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute (both at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine). After completing residency, Dr. Makarov continued on faculty as Instructor in Urology. His research interests focus on policy-relevant questions impacting the provision of cost-effective, quality care for patients with prostate cancer. He is currently working on several projects exploring the impact of technology diffusion on the utilization of radical prostatectomy as well as regional variation in the cost of prostate cancer care. |
Michael Phipps, MD |
Michael Phipps, MD is a neurologist who earned his undergraduate degree in molecular and cell biology and psychology at the University of California-Berkeley and his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Phipps completed his neurology residency at Yale Medical School. He is interested in researching all aspects of stroke care, including epidemiology of stroke, patient education of stroke, acute therapies, primary and secondary prevention, and rehabilitation.
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Erica Spatz, MD |
Erica Spatz, MD is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in human and organizational development at Vanderbilt University and her medical degree from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. She completed her internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center, after which she continued on as faculty in the Department of Medicine. Her research interests include quality and outcomes of cardiovascular disease prevention and access to care. |
Kate Viola, MD |
Kate Viola, MD received her undergraduate degree in architecture from Bryn Mawr College and her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Viola is a general surgery resident at North Shore University Hospital. Her research interests include endocrine disorders in minority populations, primarily thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease; access to healthcare, stage of diagnosis, treatment type, family history, and analysis of surgical outcomes with respect to training. |
First-Year Scholars
Deepa Camenga, MD, MPH |
Deepa Camenga, MD, MPH is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from Yale. She received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at the Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong at the University of Rochester. Dr. Camenga is interested in adolescent smoking cessation and parental attitudes towards second hand smoke exposure among premature and term newborns. She is also interested in understanding the experiences of low income adolescents and young adults as they transition from pediatric to adult care. |
E. Jennifer Edelman, MD |
E. Jennifer Edelman, MD (VA Scholar) is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in human development and human biology, health, and society from Cornell University. She received her medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Edelman completed internal medicine residency at Yale, where she recently served as Chief Resident. She is interested in improving the care of patients with a known diagnosis of HIV as well as increasing access to screening.
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Ryan Greysen, MD, MA |
Ryan Greysen, MD, MA (VA Scholar) is an internist who completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a combined MD/MA at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston. After completing residency in primary care internal medicine at the George Washington University, he joined the faculty as a hospitalist at the Washington VAMC and researcher in the Department of Health Policy. Dr. Greysen’s research interests focus on intersections of health policy and medical education including quality improvement, disparities in care, workforce expansion, medical student debt, diversity, and primary care.
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Kelly Kyanko, MD |
Kelly Kyanko, MD is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Case Western Reserve University and her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. She completed residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Kyanko’s research interests include improving care coordination and chronic disease management through both physician practice and community-based initiatives. |
Kasia Lipska, MD |
Kasia Lipska, MD is an endocrinologist who received her undergraduate degree in molecular biochemistry and biophysics at Yale. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Lipska spent a year working as an internist on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, where she became interested in type 2 diabetes. She completed an endocrine fellowship at Yale and is interested in pursuing research in cardiovascular health outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes. |
Oliver Wang, MD, MBA |
Oliver Wang, MD, MBA is a cardiologist who received his undergraduate degree in psychology at Stanford University. He received a combined MD/MBA degree at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Graduate School of Business. He spent a year working in London as a healthcare analyst with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Wang completed his clinical training in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is interested in evaluating and improving the efficiency and delivery of cardiovascular health care. |
Katherine Yun, MD |
Katherine Yun, MD is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology from Princeton University. She worked as an English teacher in Uzbekistan and a research assistant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before receiving her medical degree from Harvard University. She completed her pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Dr. Yun is interested in refugee and immigrant health. |
Incoming Scholars
Jed Barash, MD |
Jed Barash, MD (VA Scholar) graduated from Hamilton College with honors and then studied under a Fulbright scholarship in Iceland before completing medical school at the University of Connecticut. He is currently a neurology resident at Harvard Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Barash’s research focus is on prion diseases, particularly Creutzeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). He is interested in improving physician education around CJD to promote earlier diagnosis and identification of this disease. |
Oni Blackstock, MD |
Oni Blackstock, MD (VA Scholar) received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard. She completed residency training at Montefiore Medical Center where she is currently a Chief Resident in the Ambulatory Care program. Dr. Blackstock is interested in developing ways to encourage positive healthy behaviors among patients at risk of either acquiring or spreading HIV and plans to use this research to implement HIV prevention programs in minority communities. |
Rosette Chakkalakal, MD |
Rosette Chakkalakal, MD double majored in biology and English at the University of Miami. She received her medical degree from the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and is currently a Chief Resident in internal medicine at Emory. Her research interests are in the area of HIV/AIDS, particularly with regard to promoting awareness about the disease and rapid-testing opportunities in high-risk populations. |
Clara Filice, MD, MPH |
Clara Filice, MD, MPH received her undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston after which she worked as a Senate staffer and legislative aide. She then received her medical degree and an MPH from Northwestern. She is currently a pediatrics resident at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Her research interests are in health policy and education. |
Justin Fox, MD |
Justin Fox, MD received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda. Dr. Fox is a Captain in the US Air Force and is completing his surgical training at Wright State University. He is interested in improving access to and quality of healthcare in rural populations and developing countries. |
Gregg Furie, MD |
Gregg Furie, MD (VA Scholar) received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and then attended Harvard for medical school. He is currently an internal medicine resident at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Dr. Furie is interested in researching the impact of the built environment on disease risk. Specifically, he wants to explore how changes in community built resources for physical activity affect the health habits of surrounding communities. |
Eric Hodgson, MD |
Eric Hodgson, MD received his undergraduate degree at Bucknell University and attended medical school at the University of Maryland. He completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale where he is currently a fellow in the Maternal Fetal Medicine program. He is a former national president of the American Medical Student Association. His primary research area is in obesity, and is specifically interested in examining how post-partum care of diabetic women can affect health and pregnancy outcomes. |
Karen Wang, MD |
Karen Wang, MD received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed residency in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. She then served as the Clinical Director for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV Rural Training Program in Anhui, China, where she managed a training center and worked with doctors to care for HIV+ patients. Dr. Wang is interested in examining geographic and neighborhood barriers to care among patients with HIV in the US. |
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