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Current Scholars
Second-Year Scholars
Loren Berman, MD |
Loren Berman, MD is a surgery resident who received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and her medical degree at Johns Hopkins. She has completed two years of a general surgery residency at Yale and will return when she has completed the Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Berman has particular interests in pediatric surgery and vascular surgery. She is currently working on a project to facilitate shared decision-making for patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms who are considering repairs. |
Mehul Dalal, MD, MSc |
Mehul Dalal, MD, MSc is an internist who received his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University and both his medical degree and masters in Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed a primary care medicine residency at New York University/Bellevue Hospital after which he stayed on as an attending physician for one year. Dr. Dalal’s research interest is in the application of clinical practice guidelines in the primary care setting. |
Lisa Diamond, MD, MPH |
Lisa Diamond, MD, MPH (VA Scholar) is an internist who received her undergraduate degree at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and then earned her MPH at Johns Hopkins. She received her medical degree at George Washington University and completed her residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Diamond is interested in a career that combines medicine and public policy. She is particularly interested in how language barriers affect quality of care and has several concurrent research projects on this topic. |
Calie Santana, MD |
Calie Santana, MD is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in Spanish literature at Cornell University and her medical degree from Harvard. She completed her internal medicine residency at Cornell and was in practice there until joining the Clinical Scholars Program. Her research focuses on the impact of systems of care and practice models related to the quality of chronic disease management. She is specifically interested in understanding the organizational characteristics of primary care sites that enable or impede quality improvement in complex diseases and how to intervene in the provider-system interface to improve quality. |
Rachel Skeete, MD |
Rachel Skeete, MD is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in Community Health from Brown University. Following graduation, she worked as a coordinator for AmeriCorps and then returned to Brown for medical school. She completed a general internal medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. After residency, she worked as a hospitalist within the VA system and was an attending physician on the Rapid Response Team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Skeete is interested in research on health disparities with particular emphasis on the social and environmental factors that influence health outcomes. She is interested in examining the impact of neighborhood contextual factors on outcomes in chronic disease and using this to direct health policy research. |
Brett Stauffer, MD |
Brett Stauffer, MD (VA Scholar) is an internist who received his undergraduate degrees in genetics and philosophy from the University of Kansas, and his medical degree from the New Jersey Medical School. He completed his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern and spent two years on faculty as an assistant professor in general internal medicine. He also worked part-time for the Strategic Planning Office of Parkland Health and Hospital System. Dr. Stauffer's research focuses on identifying effective transfers of care from hospital to home and the integration of inpatient and outpatient systems. His current clinical work is as a hospitalist at the West Haven Veterans Affairs Hospital.
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Heather Yeo, MD |
Heather Yeo, MD is a surgery resident who received both her undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University. She has completed two years of a general surgery residency at Yale and will return when she has completed the Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Yeo’s research interests include patient participation, the effectiveness of educational interventions, and the role of the Internet in medical decision-making. She recently completed a study evaluating the validity and accuracy of thyroid cancer information on the Internet, which was published in Thyroid. She is also beginning a study using an educational tool to improve patients’ anxiety and coping with thyroid disease. Her areas of interest include GI, colorectal and endocrine surgery. Dr. Yeo also has a strong interest in surgical resident education and training and is working with the American Board of Surgery on a national cohort project of all surgical residents to study attrition rates in surgical residency programs. |
First-Year Scholars
Chisaraokwu Asomugha, MD, MPH |
Chisaraokwu Asomugha, MD, MPH is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in history at Stanford. She received her medical degree from Duke University, a masters degree in public health at the University of North Carolina and completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Pittsburg. Dr. Asomugha is interested in research and advocacy related to child abuse and neglect.
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Jill Barron, MD |
Jill Barron, MD is a child psychiatrist who received her undergraduate degree in foreign languages at Adelphi University. She attended Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico and completed her medical degree at SUNY Brooklyn School of Medicine. Dr. Barron recently completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center and at the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy. Her research interests include understanding the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and the development of best treatment practices to inform policy and protect at-risk children. She is also interested in mental health parity. |
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 health inequalities in the pediatric population and pediatric care in resource-limited areas.
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Luke Hansen, MD |
Luke Hansen, MD is an internist who received his undergraduate degree in American studies at Yale and his medical degree at Loyola University in Chicago. Dr. Hansen completed a residency in general internal medicine/primary care as well as a tenure as Chief Medical Resident at Brown University-Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Hansen’s research interests are in disparities in access to health services and disparities in health outcomes with a particular focus on pain management. |
SreyRam Kuy, MD |
SreyRam Kuy, MD (VA Scholar) is a surgery resident who received her undergraduate degrees in philosophy and microbiology at Oregon State University, worked as a Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar for Senator Tom Harkin. She then earned her medical degree at Oregon Health Sciences University. She is currently a general surgery resident at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. Dr. Kuy is interested in transplant surgery, surgical outcomes research, health care delivery and access.
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Mitesh Rao, MD |
Mitesh Rao, MD (VA Scholar) received his undergraduate and medical degrees in a 6-year program at Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College. He is currently a general surgery resident at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Rao is interested in surgical quality of care, health policy, and cancer outcome disparities amongst populations in the US.
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Incoming 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. She is currently the Director of Hospitalist Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center. |
Lara Johnson, MD |
Lara Johnson, MD is a pediatrician 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 currently a hospitalist at Texas Tech. |
Adam Landman, MD |
Adam Landman, MD (VA Scholar) is an emergency medicine physician who received his undergraduate degree from Cornell and then earned an MIS and an MS in Healthcare Policy and Management from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Landman received his medical degree from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and is currently completing his emergency medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. |
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 from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Makarov is completing his urology residency at Johns Hopkins. |
Michael Phipps, MD |
Michael Phipps, MD is a neurologist who earned his undergraduate degree in molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley and his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Phipps is currently finishing his neurology residency at Yale Medical School.
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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. Dr. Spatz is currently an internal medicine resident at the Albert Einstein-Montefiore Medical Center.
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Kate Viola, MD |
Kate Viola, MD is a surgery resident who received her undergraduate degree in architecture from Bryn Mawr College and her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Viola is currently a general surgery resident at Long Island Jewish Hospital. |
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