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Fellows Bios

The Fellowship was an incredible, transformative experience that changed my career trajectory forever. Prior to the fellowship I had little understanding of the inner workings of leadership, minority health, and health policy. After my fellowship training, under Joan's guidance, I felt equipped to create a path focused on leading efforts to address racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care. To this day I credit the Fellowship with my success, and am so thankful that the Commonwealth Fund supported Joan's one-of-a-kind vision to create a cadre of leaders in the field.

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., Fellow ‘98
Director, Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Institute for Health Policy, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2019-2020

Adrian Jacques Ambrose, MD Commonwealth Fund Fellow	Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa, MD Commonwealth Fund Fellow
Mia Taylor Chandler, MD Commonwealth Fund Fellow	Hussein Saghir, DO, CAQSM Commonwealth Fund Fellow
Frinny Polanco Walters, MD Commonwealth Fund Fellow

2018-2019

Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, MPA Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN	Daniel Gonzalez, MD, MPH Medical Director, MCREW division of outpatient adult psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA
Shantel Hebert-Magee, MD, MPH Cytopathologist, Associate Professor of Pathology, Affiliated Faculty at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL	Shaina Lipa, MD, MPH Chief Resident, Orthopaedic Surgical Residency, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Jennifer Parker, MD, PhD, MPH Clinical MD Research Fellow CTU Northwestern University, Consultant, Advisor-Matter, Inc., Evansville, IL

2017-2018

Paula Magee, MD, MPH Hospitalist, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC	Morgan Medlock, MD, MDiv, MPH Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, and New Program Development, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC
Alexander Amon Rodgers, MD, MPH Family Medicine Physician and Assistant Clinical Professor, Charles Drew University’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Los Angeles, CA.	Michelle Taylor, MD, DrPH, MPH Deputy Director for Practice Integration, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Bethesda, MD

2016-2017

Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH Pediatrician and Child Advocate, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, CA	Tamiko Morgan, MD, MPH Corporate Medical Director, WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, FL
Phillip Murray, MD, MPH Associate Medical Director for Adult Outpatient Medical Services, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC	Chloe Slocum, MD, MPH Director of Health Policy, Associate Director of Quality, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, Cambridge, MA; Instructor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

2015-2016

Nicole DelCastillo, MD, MPH Child Psychiatrist, Zionville, IN	Joan Jeung, MD, MPH Medical Staff Physician/HS Clinical Instructor, Division of Developmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Samantha Rosman, MD, MPH Attending Physician, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School	Andrew Sanderson II, MD, MPH, FASGE Medical Officer, The Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD

2014-2015

Kimberly S.G. Chang, MD, MPH Co-founder of HEAL Trafficking, Clinical Director, Frank Kiang Medical Center, Asian Health Services, Oakland, CA	Ann Elrington, MD, PhD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, MyCare Health Center
Ross Jones, MD, MPH Assistant Medical Director of the Community Health Division, and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine	Marshala Lee, MD, MPH Harrington Trust Physician Scholar; Harrington Value Institute Community Partnership Fund Director, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware
Deonza Thymes, MD, MPH Emergency Medicine Specialist, ApolloMD, Washington, DC

2013-2014

Asare Christian, MD, MPH Attending Physician, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital; Instructor, Department of Physical Medical and Rehabilitation, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA	Darrell M. Gray, II, MD, MPH Deputy Director, Center for Cancer Health Equity, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center; Medical Director, Endoscopy and Gastroenterology Services, Ohio State East Hospital; Director, Community Engagement and Equity in Digestive Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Vikram Kambampati, MD, MPH Medical Director of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Care Alliance, Boston, MA; Major, United States Reserve, Medical Corps	Maria Portela Martinez, MD, MPH Chief of Family Medicine Section, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Medical Director, Metro IPC Primary Care Clinics, Washington, DC
Monique Nugent, MD, MPH Associate Director of Hospital Medicine, South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth, MA

2012-2013

Talita Jordan, MD, MPH Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics for George Washington University and Children's National Medical Center with the Goldberg Center for Community and Pediatric Health in Washington, DC	Robert P. Marlin, MD, PhD, MPH Chief, Metta Health Center, Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, MA
Anne Newland, MD, MPH Chief Executive Officer, North Country HealthCare, Flagstaff, AZ	Oluseyi Ojeifo Princewill, MD, MPH Cardiologist, MedStar Health Cardiology Associates, Olney, MD

2011-2012

Monica Bharel, MD, MPH Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA	Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH, MPA, FACP Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, American Hospital Association ; President & CEO, Health Research and Educational Trust, American Hospital Association; Staff Physician, Erie Family Health Center, Chicago, IL
James Kennedye, MD, MPH, FACEP Emergency Physician, St. Francis Hospital; Tulsa, OK; Oklahoma ACEP Executive Board; OKC Indian Clinic Board of Directors	Elna Nagasako, MD, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Denise De Las Nueces, MD, MPH Medical Director, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University/Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

2010-2011

Dustyn Baker, MD, MPH Internal Medicine Hospitalist, Weatherby Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA	Mary Fleming, MD, MPH OB/GYN locums physician
Ali Thomas, MD, MPH Consultant in Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente of Washington, Tacoma, WA	Ashaunta Tumblin Anderson, MD, MPH, MSHS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, Riverside, CA
Roy Wade, Jr., MD, PhD, MPH Instructor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA	Kamillah Wood, MD, MPH Senior Vice President, Health and Housing, Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future, Washington, DC

2009-2010

Jaya Aysola, MD, DTMH, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; Associate Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for Health Care Disparities and Diversity, University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA	Lyle Ignace, MD, MPH Executive Director, Gerald L Ignace Indian Health Center (GHLIIHC), Milwaukee, WI
Kamilah Jackson, MD, MPH Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Child and Adolescent Services, Community Behavioral Health (CBH) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services(DBHIDS), Philadelphia, PA	Alden Landry, MD, MPH Assistant Dean, Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership; Associate Director and Advisor, Castle Society, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Susan Saucedo, MD, MPH Locums physician, Kaiser Permanente, Ladera Ranch, CA

2008-2009

Aymen Elfiky, MD, MPH Division Director, Hematology/Oncology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY	Thomas Halligan, MD, MPH Staff Physician, The Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, CA
Samantha Kaplan, MD, MPH Assistant Dean, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Boston University School of Medicine; Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA	Julea Leshar McGhee, MD, MPH Regional Medical Director of Mental Health, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Pamela Riley, MD, MPH Medical Director, DC Department of Health Care Finance, Washington, DC	Sanjeev Sriram, MD, MPH Attending Pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Southeast DC Health Centers of Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

2007-2008

Connie Gistand, MD, MPH Clinical Assistant Professor, Tulane School of Medicine; Staff Physician Tulane Student Health, New Orleans, LA	Keila Lopez, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Audra Robertson Meadows, MD, MPH Director of Practice Quality and Innovation, Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School; Leadership Team, Perinatal Neonatal Quality Improvement Network (PNQIN) of Massachusetts	Judith Steinberg, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA, Rockville, MD
Mallory Williams, MD, MPH Chief of the Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC

2006-2007

Luis R. Castellanos, MD, MPH Director, Diversity in Medicine and Faculty Outreach, Cardiovascular Medicine Attending, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine - Division of Cardiology, San Diego, CA	Joan R. Griffith, MD, MPH, MHA Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
Stephanie M. Hale Walker, MD, MPH Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Neonatology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN	Ann Kao, MD, MPH Co-Director, Pediatric Hospitalist Division; Attending Physician, IM & Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD, MPH Director, Washington DC Department of Health

2005-2006

Anthony L-T Chen, MD, MPH Director of Health, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Tacoma, WA	Kansky DeLisma, MD, MPH Attending Physician, Miami VA Medical Center & Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
Don S. Lee, MD, MPH Medical Director, Quality and Safety Hospital Based Care, Ascension Medical Group, Milwaukee, WI	Sarah Perez McAdoo, MD, MPH Co-leader, Capstone Scholarship and Discovery Course, UMass Medical School – Baystate; Chair, Board of Health, East Longmeadow, MA
Jean Le Clerc Raphael, MD, MPH Founding Director, Center for Child Health Policy & Advocacy, Texas Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2004-2005

Alexy Arauz Boudreau, MD, MPH Associate Director for Pediatric Population Health, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC); Associate Director of the MGH Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Associate, Disparities Solution Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	Christian Arbelaez, MD, MPH Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Brown Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island, Hasbro Children’s, The Miriam & Newport Hospitals; Associate Professor, The Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI
Jacqueline H. Grant, MD, MPH, MPA Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician and Director, Regional Perinatal Center, Piedmont Columbus Regional Health, Columbus, GA	Lenny Lopez, MD, MDiv, MPH Chief of Hospital Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Senior Faculty, Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Ivette Motola, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM Center Assistant Director, and Director, Division of Prehospital & Emergency Training, Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL	Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP Professor & Chair, Department of Family Medicine; Founder, National Center for Primary Care Innovation and Transformation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2003-2004

Allison Bryant Mantha, MD, MPH Assistant in GYN/OB and Affiliated Faculty, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Prof OB/GYN and Reproductive Biology Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	Nakela Cook, MD, MPH Chief of Staff, National Health, Lung and Blood Institute/ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Philip DeChavez, MD, MPH 1967-2012	Nefertiti Durant, MD, MPH Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
Claudia Martorell, MD, MPH Director and Principal Investigator, The Research Institute, Springfield, MA

2002-2003

Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, MD, MPH Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA	Julian Nieves, MD, MPH Founder and Physician, Salud Primary Care, West Hartford, CT
Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, MGH; Director of the Office of International Programs, Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School; Infectious Disease Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA	Kavitha Prakash, MD, MPH Attending Hospitalist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Sheila Roundtree, MD, MPH Staff Physician, Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Greenville, SC	Kima Taylor, MD, MPH Managing Principal, Anka Consulting, LLC, Baltimore, MD

2001-2002

Laura I. Gerald, MD, MPH President, Kate N. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Winston-Salem, North Carolina	Cynthia Hodge, DMD, MPH, MPA President and CEO, DeSti Consulting, Inc., Madison, TN
Octavio N. Martinez Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, FAPA Senior Associate Vice President, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement; Executive Director, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health; Clinical Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work; Professor of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX	David Núñez, MD, MPH Family Health Medical Director, Public Health Services, Orange County Health Care Agency, Sacramento, CA
Shairi R. Turner, MD, MPH Medical Consultant, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL	Donald Warne, MD, MPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Director, Indians into Medicine (INMED) Program; University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
D'Nyce Williams, MD, MPH, MPA Associate Professor of Clinical OB/GYN and Project Manager, Contraceptive Research and Development Program/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA	Phillip D. Woods, DDS, MPH Captain, US Public Health Service; Dental Specialist / Instructor, Dept. of Oral Health Promotion, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK

2000-2001

Alice Huan-Mei Chen, MD, MPH Deputy Director and Chief Medical Officer, San Francisco Health Network; Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA	Arthur Seiji Hayashi, MD, MPH Director of Medicine, The Human Diagnosis Project, Washington, DC
Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH Associate Professor and Director of Practice Based Research Network, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), Washington State University, Seattle, WA

1999-2000

Tamarah L. Duperval-Brownlee, MD, MPH Senior Vice President, Chief Community Impact Officer, Ascension Health; President and CEO, Providence Health System, Washington, DC	Chandak Ghosh, MD, MPH Senior Medical Advisor for Federal Policy, US. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, New York, NY
Dora L. Hughes, MD, MPH Associate Research Professor of Health Policy & Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.	Luc Joseph, MD, PhD, MPH Pediatrician, Division of General Pediatrics; Assistant in Medicine, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, MD, MPH Assistant Director, Division of Public Health Practice ; Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

1998-1999

Lisa D. Benton, MD, MPH General and Breast Surgeon, Grant Medical Center, Columbus, OH	Durado Brooks, MD, MPH Vice President, Cancer Control Interventions, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA
Felicia L. Collins, MD, MPH, FAAP Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD	Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH Scientific Director, US Preventive Services Task Force Program; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships, Rockville, MD
Nawal M. Nour, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, African Women’s Health Center, and Director, Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA	Jose R. Santana Jr., MD, MPH Medical Staff, Baycare Medical Group, Inc., Clearwater, FL

1997-1998

Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital; Founder, Senior Advisor and Faculty, The Disparities Solutions Center; Faculty, The Mongan Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	Ricardo Custodio, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Allied Health Professions, University of Hawaii, West Oahu; Kapolei, HI; Pediatrician and Kulia Project Coordinator, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Honolulu, HI
Michelle Johnson, MD, FACC, MPH Clinical Director of Cardiology, Fellowship Director of Cardio-oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY	Roderick K. King, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Dept of Public Health Sciences; Director, MD/MPH Program; and Assistant Dean of Public Health Education, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, Florida Institute for Health Innovation, Miami, FL Senior Faculty, Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Creshelle Nash, MD, MPH Medical Director, Arkansas Minority Health Commission; Assistant Dean for Professional Relations, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR	Nancy Torres, MD, MPH Pediatrician, Chest TB Clinic, Sacramento County Public Health Department, Sacramento, CA

1996-1997

Anita Moncrease, MD, MPH President of Moncrease & Associates, LLC; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM), Detroit, MI, and former Medical Director, Adolescent Health, Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion.	Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH Director of the Policy Research Center, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC
Adolfo Valadez, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, Scott and White Health Plan, Austin, TX