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Class of 2025

Trevor Canty

Trevor Canty

Trevor grew up in Billings, MT, and attended the University of Notre Dame where he graduated in 2020 with a BA in Spanish and Arts and Letters Pre-Health. After graduation, he worked as an academic tutor in a variety of subjects, but specialized in the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). Tutoring helped him find his desire to continue learning and teaching in medicine, especially in the areas of foundational biochemistry and genetics.

As a MedEd Scholar, Trevor hopes to continue tutoring and implementing learning techniques to help fellow medical students inside and outside of Geisel. His other interests include curriculum design and learning theory. Outside of medicine, he enjoys spending time hiking, running, and hanging out with his cat.

Rachael Chacko

Rachael Chacko

Rachael grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2021 with degrees in Computer Science and Biology. As an undergraduate, Rachael worked as a TA for the Computer Science department, where she held one-on-one sessions with students to explain challenging concepts and supervised other undergraduate TAs to ensure fair and accurate evaluation practices. From this experience, she discovered her love for teaching and mentorship and became interested in incorporating academia into her future medical career. As a Med Ed Scholar, Rachael hopes to create and evaluate digital educational resources to augment medical students’ learning and explore the integration of technological literacy into the medical curriculum.

Derek Colaizzo

Derek grew up in Cranbury, New Jersey and graduated with a BA in the History of Science from Princeton University. His research and course load focused on the history and development of western medical practices. As an undergraduate, he was a varsity swimmer and taught swim lessons for all ages and groups in the community. Following some time in a variety of fields, Derek returned to school and completed a premed post bac program at Columbia University, where he was a TA for organic chemistry. Inspired by the positive teaching environment, Derek sought to become more involved in education as a medical student. As a MedEd Scholar, Derek hopes to bring his interdisciplinary background and passion for education to critically examine and enrich medical education at Geisel. He enjoys cooking, exploring scenic areas, and playing his instruments.

Tiffany D’cruze

Tiffany D’cruze was born in Bihar, India but has lived in Lebanon, NH for most of her life. She graduated from Dartmouth College in June 2020 with a B.A. in Biology and a concentration in Human Biology. During her time as an undergraduate student, Tiffany worked in two research labs and volunteered at the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction, VT. Following graduation, Tiffany was a research assistant in the Department of Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where she worked on a variety of research projects, including telemedicine, geriatrics, and food insecurity. Tiffany’s academic interests include health disparities, cancer biology, and patient advocacy. During her free time, Tiffany enjoys reading in her hammock, trying new recipes, and practicing yoga!

As a Medical Education Scholar, Tiffany hopes to further incorporate local patient and family experiences into Geisel curriculum to promote humanism in healthcare.

Jewelia Durant

Jewelia grew up in Madbury, NH and attended Plymouth State University, where she played NCAA lacrosse and majored in Biochemistry. During college, she took part in an oncology research internship at Dartmouth, where she later continued working as a lab tech during her senior year. She also spent time volunteering in the emergency department at DHMC, and as a peer tutor with the Biology and Chemistry departments at PSU. Her experiences as a mentor both in the lab and in the classroom as a tutor have inspired her interests in education and mentorship, which lead her to join the Medical Education Scholars. While at Geisel, Jewelia hopes to explore education and teaching methods within the clinical curriculum to help identify ways to improve the learning experience for students in the clinical years.

Constance Fontanet

Constance was born and spent most of her childhood in Paris, France. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2016 with a BA in Biology. After graduation, she lived in Boston for 5 years. During that time, she completed her MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Boston University and worked as a Research Scientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences. She is passionate about primary care, implementation research, refugee health, and social justice. As a MedEd scholar, Constance is interested in creating inclusive classroom environments that facilitate learning, incorporating trauma-informed care into the curriculum, and learning more about robust curriculum evaluation.

Monika Gabriele

Monika is originally from Connecticut and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2019 where she studied biochemistry and religion. During her undergraduate years, Monika worked as peer tutor, TA, and flipped classroom learning fellow in the chemistry and biology departments. After graduation, she joined the AmeriCorps and served for two years - first in rural Colorado providing academic intervention and outdoor leadership training to middle schoolers, and second at a free clinic in Providence, RI as the Clinical Operations VISTA. Having fallen in love with teaching during her experiences in undergrad and her first AmeriCorps year, Monika is excited to join MedEd scholars and to learn more about curriculum development, medical education pedagogies, and what a future in academic medicine can look like.

Soham Kale

Soham Kale is a resident of Glastonbury, CT and a class of 2021 biophysics concentrator from Brown University. In the clinic, Soham has helped patients with a broad range of social determinants, focusing on patients recovering from opioid use disorder. Furthermore, he is a strong advocate for people experiencing homelessness and those with developmental disabilities. Additionally, Soham completed his undergraduate thesis automating protein NMR spectroscopy assignment at a molecular biology lab. In his free time, he enjoys learning Spanish, urban design, and running.

Liam Locke

Liam grew up in Basalt, CO and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2021 with degrees in Neuroscience and Biological Chemistry. As an undergraduate, he ran individual and group tutoring sessions in chemistry and worked in a structural biology lab developing new drug therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. He also served as Chief Copy Editor for the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, where he developed a passion for science communication and interdisciplinary collaboration. As a MedEd scholar, Liam hopes to further refine his teaching skills and develop visual aids and interactive resources for medical students with different learning styles.

Tim McAuliffe

Tim grew up in Wyncote, PA and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Chemistry and Political Science. As an undergraduate, Tim conducted research on patient decision-making and behavioral economics in preventive care, science and health communication in media, and political incivility. After graduating, he worked at Boston Consulting Group, where he collaborated with many healthcare clients. Over three years, he worked with a state government to develop their COVID response plan, a national hospital system to build their digital strategy, and a pharmaceutical company to launch a new oncology drug. As a MedEd Scholar, Tim is interested in mentorship and feedback relationships within medical schools and ongoing medical training. Outside of work and school, Tim enjoys running, reading non-fiction, and playing piano.

Phuong Pham

Phuong studied Biological Sciences at Macalester College, and then earned a Master of Science in Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. As a graduate student, she pursued her passion for immunovirology research and volunteered as a trial participant for the development of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine. As a MedEd scholar, Phuong is interested in finding creative avenues to advocate for the academic needs of students with both visible and invisible illnesses, as well as incorporate disability cultural competency into the medical curriculum design.

Adam Schwendt

Originally from Slovakia, Adam grew up mostly in Maine and graduated from McGill University in 2019 with a degree in Neurobiology. He also completed an M.Sc. at McGill in Experimental Medicine (Cardiotoxicology). Afterwards, he worked as a data scientist and backend developer for the McGill Parasitology Institute. While at McGill, Adam enjoyed teaching students from introductory to graduate-level courses. Adam has always had a passion for teaching and has worked as a teacher in the US, Canada, and in Europe.

As a MedEd Scholar, Adam is interested in improving the structure of the curriculum and in creating opportunities for students to individualize their education to better align with their goals. Adam’s long term ambition is to help remove the many barriers that currently prevent individuals from pursuing a medical education in the US through major changes in the medical education structure. Outside of medicine, Adam loves to spend time outside with his puppy Wolfie. His favorite road to bike in the area is Tiger Town or Jericho.

Kristian Sogaard

Kristian grew up in Ridgefield, CT and graduated from Amherst College in 2019 with a degree in biology. After graduating he taught middle school science in New York City for two years. In that role he taught students, designed curriculums, and implemented new teaching methods in his school. While working Kristian also completed his Masters degree in Teaching with a concentration in secondary science.

As a Med Ed Scholar, Kristian’s aims are to optimize the order and flow of the curriculum and advocate for new data driven pedagogies to enhance learning. Kristian’s interests are in reducing health disparities in underserved communities and ensuring that medical education prepares our students to treat all patients, regardless of background.

Frida Velcani

Frida graduated from Vassar College Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Science, Technology, & Society and a minor in Hispanic Studies. As an undergraduate, Frida was involved in scientific journalism and QI research that focused on residency training programs. She also held several teaching assistant positions on campus. Her undergraduate work culminated in a thesis where proposed technical, organizational, and personal recommendations for successful breast center microsystems. After graduation, Frida went on to work for The diaTribe Foundation, where she co-led a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on promoting new standards of care in diabetes and wrote articles on diabetes management and drug/device development. As a MedEd scholar, Frida hopes to integrate education around technological innovation and improving standards of care into the medical curriculum.

Justin Fong

Justin Fong

Justin grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Neuroscience with a second major in Anthropology. Following college, he worked as a teacher, instructing high school biology and 7th grade science. While teaching, Justin directed and implemented a 7th grade science curriculum redesign and helped update the high school biology curriculum to changing California state standards. This experience has ignited a passion for curriculum design and teaching.

As a Medical Education Scholar, Justin hopes to make meaningful contributions to medical education research and to continue his passion for teaching. Outside of medicine, Justin enjoys exploring his new home of New Hampshire through hiking, biking, and running.

Class of 2024

Briggs Carhart

Leader 2021-2022

Briggs grew up in Phoenix, AZ and graduated from the University of Arizona Honors College in 2018 with degrees in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Physiology with minors in Biochemistry, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology. He also completed his MPH in Epidemiology with foci in infectious diseases and healthcare database statistics. At the U of A, Briggs was an Anatomy Lab TA for the College of Medicine—Tucson for multiple years. He was also a Graduate Associate for the Office of the Provost, where he helped design the new General Education curriculum for undergraduate students. Through this work, he found his passion for curriculum design and implementation as well as research for new teaching methods.

As a Med Ed Scholar, Briggs aims to research pedagogy in medicine and enhance Geisel's curricula. His interests are in public health, instruction, digital learning, curriculum assessment, and curriculum development. He also enjoys dancing and walking around the beautiful Upper Valley! Feel free to reach out to him anytime!

Alice Liu

Alice Liu

Alice grew up in West Chester, PA and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Biochemistry and Sociology and MS in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, Alice served as a public speaking advisor for the Communication Within the Curriculum program at Penn. She has presented at the National Association of Communication Center (NACC) Conference, delivering a keynote on her experience coaching students in capstone research courses. As a MedEd Scholar, Alice hopes to continue utilizing her experiences and expertise in science communication to enrich medical education at Geisel.

Mariana

Mariana

Mariana studied Nutrition Science at the University of California, Davis, and then earned a Master of Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University. As a graduate student, she pursued her passion for heart disease advocacy, and volunteered at two free clinics and a soup kitchen. She also researched both the cardiac complications arising from cancer treatments, in addition to the intersection between housing and health. As a MedEd scholar, Mariana is interested in mentorship and improving the training of medical students, as well as integrating nutrition, public health, advocacy, and health care delivery science into medical education.

Seth Ramin

eth grew up in Northfield, MN. He graduated from the University of Saint Thomas in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science degree (ACS Certified) in Chemistry and minors in Spanish and Biology. He then attended the University of Minnesota where he earned his Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology (Biostatistics minor) in 2017. Seth has been involved in research and academic roles throughout his time as a student and as a post-graduate in the workforce. Some of these roles include working as a peer tutor and teaching assistant, designing a database for conducting several quality improvement studies, and conducting statistical analysis for a project assessing medical student performance on an Observed Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE). As a MedEd Scholar, Seth desires to improve the structure and flow of curricula, and to supplement current educational resources to adequately meet the diverse learning styles of the Geisel School of Medicine student body.

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Jane Xu

Jane is from the small Bay Area town of Albany, California. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Neuroscience and Anthropology, as she enjoys learning about how humans learn and make decisions. During college, she volunteered at a mental health clinic for adolescents and completed clinical research at a gender health clinic, where she gained interest in learning about health disparities and the impact of social identities on health. She is excited to further explore these topics during her time in medical school.
As a MedEd scholar, she hopes to help shift the curriculum to reflect the healthcare experiences of underserved communities and make medical education more accessible to people of all backgrounds.

Class of 2023

Aya Mahder Bashi

Aya Mahder Bashi

Aya graduated from the University of Toronto with a double major in Global Health and Physiology. She then pursued an MPH with a specialization in Epidemiology at University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. During her training, Aya became very interested in understanding how healthcare systems can better address social determinants of health and work towards achieving health equity. Her work centered around the intersections of gender, violence, infectious disease and substance use. During both her undergraduate and graduate degrees, Aya worked as a peer tutor and residence advisor which allowed her to develop a passion for teaching and mentorship. As a MedEd scholar, Aya hopes to combine this passion for education and public health to explore how social determinants of health can be further integrated into the medical curriculum. She also wants to create space for discussions and trainings on trauma informed care at Geisel.

Arhem Barkatullah

Arhem Barkatullah

Arhem grew up in Saratoga, CA and graduated from Arizona State University in 2018 with a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences. As an undergraduate, Arhem ran R.I.S.E., a nonprofit tutoring and mentoring program for refugee youth, and led her local Challah for Hunger chapter to address food insecurity in her community. She also conducted neuroscience research at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. In her gap year, Arhem worked on a project to expand resources for resettled refugees in Arizona in conjunction with the Clinton Global Initiative University and was also a scribe at Stanford. As a MedEd scholar, Arhem is interested in exploring diversity in medical education and hopes to create more opportunities for medical students to learn about health disparities and cultural competency.

Maura Doré

Maura Doré

Maura grew up just outside of Chicago in Naperville, IL and graduated from the University of
Notre Dame in 2017 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and minor in Poverty Studies. As an
undergraduate, Maura was a member of the Notre Dame Pom Squad, a volunteer Emergency
Medical Technician, calculus teaching assistant, and class council representative. Additionally,
she was a research assistant in the Architecture, Health, and Sustainability Research Lab
investigating the relationship between the built environment and health. After graduation,
Maura became a Teach For America Corps Member to pursue her interests in education and
social justice. She taught 5 th grade math and science in Chicago while earning a Master of Arts in
Teaching degree. While teaching, she focused on using data to drive instruction and prioritized
social-emotional learning to support the overall wellness of her students. Her experience in
teaching is the foundation for her interest in medical education. As a MedEd Scholar, Maura
hopes to apply her knowledge of the teaching cycle to improve medical education and to
explore the relationship of environment, health, and wellness in adult learners.

Elena Haight

Elena Haight

Elena comes to Geisel from the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent the three years prior to beginning medical school studying pain mechanisms at Stanford, a topic she is passionate about given the prevalence of pain in our society and the difficulties we face in treating it effectively and safely. When she wasn’t playing with mice in the lab, she had many opportunities to cultivate an interest in medical education. In addition to teaching high school, undergraduate, and medical students about basic and clinical pain science, she led a study within the Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford to assess the effectiveness of a resident research track at increasing overall career scholarly productivity of anesthesiologists. As a MedEd Scholar, Elena is eager to continue this work through projects related to the implementation of the longitudinal pain and addiction section of the new curriculum.

Reed Macey

Reed Macey

Reed is from Hooksett, NH. He graduated from Cornell University in 2018 with a B.A. in Biological Sciences, concentrating in Animal Physiology. As an undergraduate Reed spent much of his free time as a youth counselor for the YMCA, a mathematics and science tutor for inmates at the county jail, and a teacher’s assistant for several classes. In 2019 he achieved his Master’s Degree in Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge in England. During this time Reed played Varsity Ice Hockey, functioned as a consultant for faculty inventors, and conducted his dissertation in women’s digital health.

As a Medical Education Scholar, Reed hopes to create options for students to explore biotechnology and business inside medicine, as both have an increasing presence in the everyday practice of medicine. Interdisciplinary education has always been something he has believed strongly in, and he hopes that such relevant and exciting exploratory opportunities at Geisel will enhance education.

Emily May

Emily May

Co-Leader 2020-2021

Emily May grew up between Cody, WY and Polson, MT. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2011 and followed a passion for education to the Bay Area. She spent four years teaching special education in the West Contra Costa and San Francisco Unified School Districts. Outside of school hours, she designed science and technology classes for a national summer camp, tutored SAT/ACT students, and learned as much as she could about curriculum design and instruction.

Teaching and working with families deepend Emily’s love of education and inspired a new interest in medicine. In a single, manically busy year, she took a general chemistry class while teaching full-time and made the decision to change careers. Throughout a post-baccalaureate program at San Francisco State, volunteering at Women’s Community Clinic and clinical research in UCSF’s Department of Anesthesia, she stayed engaged with education by tutoring and teaching whenever possible. Most recently, she channeled that passion into working with Dr. Terrence Welch to design formative assessments for the first year Cardiovascular Medicine Course and co-leading the Medical Education Scholar group. She believes teaching is central to medicine and hopes to stay engaged with education throughout her future career.

Linda Morris

Linda Morris

Co-Leader 2020-2021

Linda grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and graduated from Boston College in 2017 with a degree in Biology. During undergrad, Linda studied abroad at King's College School of Bioscience in London, pursued both clinical and lab bench oncology research, worked as a medical volunteer abroad and locally, and helped lead community service organizations in the surrounding Boston area. During this time, Linda worked as a tutor and mentor for Boston high school and elementary school students as well as fellow college students, through which she discovered a love of teaching and mentorship. Post-graduation, Linda worked for two years in clinical research in the Radiation Oncology department of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. Her interest in medical education grew, along with a developing interest in patient education in a clinical setting.

Linda's interests as a Medical Education Scholar are vast and varied, but she is particularly interested in the utilization of active learning methods to help foster effective and efficient individualized learning in Geisel's new curriculum. She is also interested in professional development, interdisciplinary education in healthcare, and patient advocacy through education.

Michaela O’Connor

Michaela O’Connor

Michaela grew up in Concord, NH and graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Neuroscience. At Columbia, Michaela was on the Women’s Varsity Lacrosse Team and was a Teaching Assistant in an introductory psychology course. Following college, Michaela worked in the Orthopedics Department at Columbia University where she focused on studying arthroscopic hip procedures within Sports Medicine. While at Columbia Orthopedics, Michaela was exposed to resident education through watching attendings and residents interact in the operating room. Through seeing these one-on-one teaching relationships, Michaela realized that she was interest in exploring different ways that she may be able to teach others in the future.

Michaela’s particular area of interest as a Medical Education Scholar is in providing a more thorough and nuanced education to medical students on how to care for patients with disabilities. Michaela has already had opportunities to begin this work along with two other Med Ed Scholars (Linda Morris and Arvind Suresh) as well as with classmate, Evette Ronner. Michaela hopes to continue to pursue avenues to ensure teaching on disability care persists throughout the curriculum at Geisel.

Andrew Pineda

Andrew Pineda

Drew grew up in Los Angeles, CA and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Chemical Engineering. After college he worked in both the aerospace and automotive industries, designing parts for commercial and military aircraft and vehicles. Prior to starting school at Geisel, Drew called San Francisco his home for 7 years where he decided to transition from his career in engineering to pursuing a career in medicine. While working for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, he developed panel/population health management tools to help improve care and outcomes at a community clinic. He also volunteered as a health coach and quality improvement director at a student-run free clinic that provided care to San Francisco residents, particularly of Filipino descent. As a MedEd Scholar, Drew is interested in exploring ways to address the informal and hidden curriculum in medical education and training.

Arvind Suresh

Arvind Suresh

Arvind grew up in Orange County, California and graduated from Dartmouth College
with a degree in Biology and minor in Computer Science in 2019. Throughout his time
as an undergraduate, he worked at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center as a student
researcher and examined holistic and integrative approaches to medicine as a Stamps
Scholar. Arvind’s experiences as a clinical intern at DotHouse Health, a federally
qualified community health center in Boston, sparked his interest in health education
and literacy as he developed patient education materials and a mobile guide to
community resources as part of the clinic’s outreach efforts. It was during this time that
Arvind developed a passion for teaching and coaching others as a pre-health mentor,
teaching assistant for introductory computer science and biology courses, and study
group leader through Dartmouth’s Academic Skills Center. Wanting to share his love of
lifelong learning, storytelling, and cross-disciplinary thinking, he initiated Dartmouth’s
annual TEDx conference in 2018, bringing together the Upper Valley community and
learners of all ages together in an effort to showcase how bold ideas can drive positive
change and innovation in the communities we belong to.

As a Medical Education Scholar, Arvind is working on improving the curriculum
regarding caring for underserved patient populations, incorporating more longitudinal
disability-focused education, and integrating foundational and applied sciences in the
preclinical curriculum. He is also interested in building longitudinal feedback tools for
self-directed learning and professional growth.

Kate Telma

Kate Telma

Kate graduated from Brown University with a concentration in chemical biology. After working at a biotech start up, she pursued a Master’s in Science Writing at MIT. Her interests include using an abolitionist framework to structure medical student participation in the care of incarcerated people and inter- and intra- class student organizing efforts to affect school financial decisions.

Class of 2022

Stephen Conn

Stephen Conn

Stephen grew up in Maryland and attended Pomona College, majoring in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. He worked for eleven years in the Bay Area in software development and product management. He has volunteered as an HIV Test Counselor and is completing a pilot project investigating peer counseling via web-based chat for PrEP awareness and benefits navigation. Stephen worked with UCSF's PleasePrEPMe program to evaluate and optimize their digital outreach, and advised the CA DPH Office of AIDS on statewide coordination of LGBTQ public health campaigns. He has worked extensively with children dealing with death. He has particular interest in primary care and palliative care, especially with children and in LGBTQ/HIV-impacted communities.

As a Med Ed Scholar, his interests are in sexual and LGBTQ health and equity in medicine, and in the future of standardized assessment.

Gwendolyn Cook

Gwendolyn Cook

Gwen grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Architectural Studies and a minor in Italian in 2013. After college she moved to San Francisco, CA and worked at the UCSF Hematology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinic while completing a post-baccalaureate program at San Francisco State University. Gwen also volunteered during this time at the California Pacific Medical Center Emergency Department and developed an interest in the integration of social and other services into the ED setting. Following completion of her post-baccalaureate program Gwen worked full time as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Hematopoietic Malignancies Research Group at UCSF.

As a Medical Education Scholar, Gwen has various interests including the use of technology in medical education, the integration of humanities-based approaches into medical school curriculum and the need for leadership training and mentoring for women entering the medical field.

Sethly Davis

Sethly Davis

Sethly grew up in Bolton, Massachusetts and Washington DC. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2016 where she majored in English Literature. She continued her literary education in graduate school obtaining a Master's in Early Modern English Literature at the the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, Sethly wrote her dissertation on depictions of traumatic violence on the English stage in the 1590's, working to understand the relationships between physical trauma, psychological trauma, and concepts of identity and compassion.

Sethly's interest in medical education arose from her own cross-disciplinary background where she has seen how literature, and the medical humanities more expansively, can be used as a tool for understanding patients' experiences and needs. Thus, in her role as a MedEd scholar, she is particularly keen on working to further incorporate the humanities into medical curricula.

Deborah Furman

Deborah Furman

Deborah grew up in Providence, RI and graduated from Northeastern University in 2012 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to pursuing a career in medicine, she spent several years working as an engineer in product design and robotics in the Boston area. After completing her post-baccalaureate coursework at Harvard Extension School, Deborah became a teaching fellow in General Chemistry at HES. It was during this time that she discovered not only her love for teaching, but its implicit mentorship as well. As a MedEd scholar, Deborah hopes to facilitate the transition to the new pre-clinical curriculum at Geisel and help to develop tools that will allow for its continuous improvement.

Chloe Lee

Chloe Lee

I grew up in Westchester, NY and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2014 with a degree in Classics and a Neuroscience minor. I worked in lung cancer research through the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology here at Geisel and involved with the Tucker Center as a Sibs mentor (my little is now 16 and we're still friends!). I also spent 5 months in China working as a preschool teacher in an orphanage for children with special needs, at which point, I realized my interest in public health and decided to pursue that interest actively. In 2018, I graduated from Columbia University with an MPH in Molecular Epidemiology. I spend most of my spare time baking, running, and yelling at untidy chefs on Kitchen Nightmares.

As a Med Ed scholar, my interests are very diverse and include encouraging an awareness of the value of the humanities in medicine, improving pre-clinical design and resources, and emphasizing the intersection between health and the environment.

Colin McLeish

Colin McLeish

Colin is originally from Manchester, Vermont. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2018 with a B.A. in Biology and English Literature. As an undergraduate, Colin volunteered as a hospice caretaker and conducted research in microbiology and biomedical engineering. He also wrote for the Swarthmore Literary Review and served for two years as an academic liaison to the Department of English Literature. As a MedEd Scholar, Colin intends to develop more formal programming for humanities in medical education. In specific, he hopes to add more opportunities for medical students to read and write, and plans to advocate for more student research and scholarly work in the fields of medical humanities and medical history.

Joe Minichiello

Joe Minichiello

Leader 2019-2020

Joe grew up in the small town of Pelham in southern NH. He graduated from Dartmouth College with majors in Biology and Psychology. During his undergraduate experience at Dartmouth, he completed an honors thesis, served as a teaching assistant in genetics and organic chemistry, and volunteered with Dartmouth EMS. After graduating, he completed a Teaching Science Fellowship in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth. As a MedEd Scholar, Joe is particularly interested in curriculum design, teaching pedagogy, and the integration of technology into medical education.

Sohum Patel

Sohum Patel

Sohum is from San Jose, CA and graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. At Georgetown, he worked as a volunteer EMT and pursued research in development economics and health economics. His interest in medical education stems from his work as an EMT instructor as well as a teaching assistant and tutor for Multivariable Calculus. As a student, he developed an interest in the intersection of social science and math for healthcare applications. Therefore, for his gap year, he explored the efficacy of Norway's two-tiered emergency healthcare system as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Oslo. Specifically, he was interested in the effects of a "gatekeeper" model on physician referral behaviors and patient outcomes. As a MedEd scholar, Sohum hopes to continue exploring the intersection of social and quantitative sciences and its place in medical education and clinical practice.

Abiah Pritchard

Abiah Pritchard

Abiah grew up in Charlottesville, VA and attended Dartmouth College. She graduated in 2017 with a degree in Biochemistry and a minor in Anthropology of Global Health. As an undergrad, she was part of the club triathlon team, a volunteer at David's House and the Center for Perinatal Advocacy, and did research in oncology at Norris Cotton Cancer Center. During a gap year, she worked in pharmaceutical research and consulting, and became particularly interested in the cost impacts of healthcare for individual patients and broader societies.

As a MedEd scholar, she hopes to improve resources available in years 1 and 2 for clinical education and developing forums for learning about residency match earlier in medical school. In the future, Abiah hopes to pursue a career in academic medicine and be a lifelong learner and teacher.

Landis Walsh

Landis Walsh

Landis grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 with a degree in Biology. While at Penn, he competed on the Lightweight Rowing team, volunteered at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and developed a mentorship program between the rowing team and the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, combining his passion of rowing and working with children. He then spent a fifth year in Philadelphia working as a research technician in the Pharmacology department at Penn.

As a MedEd Scholar, Landis is intent on developing a mentorship program primarily for first and second year students. Specifically, he aims to get first and second year students, who are unsure about what field of medicine they might pursue, into the hospital more often so they have more opportunities to develop their passions outside of the classroom.