Day: October 1, 2020

Alexander Chaitoff came to us after receiving his MD from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, where he received the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Merit Scholarship, a Truman Scholarship and a Marshall Scholarship, earning a Master’s in Public health from the University of Sheffield, U.K. During all four years of medical school, Alex undertook research at the Center for Value-Based Care at the Cleveland Clinic, assessing areas of healthcare delivery including racial disparities, patient preferences, patient satisfaction, and physician empathy, funded – in part – by a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation grant. Before medical school, Alex co-founded the Pure Water Access project, a 501c3 nonprofit that partners with small organizations to assist them with clean water plans by providing student-led-data analysis and outcome assessment support. He also co-founded “Project Youthpact,” an eBook for young people in public service. Alex graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University, with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Microbiology.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Braintree
Atrius Health Preceptor: Christopher Teitleman, MD and Scott Souther, MD

Allison Vise earned her MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During her third year of medical school, she was chosen to be a member of InterACT, a selective, longitudinal, ambulatory care-focused clerkship. She also served as the leader of a student group that trains medical students to be doulas for women undergoing pregnancy terminations. And, she was a primary care provider, Spanish to English interpreter, and leader of all medical student education for EHHOP, the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, Mount Sinai’s free, student-run clinic. She was awarded by the medical school for her work partnering with chronically ill children and their families, and she presented nationally on research she conducted studying risk factors for poor maternal functional status in the early post-partum period among a cohort of low-income women in East Harlem. Prior to attending Mount Sinai, she earned a BA from Princeton University, where she majored in Anthropology, and earned minors in African-American Studies and Global Health and Health Policy. For her Princeton senior thesis, she studied norms surrounding sexual and reproductive healthcare provision in the US, and conducted ethnographic research at a reproductive health clinic in Washington, DC, where she also served as a Spanish to English interpreter. Prior to medical school, Allison spent time volunteering in rural healthcare centers in Bolivia, and she conducted research with the NYC Department of Health, co-authoring two papers examining mental healthcare provision for Rikers Island inmates, both of which were published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Leann Canty, MD and Rashika Mathews, MD

Sunny Kung joined us from the University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences where she will receive her MD from the Pritzker School of Medicine. Sunny was a Telluride Scholar at The Academy of Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety and was one of 5 students at Pritzker to serve as a Bucksbaum Institute Student Scholar. She co-founded and served as executive board member at a student run clinic for Asian Immigrants. Sunny served in the Office of Student Representatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) as the central regional delegate to the National Committee on Community and Diversity. In college at UC Berkeley, Sunny received a BS in bioengineering and was elected to Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Sabrina Selim, MD

Amrapali Maitra came to our Program after receiving her MD from Stanford University, where she will also receive her Ph.D. in Anthropology. Amrapali was elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society, received a Soros Fellowship for New Americans as well as a National Science Foundation and Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Fellowships. At Stanford, Amrapali managed the Arbor Free Clinic, and trained and served as a domestic violence advocate at Bay Area shelter. For her Ph.D., Amrapali completed ethnographic research exploring domestic violence, care, and family dynamics in Kolkata, India. In 2017-18, she served as the Presence-Biomedical Ontology Fellow at Stanford, working with Dr. Abraham Verghese. Before medical school, Amrapali worked for Support for International Change on HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns in rural Tanzania. Amrapali earned her BA in history and literature from Harvard College, where she received highest honors for her thesis on madness in Indian literature.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Kenmore
Atrius Health Preceptor: Donald Foxworthy, MD, and Shanthy Sridhar, MD