Category: PC-HVMA

Medha Vyavahare

Medha Vyavahare (PGY-1) comes to us after receiving her MD from Harvard Medical School and an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health. While at HMS, Medha served as the President of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s student chapter, developing a QI speaker series and organizing an interdisciplinary QI summit for students across Boston. In 2019 she was selected as Zetema Fellow, leading healthcare debates and conducting targeted research. She also led a QI study on remote blood pressure monitoring, and a qualitative research project interviewing hospital leadership teams regarding team dynamics, workforce culture, and innovation efforts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to medical school, Medha worked as a policy advisor at Health Management Academy and as a Senior Analyst in Innovation Strategy at New York Presbyterian. Medha received a BS in Bioengineering from Clemson University.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Copley
Atrius Health Preceptor: Drs. Francine Monahan & Moira Cunningham

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Soleil Shah

Soleil Shah (PGY-1) joins us after receiving his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. During medical school, Soleil designed and piloted a Medicare enrollment clinic through Stanford’s Cardinal Free Clinics, volunteered there regularly, and served as co-president and co-founder of the Stanford Healthy Policy Collective. He also completed Stanford’s Scholar Concentration in Health Services and Policy Research. His research work has focused on payment reform, healthcare markets and value-based care, and he’s published widely in national medical and lay journals and press. In 2021, Soleil served as a Zetema Fellow, a role for emerging healthcare leaders of the future. Before medical school, Soleil was a Fulbright scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received an MSc with Distinction. Soleil received a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Richmond, summa cum laude.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Wellesley
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Nadaa Ali

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Stephanie Pintas

Stephanie Pintas (PGY-1) joins us after receiving her MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Throughout medical school, Stephanie has pursued scholarly work related to integrative medicine. Her research has ranged from exploring the impact of an inpatient integrative medicine consult service to a collaborative study of medicinal mushrooms and Chinese herbs in the care of patients with COVID-19. In addition, she has been deeply committed to teaching and mentorship, and was selected to represent UCLA in the AAMC’s Organization of Student Representatives. She also planned and oversaw UCLA’s Annual Healthcare Symposium, addressing a wide range of issues related to health equity. Stephanie received a BA in Human Health, Nutrition Science from Emory University.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Wellesley
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Ida Gorenburg

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Kevin Huang

Kevin Huang (PGY-1) comes to us after receiving his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MBA from Harvard Business School. During medical school, Kevin served in a leadership role at the Center for Primary Care, and as Executive Director of the Harvard Medical School’s Makerspace, a student organization promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. Kevin’s research focuses on drug safety and development, and through his work in the Therapeutics Graduate Program, he has collaborated with academic physicians and scientists to translate their research into novel diagnostics and therapeutics. Kevin received a BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from Yale University magna cum laude.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Chris Alonzo

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Allison Hare

Allison Hare comes to us after receiving her MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Allison worked as a Clinical Informatics Fellow and led health system-wide change in telehealth delivery models, remote patient monitoring, and social needs screening, for which she was awarded a $20,000 grant. Her work to improve access to care resulted in the successful integration of Penn Medicine’s EHR into student-run community clinics, and initiatives to support digitally naïve patients’ navigation of telehealth platforms. Her curricular innovations – including a new student orientation to the EHR and the conception and creation of a clinical informatics pipeline program – were selected to become permanent parts of Penn’s curriculum. In addition, during her extensive volunteer work, Allison has developed workshops to teach design thinking, developed an anti-racist cardiology curriculum, served as AMA delegate to national meetings, and worked at Penn’s Covid-19 Social Needs Response Team. Allison received a BS in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, phi beta kappa.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Somerville
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Elisa Choi

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Catherine Mankiw

Catherine Mankiw comes to us after receiving her MD from Harvard Medical School and her MBA from Harvard Business School. Catherine began her medical career working for two years as a Fellow in the Section of Developmental Neurogenomics at the National Institutes of Health. At Harvard Medical School, she expanded her research with an eye for healthcare delivery by studying mental health stigma and disparities at the Harvard Center for Population Studies as well as evaluating opportunities for Alzheimer’s drug development at Harvard Business School At HBS, Catherine led work to showcase physician innovators, and was a Team Lead for MedAssess, a collaboration between HBS students and researchers at Mass General Hospital to evaluate the commercial potential of novel technologies. She has served as a consultant for two start-up organizations – one on digital prenatal health education, and one on an employer-facing mental health benefits navigation platform. Catherine has been deeply engaged in improving mental health care. She spent a year during medical school researching racial disparities in mental health access and, during the pandemic, led a team of students as editor of the mental health module for HMS’s nationally-adopted Covid-19 Curriculum. Catherine received a BA in Economics from Princeton, magna cum laude.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Watertown
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Eshan Azimi

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Suhas Gondi

Suhas Gondi comes to us after receiving his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Before attending medical school, Suhas interned at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Brookings Institute, and the U.S. Senate to build his knowledge in health policy. At Harvard Medical School, Suhas served as co-director of the Crimson Care Collaborative, overseeing seven HMS student-run clinics with more than 300 volunteers providing 2500 primary care visits annually to underserved communities. In addition, Suhas prioritized advocacy both institutionally, through the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American College of Physicians, and independently, by publishing op-eds in several national news outlets. During the pandemic, Suhas helped launch response efforts including ones to coordinate PPE distribution amidst shortages, vaccine clinics in Boston’s hardest hit neighborhoods, and served on the Covid-19 team of the health policy committee for the Biden-Harris campaign. Suhas received a BA in neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis, summa cum laude.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Post Office Square
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Anna Groskin and Dr. Sarah Hale

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Victoria Bartlett

Victoria Bartlett comes to us after receiving her MD from Yale School of Medicine. During medical school, Victoria focused on advocacy. As president of Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic, she successfully worked with administration to install emergency bleeding kits across the medical school campus. As care coordination director at Yale’s HAVEN Free Clinic, she designed and implemented a new patient navigator program for the clinic’s most complex patients. She also served on the Board of Circle of Women, a non-profit organization that improves girls’ access to education. Victoria spent two years before medical school in management consulting, and brings her knowledge of operational systems to her work as a student fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, she has contributed to writings on digital health regulation, nursing home care, and gun violence. And during the pandemic, she worked as an intern with the White House Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force. Victoria received a BA in neurobiology with a citation in Chinese from Harvard.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Braintree
Atrius Health Preceptor: Dr. Christopher Teitleman and Dr. Ross Reel

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Peter Trinh

Peter Trinh (PGY-1) comes to us after receiving his MD from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and his MBA from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. At both institutions, Peter was consistently engaged in teaching, serving as course representative for multiple disciplines, volunteering at the student run clinic, and co-leading Kellogg’s Wellness Club. Peter instructed both medical school and business school colleagues about nutrition as co-representative of the Culinary Medicine Elective. In addition, at Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Health Equity Transformation, Peter built a business case for Northwestern Medicine to invest in a local housing fund for high healthcare-utilizing individuals experiencing homelessness. Peter received his undergraduate BA in Molecular Biology with high honors from Princeton University.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Sabrina Selim, MD

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Maya Sayarath

Maya Sayarath (PGY-1) comes to us after receiving her MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School. At the University of Minnesota, Maya undertook qualitative and quantitative research to address missed opportunities for sexual reproductive health counseling. She also led work funded by the Minnesota Medical Association to address language and health literacy barriers by coordinating translation of patient education materials for Somali and Hmong-Lao communities. In addition, Maya served as a mentor for underrepresented students through the Student National Medical Association and for City Year Boston. Prior to medical school, Maya completed research on ADHD and served as a Population Health Manager at Boston Children’s Hospital, and spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer, mentoring and teaching middle school students in the Boston Public Schools. Maya graduated from Mount Holyoke College, where she received a BA in Chemistry.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Rashika Mathews, MD and Leann Canty, MD

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