Category: 2018

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

Sandeep (Sunny) Kishore came to us from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he is a faculty member in the Department of Health System Design & Global Health and former Associate Director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health. He focuses on care model and policy innovations for chronic disease prevention and control in the US and globally. Over the past decade, he and his colleagues have successfully petitioned the World Health Organization to add ten treatments for chronic disease to the WHO Essential Medicines List. He has served as a civil society delegate and speaker to the United Nations General Assembly through a policy non-profit he founded — Young Professions Chronic Disease Network. Sunny is a prolific author, serves on the TEDMED Advisory Board, and the steering committee for the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being & Resilience. He received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, has been recognized as a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Inaugural Emerging Leader for the National Academy of Medicine, and a Fellow at the MIT Dalai Lama Center for Ethics & Transformative Values. Sunny graduated from Duke University with a BS in Biology, received his MD and PhD from the Weill Cornell / Rockefeller / Sloan-Kettering Institute, and earned an MSc in immunology as the Usher Cunningham Scholar at Oxford. He completed his medical internship at Yale.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Medford
Atrius Health Preceptor: Paul Feiss, MD and Steven Paskal, MD

Julia Jezmir came to us after completing her MD and MBA at Stanford University, where she was elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Julia received a Soros Fellowship for New Americans at Stanford and a Fulbright award for research in Kenya on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. She co-founded Fabric in America, a social media campaign to celebrate immigrant stories, and co-designed Roofwanda, to address the improvement of health through housing in Rwanda. Before medical school, Julia worked for 2 years for Partners in Health, as Assistant to the Russia and Kazakhstan Project in Boston, MA, and Tomsk, Russia. Julia was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Boston University, where she received her B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Mahmoud Moawad, MD

Brad Diephuis joined our program with an M.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard. Brad served as president of Harvard Medical School’s student council. As a member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Brad conducted a computational project on prognostic factors in head and neck cancer, patented an image processing algorithm to analyze the function of ciliated epithelial cells, and developed an innovative method to measure the viscosity of biological secretions noninvasively, leading to multiple publications. As Innovations Committee Leader in Harvard’s Center for Primary Care, Brad developed a text message-based appointment reminder system and is creating a process for automated extraction of structured data from electronic medical records. Brad simultaneously earned his B.S in Electrical Engineering summa cum laude from Harvard College and his M.S. in Computer Science from the Harvard School of Electrical Engineering and Applied Science. He served as a software engineer for a medical technology start-up and developed a tool to help oncologists identify relevant trials based on the molecular biology of patient’s cancers.

Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Bob Atkind, MD