November 10, 2021
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
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
Aliza Green (PGY-1) comes to us after receiving her MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During medical school, Aliza did extensive work and served in several leadership roles within the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program (MSHRP), a comprehensive center for asylum seekers. She dedicated a full year of work to create a telehealth expansion project which coordinated remote forensic evaluations of asylum seekers in immigration detention and remote regions of the United States. Aliza was also deeply engaged in medical ethics work and was selected as a Bioethics Research Fellow at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. In addition, Aliza conducted qualitative research regarding patient and provider attitudes towards hypertension in Kampala, Uganda. Aliza attended Dartmouth College, where she received a BA in History.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Kenmore
Atrius Health Preceptor: Shanthy Sridhar, MD
Christopher Calkins (PGY-1) comes to us after receiving his MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine. At Stanford, Chris completed a scholarly concentration in health services and policy research with application in quality improvement. He was also deeply engaged in mentoring and education, serving as a Teaching Assistant for several medical school courses, working as president of Stanford Primary Care Progress, and volunteering for educational outreach programs for Bay Area High School and pre-med students. Before medical school, Chris spent two years working as a research assistant at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), where he investigated medication safety and de-prescribing in older adults, national quality strategy development, and fostering joy in work. Chris received a BA in Government from Dartmouth College, where he competed for four years as a varsity athlete on the men’s lightweight rowing team.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Cambridge
Atrius Health Preceptor: Bob Atkind, MD