Preliminary Year
Brigham and Women’s Hospital provides a rigorous and richly rewarding one-year experience for physicians headed to residencies in other fields, such as radiation-oncology, dermatology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, and radiology. BWH will offer 19 preliminary positions to start in July 2023. The selection criteria for entry into the program and our commitment to your career development is exactly the same as for residents in our other programs. Our philosophy is to make all programs equal and treat every trainee with the same level of trust and respect, and thus the programs are completely and seamlessly integrated into the full intern experience and curriculum; with three differences:
- No continuity clinic;
- Five 2-week blocks of elective (categorical residents do electives starting in the junior year);
- Rotating at the VA Hospital is optional.
In addition to standard preliminary positions; we participate in partnerships for BWH PGY 1 years in Advanced-Preliminary Neurology Program; Medicine-Anesthesia; and Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Program.
2022-2023 PrelimInary Interns
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Adewunmi Adelaja, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
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Elio Adib, MD
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
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Ashwin Amurthur, MD (Neuro)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Alexandra Brito, MD (Neuro)
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Michael Chang, MD
Harvard Medical School
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William Curley, MD (Neuro)
Harvard Medical School
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Jonathan D'Gama, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
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Patrick Ellsworth, MD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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Trevor Glenn, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Bina Kassamali, MD
Harvard Medical School
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Penina Krieger, MD, MPhil (Neuro)
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
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Michelle Lee, MD
Harvard Medical School
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Elizabeth Moore, MD, PhD (Neuro)
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Shane Neibart, MD, MS
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Robert Porter, MD, PhD (Neuro)
University of Michigan Medical School
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Neel Raval, MD
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
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Jordan Said, MD
Harvard Medical School
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Salina Yuan, MD, PhD (Neuro)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
2021-2022 BWH MEDICINE-ANESTHESIA INTERNS
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Janet Adeola, MD, MS
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
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Qanetha Ahmed, MD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
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Karyn Barrett, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
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Cameron Bosinski, MD, MS
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
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Katherine Chan, MD
Harvard Medical School
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Rosalyn Chen, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
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Sherwin Davoud, MD
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
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Megan Hunt, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Julian Landaw, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
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Christopher Mukasa, MD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Timothy O'Malley, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Akash Patel, MD
University of Illinois College of Medicine
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Joeli Roth, MD
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
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Abel Samanez, MD
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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Matthew Smith, MD
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Melanie Winters, MD
New York Medical College
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Ahmed Yousef, MD
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
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Andres Zorrilla-Vaca, MD
Universidad del Valle Escuela de Medicina, Cali (Colombia)
2021-2022 MEDICINE-PSYCHIATRY INTERNS
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Marie Desir, MD
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
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Grace Ma, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Kabir Nigam, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
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Andrew Pines, MD
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine-Arizona
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Harish Pudukodu, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
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Ali Raza, MD
Harvard Medical School
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Erin Reed, MD
Yale School of Medicine
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