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; and radiology. BWH will offer 19 preliminary positions to start in July 2021. 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.
2020-2021 Prelim Residents

Rohan Bajaj
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Ophthalmology (MEEI)

Catherine Baker
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Advanced Specialty: Dermatology (Harvard Combined)

David Bargiela
Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Matthew Baum
BWH Psychiatry

Sarah Boden
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Nicholas Bodnar
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Ansel Brasseur
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Richard Bremer
Wayne State University School of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Travis Brown
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Jie Jane Chen
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Radiation Oncology (UCSF)

Eric Chen
Yale School of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Stratton Dangerfield
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Kate Frost
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Nichola Haddad
BWH Psychiatry

Amanda Kim
BWH Psychiatry

Yong Hoon Kim
BWH Psychiatry

Thomas Kimball
New York Medical College
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Amanda Koire
BWH Psychiatry

Maria Kryatova
BWH Psychiatry

Kritika Kukarni
BWH Psychiatry

Grace Lee
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Radiation Oncology (Harvard)

Bing Hang Li
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Dermatology (Northwestern)

Young Lim
Yale School of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Dermatology (Harvard Combined)

Emma Meyers
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Andrew Nellestein
Georgetown University School of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Kevin Osgood
Tufts University School of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Gavin Ovsak
Harvard Medical School
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Cynthia Peng
BWH Psychiatry

Matthew Puccetti
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Christopher Richey
Harvard Medical School
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Rachel Rodin
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Matthew Russell
Medical College of Wisconsin
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Sean Singer
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Dermatology (Harvard Combined)

Anuoluwapo Sopeyin
Yale School of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Ophthalmology (Johns Hopkins)

Jocelyn Streid
Harvard Medical School
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Joy Tan
Baylor College of Medicine
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology

Alice Tang
Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Elizabeth Tkachenko
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Dermatology (Yale)

Joe Tung
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Specialty: Dermatology (U Pittsburgh)

Mattia Wruble
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Jacob Yomtoob
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Advanced Specialty: Neurology (Mass General Brigham)

Alexander Yue
Albany Medical College
BWH Categorical Anesthesiology
