Program Faculty and Staff
Core Faculty
Jeffrey Samet, MD, MPH
John Noble, M.D. Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Boston Medical Center
Patrick O’Connor, MD, MPH
Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Core Staff
Jules Canfield, MPH
Program Manager
Boston Medical Center
Lydia Carlson, MPH
Project Coordinator
Boston Medical Center
Leadership Development Faculty
Daryn David, PhD
National Advisory Committee
National Advisory Committee (NAC) members play a crucial role in the development and mentoring of the RAMS fellows. NAC members are matched with a RAMS scholar and provide one-on-one mentoring.
Kathleen Brady, MD, PhD
University Professor and Vice President for Research at the Medical University of South Carolina
Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS
Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine, and Chair of Emergency Services at Yale New Haven Hospital
Edward Nunes, MD
Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Research Psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)
Michael Stein, MD
Chair and Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management at Boston University School of Public Health
Federico Vaca, MD, MPH
Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Roger Weiss, MD
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean Hospital, and Director of the Alcohol, Drug, and Addiction Clinical Research Program
Affiliated Faculty
Daniel Alford, MD, MPH
Kathy Bradley, MD, MPH
Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS
David Fiellin, MD
Peter Friedmann, MD
Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc
Tom Kosten, MD
Edward Nunes, MD
Michael Stein, MD