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
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health

Core Staff

Jules Canfield, MPH
Senior Program Manager
Boston Medical Center

Natalie Karter, BS
Project Coordinator
Boston Medical Center

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Curriculum 

Enroue Halfkenny, MSW
Owner, Healing and Liberation Counseling

Harm Reduction Component

Nadia Fairbairn, MD
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Department of Medicine

Leadership Development Training

Daryn David, PhD
Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine

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 RAM Scholar and provide one-on-one mentoring.

Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Katharine Bradley, MD, MPH
Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

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