ID Alumni

 

Salah Abdelgadir (2023)

Medical School: University of Medical Sciences & Technology (UMST) Faculty of Medicine, Sudan

Residency: University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, United States of America, ACGME Residency

Salah was born and grew up in Toronto, Canada, to Sudanese immigrant parents. He moved to Sudan at the age of eight, which immersed him into a new culture, language, and surroundings. He was enamored by everything around him, and such experiences had only widened his scope of awareness. After completing his secondary studies, he enrolled in medical school and established an interest in global, rural health. Following graduation, he set his eyes on becoming an infectious disease specialist after firsthand its individual and communal effects on societies he had served and inhabited. He completed a rural health rotation at the Beersheba Springs Medical Clinic, a non-profit clinic that serves the community of Grundy county in rural Tennessee. He also participated in establishing a hypertension homeless clinic in Chattanooga, TN. Moving forward, he would like to pursue further his interest in medical anthropology, epidemiology, creative writing, and global health. Outside his academic interests, he enjoys going on hikes, live music, traveling, reading and sports.

Rhiannon Chubb (2023)

Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine

Residency: Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America, ACGME Residency

Rhiannon grew up in Manhattan, Kansas before attending Smith College. She received her medical degree from Boston University where she helped found a student-led group focused on health education for homeless young families. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Brown University. After residency, she split her time working as a primary care physician at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and a hospitalist at Rhode Island Hospital. Her interests include HIV and other infectious complications of injection drug use. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys hiking, rugby, and baking.

Katherine Anne Reifler, MD (2023)

Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine

Residency: Boston Medical Center Boston, MA, United States of America, ACGME Residency

Katherine grew up in Chicago, studied history of science an undergrad at Harvard University, attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and completed an internal medicine residency at Boston Medical Center. During college, she lived and worked abroad in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Peru, and developed an interest in health in low-resource settings and migrant health care. In medical school, she worked in Kisumu, Kenya on improving HIV diagnosis in the emergency care setting. In residency, she was involved in the Refugee and Immigrant clinic and Global Health pathway. Most recently, she has worked on research and education to improve detection of and treatment for Chagas disease. Outside of the hospital she enjoys running, spending time with friends and family, and hanging out with other people’s dogs.

Juan Teran-Plasencia (2023)

Medical School: Universidad Internacional del Ecuador

Residency: University of Miami and JFK Medical Center, FL, United States of America

Juan was born in Quito, Ecuador where he attended medical school at Universidad Internacional del Ecuador. After obtaining his medical degree he worked as a general practitioner for one year in the underserved outskirts of Quito; That experience shaped his interest in Internal medicine and above all in Infectious Diseases. Juan completed his residency training at the University of Miami/JFK Medical Center. His areas of interest include antibiotic stewardship and mycobacterial infections. Outside of medicine, Juan enjoys listening to music, playing the guitar, and reading.

 

Ghulam Karim Khan (2021)

Karim Khan was born in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and lived in Michigan and New Jersey, before his family settled in Florida. He pursued a dual degree of Political Science and Microbiology at the University of Florida. While in medical school at the University of South Florida, Karim helped found a street medicine program. He brought a passion for homeless healthcare with him to his internal medicine residency program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he helped found a new non-profit, Chicago Street Medicine. He completed the combined Infectious Diseases/Addiction Medicine fellow at BMC.

Karim is now a clinical research fellow in Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine. He grew up in Florida and completed training in Chicago, where he helped build street medicine outreach programs and developed an interest in community organizing. He is currently working on projects investigating the implementation of harm reduction services in the hospital setting as well as HIV care for unstably housed folks. In his free time, he enjoys reading, biking, and listening to music.

Leah Harvey (2021)

Leah Harvey received her undergraduate degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to medical school, she worked in clinical research, focusing on the transmission, prevention, and screening for HIV and sexually transmitted infections in marginalized communities and resource-limited settings. She went on to earn a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, focusing on infectious disease epidemiology with an additional certificate in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. She completed medical school at Michigan State University and residency in internal medicine at Boston Medical Center, where she was a member of the HIV pathway. She will be a combined Infectious Disease and Addiction Medicine Fellow at BMC. She is interested in addressing the infectious sequelae associated with injection drug use, particularly HIV and viral infections, and in optimizing treatment strategies and care delivery models to address health disparities and reach vulnerable patients. Outside of medicine, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and cooking.

Angela McLaughlin (2021)

Angela is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and journeyed to New England for the first time for undergrad at Smith College. She then went to med school at Tulane University, where she obtained both an MD and MPH in tropical medicine. During residency at Brown University Internal Medicine, she researched barriers to HIV care in people who inject drugs in western Ukraine.

Her research evaluates the effect of alcohol on HIV outcomes in a cohort of people living with HIV (PLWH) in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is working with mentors Drs. Kaku So-Armah and Nina Lin and the URBAN ARCH group. She’ll continue this project for the next two years with BU CHART T32 funding, with plans to apply for a K Award after. Angela is also working with the BMC ID clinic to set up a transitional care medicine clinic for PLWH admitted to the hospital.

Raagini Jawa  (2020) – Post Doctoral Fellow, Boston Medical Center

Raagini Jawa received her undergraduate and medical school degree from Boston University as part of the combined BA-MD Seven year accelerated medical program. She completed her Master’s in Public health with an international health concentration at Boston University School of Public Heath, where her thesis work was on HIV prevention strategies for MSM and transgender patients in India. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine as part of the HIV pathway as well as her Chief residency at Boston Medical Center. At Boston Medical Center, she will be a combined Infectious Disease and Addiction Medicine Fellow. She is very interested in developing programs that bring harm reduction strategies to the bedside and is looking forward to learn how to provide multidisciplinary medical care for patients with substance use disorders and learn to provide optimal care for the infectious complication of addiction. Her non-medical interests include directing her Indian fusion band Leher, performing as a solo ukulele artist, and being an avid amateur photographer.

Alison Nelson (2020) – Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Boston Medical Center

Alison studied chemistry at Grinnell College and then went to A.T. Still University – Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school. She completed internal medicine residency at Einstein Medical Center in Phildelphia, PA. Her areas of interest include medical education, antibiotic stewardship, and global health. Some of her hobbies are travel, cycling, watching and playing sports like rugby and basketball, and keeping up her Spanish language skills.

Pranay Sinha (2020) – Post Doctoral Fellow, Boston Medical Center

Pranay was born in India to two military doctors and attended eight schools in different Indian cities before coming to the USA for college. After graduating from Adelphi University in NY and spending a year participating in tumor-microenvironment research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Pranay found himself at the UVa School of Medicine where he became interested in global health. He finished residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he received a distinction in Global Health and Equity. Before starting fellowship, Pranay spent a year as a Step-Down Unit and Hematology/Oncology hospitalist at Yale. He is interested in studying the tuberculosis epidemic in India with a view to improving policy implementation and formulation. Pranay is an amateur writer and his essays have been published in newspapers such as the New York Times and blogs such as the Huffington Post. In their spare time, he and his wife love to travel. They also own a Shih-Tzu named Shih-Tzu-Samiasis.

Muhammad Dhanani (2019) Assistant Professor, Northwestern Medical Center, Infectious Diseases

Having grown up a few miles outside Boston, Muhammad attended University of Michigan for medical school prior to returning home to complete internal medicine residency at BMC. He then worked as a hospitalist at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge for two years, during which he also completed a fellowship in medical education. His interests include antibiotic stewardship and medical education. His other interests include eating, Michigan football and binge-watching TV.

Archana Asundi (2018) Boston University/ Boston Medical Center, Assistant Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases

Archana obtained her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her medical degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She then completed her internal medicine residency training at the Jewish General Hospital, as part of the McGill University Internal Medicine training program. Her areas of interest include tropical medicine and immigrant and refugee health.

Simeon Kimmel: (2018) Boston University/ Boston Medical Center – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine

Simeon Kimmel received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in anthropology before attending Harvard Medical School.  He completed his residency training in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  He also earned a master’s degree in medical anthropology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences after completing a thesis on race, drugs and health care in the context of mass incarceration.  At Boston Medical Center, he will be a combined Infectious Disease and Addiction Medicine Fellow.  Broadly, he is interested in improving care for patients with and at risk for infectious complications of addiction including HIV, hepatitis C, and bacterial infections secondary to intravenous drug use.  He is interested in how social inequality and marginalization mediate individual risk and hopes to use his clinical skills, novel program design and evaluation, and system-based advocacy to make a difference in the overlapping epidemics of addiction and addiction-associated infections. Recent publication: Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder after Injection Drug Associated Endocarditis, College on Problem of Drug Dependency, June 2018 at College on the Problem of Drug Dependency.

 Rachel Epstein: (2017) Boston University/ Boston Medical Center, Assistant Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases and Section of Pediatric Infectious

Rachel completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biology and bioinformatics at Wesleyan University and obtained her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. She completed a combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at Brown University and is board certified in both fields. She was the first fellow to train in combined adult and pediatric infectious diseases at BMC, and she has stayed on to pursue additional research through BU-CHART as a post-doctoral research fellow while also attending in pediatric infectious diseases. She is also completing a Master’s of Science degree in Epidemiology through BU-CHART and CREST. Her research interests focus on the intersections among the opioid epidemic, HIV, and HCV, with particular focus on screening and linkage to care for adolescents and young adults as well as pregnant women and infants. In her free time she enjoys running, biking, tennis, squash, traveling and sharing her baking endeavors.

Das, Urmimala (2019) Rust Presbyterian Medical Center, NM – Hospitalist

Khan, Taimur Haq (2019) Fenway Health/The Fenway Institute – PCP, ID Specialist, Clinical Research and Clinical Trials Investigator

Eddy, Jared (2018) National Jewish Health, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Mycobacterial & Respiratory Infections

Luo, Ruihong (2017) University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine – Assistant Clinical Professor

Memon, Babar (2017) Beth Israel Lahey Health-Milton – Infectious Disease Consultant

Gallegos Salazar, Jaime (2017) East Boston Neighborhood health Center

Barbosa, Felipe (2016) Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, Metro West Medical Center – Framingham & Natick, MA

Obiokoye, Kenechukwu (2016) Department of Medicine, Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC

Acuna-Villaorduna, Carlos (2015) Boston University/ Boston Medical Center – Assistant Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases

Freiman, J. Morgan (2015) Lahey Hospital and Medical Center – Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Assistant Professor of Medicine -Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts , Staff Physician in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Thornton, Amanda (2015) Kaiser Napa Solano in Northern California – Infectious Disease Physician