Dr. Anita Gupta is board certified anesthesiologist, pain specialist and pharmacologist with a masters in public policy and a certificate in health policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She has received the Learner Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges in Washington D.C., has been a FDA Advisor and has been in healthcare for over 20 years. She previously has been a founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School and trained at the Wharton Total Leadership Program, and has been a working group member of the GIEESC/World Health Organization member, and has been featured as a medical expert on CNN, Fox News, Forbes, and many others. She has been the recipient of the Patients Choice and Compassionate Physician Award and author of internationally selling textbooks by Oxford University Press, Interventional Pain Medicine and Pharmacology in Anesthesia Practice and 50 Studies Every Anesthesiologist Should Know. She completed the public advocacy fellowship with the Mayday Foundation and has been called upon to discuss high profile medical topics involving Tiger Woods, Bill Cosby, Angelina Jolie and Prince. Dr. Gupta’s contributions have earned her recognition for community service, research, and pain medicine expertise. She completed her Doctorate in Pharmacy at Rutgers and her medical degree from UMDNJ and her residency in anesthesiology at Georgetown University and clinical scientist training at National Institutes of Health. Following residency, Dr. Gupta completed a pain fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Noronha was born and raised in Rochester, NY.  He attended Boston University for his undergraduate and medical school training. He stayed at Boston University for his internal medicine residency and chief residency.  After chief residency he accepted a position at Boston Medical Center as a medical educator splitting his inpatient time between primary care and inpatient ward attending.  Dr. Noronha was the director medicine consult service including being the clinic director for the Boston Medical Center Pre-procedure clinic for several years. Dr. Noronha is currently an associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Boston University School of Medicine. He has served on Association for Program Directors in Internal Medicine E-Learning and Communication Committees.  Dr. Noronha is the Director for Quality Improvement Education at Boston Medical Center. He directs the quality improvement curriculum for the residency and leads the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) pathway. He also directed the ambulatory curriculum for the residency program. 

Dr. Noronha’s academic work focuses on career preparation, residency scheduling and quality improvement. He has presented several national workshops on subjects including fellowship and job preparation, trainee professionalism, ambulatory curriculum, and residency scheduling systems. Dr. Noronha acts as a mentor for medical students and residents. While he has a great appreciation for academic medicine, he believes strongly that each trainee should choose a career path that best fits with their individual values and goals.  He takes pride in seeing his mentees move on to a variety of fields and areas of practice. 

In his free time Dr. Noronha enjoys spending time with his wife and 3 young daughters. He is an amateur aquarium enthusiast, enjoys exercising, and is still an avid Buffalo Bills fan despite decades of futility.

 

 

Dink Jardine, MD, is a general otolaryngologist working in the southeastern Virginia region.    She is the immediate past Chair of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Council of Review Committee Residents and has served on the ACGME Task Force on Physician Well-Being.  She is currently active in the ACGME’s Back to Bedside initiative, a new program designed to empower residents and fellows to develop transformative projects to combat resident burnout by fostering meaning in their learning environments through increased meaningful engagement with their patients.

When Dr. Jardine started medical school she planned to enter primary care with a focus on women’s health.  She brings a non-traditional perspective to the discussion of choosing a specialty.  

Dr. Jardine has a strong interest in promoting innovation in graduate medical education, fostering resident leadership and mentorship development, and addressing the epidemic of provider burnout by enhancing physician wellbeing. She serves as the director for faculty development for her hospital, as the otolaryngology residency program research coordinator, and on multiple educational and provider wellness committees and subcommittees. Her work has been published in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, Current Problems in Surgery, and JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery among others.

 Dr. Jardine lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband, a retired Marine Corps Infantry Officer, her three children: Sebastian (18), Xavier (14), and A’Ine (12) and their dog Pete. 

 

Christopher D. Jackson, MD is an academic general internist at Regional One Health in Memphis, TN. Additionally, he serves as the assistant program director for ambulatory education and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. 

Emilie Mitten is a third-year resident in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is interested in gastroenterology, nutrition, metabolism, and obesity medicine.

Emilie graduated from Wellesley College in 2010. Over the next two years, she pursued clinical research on obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She then started at Harvard Medical School in 2012 and graduated in 2016. In medical school, her research focused on the investigation of metabolic dysfunction in patients with HIV infection at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emilie then started residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2016. Her research interests in residency have included small intestinal bowel overgrowth (SIBO) and inflamatory bowel disease (IBD) as well as quality improvement related to diagnostic colonoscopy. She is applying for fellowship in Gastroenterology and hopes pursue a career in academic medicine.

 Jessica G.Y. Luc, MD | PGY-2 Cardiac Surgery Resident | Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of British Columbia | https://twitter.com/JessicaLuc1

Dr. Goroll is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician of the Medical Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is nationally recognized for his pioneering work in primary care internal medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 1968 and cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1973. Upon graduation he entered the nation’s first primary care residency track in internal medicine at the MGH (a program he helped design and initiate as a medical student). After completing his residency, he began a life-long career at the MGH and Harvard Medical School as a clinician-educator, reformer, and advocate for primary care and general internal medicine. In 1981 he and his colleagues published the first textbook of primary care internal medicine (Primary Care Medicine), which is now in its 7th edition and considered the standard text of the field. He has served in statewide and national leadership positions in medical education and in professional societies, including joint chair of the SGIM/CDIM Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum Reform Project, chair of strategic planning for ACGME’s Residency Review Committee in Internal Medicine, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Massachusetts governor for the American College of Physicians. At Harvard he chaired the Core Medicine Clerkship Committee and co-directed the core medicine clerkship at the MGH. His work as a teacher, medical educator, and textbook author was recognized by the Society for General Internal Medicine with its Career Achievement Award in Medical Education and by Harvard Medical School and the Gold Foundation with the Medical Humanism Award. In 2006, he was designated a Master by the American College of Physicians. His practice reform work has included founding the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and the Massachusetts Coalition for Primary Care Reform and serving as Chair of Payment Reform for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative in Washington. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on primary care workforce and payment reform and serves as a regular peer reviewer for leading medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. He continues in clinical practice, now over 35 years as a primary care general internist for his patients at the MGH and as a preceptor and mentor to Harvard students and MGH residents. His hobbies include model railroading and dinghy sailing, having built a small wooden sailboat which he takes out on Nantucket Sound during the summer.

Martin Kaminski, MD is a PGY-3, fast-track Resident Physician at Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts. Previously he was a Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland, during which he received a European Union ERASMUS scholarship to study for a semester at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Giessen, Germany. He then underwent training in the UK, first at the Northwest Thames Foundation School/Imperial College London and then Core Medical Training (internal medicine residency) at Health Education South London/King's College London. 

His interests include general internal medicine, global health and tropical medicine, antimicrobial stewarship, transplantation infectious diseases, medical education, comparative health care delivery, and coffee.

He will be starting as an Academic Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston in the fall.

Tedi Begaj is a 2nd Year Ophthalmology Resident (PGY-3) at Mass Eye and Ear-Harvard Medical School. Originally from Albania, Tedi immigrated to the United States in middle school and aimed to contribute to public health through medicine. He studied biomedical engieneering and optics at the University of Rochester, and subsequently attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is passionate about science, education, and soccer.

Dr. Rosenberg is a fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the University of South Florida.  He completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical Center.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal.

Dr. Brown graduated from Temple University School of Medicine, and completed her residency in pediatrics at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, CT.  After finishing residency, Dr. Brown completed a General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where she earned a Master's of Science in Medical Education from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  She has been practicing primary care pediatrics at the Floating Hospital for Children since 2008, and has been the Director of the Pediatrics clerkship for Tufts University School of Medicine since 2010. 

Dr. Lilian Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery under the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She completed her General Surgery residency at the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA where she was greatly influenced by her mentors in colorectal surgery. She decided to pursue a career in colon and rectal surgery completing her fellowship at the Lahey. She is board certified in General Surgery and Colorectal Surgery. Her clinical interests include minimally invasive techniques in colorectal surgery for both benign and malignant disease, surgical management of diverticulitis, and complex anorectal disease.

 

Academically, her research interests are in surgical education and she recently completed her Masters of Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Since joining faculty at the Tufts Medical Center, she has been appointed the Associate Program Director of the Tufts General Surgery residency and the Associate Director of Surgical Education with responsibilities in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. She is the recipient of multiple teaching awards at the Tufts University School of Medicine and was awarded the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award in 2011.