Ersilia M. DeFilippis MD is a second-year resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in women's studies with specific focus on women's health. She attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Dr. DeFilippis's prior research has focused on therapeutic approaches and clinical outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease. She also is interested in medical education. She plans to pursue a cardiology fellowship.
Mike is a cardiology fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a former 2017-2018 NEJM Editorial Fellow. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his internal medicine training at BIDMC.
Dr. Joanna Mitri received her medical degree from Lebanon and completed her training in Advanced Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center and completed the Master’s Program in Clinical and Translational Science at Tufts University. During her career, she has published her research findings in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. Her clinical interest is lipid management and cardiovascular disease prevention in patients with diabetes. Dr. Mitri is currently a research Associate Research Associate, Section on Clinical, Behavioral, and Outcomes Research and diabetolgist/lipidologist at Joslin Diabetes Center. She is a co-investigator on an NIH funded study looking at metabolic pathways of increased cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes and on another trial looking at the effect of consumption of dairy products on body weight and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes.