Program Alumni
The first cohort of MHS Medical Education Track Degree students graduated in December 2018. Following is an alphabetical alumni list, with their graduation date and thesis title.
| Name | Graduation Date | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anisha Advani, MD, MHS | May 2026 | Reframing Inpatient Consultation: A Mixed-Methods Study of Communication, Conflict, and Professional Identity |
| Samantha Ahle, MD, MHS | December 2018 | Understanding Resident Performance: An Exploration of Entrustment and Assessment |
| Lilanthi Balasuriya, MD, MMS, MHS | May 2021 | Teaching Psychiatry Residents to Understand and Respond to Oppression Through the Development of The Human Experience Track |
| Aba Black, MD, MHS | May 2019 | Hidden Costs: Understanding the Workplace Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Residents |
| Carmen Black, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Because Whiteness Wants to Protect the Status Quo: Performative Medical Professionalism Turns Exposing the Problem into the Problem |
| Aaron Bower, MD, MHS | May 2026 | The Development and Implementation of a Case-Based Near-Peer Outpatient Curriculum for Neurology Residents |
| Bryan Brown, MD, MHS | May 2021 | Animation as an Educational Modality in the Health Professions: Towards Best Practices of Development and Implementation |
| Scott Casper, MD, MHS | May 2020 | Training Emergency Department Residents in the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: A Comparison of Two Pedagogical Approaches |
| Carolyn Chan, MD | May 2023 | Development of a Motivational Interviewing Curriculum for Resident Trainees Using Improvisational Theater Techniques |
| Leela Chandrasekar, MD, MHS | May 2025 | Development of a Curriculum for Pediatric Residents to Educate Patients with Asthma and their Families on Proper Inhaler Use |
| Nathan Coppersmith, MD | May 2023 | Understanding Mindset Theory in Surgical Education |
| Alexis Cordone, MD, MPH, MHS | May 2024 | Preparing Emergency Medicine Residents and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows to Care for Patients Who Present to the Emergency Department after a Sexual Assault |
| Heather Dahlquist, MD, MHS | May 2021 | Ready for Residency? Effect of an EPA-Based Curriculum on Pediatric Sub-Intern Entrustment Scores |
| Jeffrey Dewey, MD, MHS | May 2020 | Characterizing the Thriving Neurology Resident Through Appreciative Inquiry |
| Dana Dunne, MD, MHS | May 2020 | Faculty Development for Undergraduate Core EPAs: Effect of Brief Video Intervention for Front Line Faculty and Reliability Analysis of WBA |
| Joseph Dunroe | May 2022 | Assessing Internist Competency in Point of Care Ultrasound Using the Entrustable Professional Activity Framework |
| Andrew Esposito | May 2022 | Preconceptions and Barriers to Realizing the Full Utility of Video-Based Coaching in Surgical Education |
| Emily Flom, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Understanding Utility and Minimizing Misperceptions: Solutions to Evaluating Surgical Teachers |
| Mollie Freedman-Weiss, MD, MHS | December 2020 | Surgery Residents as Educators: Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment in a General Surgery Residency Program |
| Katie Gielissen, MD, MHS | December 2018 | Can Communication be Simulated? The Use of Two High-Fidelity Simulation Scenarios to Assess Undergraduate Entrustable Professional Activities |
| Michael Goldman, MD | May 2023 | Alignment between Pediatric Residents and Their Preceptors for Ad-Hoc Procedural Entrustment |
| Shaili Gupta, MBBS, MHS | May 2025 | Integrating Social Determinants of Health in Topic-based Education for Internal Medicine Residents |
| Russell Himmelstein, MD, MHS | May 2026 | Design and Implementation of an LGBTQ+ Curriculum for Neonatal Providers: A Mixed Methods Study |
| Hayley Israel | May 2022 | Development and Validation of a Tool Based on Entrustable Professional Activities for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Competence Assessments of Critical Care Fellows |
| Rachel Johnson, MD, MHS | May 2025 | Reconsidering Pediatric Critical Care Sequencing During Pediatric Residency |
| Firas Kaddouh, MD, MHS | May 2023 | Qualitative Research to Map out Neurotrauma Curriculum for Emergency Medicine Providers and Trainees |
| Stephanie Leeds, MD, FAAAAI | May 2023 | Keeping Up with Changing Guidelines: Development of a Curriculum for Pediatricians on Peanut Allergy Prevention |
| Ariel Lefland, MD, MHS | May 2024 | An Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Enhancing Neurology Resident Education |
| Arielle Richey Levine, MD, MHS | May 2026 | Joint Venture: Curriculum Design, Implementation and Evaluation for a Novel Interdisciplinary Musculoskeletal Medicine Elective |
| Andres Mora Carpio, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Delivering High-Yield Medical Education to Low-Resource Settings: A Video-Based Intervention |
| Tanya Murtha, MD, MHS | May 2020 | Resilience Curriculum Improves Pediatric Trainee Skills in Delivery of Difficult News |
| Caroline Nelson, MD, MHS | May 2026 | Impostor Phenomenon and Professional Skill Gaps in Early-Career Dermatologists: A Needs Assessment |
| Nicolle Ocasio-Abrams, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Impact of a Novel Flipped Classroom Curriculum on the Learning Experience of Pediatric Residents |
| Maisie Orsillo, DO, MHS | May 2026 | A Novel Curriculum On Caring For Adults With Disabilities: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
| Bhoumesh Patel, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Development and Validation of a Simulation-Based Assessment Tool for Anesthesiology Residents in Basic Transesophageal Echocardiography |
| Kevin Pei, MD, MHS | May 2019 | Workplace Bullying Among US Surgeons |
| Edward Belk Perry Jr, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Development and Implementation of a Novel Opioid Pain Management Curriculum for Oncology Fellows |
| Uma Phatak, MD, MHS | May 2021 | Assessment of Feedback Culture Experienced by Trainees in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine |
| Adnan Prsic, MD, MHS | May 2024 | Evaluation of Operating Room Learning Climate in Plastic Surgery – A Mixed Method Explanatory Study |
| Julie Reardon, MD, MHS | May 2021 | Reflect and Reorient: Design and Acceptability of a Mental and Behavioral Health Curriculum for Pediatric Subspecialty Trainees |
| Madelyn Renzetti, MD, MHS | May 2025 | Development of Two Tools to Assess Competency of Instructors of Point-of-Care-Ultrasound |
| Jennifer Rockfeld, MD, MHS | May 2025 | Assessing the Influence of Incentivizing Community Ambulatory Preceptors on Physicians and their Learners |
| Shelby Rosario, MD, MHS | May 2025 | Gender, Racial and Ethics Differences in Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residency Recognition |
| Sara Schaeffer, MD, MHS | May 2019 | Design and Implementation of an Online Curriculum in Movement Disorders for Neurology Housestaff |
| Devika Sparks, MD, MHS | May 2026 | Needs Assessment for Gastroenterology-Focused Continuing Education for Pediatricians in Connecticut |
| Nickolas Srica, MD, MHS | May 2026 | “Podcast Conference”: A Mixed Methods Study of an Audio-Only Resident Conference Format |
| Harry W. Sutherland, MD, MHS | May 2026 | Self-Directed Learning in Neurology Residency: A Mixed Methods Exploratory Analysis |
| Christopher Traner, MD, MHS-Med Ed | May 2023 | Assessment of an Interactive Online Curriculum for Teaching Electroencephalogram using a Quantitative and Qualitative Approach |
| David Vermette, MD, MBAM | May 2023 | Resident Well-Being through the Lens of Flourishing: Implications for the Individual and Community |
| Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS | December 2018 | Collaboration and Evaluation: A Study of the Diagnostic Process of Physicians |
| Erin White-Pallett, MD, MBS, MHS | May 2021 | Informed Consent as an Entrustable Professional Activity: Attending Factors that Affect Entrustment and Clinical Teaching for Surgical Trainees |
| Nathan Wood, MD, MHS, D, ABOMM | May 2024 | A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Culinary Medicine Curriculum for Medical Residents |
| Yihan Yang | May 2022 | Structure and impact of longitudinal curricula designed to prepare future clinician-educators during graduate medical education |