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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.
  • Program Alumni

    Samantha Ahle, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis Title: Understanding Resident Performance: An Exploration of Entrustment and Assessment

    Lilanthi Balasuriya, MD, MMS, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2021

    Thesis Title: Teaching Psychiatry Residents to Understand and Respond to Oppression Through the Development of The Human Experience Track

    Aba Black, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2019

    Thesis Title: Hidden Costs: Understanding the Workplace Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Residents

    Bryan Brown, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2021

    Thesis Title: Animation as an Educational Modality in the Health Professions: Towards Best Practices of Development and Implementation

    Scott Casper, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2020

    Thesis Title: Training Emergency Department Residents in the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: A Comparison of Two Pedagogical Approaches

    Carolyn Chan, MD

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Development of a Motivational Interviewing Curriculum for Resident Trainees Using Improvisational Theater Techniques

    Nathan Coppersmith, MD

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Understanding Mindset Theory in Surgical Education

    Heather Dahlquist, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2021

    Thesis Title: Ready for Residency? Effect of an EPA-Based Curriculum on Pediatric Sub-Intern Entrustment Scores

    Jeffrey Dewey, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2020

    Thesis Title: Characterizing the Thriving Neurology Resident Through Appreciative Inquiry

    Dana Dunne, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2020

    Thesis Title: Faculty Development for Undergraduate Core EPAs: Effect of Brief Video Intervention for Front Line Faculty and Reliability Analysis of WBA

    Joseph Dunroe

    Graduation Date May 2022

    Thesis Title: Assessing Internist Competency in Point of Care Ultrasound Using the Entrustable Professional Activity Framework

    Andrew Esposito

    Graduation Date May 2022

    Thesis Title: Preconceptions and Barriers to Realizing the Full Utility of Video-Based Coaching in Surgical Education

    Mollie Freedman-Weiss, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: December 2020

    Thesis Title: Surgery Residents as Educators: Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment in a General Surgery Residency Program

    Katie Gielissen, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis Title: Can Communication be Simulated? The Use of Two High-Fidelity Simulation Scenarios to Assess Undergraduate Entrustable Professional Activities

  • Program Alumni (cont.)

    Michael Goldman, MD

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Alignment between Pediatric Residents and Their Preceptors for Ad-Hoc Procedural Entrustment

    Hayley Israel

    Graduation Date: May 2022

    Thesis Title: Development and Validation of a Tool Based on Entrustable Professional Activities for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Competence Assessments of Critical Care Fellows

    Firas Kaddouh, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Qualitative Research to Map out Neurotrauma Curriculum for Emergency Medicine Providers and Trainees

    Stephanie Leeds, MD, FAAAAI

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Keeping Up with Changing Guidelines: Development of a Curriculum for Pediatricians on Peanut Allergy Prevention

    Tanya Murtha, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2020

    Thesis Title: Resilience Curriculum Improves Pediatric Trainee Skills in Delivery of Difficult News

    Kevin Pei, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2019

    Thesis Title: Workplace Bullying Among US Surgeons

    Uma Phatak, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2021

    Thesis Title: Assessment of Feedback Culture Experienced by Trainees in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine

    Julie Reardon, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2021

    Thesis Title: Reflect and Reorient: Design and Acceptability of a Mental and Behavioral Health Curriculum for Pediatric Subspecialty Trainees

    Sara Schaeffer, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2019

    Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of an Online Curriculum in Movement Disorders for Neurology Housestaff

    Christopher Traner, MD, MHS-Med Ed

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Assessment of an Interactive Online Curriculum for Teaching Electroencephalogram using a Quantitative and Qualitative Approach

    David Vermette, MD, MBA

    Graduation Date: May 2023

    Thesis Title: Resident Well-Being through the Lens of Flourishing: Implications for the Individual and Community

    Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis Title: Collaboration and Evaluation: A Study of the Diagnostic Process of Physicians

    Erin White-Pallett, MD, MBS, MHS

    Graduation Date: May 2021

    Thesis Title: Informed Consent as an Entrustable Professional Activity: Attending Factors that Affect Entrustment and Clinical Teaching for Surgical Trainees

    Yihan Yang

    Graduation Date: May 2022

    Thesis Title: Structure and impact of longitudinal curricula designed to prepare future clinician-educators during graduate medical education