Students

Current Students

Megan Leila Baker, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Nephrology
Dr. Baker matriculated into the IMP in 2023. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her MD degree at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Her research interests include kidney tubule injury, lymphatics, and diabetic kidney disease. She is performing her PhD studies on the role of lymphatics in kidney disease under the mentorship of Dr. Lloyd Cantley in the Section of Nephrology.
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Alexandra Boye-Doe, MD
Fellow, Department of Hematology and Oncology
Dr. Boye-Doe matriculated into the Investigative Medicine Program in 2025. She completed her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College and her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, followed by residency at the University of North Carolina. As a fellow, she focuses on the care of patients with benign hematologic disorders. Her PhD research focuses on the study of regulation of Weibel-Palade body trafficking and von Willebrand factor release in the context of von Willebrand disease.
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Theresa Ermer, MD, Dr Med
Resident, Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery
Dr. Ermer matriculated into the IMP in 2025. Dr. Ermer completed her medical school at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, where she also received a medical research doctorate (Dr. med). She investigated the management, as well as immunological and cardiovascular implications of the uremic toxin oxalate in dialysis patients. Subsequently, she completed two additional years of postdoctoral research at Yale, focusing on outcomes and disparities in thoracic oncology, and is now an Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery resident at YNHH. She is performing her PhD studies on the role of endothelial cells in lung transplant rejection under the mentorship of Dr. Jordan Pober in the Department of Immunobiology.
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Natalia Festa, MD, MHS
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Program on Aging and National Clinician Scholars Program
Dr. Festa Matriculated into the IMP 2022. Dr. Festa trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and geriatrics at Yale. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. She earned her MD and Masters in Business Administration at Stanford University. Her early career has focused on ascertainment of aging outcomes within administrative claims data. Research interests include the ascertainment of aging outcomes within Medicare claims and evaluating opportunities to prolong functional independence for older adults.
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Etienne Leveille, MD
Fellow, Hematology and Oncology, ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway at the Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Leveille Matriculated into the IMP in 2024. He completed his medical school at McGill University, where he also studied the genetics of Parkinson’s disease and hereditary spastic paraplegia under the supervision of Dr. Ziv Gan-Or and mechanisms of inhibition of apoptosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with Dr. Nathalie Johnson. While at McGill , Etienne was also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Journal of Medicine. Etienne is a member of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology and studies ferroptosis and other novel therapeutic approaches in B-cell malignancies under the mentorship of Dr. Markus Müschen.
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Catherine Mezzacappa, MD, MPH
Clinical Fellow, Division of Digestive Diseases
Dr. Mezzacappa matriculated into the IMP in 2023. She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to beginning a career in medicine, she completed a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, at which time she was awarded the Dr. Theodore Colton Prize for Excellence in Epidemiology. Her current thesis work is focused on better understanding the relationship between metabolic disease (diabetes, steatotic liver disease), progression of liver fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma for the purposes of improving clinical risk stratification.
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Amin Nassar, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Immunobiology
Dr. Nassar matriculated into the IMP in 2023. He received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut and then pursued a two-year postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he worked under the mentorship of Professors Dr. David Kwiatkowski, Dr. Toni Choueiri, and Dr. Matthew Freedman at Harvard Medical School. He later completed residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Nassar is interested in a career as a physician-scientist with a clinical focus in thoracic oncology. He is currently pursuing his PhD studies in tumor immunology at the Flavell lab in the Department of Immunobiology.
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Kurt S. Schultz, MD
Resident, Department of Surgery
Dr. Schultz matriculated into the Investigative Medicine Program in 2023. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and received his MD at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. His research interests include causal inference, mixed methods, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Dr. Schultz is performing his PhD studies on measuring and addressing preoperative psychosocial frailty under the mentorship of Dr. Ira Leeds in the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
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Nadia Solomon, MD, MSc, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Solomon matriculated into the IMP in 2022. Dr. Solomon completed her MD degree at St. George's University with internship in internal medicine at NYC Health & Hospitals | Elmhurst Hospital Center. She is enrolled in the ABR Holman Research Pathway while a student in the IMP. Her current research focuses on the application of various imaging techniques in the postmortem setting to cause of death investigation. She is also exploring related topics including child abuse imaging and other applications of imaging to forensic settings.
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Anna Sowa, MD, MHS
Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Dr. Sowa joined the IMP program in 2023. She earned her MD degree from the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland. Her research interests focus on the genetics of sickle cell disease, and she is working under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffrey Gruen and Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti.
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Shobana Subramanian, MD, MHS
Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Dr. Subramanian joined the IMP program in 2024. She received her bachelor's degree from Duke University and her MD and MHS from the Yale School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and is currently a fellow in the section of cardiovascular medicine. She is working on her PhD investigating mitochondrial metabolism in cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury and heart failure under the joint mentorship of Drs. Elizabeth Jonas and Lawrence Young
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Guy I. Sydney, MD
Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine
Dr. Sydney matriculated into the Investigative Medicine Program in 2025. He earned his medical degree from European University Cyprus School of Medicine and subsequently joined the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as a Visiting Researcher. He completed his internal medicine residency at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and is currently a research-track fellow in the Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism. His PhD research, conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Kevan Herold, focuses on immunologic mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes.
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Enock Teefe, MD
Resident, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Teefe matriculated into the IMP in 2022. Dr. Teefe received his training at UCLA and Rosalind Franklin Chicago Medical School, before coming to Yale for postgraduate clinical training in adult psychiatry. His PhD training is in the lab of Dr. Tom Fernandez, focusing on the genomics of childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Teefe is investigating genome wide differential gene expression in OCD patients, with the goal of identifying gene networks and distinct biological pathways that may underlie disease endotypes.
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Tara Thompson-Felix, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Child Study Center
Dr. Thompson-Felix matriculated into the IMP program in 2021. Dr. Thompson-Felix received her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ and her MD from Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. After earning her MD, she trained in adult psychiatry at the Lewis Katz Temple University. At Temple, she served as a chief resident and completed the child and research track. Her PhD research focuses on understanding the impact of maternal obesity on child neurodevelopment through the characterization of and fetal neuron derived extracellular vesicles.
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Donald Wright, MD, MHS
Clinical Informatics Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Wright matriculated into the IMP in 2024. He completed his undergraduate education at Montana State University and his MD degree at Vanderbilt University. He completed an emergency medicine residency and research fellowship at Yale prior to entering the IMP. His research interest is in medical applications for artificial intelligence with a focus on large language models. He is performing his Ph.D. studies under the co-mentorship of Dr. Hua Xu of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and Dr. Richard Andrew Taylor of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia (previously of Yale).
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