Students

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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).