2014 MP Graduates

• Monica Mix, MD: currently Clinician-Educator, East Baltimore Medical Center, East Baltimore, MD. She serves as a JHH Med-Peds Associate Program Director and earned an MPH through our Urban Health Scholars Program. Co-authored OR 30.
• Sara Mixter, MD: currently Director, Johns Hopkins PACT (Pediatric-informed Adult Care and Transition) Clinic, preceptor in the Med-Peds and IM resident clinics, Pediatric Complex Care service hospitalist, Baltimore, MD. Immediately after residency Sara served as the Assistant Program Director for Ambulatory Education for Internal Medicine in 2014-2015 and as an Assistant Chief of Service (IM Chief Resident) in 2015-2016.
• Deanna Wilson, MD currently Clinician investigator at the University of Pittsburgh within the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Following residency training, she completed Adolescent Medicine fellowship at Hopkins with additional training in Addiction Medicine. She also received her MPH through the JH Bloomberg School of Public Health. Co-authored OR 35, 39.

2015 MP Graduates

• Zach Nayak, MD: Physician, currently employed at Total HealthCare (a Federally Qualified Health Center [FQHC]), Baltimore, MD.
• Jocelyn Ronda, MD: currently adolescent medicine faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Med-Peds primary care, Boston, MA. .
• Katie Shaw, MD: currently clinician-educator for Johns Hopkins Med-Peds residents, a JHH Med-Peds Associate Program, and Physician, East Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. Co-authored OR 30, 34.
• Natalie Spicyn, MD: currently addiction medicine faculty, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Co-authored OR 24, 35.

2016 MP Graduates

• Nikita Barai, MD: Dr. Barai is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and serves as the Senior Medical Director for Quality for Mount Sinai Health Partners. In this role, she collaborates with clinical and operational leadership across the health system to promote better clinical outcomes for patients, while also driving financial performance across Mount Sinai’s value based contracts and quality programs. Prior to this role, she served as the Associate Medical Director for Population Health in the Internal Medicine Associates practice, the ambulatory teaching site for Mount Sinai’s Internal Medicine residency program and worked at New York City Health + Hospitals/Kings County as a clinician educator.
• Carolyn Bramante, MD: Dr. Bramante completed a GIM/GPAM fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital and is now a translational researcher and Med-Peds physician at the University of Minnesota in Rochester, MN. She studies remotely delivered interventions to improve health in children and adults with overweight and obesity. She is core faculty in the Program for Health Disparities research and is motivated to reduce obesity in low-income populations. Prior to Covid-19, this was mostly through behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for obesity treatment and included creating a patient advisory panel to guide her work in this sensitive topic of obesity. During Covid, Dr. Bramante is running an outpatient trial for early treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection to prevent severe Covid-19 and long-Covid symptoms. This work will mostly benefit areas of the world without access to vaccines, as vaccine equity has been a huge issue during the pandemic. Dr. Bramante authored a 2022 publication in the New England Journal of Medicine that randomized Covid-19 nonhospitalized adults to Metformin, Ivermectin, and Fluvoxamine.
• Iris Leviner, MD: currently a Med-Peds physician providing primary care at Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore, MD, where she is the Director of Pediatrics and Family Medicine.
• Benjamin Oldfield, MD: Dr. Oldfield completed the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale and is now Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Fair Haven Community Health Care, an FQHC in New Haven, CT. He is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, and addiction medicine, and is a Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Co-authored OR 30.

2017 MP Graduates

• Ani Ramesh, MD: Dr. Ramesh completed a palliative care fellowship at Johns Hopkins and now provides outpatient and inpatient palliative care for the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC and is working on building a pediatric palliative care program at Georgetown University Hospital.
• Candice Nalley, MD: Dr. Nalley practiced internal medicine and pediatrics primary care at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Canton Crossing from 2017-2020. In 2020, she became the Medical Director of the Priority Access Primary Care program at East Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, where she currently provides intensive primary care to adult Priority Partners patients with the highest utilization of care.
• Daniel Hindman, MD: Dr. Hindman completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine and an MPH through the Urban Health Program. After completing fellowship, he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics. He has helped lead research on health equity, healthy communities, and telehealth. He practices adult primary care as well as pediatric hospitalist and ER medicine. He is currently the Medical Director for the Bayview Pediatric Combined Unit.

2018 MP Graduates

• Alejandra Ellison-Barnes, MD: Dr. Ellison-Barnes completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, during which she also completed an MPH as an Urban Health Scholar and conducted policy-oriented research on the social and structural determinants of health over the life course with a focus on nutrition/obesity as well as tobacco. Now, as an Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine, she is engaged in several clinical roles throughout the institution while continuing her research.
• Angela Orozco, MD: currently a Med-Peds Primary Care Doctor and Clinician Educator at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, a long-standing FQHC serving the local Latino community in Milwaukee, WI.
• James Miller, MD: Dr. Miller works primarily in the Homeless Medicine and Urban Poverty arm of the Allegheny Health Network Center for Inclusion Health in Pittsburgh, PA with a sub-focus in addiction medicine. He provides primary care for a number of different patient groups including people struggling with addictions and those experiencing homelessness. He staffs shelter clinics, engages in medical street outreach for the homeless, and prescribes medication-assisted treatment for persons with opiate addictions. Co-author on LT 4.
• Jeremy Snyder, MD: Dr. Snyder is the medical director of the young adult clinic for youth living with HIV at Truman Health Services, a University of New Mexico clinic in Albuquerque, NM, where he also provides HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis, as well as hepatitis C treatment. In 2022, he also joined the ADOBE clinic, a multigenerational interdisciplinary clinic at the University of New Mexico for youth and their families affected by the juvenile justice system. As adjunct faculty within the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, he also teaches medical students and residents.

2019 MP Graduates

• Justin Berk, MD: Dr. Berk is a Med-Peds clinician at Brown University and was previously the Medical Director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. He conducts research on addiction treatments for individuals leaving prison. He recently took on the role of Medical Director for the state’s new safe consumption site. He also works on the medical education podcasts, The Curbsiders and The Cribsiders.. OR 33, 35 39; LT 4
• Zachary Gitlin, MD: Dr. Gitlin began his career in global health equity with the IHS, living and working with the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico. He provided full spectrum care and built medical education curricula on resource-limited care. He subsequently worked as medical director for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah in MA. He currently lives and works as regional lead for pediatric education and development with IU Center for Global Health Equity and the AMPATH Global Health Consortium in Eldoret, Kenya.
• Joseph Muller, MD: Dr.Muller completed the addiction medicine fellowship at Hopkins in 2020 and since then has worked as a primary care doctor and addiction specialist at Unity Health Care, a large FQHC in Washington, DC, working in a community clinic and the DC jail. In 2022 he became the Medical Director for Addiction Services at Unity.
• Robin Ortiz, MD: Dr. Ortiz is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health through the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity at New York University on the physician-scientist track and is an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York, NY. Previously, Dr. Ortiz completed the National Clinician Scholars Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after graduating from Med-Peds residency. Co-author, PC 1.

2020 MP Graduates

• Brittany Badesch, MD: currently an adult and pediatric critical care fellow after completing a Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatrics Chief year.
• Marguerite Lloyd, MD: Dr. Lloyd is the Associate Medical Director for TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program. Previously, she was a Med-Peds primary care clinician-educator at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She taught a course on Community Health to the medical students and was co-Medical Director of Shade Tree Clinic, Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic. Co-author, PC 1.
• Jessica Ratner, MD: Dr. Ratner is a primary care and addiction medicine physician at Bayview Comprehensive Care Practice and Center for Addiction & Pregnancy Pediatrics in Baltimore, MD, and part-time consultant to Baltimore City Health Department/B’More for Healthy Babies on perinatal substance use disorders. She directs the addiction rotation for the UH programs. Co-author, PC 1.
• Harita Shah, MD: currently a Med-Peds primary care physician and assistant professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois. She leads community-based participatory research projects to improve access to care for underserved populations, specifically including HIV prevention and COVID-19 testing and vaccinations for Latinx communities. In 2022, she received a KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholars for her Community Based Participatory Research. She is also part of the leadership for the LUCENT primary care residency track.

2021 MP Graduates

• Jessica Calihan, MD: After graduation, Dr. Calihan completed an adolescent-focused addiction medicine fellowship in the Boston Children's Hospital Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program. She is now an Adolescent Medicine fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
• Kevin Klembczyk, MD: Dr. Klembczyk is currently a Meds-Peds primary care physician at East Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. He leads the coaching and mentoring programs for the JHH Med-Peds residency.
• Christine Krueger, MD: Dr. Krueger is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and core faculty in the Yale Primary Care internal medicine residency program in New Haven, CT. As a clinician educator, she focuses on community engagement, advocacy, patient-centered communication, and using quality improvement to address health disparities. She also provides primary care at an FQHC in New Haven.
• Jaime La Charite, MD: Jaime is currently a National Clinician Scholar at UCLA and a primary care physician at Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles, CA. She is doing research in adverse childhood experiences, resiliency building, and immigrant health. Co-authored PC 1.

2022 MP Graduates

• Martha Brucato, MD: Dr. Brucato is currently a critical care fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA.
• Julie Gonzalez, MD: currently a Med-Peds Primary Care Clinic preceptor and hospitalist at Baylor University in Waco, TX.
• Amanda Hesselton, MD: currently a pediatric hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD and a pediatric preceptor in the Harriet Lane Clinic.
• Paul Loeser, MD: Dr. Loeser is a Med-Peds primary care physician at La Clínica del Pueblo in Washington, DC.

2023 MP Graduates

• Joan Park, MD: Dr. Park is an addiction medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins.
• Michael Rose, MD: Dr. Rose is a chief resident for the Osler Medical Residency.
• Amitte Rosenfeld, MD: Dr. Rosenfeld is a Med-Peds primary care clinician educator at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Lindsay Sheets, MDDr. Sheets is a Med-Peds primary care provider for children and young adults with medical complexity and clinician educator in both IM and Peds resident continuity clinics at Johns Hopkins. She was the inaugural Ambulatory Assistant Chief of Service for Osler Medical Residency, 2023 -2024.

2024 MP Graduates

• Joniqua Ceasar, MD: NCSP at University of Pennsylvania
• Sophie Crinion, MD: MedPeds Primary Care in Oakland, California
• Christle Nwora, MD: Dr. Nwora is an adolescent medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is a member of the Black Girl White Coat initiative, a project where physicians offer Black and Latinx individuals pursuing careers in healthcare mentorship and guidance. She recently published The Hospital, a children’s book on all the people who work at hospitals and the patients they care for. https://neonsquidbooks.com/books/the-hospital/
• Urveel Shah, MD: Dr. Shah is a medical education fellow (CLASS Fellowship) at the University of Illinois at Chicago

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