BIDMC FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS
Fellowship Co-Program Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine at HMS, Director of Research in Shared Decision Making in the Division of General Medicine, and a practicing general internist. Her research has been continuously funded since 2004 with 7 NIH R01s (4 as PI), 2 R21s, a NIA K24 Midcareer Investigator award, and a NIA Paul B. Beeson K23 career development award in aging in addition to numerous foundation grants. In her work, Dr. Schonberg brings together the fields of shared decision-making and geriatrics to improve cancer screening and treatment decisions for older adults. To help disseminate her work, she co-developed ePrognosis, an internationally used website designed to help clinicians and patients consider overall prognosis in medical decisions. Dr. Schonberg also enjoys mentoring and co-sponsors 4 NIH K awards, 1 ACS Mentored Research Grant, 1KL2, and 1 NIA GEMSSTAR and co-Directs the Harvard-wide general medicine research fellowship. She also co-Directs Harvard’s Advanced Aging Research Training Seminar Series. In recognition of her work, Dr. Schonberg has received numerous awards including the 2016 American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award, a 2022 Harvard Medical School A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, and in 2022 she was elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Fellowship Site Director
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief, Research Section, Division of General Medicine, BIDMC
Kenneth J. Mukamal, MD, MPH, MA, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS and Associate Section Chief for Research in the Division of General Medicine. His research focuses on the behavioral and biochemical determinants of cardiovascular and neurocognitive diseases, extending from their risk factors to their prognosis in ambulatory populations. He has conducted this work primarily in large cohort studies, including the Nurses’ Health Studies, Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and the Cardiovascular Health Study, along with clinical datasets and focused clinical trials. He also has published extensively on the health effects of alcohol consumption and risk factors for suicide mortality. His current grants study the relationships of circulating free fatty acids (as by-products of adiposity) with cardiometabolic disease and dementia and the health effects of blueberry consumption among older adults. Dr. Mukamal has received HMS’s Clifford A. Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring and, on two occasions, BIDMC’s Gordon J. Strewler Award for Mentorship in Resident Research. He is a recent recipient of a NIH/NIA Mid-Career Mentoring Award (K24). He also serves as director of the Shigeaki Hinohara, M.D. Primary Care Fellowship, which supports a visiting scholar from Japan every other year.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Recipient of HMS A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentorship
Tom Delbanco, M.D.
Richard and Florence Koplow-James Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
Co-Founder, OpenNotes
Catherine M. DesRoches, Dr.PH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, BIDMC
Executive Director, OpenNotes
Mary Beth Hamel, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Executive Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine
Shoshana Herzig, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Hospital Medicine Research Program
Stephen Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Ted Kaptchuk
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for Mind-Body Therapies
Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A. *
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Long Ngo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Jan Walker, R.N., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Research Associate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Co-Founder, OpenNotes
Christina Wee, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Obesity Research Program
Recipient of the SGIM Midcareer Research and Mentorship Award and the HMS A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentorship
Gloria Yeh, M.D., M.P.H. *
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
William Applebaum Professor of Medicine, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Principal Investigator, Director of the Center for Primary Care
Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD, MPH, RN, FNP-BC
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Denotes faculty who have graduated from the Fellowship Program