MGH FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS
Fellowship Co-Program Director
Physician Investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine, MGH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Travis P. Baggett, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and the Director of Research at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) where he oversees the research portfolio for this innovative community health center. His research focuses on the health and health care needs of people experiencing homelessness. His studies have used a range of innovative methods to uncover and address the sources of health disparities experienced by this marginalized group of people, with particular attention to the burden, consequences, and management of tobacco use and other substance use disorders in this population. Current projects include an NIH/NCI R01 award supporting a randomized controlled trial of financial incentives for homeless smokers and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant supporting a pragmatic trial of patient navigation to promote lung cancer screening at BHCHP. In 2015, he received the MGH Department of Medicine (DOM) Transformative Scholars Program award and in 2019 the prestigious Stephen M. Krane, MD, Lectureship Award from the MGH DOM. Dr. Baggett has an active and growing mentorship portfolio with particular relevance to this application’s thematic focus on ending the crisis of opioid addiction; he co-mentors a K12 recipient and is the primary mentor for Dr. Danielle Fine, a recent program graduate.
Fellowship Site Director
Physician Investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Investigator, Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Sachin J Shah is a physician investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Center for Aging and Serious Illness. His research program aims to help older adults make individualized treatment decisions when they face high-stakes medical decisions, like deciding to use blood thinners or undergo a medical procedure. After completing his training in Internal Medicine and a General Medicine Research Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Shah joined the faculty at UCSF. After five years at UCSF, he returned to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he provides clinical care, supervises trainees, and conducts research.
Dr. Shah’s research program uses epidemiologic methods and core aging concepts to better define high-risk therapeutics’ risks and benefits. High-stakes clinical decisions are those with both substantial benefit and harm. He also devotes substantial attention to defining and measuring vulnerability in older adults. His work has focused on social vulnerability by defining the interaction between social resources and medical illness. Dr. Shah’s work is funded by the National Institute on Aging and supported by the Department of Medicine at MGH.
Dr. Shah is most proud of his work as a research mentor. He has mentored multiple post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty across multiple disciplines, all of whom continue to work in academic medicine.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY
Margarita Alegria, Ph.D.
Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Steven J. Atlas, M.D., M.P.H.*
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, MGH Primary Care Practice Based Research & Quality Improvement Network
Michael J. Barry, M.D.*
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Yuchiao Chang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth A. Freedberg, M.D., M.Sc.*
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Vicki Fung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mongan Institute Health Policy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jessica Haberer, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
John Hsu, M.D., M.B.A., M.S.C.E.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Harvard Medical School
Director, Program for Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis, Mongan Institute Health Policy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Mongan Institute Health Policy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Douglas E. Levy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Faculty of the Mongan Institute Health Policy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
James B. Meigs, M.D., M.P.H.*
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, MGH Division of Clinical Research Clinical Effectiveness Research Unit
Joshua P. Metlay, M.D., Ph.D.*
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Peter L. Gross, M.D., Chair, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, MGH
Elyse R. Park, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Director of Behavioral Sciences, MGH Tobacco Research & Treatment Center
Director of Behavioral Health Research for the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at MGH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, MGH Health Decision Sciences Center
Anne N. Thorndike, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Virginia Triant, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (DGIM and ID)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, MGH Center for Gun Violence Prevention
* Denotes faculty who have graduated from the Fellowship Program