Academy Fellowship

The Academy at Harvard Medical School offers  the Academy Fellowship in Medical Education and Scholarship which provides rigorous and comprehensive training preparing fellows for an academic career as leaders, innovators and scholars in academic medicine. 

This two-year fellowship can support up to six fellows and is led by David Hirsh, MD, and Amy Sullivan, EdD.  This fellowship provides funding for Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty and senior clinical or curriculum fellows.

The Academy Fellowship in Medical Education and Scholarship replaces the former Academy Fellowship in Medical Education and the Academy Medical Education Research Fellowship. 

Participants of this program: 

  • Develop and enhance teaching skills for classroom and clinical settings 
  • Gain expertise in curriculum development 
  • Advance knowledge on educational science and theory 
  • Acquire knowledge and skills to become educational leaders and change agents within academic communities 
  • Develop expertise in quantitative and qualitative research  
  • Complete a scholarly project that supports the HMS mission 
  • Join a community of HMS educators dedicated to enriching and advancing the field of medical education 

Eligibility 

The program is open to HMS faculty and senior clinical or HMS curriculum fellows. Applicants should have a current or planned teaching career with HMS ( quad- or HMS affiliated hospitals-based) and ability to fully commit 10% time for all fellowship activities (including class and self-study time). 

Application

The application form includes a request for a brief bio, description of prior and current commitment to medical education, as well as an approximately 500-word description of a proposed project. You will also be asked to upload a cover letter, your HMS CV or NIH biosketch. 

The application for fellowship years AY 2024-2025 and AY 2025-2026 is currently open. Those who are interested can learn more about the application process RFA (PDF).

Applications are due by Friday, March 29, 2024 by 11:59 PM. 

Academy Medical Education Fellows

ACADEMY MEDICAL EDUCATION FELLOWS 2020-2022

Dr. Afari

Dr. Henrietta Affari
Morgan-Zinsser Fellow

Dr. Henrietta Afari was born and raised in Accra, Ghana, moved to Wales, UK for high school and thereafter to Boston where she has been for her college and medical training. She is a recent graduate of the MGH internal medicine residency program, and currently on staff with the MGH Hospital Medicine Unit. Within the realm of HMS medical education, Dr. Afari helps coordinate the Clinical Finding Rounds for core clerkship students at MGH. She has been a PDR tutor for the past 2 years and is excited to join the tDP group as well this year. Dr. Afari is thrilled for the opportunity to further develop and hone her skills in curriculum development and medical education through the HMS Academy Fellowship.



Dr. Noelle Saillant
Jackson Fellow 

Dr. Noelle Saillant completed her surgical residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2013 after completing medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. Thereafter, Dr. Saillant entered a two-year trauma and critical care fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She practices trauma and emergency general surgery and is an ICU intensivist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2017, She was named the director of the Harvard Medical School Surgical Core Clerkship at MGH. She has overhauled and reinvigorated the surgical clinical student curriculum. Furthermore, she has pioneered a variety of educational outreach initiatives to improve the surgical learning environment. She has received the Principal Clinical Experience Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. She has twice received the highest faculty teaching award at MGH, the Bulfinch Award, in 2017 and 2018 for excellence in teaching across all clerkships. In addition, she has repeatedly been nominated for the McCabe Award, the highest education award for faculty in the clinical teaching years at Harvard Medical School and won the prestigious honor in 2018. In 2020 she received the Excellence in Clinical Faculty Award at Harvard Class day.

Interests: Dr. Saillant’s research interest is in translational research in trauma induced coagulopathy, platelet function and hemostasis, rib fixation and severe chest injury. Her educational interests are the surgical learning environment, high stress training, teaching models and evaluation of learning models.

Dr. MendiolaDr. Monica Mendiola
Curtis Prout Fellow

Dr. Monica Mendiola is an academic OBGYN generalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the director of graduate medical education for the department of OBGYN and the founder and co-director of the GME Diversity Inclusion and Advocacy Council. She is passionate about bringing diversity and inclusion into academic medicine and committed to the care of underserved populations. Her research and academic work focus on improving healthcare outcomes universally by creating a diverse and inclusive educational environment that teaches and advocates for improved patient care.

Dr. Tara Kent 
Morgan-Zinsser Fellow

Tara S. Kent, MD, MS is an Associate Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a general and HPB surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her clinical interests include benign and malignant pancreatic, biliary and ampullary disease. Dr. Kent graduated from the Weill Cornell Medical College and then trained in general surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in New York. During residency, she completed a research fellowship in surgical oncology and obtained an MS in Clinical Research Methodology from Einstein. While at BIDMC, she has completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education. Dr. Kent is the program director of the general surgery residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Vice Chair for Education in the BIDMC Department of Surgery. She is an Associate Editor of HPB and on the editorial boards of the Journal of

Surgical Education and the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. She has been involved in the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association since 2008, where she is a member of the Executive Council and the Vice Program Chair, having recently completed her term as Chair of the Education & Training Committee. She is also a member of the Education & Training Committee and Unified standards Taskforce of the Fellowship Council as a representative from the AHPBA and is a member of the Education & Training Committee of the IHPBA. In addition, she is a member of the Research Committee of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Dr. Kent’s research focuses on surgical education, in particular on the learning environment in surgical residency, as well as on curricular innovations. In addition, she has an active research focus on patient-centered outcomes in pancreatic surgery. She is currently a co-investigator on a multicenter R01 grant evaluating a cultural dexterity curriculum for surgical residents and serves as a technical advisor for a USAID grant, ImpactMED, that involves surgical education in Vietnam.

Dr. Elizabeth Petersen
Jackson Fellow

Dr. Elizabeth Petersen is a hospitalist and clinical educator at Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals and the Associate Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from Gustavus Adolphus College, her medical degree from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Public Health from Harvard. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals and served as chief resident of the Global Health Equity residency. Her work in medical education has focused on curriculum development and implementation and clinical teaching locally and in global settings. Her current educational research interests include learner assessment and evaluation and improving bidirectional feedback.

Dr. Solomon

Dr. Daniel Solomon
Morgan-Zinsser Fellow

Dr. Daniel Solomon is a clinician educator in the Infectious Diseases Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. A staff physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Solomon practices in the Infectious Disease division and the Brigham Health Bridge Clinic for Addiction Medicine. The focus of his clinical work is at the intersection of injection drug use and infectious diseases. He has clinical expertise in managing the infectious complications of opiate use disorder such as HIV, hepatitis C, endocarditis and osteomyelitis, and is committed to addressing treatment of opioid addiction as the underlying driver of infection.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Solomon is a devoted educator with an interest in teaching clinical skills and clinical reasoning, as well as nurturing professional development in trainees. He is the Morgan-Zinsser Associate Director of Clinical Learning in Health Sciences and Technology track at Harvard Medical School. In this role, Solomon co-directs Growth of the Physician Scientist and Introduction to Clinical Medicine and helps to oversee the clinical education across the curriculum. His goal is to cultivate a learning environment that reinforces characteristics of compassion and caring by creating patient centered longitudinal curricula and structures for personal mentorship and professional development.

Dr. Wilder

Dr. Jayme Wilder
Morgan-Zinsser Fellow

Dr. Jayme Wilder grew up in southern New Jersey and attended Princeton University as an undergraduate where she majored in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. After a brief stint on Wall Street,

she quickly realized she was meant to be a pediatrician rather than a commodities trader. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2015 and completed her pediatrics residency training at the Boston Combined Residency Program in 2018. She is currently a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she serves as an Assistant Clerkship Director for HMS students in their primary clerkship year and as the Quality Improvement and Safety Lead for the inpatient hospitalist group. She looks forward to bringing her interest in medical education quality improvement to the PCE redesign project. Her other academic interests include patient safety, pediatric pulmonary diseases and simulation. Personally, she enjoys attending music class with her two young children, sleeping when they let her, and reading (or listening to) fiction novels.

Academy Medical Education Fellows 2019-2020

Dr. Chen ​​Justin Chen, MD, MPH
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education 
Project:  Novel approaches to psychiatric education at Harvard Medical School
Chutinan Headshot Supattriya Chutinan, DDS
Project: Efficacy of caries managment implementation at HSDM teaching practice
Dr. Finger Lenna Finger, MD
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project:  Investigating Team-Based Care Teaching Best Practices
Navin L. Kumar, MD
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project:  Strategies for Teaching Medical Students in the Subspecialty Ambulatory Clinic: A Qualitative Study
Geren Stone, MD, MPH
Jackson Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project:  Global Health Leadership Development Curriculum

Academy Medical Education Fellows 2018-2019

Deborah Bartz MD, MPH
Jackson Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Development of a Sex- and Gender-Informed Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: Incorporation of Education on the Interplay between Biological and Social Determinants of Health for Improved Delivery of Women’s and Men’s Medical Care   
 
Julia Caton MD, EdM 
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education 
Project: Creating and Assessing a Curriculum in Design Thinking and Educational Program Design in the Medical Education Longitudinal Elective
Ashwini Ashwini Jambhekar PhD
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Evaluating the efficacy of co-teaching for increasing student achievement and confidence

 
Benjamin Benjamin James MD MS
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Professionalism in Surgery

 
AML Alden Landry MD MPH
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Integrating Health Equity Education in Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum
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Amulya Nagarur MD
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Comparison Of Standard Internal Medicine Clerkship Models versus Apprenticeship under the Care of Hospitalists: The COACH Study



 
esra Esra Salihoglu-Yener, DDS, PhD​
​Project: Implementation of a New Collaborative Interprofessional Education (CIPE) Program
Wing Jonathan Wing MD, MSEd
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Simulation for Pre-Professional Development in Post-PCE Medical Students

Academy Medical Education Fellows 2017-2018

​Nadaa Ali, MD, M. Ed
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education 
Projec:Teaching and Assessing Advanced Communication Skills with a Muslim Healthcare-based curriculum 


 

Rachel Hathaway, MD 
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Adapting Case-Based, Collaborative Learning to the clinical year: Promoting self-directed learning and clinical reasoning in the Cambridge Principal Clinical Experience 
 


 

Rebecca Karp, MD
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education 
Project:The Imposter Phenomenon: A Study in Transitions.  
Marcelo Matiello, MD MSc
Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellowship in Medical Education 
Project: Education outcomes of an innovative neurology online learning system 

 
Hiroe Ohyama DMD, MMSc, PhD
Project: Integration of digital 3D technologies into dental curriculum for improvement of students self assessment abilities
 
 
Daniele Ölveczky, MD, MS
Jackson Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Standardizing in the inclusion of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity undergraduate medical education curricula
 
 
Leah Rosenberg, MD
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Creating a palliative care curriculum for the MGH PCE internal medicine clerkship

 
Bianca Shagrin, MD 
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Teaching the Practice of Longitudinal Care for Patients in Undergraduate Medical Education

 
Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH
Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship in Medical Education
Project: Development and assessment of a longitudinal integrated curriculum in Geriatrics for Harvard Medical School students

Current Academy Fellows

J. Eisen headshot Dr. Jonathan Eisen is a clinician-educator in the Hospital Medicine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). As a career hospitalist, he regularly attends on the inpatient medicine wards, which include house staff services as well as direct care apprenticeships with Harvard medical students on their Principal Clinical Experience. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Eisen is dedicated to fostering the growth of learners and maximizing delivery of educational content to students and faculty alike. He has served as a preceptor to first year medical students in two Harvard Medical School Practice of Medicine courses, Physical Diagnosis & Reasoning and Interviewing & Communication Skills. He co-leads the Hospital Medicine Unit Medical Education professional development track, designed to empower hospitalists to become highly effective clinician-educators. He is also co-director of the Hospital Medicine Elective, which provides a unique series of experiences for Internal Medicine residents interested in a career in hospital medicine. Additionally, as an associate at the MGH Center for the Environment and Health, Dr. Eisen has engaged in educational initiatives highlighting the critical intersection between climate change and health, including improving healthcare sustainability in the inpatient setting and re-envisioning medical student and resident curriculum.
A. Kimball

Dr. Allison Kimball is a clinician educator in the Endocrine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is the Assistant Clinical Director of the MGH Neuroendocrine and Pituitary Tumor Clinical Center, a tertiary care referral center for patients with pituitary disorders. She also sees patients at the MGH Diabetes Center and attends on the Inpatient Diabetes Management Service. Dr. Kimball is interested in the interplay between endocrine dysfunction and psychiatric disease; she conducts clinical research on hormonal determinants of mood symptoms and quality of life in patients with psychiatric disorders (such as depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder) and in patients with pituitary disorders. Additionally, Dr. Kimball is a passionate educator with an interest in student and trainee mentorship and well-being. She holds several medical education leadership roles at HMS and MGH. These include Associate Director of the Practice of Medicine course, Core Educator for the Homeostasis II course and Core Visit Faculty in the MGH Department of Medicine.

J. Sethunarayanan headshot Dr Jayanthi Sethunarayanan is a Hospitalist and clinical educator with the Division of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She completed medical school at the University of Edinburgh, UK, then received medical training in UK and Australia prior to completing Internal Medicine residency at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Morningside West in New York. Dr Sethunarayanan’s academic interests are in medical education, high value care and ethics.In addition to her clinical duties, she is Core Faculty with HMS for Clinical Skills Assessment and serves as Physical Diagnosis and Reasoning preceptor in the Practice of Medicine Course and Student Teaching Attending in the Core I Medicine Clerkship. She has a passion for teaching clinical examination skills at the bedside and her medical education research is on increasing engagement in bedside teaching, curriculum development and improving learning outcomes.
M. Erlich headshot Dr. Matthew Erlich is a staff physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in the Department of General Internal Medicine and at Boston Children's Hospital in the Department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. He is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. His clinical interests include hospital level care at home for acutely ill patients and the care of medically complex patients transitioning from pediatric to adult care. As an educator he is interested in developing innovative curricula in the fields of his clinical interest. He is also interested in teaching models for clinical reasoning and feedback and evaluations for learners as well as educators.
M. Nardell headshot Dr. Maria Nardell is a clinician educator and researcher with appointments in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and in Hospital Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where she serves as the Director of Peer Observation. In addition to her clinical work with students and residents, she has been a preceptor in several medical school courses, including the Developing Physician, the Physical Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning Program, and the Cross-Cultural Care Workshop. Her research bridges her interests in health equity and storytelling through mixed methods approaches to understand socio-behavioral factors influencing HIV care for vulnerable populations in South Africa. She led the inaugural BIDMC Stories event in 2021, in which staff members shared stories of their defining moments. Her goal in his fellowship is to develop a storytelling and narrative medicine workshop for medical students in order to promote resilience, reflection and community.
K. Engel headshot Dr. Kirsten Engel is an attending physician in the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She attended Harvard Medical School and completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Following her residency, she remained at the University of Michigan and participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, but subsequently accompanied her husband on several job-related moves, which resulted in positions at Yale University, Northwestern University and, ultimately, Copenhagen University in Denmark. While in Denmark, Kirsten worked for the Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation and was part of a multidisciplinary group of educators who was responsible for communication skills training and simulation-based procedural education for medical students at Copenhagen University. Upon returning to the US, she completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)  and VA Boston. Her primary academic interests include the integration of hospice and palliative medicine into the medical school curriculum, as well as the delivery of palliative care in the emergency department (ED). Outside of work, she loves spending time with her husband and three teenagers, as well as taking long walks with her two small dogs.