Specialty Advisors

This list of House Specialty Advisors is comprised of UMass Chan faculty who are highly recommended by students and/or faculty peers as passionate ambassadors for their field. To learn more about a specialty that you are interested in exploring contact your House Specialty Advisor to arrange a meeting or time to shadow* them in the clinical setting. (If you do not hear back after reaching out with a couple of emails, it is fine to contact a House Specialty Advisor in another House). When you do meet with a House Specialty Advisor consider interviewing them about their field by asking questions such as those in the list linked to here.

*Shadowing/Observerships:

For shadowing opportunities in a given field please contact your House Specialty Advisor, EXCEPT for dermatology and adult hematology/oncology. For observerships in those fields please contact the individual specified below:

• Dermatology contact: Esmeralda.Valois@umassmemorial.org
• Hematology/Oncology contact:    Hailey.Hernandez@umassmemorial.org  

Department	Blackstone House	Burncoat House	Grafton Hill House	Kelley House	Quinsigamond House	Laurel House	Tatnuck House	Brightwood House	Walden House
Anesthesiology	Mark Dershwitz	Antonio Aponte-Feliciano	Coridalia Wald Chen	Elle Duduch	Ronald Rubin	Peter Foley	Theo Matheos		David Shaff
Community Medicine								Eric Churchill Andy Balder
Dermatology *See top of page regarding observerships	Ryan Svoboda	Leah Belazarian	Bassel Mahmoud Abdallah	Dori Goldberg		Sarah Whitley	Mark Scharf	Emily West	Julia Benedetti
Emergency Medicine	John Broach	Richard Church	James Fidrocki	Ameer Ibrahim	Timothy Gleeson	Thomas Akie	Martin Reznek	Bryanne Macdonald Liza Smith	Katerina Papa
Family Medicine Primary Care	Kristina Gracey Katharine Barnard	Frank Domino  Melanie Gnazzo		Stacy Potts Henry DelRosario			Stephanie Carter-Henry Phil Bolduc	Nathan Macedo Cortney Haynes	Wendy Barr
Family Medicine Sports Medicine	Lee Mancini	Adam Ridley     Angela Rufo		Emily Eshleman	Jay Broadhurst		Mike Maddaleni	Grant Pierre
Geriatrics	Jerry Gurwitz	Randy Morse		Sarah McGee	Erika Zimmons		Zahra Sheikh		Gary Winzelburg
Hospital Medicine	Majid Yazdani	Christine Donahue Jonathan Min		Neil Tyrrell Kim Eisenstock	Rick Forster  Andrea Poisson Irani		Patricia Seymour Andy Karson	Christine Bryson Stephen Ryzewicz    Alexander Roseman	Peter Mattingly
Internal Medicine Primary Care	Howard Sachs	Mary O'Brien		Elizabeth Murphy	Nancy Skehan		Mary Hawthorne	Stephen Ryzewicz Eric Churchill	Robert Faust
Internal Medicine Cardiology	Dennis Tighe Craig Smith	Brigid Carlson		Kevin Floyd			Gerry Aurigemma Naomi Botkin	Quinn Pack	Sourbha Dani
Internal Medicine Critical Care								Josh Allgaier
Internal Medicine Endocrinology	Andrea Kassai	Mira Sofia Torres *		Samir Malkani			Mira Sofia Torres	Michele Gortakowski	Scott Sperling
Internal Medicine Gastroenterology	Curtis Barry	Dmitry Finkelberg		Chris Marshall		Deepika Devuni		Yesenia Greeff
Internal Medicine Hematology / Oncology *See top of page regarding observerships	Kathryn Edmiston	Doreen Brettler		Jonathan Gerber	Neil Kluger		Tasneem Ali		Brian Labadie
Internal Medicine Infectious Disease	Richard Ellison		Alina Adeel	Mireya Wessolossky			Jennifer Daly		Kenneth Wener
Internal Medicine Nephrology	Bernie (Maria) DelRosario	Matthew Niemi			Jason Kurland		Jahan Montague  PY Fan	Spencer Hodgins Kostas Papamarkakis  Dennis DiCampli	Abhinav Tiwary
Internal Medicine Pulmonary Medicine / Critical Care	Nick Smyrnios	Jeffrey Scott	Lindsey Bazzone	William Wong	Bruce Greenberg		Kyle Halligan	Carolyn Garcia	Daniel Fitelson
Internal Medicine Rheumatology	Jonathan Cheah		Roberto Caricchio		Jonathan Kay				Matthew Axelrod
Medicine / Pediatrics	Laura Gibson	Suzanne Sprague	Nura El-Haj	Tatiana Hamawi	Susan Fine		John McCahan	Maura Munoz Alexander Roseman
Neurology	Raphael Carandang	Kate Daniello	Andrew Galica	Lan Qin  Danison Emmerson	Edward Ginns	Rakhee Lalla	Jordan Eisenstock	Anthony Jackson	Azmin Kahriman
Neurosurgery	Mark Johnson	Oguz Cataltepe						Dennis Oh	Robert Whitmore
Obstetrics & Gynecology	Petra Belady	Dhivya Kannabiran	Emily Wu	Tiffany Moore Simas	Benjamin Hamar	Gianna Wilkie	Anne Garrison	Carolyn Delk James Gebhardt	Christina Johnson (gynecology)   Mary Boyd (obstetrics)
Ophthalmology	Jeremy Meltzer		Benjamin Botsford		Gabriel Luna			Brian Bredvik	Jenny Ying
Orthopedics	Mark Kraus Daniel Mandell	Nick DeAngelis	Donald Hangen	David Ayers	Marci Jones Christine Bub	Wayne Chan	Michael Stauff		Philip Aurigemma
Otolaryngology	Aaron Remenschneider	Lindsay Sobin	Divya Chari	Daniel Kim	Christopher Ito		Ricardo Aulet		Timothy Anderson
Palliative Medicine	Isabel Castro		Rebecca Kowaloff		Vandana Nagpal	Carolyn Murphy	Jen Reidy	Emily Zametkin Yael Tarshich	Gary Winzelberg
Pathology	Vijay Vanguri	Roxanne Florence	Robert Goulart	Jennifer Clark Zhong Jiang	Dina Kandil	Xiaofei Wang	George Tjionas Shi Bai	Rahul Jawale
Pediatrics	Peter Sell	Erin McMaster	Kirsti Martin	Beverly Nazarian Erin Meyer	Kathryne Wynne	Sydney Hartman Munick	Lloyd Fisher	Hilary Branch Alexander Roseman	Selena Jorgensen
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	David Mazin			Faren Williams	Minjin Fromm		Trista Brown	Barry Rodstein
Plastic Surgery	Janice Lalikos	Raymond Dunn		Anselm Wong			Douglas Rothkopf	Jonathan Lee Benjamin Schalet Pranay Parihk	Sonal Pandya
Preventative Medicine	Mukti Kulkarni *	Susan Hogan		Jackie Coghlin-Strom	Mukti Kulkarni		Susan Hogan *	Quinn Pack
Psychiatry	Fida Hassan	Isha Jalnapurkar	Brian Daly	Taylor Young	Brian Skehan	Sophia Kogan		Stephanie Daly	David Van Nordstrand
Radiation Oncology				TJ FitzGerald	Shirin Sioshansi		TJ FitzGerald *		Naomi Jiang
Radiology	Ryan Tai	Elisabeth Garwood	Brian Smiley	Christine Wallace	Maria Barile	Julia Rissmiller	Andrew Chen	Thomas Anderson	Gregory Emmanuel
Surgery	Anne Larkin Don Czerniach	Karim Alavi		John J. Kelly Muriel Cleary	Michael Hirsh Jennifer LaFemina	Mark Maxfield	James Carroll	Kaitlin Debbink	David Brams
Urology	Paula Bellin	Jennifer Yates		Michael Wollin	Mitchell Sokoloff		Jennifer Fantasia	Michael Zavaski	Lara MacLachlan
Vascular Surgery	Laura Boitano	Edward Arous	Caitlin Sorensen	Dejah Judelson *	Jessica Simons *	Emily Fan	Dejah Judelson	Matt Kronick	Jeffrey Indes

Pediatric Subspecialties
Cardiology: Mike Fahey 
Child Abuse: Stephen Boos
Critical Care: Scot Bateman
Emergency Medicine: Ian Goodman 
Gastroenterology: Matthew Shields
Hospital Medicine: Alexander Roseman
Infectious Disease: Tina Hermos
Nephrology: 
Neonatology: Ruben Vaidya

updated APR 25 2023 | cjb