Karleyton C. Evans, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Psychiatric Neuroscience Division, MGH

Karleyton C. Evans, MD, MS, is a member of the clinical research staff of the Psychiatric Neuroscience Research and Neurotherapeutics Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Evans received his MD from Dartmouth Medical School and completed his residency in psychiatry at the combined MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Training Program. His current research encompasses neuroimaging projects that investigate the pathophysiology and treatment of depression and anxiety with a focus on panic and social anxiety disorders. As a complement to Dr. Evans' major clinical and research efforts, he holds particular scientific interest and expertise in the neuroimaging of respiratory and autonomic stress responses. Dr. Evans has received fellowship awards from the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, as well as the Clinical Investigator Training Program sponsored by HMS, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center and Pfizer, Inc. Dr. Evans is also a recipient of the MGH Physician-Scientist Development Award (2004), sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs Office (MAO). His MGH-MAO sponsored study employs a novel approach to studying the neural circuitry underlying panic disorder and promises to identify candidate neural targets that may guide the development of future treatments for the disorder.

"Linking genetic alterations to 'target-able' tumor dependencies in human cancer."

Levi Garraway, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Levi A. Garraway received his A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1990, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard Medical School in 1999. Thereafter, he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also served as Medical Chief Resident in 2003. Dr. Garraway received fellowship training in Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He now holds a faculty appointment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, where his research involves integrated and functional genomic studies of melanoma. He is also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Dr. Garraway has been the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Minority Scholar Award from the American Association of Cancer Research, the Partners in Excellence Award from the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs-Welcome Fund.

"New Directions in Phosphate and Vitamin D Biology"

October 19, 2006

Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine
Endocrine Unit, MGH

Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie received her A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1993, M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1997 and M.P.H. degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Burnett-Bowie holds a faculty appointment as Instructor in Medicine at MGH. In 2005, Dr. Burnett-Bowie was awarded the MGH Physician-Scientist Development Award. Her research focuses on phosphate and Vitamin D biology, and clinical trials for osteoporosis. Dr. Burnett-Bowie was recently awarded a K23 NIH grant for ongoing research on the dietary and hormonal regulation of FGF-23 in humans.

"Genetic Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes"

June 6, 2006

Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Assistant in Endocrinology, Diabetes Unit
Research Fellow in Molecular Biology

Jose C. Florez, MD, Ph graduated from the combined B.A./M.S. Honors Program at Northwestern University in 1988 and then entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University . After obtaining M.D./Ph.D. degrees, Dr. Florez moved to Boston in 1997 where he had matched as a preliminary medical intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After one year in the combined Partners Neurology program, he returned to the internal medicine residency at MGH and completed fellowship training in endocrinology. Since 2002 he has been working with David Altshuler on the genetics of type 2 diabetes, with particular attention to genes that encode hypoglycemic drug targets. Currently, Dr. Florez is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Assistant in the Diabetes Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

"The Emergency Medicine Network - Advancing Public Health Goals through the Emergency Department"

April 4, 2006

Carlos A. Camargo, MD, DrPH
Director, EMNet Coordinating Center
Massachusetts General Hospital

Carlos A. Camargo, MD, MPH, DrPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School, an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a research epidemiologist at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital - all in Boston. He chairs the Steering Committee of the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet), a research collaboration with 185 emergency departments. His also focuses on asthma/COPD in several large national cohorts (e.g., the Nurses' Health Studies). Dr Camargo is Past President of the American College of Epidemiology and recently served on the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. He currently serves on the NIH's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's Third Expert Panel (the group writing the 2006 US asthma guidelines) and on two US Institute of Medicine committees: one on occupational health research, the other on nutritional standards for food in schools. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Camargo received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco; MPH from the University of California, Berkeley; and DrPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.

"Understanding Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latino Women in Boston"

February 7, 2006

Marcela Del Carmen, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School;
Gynecologic Oncology, at the MGH Cancer Center

Received her B.S. from Emory University, Atlanta, GA, in 1991 and Medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1995. Currently working on her Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2002, when completed her fellowship at MGH, Marcela left to go back to Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, but a few years later, in 2003, we managed to recruit her back as an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology at MGH.Winner of numerous awards for her outstanding performance as a surgeon and teacher. Most recently, she is the recipient of the MGH Clinician-Teacher Development Award, an career development award sponsored by MAO, the President's Office and MGPO, for Dr. del Carmen to embark in an educational and community project to advance as a clinician-teacher at MGH and HMS. Her current research interestes focus on understanding barriers to Cervical Cancer screening in the Latina population being served by MGH.