Marylyn Addo, MD, PhD Clinical and Research Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital 2008 PSDA Recipient Dr. Marylyn Addo received her MD/PhD degree from the University of Bonn/Germany in 1998. She also obtained an MSc degree in Applied Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases and the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1999, where she was the recipient of the in Neil Ralph Memorial Prize in Molecular Biology.  Dr. Addo joined the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1999 as a postdoctoral research fellow in Bruce Walker’s lab, who remains her current supportive mentor. In 2004 she received the Maxwell Finland Award for Research Excellence from the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society  for her work on T cell responses to regulatory and accessory proteins of HIV-1. She also was a recipient of the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award in 2003.  Dr. Addo completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the MGH in 2006 and is currently pursuing MGH Infectious Diseases Fellowship training and board certification as part of the ABIM Investigator Pathway, during which she was awarded the Edward Kass Award for Clinical Excellence in 2008.  Her research interests at the Partners AIDS Research Center focus on T cell immunology and regulation in HIV-1 infection, with a special interest in understanding the correlates of spontaneous control of HIV-1 infection in HIV-1 long-term non-progressors. She currently is an instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
	William Carr, DVM, PhD Assistant in Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital 2008 PSDA Recipient William Carr, DVM, PhD is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, and did his undergraduate training there at Duke University with a double major in Zoology and Russian (BS, 1988). Subsequently, he trained in Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University and was awarded his D.V.M. degree in 1992. He worked in aquatic animal health research as a shrimp disease specialist at the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii for several years before starting graduate school at Stanford University to pursue a Ph.D. in human immunology. Under the supervision of Dr. Peter Parham, he was awarded his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004 for his thesis “Mechanisms of Natural Killer Cell Recognition of Human Cytomegalovirus Infected cells”. Initially, his objective was to apply his research training to address aquatic animal health issues, but subsequently Dr. Carr decided to continue his research focus on human heath issues to address health issues with a larger global impact. He continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Lewis Lanier at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) with investigations in innate immune responses to HIV-1 disease in collaboration with Dr. Warner Greene (UCSF). In October 2006, he started as an Assistant in Immunology at the Partners AIDS Research Center (PARC) with a dual appointment as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 2007, he was also given an appointment as an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics/ HIV Pathogenesis Program (HPP) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. Through an on-going collaboration with HPP, he is undertaking studies in HIV-1 pathogenesis in South Africa based at the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at UKZN.
	Monique Sellas, MD Instructor in Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital 2008 CTDA Recipient Dr. Monique Sellas is a practicing academic emergency physician with training, teaching, and research experience in Clinical Forensic Medicine.  She is a graduate of Cornell University, BS 1998, and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, MD 2002.  She completed her emergency medicine residency at the combined Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the Brigham & Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts, 2006.  She served as Chief resident during her final year of residency and stayed on as an attending at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Sellas is currently undertaking post-graduate distance-learning coursework at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in Melbourne, Australia, as part of a Fellowship in Clinical Forensic Medicine.  She serves as Co-Chair to the MGH Sexual Assault Patient Task Force.  She also serves as Co-Chair to the Adult Sexual Assault subsection of the American College of Emergency Physician Forensic Medicine section.  She has lectured on topics of interest in Clinical Forensic Medicine including Injury Interpretation, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault and has published on Hate Violence, Elder Abuse, and Sexual Assault.  Dr. Sellas serves as the co-director of the Harvard Medical School ME727M.3 clinical elective: Injury, Trauma, and Violence Prevention.
	Miguel Rivera, MD Instructor in Pathology Massachusetts General Hospital 2007 PSDA Recipient Miguel N. Rivera, received an A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 1996 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2001. He completed his Anatomic Pathology residency and a fellowship in Molecular Diagnostics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Rivera is now Instructor in Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and is the recipient of a Hood Foundation Postdoctoral Award and a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists. His research focuses on the connections between cancer and developmental pathways in Wilms tumor, a pediatric kidney cancer that is derived from kidney stem cells. He has recently identified a new tumor suppressor, WTX, that is frequently inactivated in this disease.
	Jose Florez, MD Instructor in Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital 2007 PSDA Recipient Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD graduated from the combined BA/MS Honors Program at Northwestern University in 1988 and then entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University . After obtaining MD/PhD 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. From 2002 to 2007 he was a post-doctoral fellow with David Altshuler working on the genetics of type 2 diabetes, with particular attention to genes that encode hypoglycemic drug targets. Currently, Dr. Florez holds a staff position in the Center for Human Genetic Resarch at MGH, he is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant in the Diabetes Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is the recipient of a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award.
	Alexy Arauz-Boudreau, MD Instructor in Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital 2007 CTDA Recipient Dr. Arauz Bouedreau’s research interests focus on determining effective means to reduce health disparities for vulnerable children through the structure of health care systems and provider level interventions on early childhood development.  She aims to elucidate how health care policies in the private and public sector, affect the health trajectories of children specifically how these policies differentially impact vulnerable children on the basis of race, income, language and chronic illness. Presently she is studying how health disparities can be addressed by different models of pediatric well child care that focuses on early child development.  Current projects include assessing the effects of Healthy Steps (a program that couples pediatric well child visits with child developmental specialist) on early precursors of children's health including school readiness.  In addition, she serves on Boston’s Majors School Readiness Action Planning Team and is co-chairing the Systems Working Group Committee.
	Carl Pallais, MD, MPH Instructor in Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital 2007 CTDA Recipient Dr. J. Carl Pallais received his B.A. in Biology in 1993 from the Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. in 1999 from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Prior to starting his medicine residency, Dr. Pallais received his M.P.H. degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and conducted research in immunology with Dr. Abul Abbas as a Howard Hughes Research Fellow. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at MGH in 2002 and was recognized for his  teaching and clinical skills. He received the "Excellence in Teaching Award" and was chosen to be a Medicine Chief Resident. He subsequently completed his clinical and research fellowship in endocrinology at MGH in 2005 and stayed at MGH as a member of the clinical and research staff in the Reproductive Endocrine Unit. Working with patients as well as knockout mice, he studied the biology underlying autoimmune hyperparathyroidism and explored the neuroendocrine regulation of the reproductive axis. In 2006, he joined the Inpatient Clinician Educator Service in the Department of Medicine and is working with faculty members at MGH and the Broad Institute to incorporate genetics education into clinical training. He continues to be an active member of the Endocrine Unit and also serves as the Director of the Endocrine Elective Course at MGH.
	Aaron Styer, MD Instructor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology Massachusetts General Hospital 2006 PSDA Recipient Aaron Styer, MD, received his MD degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1998. He completed his internship and residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Integrated Program in 2002. Among numerous honors and awards, Dr. Styer received in 2004 the Lalor Foundation Trainee Research Award in the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, and the 2005 Best Abstract Award-Trainee, sponsored by the Massachusetts General Hospital Women's Health Research Program. Dr. Styer currently holds a faculty appointment as Instructor in the Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology Department.
	William Curry, MD Instructor in Surgery (Neurosurgery) Massachusetts General Hospital 2006 PSDA Recipient Dr. William T. Curry, Jr. who completed his residency at MGH in 2004, has won an NREF Young Clincian's Award for 2005. The award was created by the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation of the AANS in 1985 to support rising clinician-investigators by funding pilot studies. Following completion of residency, Dr. William Curry joined the neurosurgical staff at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a member of the Pappas Center for Neuro-oncology, he specializes in the surgical treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors, both malignant and benign. His academic interests center around brain tumor immunology, and he is developing a translational research program around clinical immunotherapy trials for patients with malignant gliomas. Dr. Curry was born in New York, NY and studied as an undergraduate at Harvard University. He graduated from Cornell University Medical College in 1997, after which he began neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General.
	Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH Director, South African HIV/AIDS Programs Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical Shool 2006 CTDA Recipient Dr. Bisola Ojikutu's interests include global disparities in health care access and advocacy on behalf of underserved patients in resource poor settings. She is dedicated to improving access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV positive patients in resource poor settings, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, and has spent the last year assisting the government of South Africa in the development of their ground-breaking antiretroviral roll-out plan. She designed, co-authored and delivered the Kwa-Zulu Natal HIV/AIDS training curriculum which is currently being used to teach all levels of health care providers the basics of antiretroviral care delivery. She also assisted in the development of an urban clinic's HIV primary care program. Dr. Ojikutu has also dedicated her career to advocacy and patient education for underserved populations afflicted with HIV domestically. During residency, she served as health education coordinator at Harlem United HIV/AIDS Community Health Center. She has also worked on Capitol Hill as a Health Policy Fellow and assisted in the development of proposals for reform in several areas such as domestic violence, mental health awareness and welfare reform. Dr. Ojikutu received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1999. She completed her residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus in 2002.
	Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH Instructor in Medicine, Endocrine Unit Massachusetts General Hospital 2005 PSDA Recipient 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.
	Elliot Melendez, MD Instructor in Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital 2005 CTDA Recipient Dr. Melendez's research has focused on the evaluation of severe infection (sepsis) in infants and children. He has studied to see if routine evaluation of infants with fever and clinical signs of bronchiolitis require full sepsis evaluation. Subsequently he has studied Neutropenia and Risk of Serious Bacterial Infection, a study which looks at the risk of bacteremia in patients with no indwelling lines or malignancy who present with a single episode of isolated neutropenia. Simultaneously, Dr. Melendez has developed a research interest in innovative technology. This has included the Digital Vein Viewer for Peripheral Intravenous Line Placement, a study comparing standard IV placement v using an infrared device at the spectrum of deoxygenated hemoglobin to visualize vessels. He is also involved in a telemedicine initiative between MGHfC and the Hospital Buen Samaritano in rural Puerto Rico in which tertiary care knowledge and experience are transferred via telemedicine technology.
	Marcela Del Carmen, M.D. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Gynecologic Oncology, at the MGH Cancer Center 2005 CTDA Recipient Marcela del Carmen, MD, 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.

Past CTDA Recipients

2004
Hurtado Rocio, MD, DT&H - Infectious Disease
Celina Mankey, MD - Internal Medicine

Past PSDA Recipients

2004
Karleyton Evans, MD - Psychiatry

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