MD-PhD Class of 2018 - Harvard Medical School
Academic Degrees/PhD Titles/Postgraduate Year Destinations
Eric H. Bent
B.S., Brown University (2010)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2016)
DISSERTATION: Mechanisms of Microenvironment Paracrine Signaling in Cancer Chemoresistance
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCIES: Medicine-Preliminary at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Radiation Oncology/BWH-Harvard at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Matthew C. Canver
B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: Elucidation of Mechanisms of Fetal Hemoglobin Regulation by CRISPR/Cas9
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Pathology at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Walter W. Chen
B.A., Princeton University (2009)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2016)
DISSERTATION: Examining the Consequences of Mitochondrial Dysfunction via Genetic Screening and Profiling of Mitochondrial Metabolites
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Allen Y. Chen
A.B., Harvard College (2008)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biophysics (MEMP) (2016)
DISSERTATION: Engineered Biofilms for Materials Production and Patterning
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine/Research at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
David Chi
B.S., Duke University (2009)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: Estrogen signaling in breast tumorigenesis
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Plastic Surgery (Integrated) at Washington University/ Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Michael E. Coulter
A.B., Harvard College (2008)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2016)
DISSERTATION: Two stories of neurodevelopment: Exosome-mediated secretion of sonic hedgehog and somatic mutation in disorders of DNA damage repair
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
POST-GRADUATE YEAR 1: Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience, San Francisco, CA
Alissa M. D’Gama
A.B., Harvard College (2011)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: It Takes Brains: Germline and Somatic Mutations in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Pediatrics/Children’s Hospital at Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Ryan T. Dosumu-Johnson
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles (2009)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2016)
DISSERTATION: An anatomical and functional dissection of the role Pet1 raphe neurons play in neonatal cardiorespiratory homeostasis
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Psychiatry/Research at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Wataru Ebina
B.S., Stanford University (2006)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS-Genetics (2016)
DISSERTATION: Combinatorial Pathway Modulation toward Ex Vivo
Maintenance and Propagation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine/Research Pathway at New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Morgan E. F.
B.S., Stanford University (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2017)
DISSERTATION: Molecular and functional characterization of diverse Pet1 lineage-defined neuron subtypes of the brainstem raphe system
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCIES: Transition/Radiation Oncology
Wilfredo F. Garcia Beltran
B.S., University of Puerto Rico (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Immunology (2016)
DISSERTATION: Discovery and characterization of the ligands of NK-cell receptors implicated in human diseases
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Pathology-Clinical at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
John I. Heintz
B.A., M.A., Case Western (2009)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Anthropology (2016)
DISSERTATION: Caged: Intimate Violence and the Search for Sovereignty on the Margins of the City
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Primary at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Xinli Hu
B.S., University of Washington (2007)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2015)
DISSERTATION: Discovery and Functional Interpretation of Genetic Risk in Autoimmune Diseases
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
POST-GRADUATE YEAR 1: Human Genetics Research Manager, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA
Benyam Z. Kinde
B.S., University of Maryland-Baltimore County (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2016)
DISSERTATION: Biochemical and genomic analysis of MeCP2 and brain-enriched DNA methylation
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCIES: Surgery-Preliminary/General/Specialty at University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Ophthalmology at University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Kristin A. Knouse
B.S., Duke University (2010)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2016)
DISSERTATION: Prevalence and Prevention of Large-Scale Somatic Copy Number Alterations
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
POST-GRADUATE YEAR 1: Fellow at Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Mihan R. Lee
B.A., Yale University (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Health Policy (Medical Sociology) (2016)
DISSERTATION: Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Experiences of Infertility in the US
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCIES: Transitional at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA
Radiology-Diagnostic at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Jennifer A. Lo
A.B., Harvard College (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: Regulation of the inflamed tumor phenotype in melanoma immunotherapy
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCIES: Medicine-Preliminary at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Dermatology/Harvard Combined at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Anthony T. Nguyen
B.S., Stanford University (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: A novel program of ubiquitination remodels the erythroid proteome during terminal differentiation
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA
Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Derek T. Peters
B.S., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2007)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: Isogenic Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Models of Cardiovascular Disease-Associated Genetic Variation
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Surgery-Preliminary at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Katherine D. van Schaik
A.B., Harvard College (2008)
M.A., King's College, University of London (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Ancient History, Department of Classics (2018)
DISSERTATION: Medical Decision Making in Greco-Roman Antiquity
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Belinda Wang
A.B., Harvard College (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in BBS (2016)
DISSERTATION: Mechanisms of resistance to MAPK pathway inhibition in RAS-mutant cancers
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Shuyu Wang
A.B., Harvard College (2008)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2016)
DISSERTATION: Studies of amino acid sensing by the mTORC1 pathway
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCY: Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Erika K. Williams
B.A., Williams College (2008)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2016)
DISSERTATION: Coding of internal senses: vagal gut-to-brain circuits
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2018)
RESIDENCIES: Medicine-Preliminary/Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Neurology/BWH-MGH at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA