MD-PhD Class of 2024 - Harvard Medical School
Academic Degrees/PhD Titles/Postgraduate Year Destinations
Shyam Akula
BA, Washington University in St. Louis (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Neuroscience (2022)
DISSERTATION: The Genetics of Cortical Folding: From Mechanisms to Diagnosis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Neurology at University of California, San Francisco, CA
Lucy Chen
BA, BS, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Health Policy: Management (2023)
DISSERTATION: Rethinking Provider Quality and Behavior: Evidence from Exemplars, Guidelines, and Teams
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Ally Freedy
BA, Harvard University (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Chemical Biology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Uncovering the biology of chromatin regulators with drug resistance alleles
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
Blake Hauser
BS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2022)
DISSERTATION: Rationally Designed Immunogens Enable Immune Focusing Following SARS-CoV-2 Spike Imprinting
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA
Tuna Hayirli
BA, Harvard University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Health Policy: Management (2023)
DISSERTATION: Managing the Expected: Studies on Health and Organizational Science amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Sofia Hu
BA, Cornell University (2017)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Transcription factor antagonism regulates heterogeneity in embryonic stem cell states
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Thoracic Surgery at Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA
Nauman Javed
BS, Caltech University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
DISSERTATION: Strategies for characterizing the regulatory code of the human genome
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Tushar Kamath
BS, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2022)
DISSERTATION: Cell states and differential vulnerabilities in neurodegenerative disease
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Patrick Lenehan
BS, University of Connecticut (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Investigating the impact of eosinophils on pancreatic cancer growth and metastasis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Pediatrics-Preliminary at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Radiology (Diagnostic) at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Claudio Macias Trevino
BS, University Texas at San Antonio (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2022)
DISSERTATION: Transcriptional regulation of ERSP1 and its role in craniofacial morphogenesis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Transitional Year at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA; Radiology (Diagnostic) at University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Eduardo Maury
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (2022)
DISSERTATION: Somatic mutations in the human brain: Tracing the origins of cancer and schizophrenia
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Stephanie McNamara
BS, Tufts University (2011)
PhD, Harvard University in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Bioengineering (2022)
DISSERTATION: Mechano-immuno-therapy for Skeletal Muscle Repair
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Interventional Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Chelsea Messinger
BA, Yale University (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Population Health Sciences: Epidemiology (2023)
DISSERTATION: Surgical Epidemiology: Prediction of outcomes and causal assessment of the comparative effectiveness of surgical interventions using real world clinical data
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Katherine Nabel Smith
BS, Stanford University (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Virology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Molecular mechanisms for broad neutralization of emerging RNA viruses
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine-Preliminary at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Dermatology at Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Julia Page
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Chemical Biology (2022)
DISSERTATION: A Recurrent Mechanism of Peptidoglycan Amidase Activation
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Maximilian Pany
BA, Swarthmore College (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Health Policy: Management (2023)
DISSERTATION: Health Care Quality Revealed in Hospital and Physician Behavior
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Deborah Plana
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Systems Biology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Clinical trial data science to advance precision oncology
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Sara Rubin
BA, Princeton University (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Zebrafish immune cell development and diversity in health and disease
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Pediatric Neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Max Valenstein
BS, MS, Yale University (2013)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Integration of amino acid signals by the mTORC1 pathway
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Dana Vigue
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Anthropology (2023)
DISSERTATION: Strength is a Product of Trust: An Ethnographic Study of Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting in the United States
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Emergency Medicine at Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA
Katherine Warren
BA, Harvard University (2013)
PhD, Harvard University in Anthropology (2024)
DISSERTATION: Clause of Death: The Social Lives of U.S. Obituaries, 1918-2023
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine-Primary Care at University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA
Daniel Weiner
BA, Yale University (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (2022)
DISSERTATION: Integration of common and rare genetic variation across complex traits and neuropsychiatric disorders
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Sarah Weiss
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Deletion of an exhaustion-specific PD-1 enhancer modulates CD8+ T cell fate and function
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, CA
Omar Yaghi
BS, Stanford University (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2022)
DISSERTATION: Uncovering Stromal Cell Functions in Acute and Chronic Muscle Injuries
MD, Harvard Medical School (2024)
RESIDENCY: Transitional Year at HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, Orange Park, FL; Radiology (Diagnostic) at UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA