MD-PhD Class of 2020 - Harvard Medical School
Academic Degrees/PhD Titles/Postgraduate Year Destinations

Matthew S. Alkaitis
B.A., Dartmouth College (2009)
D.Phil., University of Oxford (United Kingdom) through the National Institutes of Health Global Partnership Program (2014)
DISSERTATION: Biochemical Determinants of Nitric Oxide Synthesis in Severe Malaria
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Matthew F. Basilico
A.B., Harvard College (2008)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Economics (2019)
DISSERTATION: Essays in Public Economics and Behavioral Health
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Matthew L. Baum
B.S., M.S., Yale (2009)
M.Sc., Trinity College (2010)
D.Phil., University of Oxford (2012)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2018)
DISSERTATION: The Schizophrenia-Associated Gene, CSMD1, Encodes a Brain-Specific Complement Inhibitor
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Psychiatry/Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Nicholas O. Bodnar
A.B., Harvard College (2011)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Mechanism and structure of the Cdc48 ATPase complex
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCIES: Med/Prelim/Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Neurology/BWH-MGH at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Seth H. Cassel
A.B., Harvard College (2013)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Interrogating the compositional and functional diversity of mSWI/SNF complexes
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
POSTGRADUATE: Health Policy Fellow at the United States Senate, Washington, DC

David B. Cox
B.S., Stanford University (2009)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2018)
DISSERTATION: Characterization and application of type VI-B RNA-targeting CRISPR systems
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Colin M. Fadzen
B.A., M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2013)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemistry (2018)
DISSERTATION: Peptide-Mediated Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides and Chemotherapeutics Across Biological Barriers
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Emma C. Fink
B.A., Amherst College (2011)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Investigating the Mechanism and Species-specificity of Thalidomide Derivatives
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Eran Hodis
B.A., Boston University (2007)
M.S. Weizmann Institute of Science (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biophysics (2018)
DISSERTATION: The Somatic Genetics of Human Melanoma
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

George Karandinos
B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2010)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Anthropology (2019)
DISSERTATION: Can't Stop the Hustle: The production and exploitation of precarious life in inner-city Philadelphia
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Primary at Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA

Amy Li
A.B., Harvard College (2010)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2018)
DISSERTATION: Investigation of CD4+ T cell heterogeneity and function in a genetic mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Peds/Children's Hospital at Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Edward B. Li
A.B., Harvard College (2012)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Investigating the roles of IRF6 in epithelial maturation, craniofacial development, and orofacial cleft pathogenesis
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCIES: Medicine/Preliminary at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Dermatology at Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA, Chicago, IL

Kristen E. Mengwasser
A.B., Harvard College (2007)
M.Phil., University of Cambridge (2008)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Genetic Screening Approaches to Cancer Driver Characterization and Synthetic Lethal Target Discovery
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Daniel S. Pearson
B.A., Willamette College (2008)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Novel Roles for the Terminal RNA Uridylyltransferases ZCCHC6 and ZCCHC11 in Development and Disease
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Pathology-Clinical at Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA

Sana Raoof
A.B., Harvard College (2012)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Targeting FGFR to overcome EMT-related resistance to EGFR inhibition in EGFR-mutated Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCIES: Medicine-Preliminary at Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA
Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York, NY

Yakir A. Reshef
A.B., Harvard College (2009)
Ph.D., Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - Computer Sciences (2018)
DISSERTATION: Detecting meaningful relationships in large data sets
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Rachel E. Rodin
B.S., Emory University (2012)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2018)
DISSERTATION: The Human Brain as a Mosaic: Somatic Mutation in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Aging, and Neurodegeneration
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCIES: Med-Prelim/Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Neurology/BWH-MGH at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Clara K. Starkweather
B.S., Duke (2013)
Ph.D., Harvard University in Neuroscience (2018)
DISSERTATION: Hidden State Inference in the Midbrain Dopamine System
M.D., Harvard Medical School (2020)
RESIDENCY: Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA