MD-PhD Class of 2023 - Harvard Medical School
Academic Degrees/PhD Titles/Postgraduate Year Destinations

Alyssa Botelho
BA, Harvard University (2013)
PhD, Harvard University in History of Science (2023)
DISSERTATION: Ghost Hospitals: A History of Rural Hospitals and Efforts to Keep Them Alive in the 20th Century United States
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Primary Care at University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA

Timothy Caradonna
BS, Yale University (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2021)
DISSERTATION: Protein Engineering Strategies to Modulate B Cell Responses
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Dawn Comstock
BA, Gustavus Adolphus College (2013)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2021)
DISSERTATION: Regulation of immune response by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Paul Dannenberg
BS, Duke University (2013)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (2022)
DISSERTATION: Scalable development of multiplexed microparticle technologies for optical single-cell barcoding
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Radiology-Diagnostic at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Natalia Drosu
ScB, Brown University (2012)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2020)
DISSERTATION: Understanding the mechanism of anti-retroviral nucleoside analogs as inhibitors of Epstein-Barr virus lytic DNA replication
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: National MS Society, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Allison Hamilos
ScB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012)
PhD, Harvard University in Neuroscience (2021)
DISSERTATION: Dynamic dopaminergic activity controls the timing of self-timed movement
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Jibril Kedir
BA, Columbia University (2015)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2021)
DISSERTATION: Regulation of amino acid transport across the lysosomal surface by the mTORC1 pathway
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Anesthesiology/Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Diana Lu
BS, Tufts University (2011)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2021)
DISSERTATION: Transcriptional Constraint Of EWS/FLI Promotes Ewing Sarcoma
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
BIOTECH: Chief Executive Officer at Ambrosia AI, Cambridge, MA

Jenny Lu
BA, Harvard University (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Neuroscience (2021)
DISSERTATION: Remapping and transformation of neural codes in the Drosophila navigation system
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary/Neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

John Mikhael
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
PhD, Harvard University in Neuroscience (2021)
DISSERTATION: Dopamine and the Neurobiological Foundations of Learning and Performance
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Kwadwo Owusu-Boaitey
BS, BA, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (2014)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2021)
DISSERTATION: How, when, and where: fate selection in regenerative planarians
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Psychiatry/Research at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Emily Unger
BA, Harvard University (2013)
PhD, Harvard University in Population Health Sciences: Social and Behavioral Sciences (2021)
DISSERTATION: Caring for Caregivers: How Medicaid Home Care Policy Affects Family Caregivers' Health
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Family Medicine/Tufts at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA

Yidi Wang
BA, University of California-Santa Barbara (2012)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2022)
DISSERTATION: Immune surveillance: lessons from meningeal endothelial cells and bisphosphonates
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Angela Zhang
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2021)
DISSERTATION: Tumor-agnostic immunotherapy by delivery of CAR T cell ligands to solid tumors
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA

Zinan Zhang
BA, Princeton University (2014)
PhD, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) through the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program (2021)
DISSERTATION: From Phenotype to Genotype: Discovery of New Molecular Primary Immunodeficiencies 
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Transitional at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York, NY
Dermatology at Brigham & Women's Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Carly Ziegler
BA, University of Pennsylvania (2012)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2021)
DISSERTATION: Impaired Cell Intrinsic Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 Underlies Severe COVID-19
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Pediatrics-Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital-Boston, Boston, MA

Hayley Zullow
BS, University of Chicago (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2021)
DISSERTATION: Dysregulation of mSWI/SNF (BAF) Complexes in Human Malignancy
MD, Harvard Medical School (2023)
RESIDENCY: Pathology at University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL