Program
Class picture on steps of Gordon Hall
Welcome
Rosalind A. Segal, MD, PhD Dean for Graduate Education
Opening Remarks
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Keynote Speaker
Elizabeth Nabel, MD Advisory Board Chair at OPKO Health Professor of Medicine Emerita at Harvard Medical School
Remarks from Student Speaker Dagny Reese
Master’s Degree Programs (in order of procession)
Master of Science in Bioethics
J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD, Director
Kelsey N. Berry, PhD, Associate Director
Joni R. Beshansky, RN, MPH, LPD, Associate Director
Crystal Chang, MPH, Associate Director of Education
Samantha Pitkin, MEd, Education Program Coordinator
Jesse Tucker, Admissions and Recruitment Administrator
Sadé Chisolm, Program Engagement and Alumni Development Coordinator
Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics
Nils Gehlenborg, PhD, Director
Aparna Nathan, PhD, Associate Director
Lilen Uchima, PhD, Director of Education and DEI Programs
Rebecca Fitzhugh, ALM, Senior Program Manager
Dominika Dzierzynski, Program Coordinator
Master of Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation
Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP, MBA, Director
Finnian R. Mc Causland, MBBCh, MMSc, FRCPI, PG CertMedEd, Co-Director
Martina M. McGrath, MB, BCh, FASN, FRCPI, Associate Director
Kathryn Cacioppo, Assistant Director
Molly Gallagher, Program Manager
Master of Science in Clinical Service Operations
J. Kevin Tucker MD, Director
Mara Bloom, JD, MS, Co-Director
Kathryn Cacioppo, Assistant Director
Preeti Sharma, MBA, Program Manager
Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery
Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Director
Christina Thompson Lively, MEd, Associate Director of Education Programs
Katie Player, MA, Program Coordinator
Christopher Kenney, MEd, Staff Assistant
Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety
Anjala Tess, MD, Director
Brittany Esty, MD, MPH, Associate Director
Katherine Santos, MBA, Associate Director
Kathryn Cacioppo, Assistant Director
Katherine King, MA, Senior Education Program Manager
Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology
Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, Director
Michael Carroll, PhD, Co-Director
Gavin Porter, PhD, Associate Director
Naima Abdullahi, Program Manager
Master of Sciences in Media, Medicine and Health
Neal Baer, EdM, AM, MD, Co-Director
Jason Silverstein, PhD, Co-Director
Christina Thompson Lively, MEd, Associate Director of Education Programs
Allison Lewis, Program Coordinator
Christopher Kenney, MEd, Staff Assistant
Master of Medical Sciences in Medical Education
Krisztina Fischer, MD, PhD, Director
Ayres Heller, EdM, Associate Director
Closing Remarks
Johanna L. Gutlerner, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education
2024 HMS Master’s Programs Graduates
Master of Science in Bioethics
We are overjoyed at the accomplishments of our 73 Graduates of the Master of Science in Bioethics Program this year. As you go forward, you will grapple with core themes in the work of bioethics. What are some of these core themes? First, the work of bioethics seeks to identify challenges and to create opportunity through a broad landscape of morally permissible – or even desirable – solutions. Bioethics is committed to uncovering the moral dimensions and quandaries that are inevitable when we examine the terms of our lives and our health, and it is driven to broadening and deepening our moral lives and imaginations. Bioethics is also demanding, asking us to bring knowledge, theory, and practice together because bioethics, as an applied field, is in the doi ng. In that respect, MBE Class of 2024 you are prepared as you have bridged your academic learning in the classroom with practical experience through your Capstone work, collaborating with clinical teams, research programs, government agencies and academic partners to tackle cutting edge bioethical challenges. And you have brought all of yourselves to meet the challenge, with your reason and emotion, principles and care, individuality, and relational commitments.
As we prepare to send you off into the world, we need bioethics now more than ever. We recently came through a pandemic that killed over 1 million Americans and countless more around the globe, which almost instantly became politicized and fraught with antiscience rhetoric that spawned massive misinformation campaigns and even death threats for frontline healthcare workers trying to save lives. In the face of that response to COVID 19, we need your talents more than ever. Although bioethics has at times been criticized for being too lofty in its ambitions, in this post-pandemic world, we suggest to you that bioethics could not be lofty enough in paving a path toward the future.
MBE Class of 2024, we could not be prouder of your remarkable achievements. You have already advanced the work of bioethics by promoting health equity and advancing the human condition, including through your cutting-edge proposals to discern and respond to immense disparities in our healthcare system and inequities in our entire world. Going forward, we have no doubt that you will use the strength of your minds, your hearts, and your bioethics community to make this world a better and more equitable place. MBE Class of 2024, you are uniquely prepared, and we welcome you as our newest colleagues. As you go forth as Masters of Bioethics, we see a bright future because of you and what you bring to this world. We could not be prouder, and we cannot wait to see all that you will accomplish in the years to come.
Congratulations!
Becca, Wes, Joni, Crystal, Jesse, Kelsey, and Sa m (on behalf of the Center for Bioethics)
Lauren Rothenberg Aalami
Sex-specific Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Operative Thresholds: A Crisis in Criticality
Abdulrahman Ahmed Alharbi
Will Germline Genome Editing Technology Offer Additional Value Compared to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Technology?
Zainab Altajir
Advancing Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders in Bahrain: Characterizing Ethical Climates and Challenges
Dennis James Anzano
Bytesize Manners: Evaluating Bioethical Decision-Making by AI Large Language Models (LLMs)
Jerad Wayne Ashby
Meeting the Moment: Curriculum Design at the Intersection of Ethics and Public Health
Andrew Baghaei
Bridging the Transplant Gap: An Exploration of Potential Inequities in Kidney Xenotransplantation
Ran Bi
Exploring the Ethical Issues Involved in Digital Immortality Technology
Stephanie Mae Bienasz
Bridging the Gap: Using a Justice-C entered Lens of Urban Bioethics to Reinvigorate the Free-and-Reduced-Price School Lunch Program (FRSLP)
Carolyn Anne Murphy Boscia
First Impression Bias in Clinical Ethics Consultation
Alexandria Nicole Brown
Developing a New Area -Based Index to Address Structural Deprivation and Advance Equity in Disadvantaged Communities
Victor Xin Yuan Chen
Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Who is Responsible for the Diagnosis?
Xiaoyan Chen
The Legal and Ethical Concerns Related to Fertility Preservation for Social Reasons
Jade Ealy
Automation With Purpose: Navigating Economic, Health, and Ethical Implications in Massachusetts' Prior Authorization Reform
Legbel Armor Ekpata
Ethical Challenges in Pediatric Decision-Making: A Ghanaian Narrative Perspective.
Lorenz Faihs
Models and Functions of Hospital Ethics Committees: A Translational Approach to Implementing Clinical Ethics Support.
Ahmad Bilal Faridi
Does Moral Distress A fflict Only Urban Nurses? Measuring Prevalence of Moral Distress in Rural Nurses.
Pauleen V. Faynberg
A Bioethical Approach to Stewardship of Human Remains Within University Museum Collections.
Dwight Deon Ferguson
Assessment of Moral Distress, Moral Injury and Spirituality Among Public Health Emergency Responders
Dessislava Sergueeva Fessenko
Ethical Requirements for Achieving Justice and Fairness in Machine Learning
Daniel Fu
Delineating Patient Perspectives to Enhance Care Excellence in Ethics
Christian Garcia Hernandez
Revisiting Latinx Bioethics: A Tool For Bioethics to Engage With Injustice
Aaron Greenberg
Interrogating the Chance V ersus Choice Dichotomy in Polygenic E mbryo Screening
James Christian Henderson
Generational Differences in Awareness and Attitudes Towards Advance Care Planning Among Mexican-American Immigrants
Dannie R Henry
“Just a Pinch”: Patient Experiences of Pain During Fertility Care
Sophie Hintzen
Ethical Dilemmas: Workers' Autonomy Versus Corporate Privacy
Michael Howe
Empowering the Homeless Through Preservation of Autonomy in Healthcare: Bioethical Challenges in an Unforgiving Environment
Li-Hsuan Hsiao
Surgeons’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards the Moral Imperative of Institutionally Addressing Second Victim Syndrome in Surgery
Gifty Immanuel
Bioterrorism and Bioethics
Belize Iteriteka
The Clarksdale Baby University: Parenting Program in Rural Mississippi Delta Region
Jennifer Anne Kaiser
Virtue Ethics to Address Challenges in Traveling Nursing in Critical Care
Bridget O'Donnell Kerwin
Is Clinical Informed Consent Really Informed? Reimagining Consent Through Bioethical Perspectives
Jenna Sara Khoja
Unveiling Nursing Facility Realities: The Ethics of Using Chemical Restraints in Dementia Patients
Arianna Sara Komorsky
An Ethical Analysis of Reasons For and Against Establishing Medical-Legal Partnerships
Abby Elyse Kovan
Evaluating Staff Satisfaction and Missed Opportunities: Optimizing Clinical Ethics
Consultation at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Anissa Kurani
Guidelines for Ethically-Informed, Cross-Cultural Parenting Interventions in Low- and Middle- Income Countries
Barry David Kussman
Moral Injury as an Ethical Root Cause of Burnout in Anesthesiologists
Alice Lapteva
Disclosing the Use of Medical AI to Patients: Shifting Informed Consent From Understanding to Trust
Gerald Hon Jing Lee
Resolving Mutual Pretense for End-of-Life Care in Hong Kong: A Buddhist Perspective
Emily Maria Leister
Designing and Teaching an Undergraduate Bioethics Course: Fostering Civil Discourse in the Digital Age
Yiyuan Li
Incorporating Economics into Bioethics Education
Patricia Lora
The Right to Be Childfree: Ethical Inquiry on Female Sterilization
Trevor Phillip Ma
Securing Justice: A Recommitment to Ethics in Forensic Psychiatry
Kathryn Rossanna Mann
Socioeconomic Status Impacting Ability to Access Mental Health Treatment: Investigating the Role of Medicaid
Evadne Grace Marcolini
Clinical Ethics Consultation Team Structure: A Semi-Structured Interview Process
Jessica Marie Marengo
Multi-Institutional Study of Transplant Professionals’ Perspectives on Physical Disability and Transplant Candidacy
Mercy L Mkandawire - Omwanza
The Hermeneutical Injustice of Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination in East Africa
Lessedi Mmamodise Modise
Introducing the Team Card: Enhancing Governance for Medical AI Systems in the Age of Complexity
Naila Moghul
Initiation of Ethics Consult Requests by Patients and Surrogates Without Clinical Intermediaries: An Imperative of Justice
Palmer Nicholas Montalbano
Balancing the Scales: A Comprehensive Survey of Clinical Ethics Practices Across HarvardAffiliated Hospitals
Sanjana Ria Nath
The Technical, Legal, and Ethical Limitations of Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Improving Clinical Outcomes in N eurological Emergencies
Madonna Nwaebube Okpaleke
Return of Genomic Research Results in Low-Middle-Income Countries: Perspectives and Challenges
Jose Orejas
Addressing the Accumulated Moral Injuries and Moral Residues of the Venezuelan Healthcare System
Nishita Pondugula
A Justice-Driven Approach to Painful Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures
Ardita Hartanti Pramudani
Balancing Genomic Data Sharing and Sovereignty: Lesson Learned from International Concerns and Recommending Recommended Strategies for Indonesia
Hailey Megan Ray
A Qualitative Study on Recruitment and Retention Patterns for Diverse Research
Participants in Covid-19 Clinical Trials
Alvin Leo Reaves
Examining the Moral Imperative of Bioethics to Address Structural Racism in the Promotion of Health Justice
Paul Lawrence Romain
Outpatient Clinical Ethics Consultations: How Many are Being Done, and Should There Be More?
Cydney Jane Rose
Engaging Advocacy: Analyzing Bias Among Clinical Ethicists Serving Patients With Substance Use Disorder
Natalie Runham
World on Fire: Advancing Climate Justice Centering Vulnerable Communities
Kirstie Katherine Russell
A Proposed Approach for Implementing Medical Assistance in Dying Where Mental Illness is the Sole Underlying Condition in Canada
Alham Saadat
Thoughtful Conceptualization of Human Brain Variation: Employing Ethical and Evidencebased Principles to Cultivate Trust and Strengthen the Credibility of Research
Kara Earlene Simpson
Anti-Racist Practices in the Clinical E thics Encounter: Guideposts to E quity at the B edside
Henry Bradford Skinner
The Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health
Brian T Spoelhof
Ethical Implications of Supply Chain Management in Addressing Drug Shortages
Ian Mackenzie Stevens
An Exploratory Review of the ‘Treatment Resistant’ Phenomenon as a Justification for Neurosurgical Intervention
Manami Takahashi
Cultural Dimensions and Implications of Advance Care Planning: A Comparative Study of the US and Japan
Justin Michael Tourigny
Ethical Inquiry of Financial Compensation for Kidneys from Living Persons for Transplant
Felix Bernd von Oertzen
How to D esign and Manage Clinical Trials for Brain-Based Visual P rostheses?
Taya Danielle Wallis
Ethical Allocation of Scarce Resources During Chemotherapy Drug Shortages
Hechun Wang
AI in Drug Discovery: A Human-centric Approach
Tessa Sabine Youngner
Advancing Restorative Justice through Clinical Genomics: A Multi-Stakeholder Framework to Ethically Integrate Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
Yuanrun Zhou
Understanding Personhood: Ethics, User Experience, and Legal Recognition in BrainComputer Interfaces
Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics
Dear Deans, dear distinguished guests, and dear graduates!
The Department of Biomedical Informatics is excited to be celebrating the achievements of our largest graduating class to date, with 43 students earning the Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics degree this year.
Today we present 33 graduates from our post-baccalaureate master’s program, who come to us with impressive training in biomedical and computational sciences to enhance their skills and pursue career paths dedicated to improving human health using advances in data science and technology. These students completed their studies over one and a half years and will go on to pursue PhD and MD degrees, or to roles in industry and the nonprofit sector.
We are also proud of the accomplishments of the 10 graduating members of our accelerated degree cohort, who have completed our program either as full-time students over one year or as part-time students over two years, in parallel to research and clinical responsibilities. These students either hold or are in the middle of pursuing doctorates in fields such as medicine, biotechnology, mathematics, and public health and entered our program to gain informatics training that they will now apply in their research and practice.
In addition to substantial coursework in biomedical informatics, all of our graduates completed capstone projects that involved designing and implementing computational approaches for the analysis of biomedical data.
We want to thank our faculty and capstone mentors, who invest their time and energy into educating the next generation of biomedical informaticians, which allows us to offer this program.
We are grateful to our graduates that they chose to come here to join our community, share their knowledge with us, and enrich our community by participating in the academic and social life in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Harvard Medical School.
We are also thankful to the families of our graduates, who supported them throughout their studies and who undoubtedly shared many of the sacrifices that our students made to be graduating today. Dear families, you have many reasons to be proud today!
But most importantly, dear graduates, we want to emphasize that today does not mark the end of your time in our community; it is the beginning of the next phase. As alumni of our program and the Department of Biomedical Informatics, you will now be working alongside your former teachers and mentors to define the future of our field and leave your mark on the future of medicine. The importance of informatics in medicine and biology has never been more evident than today.
Wherever your careers may take you, you will always be a part of our community. Congratulations!
Nils Gehlenborg (Program Director), Aparna Nathan (Associate Program Director) Lilen Uchima (Director of Education and DEI Programs), Rebecca Fitzhugh (Senior Program Manager), PJ Van Camp (Curriculum Fellow), and Dominika Dzierzynski (Program Coordinator)
Omar Mahmood Albastaki
A Novel Immune Therapy for Neuroinflammation Following Traumatic Brain Inju ry: Leveraging the Treg/IL10 Axis via Nasal Anti-CD3 to Modulate the Microglial Transcriptional Profile
Saleem Ameen
An AI-Enhanced at Home Pediatric Growth Monitoring System: A Leap Towards Global Childhood Health Equity
Harshel Bahl
Exploring Gene Dependencies in Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma and Assessing Deep Learning Predictive Efficacy for Essential Genes in Foreign Cancer Cell Lines.
Yuchen Cheng
Somatic Mutation Detection from Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing Data of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Byeongyeon Cho
DNA Characterization Reveals Potential Operon-Unit Packaging of Extracellular Vesicle Cargo from a Gut Bacterial Symbiont
Zhou Fang
Exploring Pre-Malignant Breast Tissue in Cancer-Predisposed Carriers of Mutations in BRCA1 Gene Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
Qassi Gaba
Deconstructing Quality of Cancer Care and the Modelling of Health Benefits of Scale-up
Yanming Gan
Decode Retrotransposon-Fusion RNAs in Stomach Cancer
Jesslyn Ting Yu Felicia Goh
Exploring the Feasibility of Subtyping Homologous Recombination Deficient Tumors from Liquid Biopsies
Tian Jin
Exploration of PRISM Outputs: Navigating the Mechanism of a Novel Drug SH6
Ye Jin
MediMatch Framework: An LLM-Enabled Approach to Retrieve Patient-Specific Biomedical Literature for Clinical Decision Support
Si Yang Ke
Classification of Autism Spectrum Disorder using Electroencephalography in Chinese Children: A Cross-sectional Retrospective Study
Eugene Kim
Predicting Pediatric Surgical Case Lengths Using Machine Learning
Susannah Kisvarday
Advancing Patient Safety: Evaluating Efficacy of a Machine Learning Model in Predicting Adverse Events Using EHR Trigger Data
Hyong Hark Lee
Enabling Target-Based Drug Discovery in Silico Experimentation for M. tuberculosis
Yu Leng
Deep Learning-Based Pipeline for Prediction of Prostate Cancer Gleason Grade Using Prostate MRI
Fuchen Li
The Fairness of Deep Learning Models for Lung Cancer Histological Image Classification
Matthew Liebers
Clinical Phenotype Extraction Methods for Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) WrapUp Documents Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs)
Adriana Paola Liimakka
Elucidating the Genetic Basis of Knee Arthrofibrosis Through Multi-Ancestry GenomeWide Analysis
Kevin Liu
cobraGEMM: A Python -based Genome-scale Metabolic Model Assembly and Optimization Pipeline for Analysis of Personalized, Multi-Species Metabolic Models
Xiao Liu
DNA Bendability Regulates Transcription Factor Pioneer Binding to Nucleosomes
Fiona Helen McBride
Investigating Genetic Mechanisms of Tumor Initiation in Xp11 Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma
Adrienne Marie Parsons
High-Dimensional Immunophenotyping to Parse Hematopoiesis Across Bone Marrow Specimens from a Clinical Cohort
Hannah Rivka Pierce-Hoffman
Designing Pan-Sarbecovirus Nanoparticle Vaccines with Deep Learning
Agustina Saenz
Optimizing Continual Learning in Clinical AI: Strategic Insights for Healthcare Leadership
Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani
Efficient Representation of Genetic Variants in Graph Genomes: An Algorithm for Identifying Variants and Position Alignment with Linear Reference
Alice Michelle Saparov
Optimizing Deep Learning Methods to Resolve Uncertain Variant Classification
Isabel Stephan Smokelin
A Machine Learning-Based Clinical Tool to Predict Postpartum Hypertensive Episodes
Sivateja Tangirala
Changing Host Demographic, Genetic, and Clinical Risk Factor Profiles of COVID -19Associated Mortality Relative to All-Causes Mortality Over Time
Michelle Theodory
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Extracting and Classifying Instances of Trauma from Psychiatric Electronic Health Record Notes
Yujan Ting
Self-Supervised Learning of Anatomical Representations of Medical Images Using Resampling Autoencoders
Diego Trujillo Jiménez
General Processes for Machine-Driven Blind Protein-Ligand Docking
Ann-Marcia Comfort Tukpah
Factors and Outcomes Associated with Systemic Sclerosis Associated-Interstitial Lung Disease in an Electronic Health Record-Derived Cohort
Varun Ullanat
Towards Robust Protein Representation Learning with Differentiable Latent Graphs
Xi Wang
Machine-Learning Based Predictive Models for Genomic Feature Inferences from Tumor-Only Targeted Panel Sequences in Human Melanoma
Zihan Wang
Characterizing Genetic Determinants of Metabolic Profiles of Multiple Dietary Patterns and Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Kay Wu
DeepSPINE: Multi-Task Deep Learning for Comprehensive Lumbar Spine MRI Classification
Chuhang Xiang
DeepSleep: GenAI-Powered Sleep Assistant
Songtao Xu
Developing a Cell-type Specific Allele-Specific Expression Pipeline for Application to Eye Tissues and Disease
Boshen Yan
Effect of Systemic Immunosuppression Timing on Overall Survival Among Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Recipients
Wenyu Zhang
Enhancing ICU Mortality Predictions for ARDS Patients through Dynamic Analysis of Ventilation Data and Electronic Health Records
Jinrui Zhou
Investigation of SpO2-Related Data Bias on Reinforcement Learning of Mechanical Ventilation in Critical Care
Ningxuan Zhou
Adolescent Depression and Sub-phenotype Prediction using Multi -modal Outcomes
Master of Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation
To the Class of 2024, we could not be prouder of your tremendous achievement congratulations to you, to your families, friends, and all who supported you along the way.
In the years you spent with us at Harvard Medical School, you learned the foundational skills necessary to succeed in clinical and translational research. You put these skills into practice by conducting cutting-edge research that addressed a spectrum of challenging research questions. Your growth and experiences over the last two years will serve as the foundation of what we hope will be a fulfilling, life-long journey as curious, innovative, and collaborative investigators. As Harvard graduates you are uniquely poised to tackle the most complex research questions, make discoveries that will impact patients' lives, and change the future of healthcare in your communities and the world.
We are truly excited to see the accomplishments that lie ahead for each of you, and we hope that you will continue to engage with and broaden your Harvard community.
Many congratulations and stay in touch, Ajay, Finnian, Martina, Rosalyn, Lourdes, Enid, Suman, Kerri, and Molly
Ogheneochuko Winifred Ajari
HER2-Low Breast Cancer: Clinical C haracteristics, Prognosis , and Evolution from Diagnosis to Residual Disease
Ali Abdulmohsin Abdulkareem AlJabban
Integration of Decision Support Algorithm and Genomic Mutational Analysis for Enhanced Diagnosis and Characterization of Hematological Diseases
Aya Awwad
Protein Carbamylation in Chronic Kidney Disease: Comparative Biomarker Analysis and Implications for Cardiovascular Disease
Soahum Bagchi
A Network Meta-Analysis of Steroid-Sparing Agents in the Treatment of Pemphigus vulgaris and Foliaceous and a Multiple vs. Single Steroid-Sparing Agent Retrospective Cohort Study in Pemphigus vulgaris
Enass Sayed Mohammed Elsayed
Association of Objective Measures of Volume Status with Blood Pressure, Cardiac Structure, and Cardiac Function Among Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis
Bruna Galvao de Oliveira Wafae
Non-Cutaneous Infections in Patients With Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Youngshin Keum
Finding New Interventions to Slow Kidney Function Decline in Diabetes
Javier Marrugo
Prediabetes and Gout Risk: The Role of Metformin Use and Longitudinal Serum Urate Analysis
Michael Elnemais Fawzy Massoud
Anosognosia and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in the Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum
Nourhan Saeed Bakry Ali Othman
Design and Application of Targeted Exosomes for Glioblastoma Therapy Delivery
Surish P Shanmugam
Therapeutic Impact of Homologous Recombination Repair (HRR) or Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) Deficiency Pertaining to Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) Payloads in Urothelial Cancer
Yashika Parashar
Unraveling Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Trastuzumab Resistance in Cancer and Therapy-Associated Polyposis: Insights into Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Implications
Arcita Hanjani Pramudita
Evaluation of the Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Comorbidity Index-Age (HCT-CIAge) Score in a Modern Cohort with Post Transplant Cyclophosphamide Based GvHD Prophylaxis
& The Impact of the Pre-Transplant Assessment of Social Determinants of Health
Jamil Santos Cade
KLF6 Mediates de novo Ornithine Synthesis and Polyamine Production in Pancreatic
Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Saman Asad Siddiqui
Evaluating Third Generation Valve System Performance and Pacemaker Implantation
Variability After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Yun Chen Tsai
Pigmented Skin Lesions in Children: Congenital Melanocytic Nevus, Pediatric Longitudinal Melanonychia, and Pediatric Melanoma
Master in Clinical Service Operations
Over the course of the Master in Clinical Services Operations program, you have committed yourself to your noble pursuit of advancing your leadership in health care clinical operations. Health care clinical operations are fundamental to the delivery of patient care and the patient experience. We are impressed by your commitment to safe, accessible, equitable, efficient, compassionate, and affordable high-quality patient care.
Our three pathways of clinical operations, industry leadership, and executive leadership have created a dynamic multi-disciplinary learning community of physicians, nurses, administrators, and industry professionals. A major focus of our program has been learning novel approaches to clinical operations and you have immersed yourself in workflow management, innovation and technology, service lines, supply chain, health care finances, data analytics, value-based healthcare, and much more. You have also grown your leadership skills in teamwork, critical thinking, change management, strategic communications, stakeholder alignment and relationship building, mentorship, trust building, and crisis management. is
Along the way, we watched you grow and develop into a cohesive unit, a true community of learners despite your locations across the globe: Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Saudi, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Maldives, Hawaii, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Chicago, California, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Texas, Washington DC, and Massachusetts. It has been heartwarming to see your friendships develop and to see how each of you contributed to the education of your peers. Each student brought a unique set of professional backgrounds and personal stories, and these diverse backgrounds made for lively classroom discussions that reflected your collective experiences.
As you leave HMS to assume new challenges, new responsibilities, and new leadership roles, we hope that the lessons that you have learned in the classroom and beyond will remain with you. We are in a challenging era as healthcare professionals as we navigate the rising cost of healthcare, capacity constraints, and workforce challenges. Yet it is also the most exciting time in the history of health care with breakthroughs in health care including artificial intelligence, remote monitoring and telemedicine, integration of social determinants of health into care, and personalized medicine and genomics. We are positive that all of our MCSO graduates will play a significant role in transforming your organizations. We wish you all the success in your professional and personal journeys.
Kevin, Mara, Ann, Stan and PreetiModupeola Olufunmilayo Adewunmi
Establishing a Medical Weight Loss Program Within a Direct Primary Care Clinic
Alnaserbelh Ishraq Al Naseri
Research Site Support Adoption Optimization
Xena Al Qahtani
Establishing a Center of Excellence for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood at Massachusetts General Hospital
Khaled Ahmad Al Sadder
Center of Excellence Accreditation of the Endocrine Surg ery Unit at Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah Hospital to the Burden of Treatment Overseas
Zaki Suliman Alhifzi
Reducing Readmission Rate in the Orthopedic Department at Aseer Central Hospital
Saudi Arabia
Arwa AlHilal
Implementing Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through Chatbot Technology for Ambulatory Appointment Booking Activities and Information Exchange With Patients and Care Givers.
Shaikha Mahmoud Al-Mahmoud
Improving Communication Between Patient-Facing Clinical and Non-Clinical Staff and Patients and Their Families
Asif Anwar
To Develop Strategic Planning for Electronic ICU (eICU) Process Improvement
Lilly Chandy
Improve Nursing Engagement During Interdisciplinary ICU Rounds
Wei-Ting Chen
Streamlining the Regional Network in Southern California for Referring and Rapid Access to Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Joshua Oluwatoni Eyitemi
Serving the Hard to Reach: Enhancing Emergency Services in a Remote Community Health Center
Wyatt Richard Hockmeyer
Establishing a Family Medicine Residency Program With the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine to Serve Rural Populations in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Michael Bryant Kelley
The Organizational Impact of Changing to a High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assay (hsTnI) and HEART Score Algorithm on Emergency Department and Hospital Throughput at a 477- Bed Regional Referral Hospital in Western Kentucky
Tomilola O Kolade
Empowering Healthcare Excellence: Fostering Physician Builder Programs in Electronic Health Records (EHR) Governance
Sarah Angeline Lee
A Comparative Examination of the Rate of Adverse Outcomes from Anesthesiology for Pediatric Patients Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a Framework for Improving Patient Safety
Lehmann Li
Linking Employee Healthcare Costs to Healthy Behavior and Lower Payer Costs: Determining Optimal Employee OOP Costs to Encourage Breast Cancer MRI Screening
Sofiah Agustina Theodora Lontoh
Establishing an Aesthetics Center of Excellence: Providing a Collaborative Environment to Create Outstanding Continuum Patient Care
Yuko Merchant
Implementing Team-Based Epic InBasket Management
Asad Iqbal Moten
The Joint Commission on Service: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for All
Navita Mysore
Standardizing Paper-Based Clinical Documentation in the Mental Health Sector for Enhanced Patient Safety and Outcomes
Kuuleikuponookealoha Naahielua
Development of a Native Hawaiian Health Program Within The Wahiawā Center for Community Health
Sven Pal
Organization and Implementation of National Guidelines on Antimicrobial Surgical Prophylaxis
Romela Petrosyan
Optimization of Ultrasound-Guided, Non-Focal, Native Kidney Biopsy Operations
Anne Marie Que
Development of Enterprise-Wide Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA): A Novel Workforce Model
Jennit Raju
Reducing Falls in the Inpatient Hospital Setting
Antonio Rivera Lopez
Clinical Research Site Optimization: A Site Engagement Project
Jawad N. Saleh
The Power of Opioid Stewardship: Novel Dashboards for Every Healthcare Organization
Mohamed Sayed Kamel Sayed
Establishing an Ophthalmology Residency Program in Dubai’s Private Healthcare Sector
Vei Ken Seow
A Pilot Project of Establishing a Nursing Training Ward to Expand Inpatient Capacity and Augment the Nursing Workforce.
Rickinder Sethi
Measuring the Effects Leading to Workplace-Based Violence and Code Whites at UHN
Mohamed Emadeldin Shalaby
Establishing an Inpatient Bed-Side Conventional Hemodialysis Service for Admitted Long Term and Critical Care Patients
Fathmath Saraa Yoosuf
Strategic Approach for Fighting Emergent MDROs in Critical Acute Response Environments (SAFE CARE)
Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery
Dear graduates, colleagues, friends: our Global Health family could not be prouder of your accomplishments in these two years. We, the staff and faculty that have supported you in your journey, are in awe of your brilliant scholarship in a dozen countries covering childhood infections in Pakistan, Mozambique and Sierra Leone, women’s rights in Nigeria, Mexico, Haiti, and Indonesia, chronic illness and disability in Malawi, Rwanda and the Philippines; and systems of care from Ghana to Worcester, Massachusetts.
The advances in biomedicine in the twenty-first century are truly awe inspiring, yet the benefits of these advances are not shared equally across the world. More than a decade ago, this Master’s program in Global Health Delivery was designed for you people who work tirelessly to improve the lives of patients around the world. We believed that scholarship to address health inequalities should come from those most proximate to the suffering of the world. You came to study Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School to understand and remediate the persistent gap between those who have access to the fruits of science and those who do not. Your work has interrogated the social
forces of racism, impoverishment, patriarchy, and ageism to understand how these social forces create and sustain health inequity. In these two years you have learned to practice a bio-social analysis of health problems. You have developed quantitative skills and become facile with tools of social medicine ethnographic and qualitative research. This deep understanding, which you have conveyed in your thesis projects, paints a nuanced picture of health inequity; one that privileges the lived experience of patients.
All of you used this bio-social lens in to perform deep analyses of complex problems in health delivery. And, so importantly, each of you proposed a roadmap for how we might remediate such suffering. Today you join almost 150 alumni of this unique program: people who are doctors, nurses, policy makers, pharmacists all working toward a fairer world. We have no doubt that you will use the knowledge you have gained here to ease suffering and pursue health equity .
We are grateful for having shared this journey with you. We have learned so much together. Our Department of Global H ealth and Social Medicine indeed our entire community is enriched by your intellect and passion. We are excited to continue to work with you in the future as our community grows!
Joia, Christina, Katie, and Christopher
Alain Ahishakiye
Risks and Protective Factors of P oor Mental H ealth A mong Caregivers of Children With Disabilities in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed Methods Study
Sara Ahmad
Barriers and Facilitators to Timely Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents in Karachi, Pakistan
Olamide Samson Akintibubo
Providing A ffordable H ealthcare Delivery of Primary H ealthcare Services Through a Private Subscription-based Clinic Model
Claudia Lizeth Bejarano Zambrano
The Multiple Dimensions of Violence Suffered by Women as Barriers to Exercising Their Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Moses Dixon
A Strategic Analysis of the Offerings of Culturally Appropriate and Tailored Meals on Wheels (MOW) in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Older Adults
Communities in Worcester, MA
Egberanmwen Enobakhare
Mixed Methods Assessment of Factors that Prevent Physical and Sexual Violence: Understanding the Perspective of Women Accessing Care at a Hospital in Nigeria
Ibrahim Gassama
Investigating the Causes and Effects of Factors Leading to Prescribing of A ntibiotics for Children Under Five at Koidu and Portloko Hospitals in Sierra Leone
Eddy Jonas
Exploring Variations and Decision-making Processes of the Utilization of Modern Contraceptive Methods During P rotracted Violence and Political Instability in Rural Haiti
Bright Gasten Mailosi
Understanding the Effectiveness of PEN-Plus Clinics in Salima and Karonga, Malawi
Hansel Mundaca Hurtado
Unraveling the Socio-Economic Determinants of Under-Five Child Survival from Malaria in Rural Mozambique
Janine Patricia Gerona Robredo
Confronting Pervasive Under-Five Stunting: Insights from Nutrition Aid Recipient Communities
Maria Cellina Wijaya
Assessing the Implementation of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) in Low-resource Settings in Jember, Indonesia: A Mixed-methods Study
Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety
From the Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety program we write to congratulate our graduates in the Class of 2024!
We designed MHQS with the intent that it would accomplish one critical thing. That our graduates would leave with instincts around quality and safety to improve healthcare for all. A mindset of sorts. What is the “QI Mindset”? It is an approach that doesn’t just accept the need to make something better. It instead expands to celebrate the opportunity to make it better. The mindset recognizes that problem solving requires thoughtful assessment of the risk and its root causes, not just checking the easiest box to fix things. The solution must match the actual problem. The approach is rooted in tools and structure that uses hypothesis-driven questioning to guide the path, and relies on data to make final decisions. Most importantly the QI mindset demands that the perspective of healthcare providers, and the patients they serve, remain at the center of all design. Though tools and methods will reinvent themselves over the years, the QI mindset remains steadfast.
For all of you, this has been a tremendous time. You joined with varying levels of experience but have all grown and developed mastery of not just tools and process, but the QI mindset as well. We see it in the questions you ask of speakers and peers. All of you demonstrated the resilience required of everyone in quality and safety and overcame challenges in your projects as well. This you did with grace and humili ty even in times of ongoing uncertainties. Studying and working was not an easy task and despite all the change, you have remained cheerful and dedicated to the work and your own learning. You have become part of this community of like-minded souls who will no doubt strive to make things better for years to come. We feel privileged to have witnessed it all and look forward to seeing how you apply it all back home.
We would be remiss if we did not thank the many people who helped make this program a success. First to your families who were kind enough to share you with us, thank you. Their sacrifices were not small and this degree is their accomplishment too. Secondly, we thank your course faculty, project mentors, and the rest of the team in Postgraduate Medical Education and HMS for making the experience as smooth as possible for everyone.
Congratulations! Please know that we are going to miss you but intend to stay in touch. This is just the beginning of our journey together.
With warmth and best wishes, Anjala, Brittany, Kae, and Katie
Hanan Ibrahim Zehry Abdelrahman
Implementing Teach-Back Training for Nurses in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project.
Saman Birjees Ahmad
Improving Hospital Adherence to Canadian Regulations on Serious Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting
Hanadi Khamis Al Hamad
Prevention of Aspiration Pneumonia Among Elderly in Long-care Units
Enedina Alcantara
Decreasing the Incidence of Hospital Acquired Infection C. di ff in Texas Health Fort Worth
Ruth Kathryn Armstrong
The Assessment of Distress in a Surgical Newborn Intensive Care Unit: Does Screening for Delirium Reduce the Inappropriate Use of High Dose, Prolonged Duration, Benzodiazepine Sedation and Opiate Analgesia?
Victoria Whitney Batistelli
Beyond the Beat: Empowering Seniors in Heart Health with RN Case Management for Congested Heart Failure Readmission Reduction
Deepak Bhonagiri
Improving Patient Medication Safety During Transition from ICU to the Wards in a Hospital With Different Electronic Medical Records in ICU and Wards
Meher Chaudhry
Improving Care for Boarded Emergency Behavioral Health Patients Through Medication Reconciliation Redesign
Cristina de Lasa
Increasing Resuscitation-Status Related Goals of Care Discussions for Older Adults With Severe Mental Illness in a Canadian Mental Health Setting.
Nourhan Elshamma
Improving Shared Decision-Making in the Pediatrics ORL Surgery Clinic
Farah Syeda Hasin
Improving Sepsis Care: Mobilizing Action for Quality Improvement in a Community Academic Hospital
Hannah Kiziltug
Safe Neuromuscular Blocking Agent Management; A Mixed Method Improvement Project
Marie-Pier Lirette
Improving Patient Safety in Paediatric Trauma Care by Enhancing Efficiency and Accuracy of Trauma Handover From Pre-Hospital Teams
Stefan William Malin
Decreasing Delayed Notification of Medical Teams of Patient Transfers from the Intensive Care Unit to an Acute Care Unit
Katherine Anne Mansalis
Implementation of a Hospitalist Managed, Protocol Driven Short Stay Unit to Reduce Length of Stay in Observation Patients
Emmanuel Otomewo
Decrease Placement of Inappropriate Urinary Foley Catheter in the Emergency Room on Patients to be A dmitted by 20% in the n=Next 3 Months via Computerized Clinical Decision Support.
Indu Gopalakrishnan Poornima
Clinical Decision Support for Efficient & Effective Optimization of Volume Status in Acute Congestive Heart Failure in the Emergency Department
Karimah Mohammad Qutah
A Review of Healthcare Associated Clostridioides Difficile Infection at The Miramichi Regional Hospital
Nazia Fayruz Sharfuddin
Implementing Code Transfusion At A Multi-Site Tertiary Teaching Hospital Network in the Greater Toronto Area
Naginder Singh
Improving the Provision of Processed Electroencephalography (pEEG) for Patients Receiving Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA)
Mary Jane Smith
Improvement of Safety and Quality of Care for Pediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing in NL
Awatif Alsayed Abdalkareim Solyman
Digitalization of Critical Laboratory Result Workflow (Delivery, and Documentation)
Lucy J. Xu
Getting a Head Start: Preoperative Optimization in an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocol for Head and Neck Oncology
Wing Hay Yu
Improving Treatment Timeliness for Acute Stroke Patients Undergoing Endovascular Thrombectomy in Operating Room of a Regional Hospital in Hong Kong
Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology
Congratulations MMSc Immunology Graduates!
Mike, Gavin, Naima, and I all want you to know how immensely proud we are of each and every one of you!
It has been a joy to get to know you, starting in the fall of 2022 when we saw each other two or three times a week in Harvard College and at the Modell and of course some of you made contact during office hours as well. We have since watched with great pleasure as you have grown into knowledgeable immunologists and confident investigators in the making. It has been especially gratifying to listen to you present your findings during our monthly lunch meetings. You have each described with sophistication, thoughtfulness and rigor, the wonderful work that you have been doing as part of the thesis projects that you have all successfully defended. And as we have heard about so many of your acceptances into top level programs and positions or of your other future plans, you have made us all proud and we know you are on your way to do great things in the years to come!
Initially, just keeping up academically demanded a lot of effort, but you have all risen to the challenge, you have not blinked, and you have all prevailed. Of course, in your time here you have learnt to think about topics ranging basic molecular immunology, cellular immunology,
approaches to experimentation and techniques to probe the underlying basis of human disease. We all recognize that no other aspect of modern biology is more intimately connected to human disease than immunology. Medicine without immunology would be akin to the body without a brain, or an automobile without an engine. It is one of the most important drivers of rational therapies.
There is an almost divine quality to the exquisite precision with which our immune cells find their cellular partners to have a conversation with during an orchestrated, protective response. But things do fall apart sometimes. Beautiful, mind-blowing, precision can be put out of kilter. Distortions in an exquisitely regulated balance can contribute to the initiation of chaos. It is the loss of immune precision that is, as we all know, the underlying basis of disease. This is frighteningly apparent to all of us today. We are confident that all of you will continue to use your knowledge to change the world in the years and decades to come.
Congratulations once again! May you and your loved ones enjoy the moment, enjoy the day and stay healthy. We look forward to hearing from you about the great things you will continue to do. Stay in touch!
Shiv, Mike, Gavin and Naima
Norah Abdulrahman Aldrak
Engineering a Novel in vivo Circuit to Uncover Cell-intrinsic Resistance Mechanisms to Killer Lymphocyte-mediated Cytotoxicity
Yifan Cai
Mechanism of TIM-3 Inhibition in Th1 cells
Xinying Ge
Myeloid Cell-based Immunotherapies for the Treatment of Cancer
Yilin Guan
Role of Complement C4 in Brain Ventricle Enlargement
Yiwen He
Dissecting the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment in Response and Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Metastatic Melanoma
Yuxin Hu
Study of Quiescent Cancer Cell Induction a nd Mechanism in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Zihan Jiao
Investigating the Epigenetic Mechanisms of Treg Reprogramming and IFN-γ Regulation
Jiarui Li
IL-33 Amplifies Regulatory T Cell Reprogramming
Dagny Chase Reese
Natural Killer Cell Receptor-Ligand Interactions in TNBC and Viral Infection
Sarife Esther Saker
Circulating Follicular Helper T Cells: Evaluating Possible Clinical Biomarkers in Patients With Autoimmunity
Julia Tuinman
Development of CLDN18.2-Specific VHH CAR T Cells for Treatment of Gastrointestinal Cancer
Renqi Wang
Synthetic Genetic Circuits for Cancer Immunotherapy
Yiwei Wang
Investigating the Role of Germline TIM-3 Mutations in CD8 T Cell Malignancy and Autoinflammation
Brian Scott Woods
The IL-4Rα Q576R Polymorphism Promotes Systemic Th2 Skewing In Atopic Dermatitis Patients
Xiaowen Xu
The Role of Gasdermin D in Escherichia coli K1 Bacterial Brain Infections
Zhenrui Zhang
Characterization of Potential Antigenic Triggers and Self-reactive Lymphocytes in IgG4Related Disease
Qiyuan Zhou
Modeling T Cell- B Cell Interaction in Rheumatoid Arthritis in a 3D Organoid System
Tian Yang Zhou
Unique Metabolic and Functional Signatures of IFNγ-Producing γδT Cells in the Adipose Tissue
Yanni Zong
Gli1+ Stem Cells Contribute to the Regeneration of Periodontal Tissues
Master
of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health
Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health
Neal Baer, EdM, AM, MD, Co-Director
Jason Silverstein, MTS, AM, PhD, Co-Director
Christina Thompson Lively, MEd, Associate Director of Education Programs
Allison Lewis, Program Coordinator
Christopher Kenney, MEd, Staff Assistant
Congratulations to the graduates of the Media, Medicine, and Health program!
In less than a year, you have already broken new ground in the fight for health as a human right. Many of you participated in the first internship course for master's students at Harvard Medical School, our Internship in Media, Medicine, and Health. During those internships, you applied your creative skills to projects on long covid, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, mental health and universal health coverage, maternal health, and global surgery. You studied dramatic writing for social change with our first artist-in-residence, Ricardo Pérez González. And through courses on opinion writing and illness narratives, some of you published work to sound the alarm on breast cancer in men and used film to take us deep into the vortex of grief.
We are so proud of the depth and breadth of your capstone projects a video game that immerses players in the health challenges female athletes face, journalism about chronic pain and gaslighting in medicine, a data visualization project about medical knowledge, a memoir about rural mental health, a short story collection about vision impairments, a children’s book about sleep and wellness, a documentary about migrant workers in California, a poetry-prose book about trans identity, a podcast about researchers fighting for the marginalized, and many others, all equally powerful, each using the arts to inspire action and make change.
These transformative projects are possible because of the teaching-as -caregiving approach of our faculty and the generosity of our mentors accomplished journalists and editors, filmmakers and producers, major prize winners in the arts, educators dedicated to the stigmatized. We are especially grateful to Drs. Suzanne Koven, Marty Zeve, Alex Keroughlian, and Joia Mukherjee, each of whom expand our understanding of what healthcare can be.
We are grateful to all of you for using storytelling to show us what healthcare for everyone can be for women at risk of domestic violence and eating disorders, for healthcare workers who suffer from burn out, for Haitian refugee children mistreated in schools, for people who must make a new life after prison, for Korean Americans in danger of stomach cancer, for Ugandan women dealing with cervical cancer, for all those who are abandoned as the least among us. We know you will continue to open eyes and hearts to make a better world.
Nadir Nazar Al-Saidi
Proposing an Original Memoir, “Failure to Thrive: Tales of Mental Torment From a Dying Heartland,” as a Novel Media Intervention for the Rural Mental Health Crisis
Anisha Mary Chandy
Game On: A Biopsychosocial Analysis of the Female Athlete Triad
Ryan Xiayu Cheng
The Digital Afterlife: Exploring the Intersection of Grief and Technology
Jasmine Hazel Die
Lost in Translation: Understanding the Gaps in Mental Health Justice for Haitian Creole Speaking Youth
Ushana Prinyssa Gaba
Visions: A Short Story Collection
Alyssa Emilie Goldberg
“Is It Your Time of the Month?”: Journalism as a Novel Intervention to Combat Patient Neglect and Medical Gender Bias in the Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment of Reproductive Health Conditions
Faith Dharma Gonsalves
First Step: A S torytelling-based Intervention for Help-seekers and Supporters to Increase Disclosure and Help-seeking Behaviours as Protective Factors Against Intimate Partner Violence in India
Christy Sophia Gonzalez
Unveiling Health Disparities: Undocumented Farm Workers in California's Central Valley
Grace Haejin Ham
Navigating H. Pylori and Gastric Cancer: An Asian American Narrative
Swathy Karamchedu
A Novel Sleep Health Education Intervention for Pre-School Children and Their Caregivers
Vivian Kobusingye Birchall
Multilingual Video-Based Cloud Platform for Cervical Cancer Education
Varshini Odayar
Life Beyond Bars: A Novel Narrative Art Medium for the Therapeutic Healing of Social Isolation and Trauma Upon Release From Prison
Lihong Mary Peng
Body Stories: Storytelling in Health and Medicine Through Data Art
Hannah Elizabeth ProctorA Biosocial Analysis of Mississippi's Maternity Care Worker Shortage: The Unknown Incidence and Impact of Moral Injury for OB/GYNs and Certified Nurse-Midwives
Nicola Rene Sharp
Brave Research: A Novel Audio Broadcasting Intervention Advancing Integrity in Scientific Practice
Muntaqa Zaman
Reinvention Through Trans-Poetics: Challenging the Medicalization Paradigm for the Bodies of Gender-Expansive People of Color
Weijing Zhu
Reimagining Maternal Wellness: A Novel Intervention for Disordered Eating and Body Image Dissatisfaction in the Perinatal Period
Master of Medical Sciences in Medical Education
Distinguished Deans, Faculty, and Guests,
Above all, Dear Graduates of the MMSc in Medical Education Program,
Congratulations! Look at all you have accomplished. You worked incredibly hard to earn this degree. During your studies, you gained a deep understanding of medical education, including cognitive science, adult learning theory, curriculum development, use of education technology, assessment principles, simulation, and leadership and teamwork. You have also developed a range of research methods skills that will enable you to explore important questions in the field.
You have tackled ambitious and consequential topics in Medical Education and have genuinely moved our field forward through your research findings. Using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, you have explored a range of topics.
For example, you investigated the relationship between self-regulated learning and instructional design in the flipped classroom setting, and you explored factors that affect the sense of belonging among medical students with disabilities. One of you evaluated the usefulness of a national vascular surgery curriculum for medical students. You assessed the impact of regulations and accreditation standards on the national examination standards of Peruvian medical trainees. Another thesis explored how to navigate the Obstetrics and Gynecology signaling system. Someone investigated the development of adaptive expertise in plastic surgery. You used "big data" analysis to understand clinical practice variation in resident physicians. You also assessed cultural
humility as a framework for teaching cross-cultural communication in pediatrics residency training. Finally, one of you explored the learning experiences of Canadian physician assistants in the critical care setting.
Your findings could have a significant impact on medical school curriculums, hospital policies, residency programs, and health systems today. But even more important is how you have prepared yourselves to continue these rigorous approaches and apply them moving forward to any education project you identify.
While we are thrilled to congratulate you on these new academic accomplishments, we also congratulate you on who you are and how you have participated in this educational community. Coming from several continents, health professions, and clinical domains, you are amongst our first classes to complete your degree entirely virtually. We have learned together how to learn effectively virtually. We are grateful for your partnership, creativity, and feedback in this process. We also recognize the tremendous support many of you have had from your families and colleagues
On behalf of our mentors, thesis committee experts, and program faculty, we wish to tell you what a privilege it has been to participate in your professional development and to celebrate you as educators and scholars. We are confident that each one of you has the potential to make outstanding contributions to medical education, and we cannot wait to see the incredible impact you will have on training the next generation of health profession educators.
Congratulations to the Class of 2024; we are so proud of you!
Krisztina, Ayres & Corinne
Paloma de Carvalho Costa
An Exploratory Qualitative Study on the Learning Experiences of Canadian Certified Physician Assistants Working in Critical Care Settings
Laurence Gariépy-Assal
Cultural Humility as a Framework to Teach Cross-Cultural Communication in Pediatric Residency Training
Mikio Hayashi
Exploring the Factors Influencing the Sense of Belonging Among Medical Students With Disabilities in a Medical University Environment
Lydia Anne Helliwell
Adaptive Expertise in Plastic Surgery: The Plastic Surgeon Experience of Developing, Maintaining and Teaching Adaptive Expertise
Alexandria Clare Kraus
Mixed Signals: Navigating the O bstetrics and Gynecology Signaling Initiative
Miguel Angel Pinto-Salinas
Impact of Regulations and Accreditation Standards on National Knowledge Examination
Performance Scores of Peruvian Medical Trainees: A Mixed-Methods Study
Sarita Pooranawattanakul
Investigating the Interplay Between Self-Regulated Learning and Instructional Design in a Flipped Classroom Setting
Ezra Gabriel Schwartz
Evaluating a National Online Vascular Surgery Curriculum for Medical Students Through Design-Based Research: A Stakeholder Usability Analysis
Brandon Tang
Understanding Variation in Resident Physician Clinical Practice: A GEMINI MedED 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study Congratulations, Class of 2024!
