Yale University Scholars

Nicole Brown, M.D.
Yale University

Nicole Brown, M.D. received her undergraduate degree from Brown University where she majored in community health. She earned an MPH at Yale before completing medical school at Stanford University. Dr. Brown completed residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins. She is interested in researching the coordination of clinical and community interventions for high-risk children and adolescents.

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Roberta Capp, M.D.
Yale University

Roberta Capp, M.D. graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. She earned her medical degree and completed emergency medicine residency training at Harvard. Dr. Capp is interested in healthcare processes and quality of care, specifically sepsis, death and dying in the emergency department, avoidable ED visits, and access to emergency services.

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Kelly Doran, M.D.
Yale University

Kelly Doran, M.D. (VA Scholar) received her undergraduate degree in sociology from Harvard. She attended the University of Michigan for medical school and completed emergency medicine residency training at NYU/Bellevue. She is interested in emergency department and community-based interventions to address socioeconomic barriers to health among underserved urban populations. 

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Nurit Harari, M.D.
Yale University

Nurit Harari, M.D. received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas-Austin where she majored in liberal arts. She completed medical school at Baylor and a medicine/pediatrics residency at the University of Michigan. Most recently, she was working in Botswana with the University of Pennsylvania focusing on pediatric TB and malnutrition efforts. Dr. Harari is interested in infant nutrition and studying the contributing factors to early infant weight gain among minority communities and community interventions, especially with respect to the obesity epidemic.

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Charlene Hooper Collier, M.D.
Yale University

Charlene Hooper Collier, M.D.earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown. She then received an MPH from Harvard’s School of Public Health and completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale. Dr. Hooper’s research focus is on disparities in preterm birth, particularly understanding the impact of maternal stress, support networks, and education on preterm birth. She is also interested in outcomes and cost-effectiveness research in robotic surgery in gynecology.

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Heather Smith, M.D.
Yale University

Heather Smith, M.D. earned her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Virginia. After college, she obtained an MPH and Masters in Medical Sciences from Boston University. She attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts and completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Partners Healthcare in Boston. Dr. Smith is interested in barriers to cancer screening, especially among underserved populations.

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Anita Vashi, M.D.
Yale University

Anita Vashi, M.D. (VA Scholar) earned her undergraduate, MPH, and medical degrees from the University of Michigan. She completed residency training in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research interests include improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery systems and assessing the impact regionalization strategies have on access, resource utilization, patient outcomes, cost, and implications for medical education.

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Jed Barash, M.D.
Yale University

Jed Barash, M.D. (VA Scholar) is a neurologist who graduated from Hamilton College with honors and then studied under a Fulbright scholarship in Iceland before completing medical school at the University of Connecticut. He completed neurology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Barash’s research focus is on prion diseases, particularly Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). He is interested in improving physician identification and diagnosis of this disorder.

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Oni Blackstock, M.D.
Yale University

Oni Blackstock, M.D. (VA Scholar) is a primary care internist who received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and chief year at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to starting the Program, Dr. Blackstock did an HIV fellowship at Harlem Hospital Center. Her research interests are focused on the healthcare needs and health outcomes of women from vulnerable populations.

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Rosette Chakkalakal , M.D.
Yale University

Rosette Chakkalakal, M.D. is an internist who received her undergraduate degree from the University of Miami. She earned her medical degree from the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Emory University. Her research focuses on immigrant and minority health particularly by exploring and addressing limitations to data collection that influence our understanding of healthcare disparities among racial and ethnic minorities within healthcare institutions. She is also interested in adapting diabetes prevention programs to immigrant communities at high-risk for diabetes.

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Clara Filice, M.D.
Yale University

Clara Filice, M.D., M.P.H. is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston after which she worked as a Senate legislative aide. She then received her medical degree and an MPH from Northwestern and completed pediatric residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Her research interests include health policy and healthcare financing and delivery.

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Justin Fox, M.D.
Yale University

Justin Fox, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University. Dr. Fox is a Captain in the US Air Force and is completing his surgical training at Wright State University/Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH. His current research focuses on improving care among surgical oncology patients and how research can inform health policy.

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Gregg Furie, M.D.
Yale University

Gregg Furie, MD (VA Scholar) is an internist who received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and then attended Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Furie is interested in researching the impact of the built environment on disease risk. Specifically, he wants to explore how changes in community built resources for physical activity affect the health habits of surrounding communities.

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Eric Hodgson, M.D.
Yale University

Eric Hodgson, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and attended medical school at the University of Maryland. He completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale and continued subspecialty training at Yale in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He is a former national president of the American Medical Student Association. His research interests include the prevention of diabetes and obesity, specifically in how the post-partum care of gestational diabetic women can affect their future health and pregnancy outcomes. He is also interested in health policy.

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Karen Wang, M.D.
Yale University

Karen Wang, M.D. is an internist who received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed residency in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. She then served as the Clinical Director for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV Rural Training Program in Anhui, China, where she managed a training center and worked with doctors to care for HIV+ patients. Dr. Wang is interested in examining geographic and neighborhood barriers to care among patients with HIV in the US.

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Deepa Camenga, M.D.
Yale University

Deepa Camenga, M.D. is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from Yale. She received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at the Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong at the University of Rochester. Dr. Camenga is interested in adolescent smoking cessation and parental attitudes towards second hand smoke exposure among premature and term newborns. She is also interested in understanding the experiences of low income adolescents and young adults as they transition from pediatric to adult care.

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E. Jennifer Edelman, M.D.
Yale University

E. Jennifer Edelman, M.D. (VA Scholar) is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in human development and human biology, health, and society from Cornell University. She received her medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Edelman completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. Her research interests focus on primary and secondary HIV prevention.

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