Dr. Patel-Nguyen trained in internal medicine and pediatrics at UNC-Chapel Hill before beginning her career as a hospitalist at Duke University. Her clinical time is divided between inpatient adult and pediatric patients, as well as bedside procedures. She is also involved in medical education, with interests in bias training and expanding knowledge and best practices regarding health care equity. In addition to her work at Duke, Dr. Patel-Nguyen has interests in global health, having worked with refugee and immigrant populations in Greece, Jordan, Palestine, and Mexico.
Kate is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. Before medical school, she worked as an environmental engineer. Her interests include the incorporation of humanities and arts into medical education, and she currently serves as a coordinator for the Art, Observation, and Empathy course for first-year medical students at Penn.
Vinay Choksi, MD, is the Graduate Medical Education Chief Resident of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. He is also a hospitalist at Duke University. His academic interests include medical education and quality improvement in hospital medicine.
Brian is an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He attended Harvard Medical School and completed internal medicine residency at Columbia University where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. He completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCSF. He is a former member of the ACP Council of Resident/Fellow Members and one of the founding clinicians of the UCSF Optimal Clinic, which provides multidisciplinary care for patients recovering from COVID-19.
Dr. Viswanathan is Chief of Gastroenterology in Northern California as well as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. She serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where she attended medical school, as well as clinical faculty at UC Davis. She completed her internal medicine residency in San Antonio, followed by fellowship at Augusta University before moving to the West Coast. She is a former Chair of the Council of Resident/Fellow Members and serves on the ACP Credentials Committee. She is passionate about public health issues, such as disparities in care for both patients and physicians and mentoring tomorrow’s health care leaders. Her views are her own and do not reflect those of the U.S. Department of the Air Force nor the U.S. Department of Defense.
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