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Fatima Z. Syed, MD, MSc
Fatima is an internist in North Carolina. She recently completed her training in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She has a background in public policy, having received her MSc in comparative social policy from the University of Oxford.
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Sonya V. Patel-Nguyen, MD
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.
Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
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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Moises Auron, MD, FAAP, FACP, SFHM
Moises is an academic Med-Peds hospitalist and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is the Quality Improvement Officer of Hospital Medicine and a Core Faculty of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He is the immediate past-chair of the ACP Council of Early Career Physicians and an immediate past-member of the ACP Board of Regents.
Callie Berkowitz is a second-year internal medicine resident at Duke University, where she also earned her undergraduate and medical school degrees. She serves on the residency Quality Improvement Counsel and is interested in health services research.
Brian is a member of ACP's Council of Resident Fellow Members. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2012; completed his internal medicine residency at Columbia University, where he was also Chief Resident, and is currently a fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His academic interests include medical education, medical ethics, and research on decision making in the intensive care unit.
Sarah G. Candler, MD, MPH
Sarah is a practicing primary care physician and Practice Medical Director at Iora Primary Care in Houston, Texas. Her value-based care practice serves exclusively Medicare patients and uses a team-based, relationship-centered approach to senior care. Dr. Candler completed medical school and her MPH at Emory University, and finished her internal medicine residency at Tulane University. She is a former chair of ACP’s Council of Resident Fellow Members and a current ACP delegate to the AMA. She teaches health policy and economics, advocacy, and social determinants of health as voluntary faculty in Houston.
Her opinions here are her own and do not represent the opinions of her employers.
Steven is an MD-PhD student at Indiana University. His academic interests include medical education and medical genetics. He is the Chair of the ACP Council of Student Members.
Dr. Choi is dual Board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and serves as a Chief of Internal Medicine of her practice and faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her expertise includes infectious diseases as well as health advocacy and health care disparities affecting the Asian American Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (AANHOPI) populations. She received the Unsung Hero Award from the Annual Asian American Pacific Islander Civil Rights Forum in Massachusetts for her contributions to Asian American Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander populations there. Dr. Choi is Governor of the ACP Massachusetts Chapter and current member of the Executive Committee of the ACP Board of Governors.
Vinay Choksi, MD, is a second-year internal medicine resident at Duke University, where he also completed medical school. His academic interests include medical education and quality improvement in hospital medicine.
Amanda L. Collar is an MD-PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (class of 2024). Amanda is currently completing her doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Kathryn M. Frietze, where she investigates the antibody response to natural urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women and is engineering prophylactic Chlamydia trachomatis vaccine candidates to be tested via in vitro assays and murine challenge models. She is interested in infectious diseases, women’s health, and health policy. Amanda holds numerous leadership roles, including the Health Policy and Advocacy Chair for the New Mexico American College of Physicians and Student Representative for the UNM School of Medicine MD-PhD Steering Committee and is on the Council of Student Members. Amanda has also been awarded numerous academic scholarships, research presentation awards, and grants to support her research efforts.
John Hunninghake, MD, is the Chair-Elect of the National ACP Council of Resident and Fellow Members (CRFM). He is currently completing his second year as a pulmonary and critical care fellow at San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he also completed his residency. He graduated from medical school from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 2013. His views are his own and do not reflect those of the U.S. Department of the Air Force nor the U.S. Department of Defense.
Catherine is a medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Before medical school, she pursued public health training at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, served as an Epi Scholar at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and completed a pharmacoepidemiology fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Joseph is a medical student at the Texas A&M University College of Medicine, class of 2019, and an ACP medical student member. He received undergraduate degrees in exercise science and economics at The University of Texas at Austin.
Ryan is in his first year of Internal Medicine Residency at Oregon Health & Science University. He completed his medical degree at the Medical University of South Carolina and his Master of Public Health in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Morris is in his first year of Internal Medicine Residency at Oregon Health & Science University. He completed his medical degree at Tulane University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Council of Residents/Fellows for the ACP Oregon chapter.
Tiffany I. Leung, MD, MPH
Tiffany is an internist and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Maastricht University in The Netherlands. She completed her MD, MPH, and internal medicine residency training at Northwestern University. She also completed an Advanced Fellowship in Medical Informatics at the Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University. Dr. Leung is is Chair-Elect of the ACP Council of Early Career Physicians and a global member of the ACP's Global Engagement Committee.
Josh practices at the University of Washington, where he is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, as well as the Medical Director of Payment Strategy. He obtained his MD from Baylor College of Medicine and trained at Brigham & Women's Hospital, where he was also a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tammy is an internal medicine specialist and a Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences. She has strong interests in wellness, mentorship, and strengthening the pipeline for underrepresented groups in medicine. Dr. Lin is the Governor-Elect Designee of the ACP California Southern Region III Chapter and a member of the ACP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Subcommittee.
Sophie C. Miller, MD, MPH
Dr. Miller is a resident physician at the University of Washington. She earned her MD from the University of Washington School of Medicine and her Master's degree in health policy and management from the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health. Her interests include policies to promote access and high-quality care to vulnerable populations, as well as the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on medicine.
Dr. Myers is a pulmonary/critical care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and fellow in Quality/Safety at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She is interested in workforce safety and value-based health care delivery.
Sandeep Palakodeti, MD, MPH
Sandeep is a Regional Medical Officer at CareMore Health, Memphis, Tennessee. He is a former member of the ACP Council of Resident/Fellow Members. He is a dedicated advocate for quality and humanity in health care and is currently leading a dynamic team working in a capitated Medicaid model serving a diverse patient population.
Sophie Padelford is fourth-year medical student at University of Washington School of Medicine. Before medical school, she worked internationally for 2 years as a teacher in Bulgaria and the United Kingdom. Currently, Sophie serves as the lead for Othello Clinic, which is a screen and refer clinic in South Seattle. This monthly clinic is run in conjunction with the Somali Health Board and Mercy Housing. Her interests include medical education and improving the delivery of medical services to immigrant communities.
Dylan Sherry is an internist and palliative care physician in Philadelphia. He recently completed his fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine in Boston where he also completed his residency training. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has a background in bioethics, having received a Master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University.
Kunal is a radiation oncology resident. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in New York and is a graduate of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. Prior to medical school, he worked as a middle school science teacher in Newark, New Jersey, and as a management consultant in New York.
Sarah Takimoto is a graduating medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. She will start her internal medicine residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the President of the ACP California Council of Student Members and member of the ACP California Health and Public Policy Committee.
