Blog Editors & Authors

Editors

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.

Fatima Z. Syed, MD, MSc

Fatima is an internist and endocrinologist in North Carolina. She recently completed her fellowship in endocrinology in Philadelphia where she also completed her residency training. 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. 

Authors

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, MD

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 Block, MD

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.

Elisa Choi, MD

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

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.

John Hunninghake, MD

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 S. Hwang, MSPH

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 H. Joo, BS, BA

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.

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.

Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc

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 Lin, MD, MPH

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.

Laura Myers, MD, MPH

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.

Dylan R. Sherry, MD

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 Sindhu, MD

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, BS

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.