On Mentorship

As a first-generation college graduate, I have benefited greatly from many excellent mentors in my academic and personal journey. I am also an active member of the Biomedical Science Careers Program at Harvard Medical School. A few of my mentors are listed below in reverse chronological order from when mentorship first began.

Noémie Elhadad, PhD (2019)
Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Affiliate, Computer Science
Affiliate, Data Science Institute
Columbia University

Li Zhou, MD, PhD, FACMI (2016)
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Medical Informatician, Partners HealthCare Systems

David W. Bates, MD, MSc (2013)
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medical Director, Clinical Quality and IS Analysis, Partners HealthCare
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management,
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Gordon D. Schiff, MD (2012)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Quality and Safety Director, HMS Center for Primary Care
Associate Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice,
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Phyllis Kanki, DVM, DSc (2008)
Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH, FHM (2008)
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
and Primary Care,
Director of Clinical Research, Hospitalist Medicine Unit,
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, MPH, FACP (2007)
Chief, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Michael A. Gertz Professor of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University