Scholars

Dr. Doreen Agboh is an emergency physician and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale National Clinician Scholar Program. She graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2014 with a major in Neuroscience and Behavior. After completing her undergraduate studies, she conducted translational laboratory research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for two years before beginning medical school in 2016. She graduated from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2020 with a Distinction in Urban Health. Doreen completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2023, serving as Chief Resident in her final year. Throughout her professional career, she has been highly involved in community engagement, leadership, and advocacy. Her research interests lie in investigating the health disparities and social barriers that lead to poor health outcomes for marginalized communities in the urban Emergency Department setting, exploring ways to improve access to care for the minoritized communities, and health equity via health policy.

Elizabeth Broden, PhD, RN completed her PhD training at the University of Pennsylvania and finished a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in 2023. Research interest: Articulating and amplifying the impact of primary palliative care nursing on children and families end-of-life experiences.

Alissa S. Chen received her Bachelor of Science in Human Biology from the University of Texas, Austin in 2013. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston McGovern Medical School where she earned her dual MD/MPH. She completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Yale Primary Care Program in 2023. Currently, she is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and in the Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Age-related Research Program. Her research interests include access to primary care, the treatment of obesity in older adults, and medication cost.

Ashley Demory, MD is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). She completed her residency and chief residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital. Her goal is to support health equity and improve health outcomes of lower-income and marginalized patient populations across the lifespan. Her research focuses on mitigating racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant health as well as exploring the connection between workforce diversity, equitable patient outcomes, and the delivery of high-value care.

Stefanie Gillson, MD is an Adult Psychiatrist and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center and is currently part of the National Clinical Scholars Program. She completed her General, Public Psychiatry Fellowship, and Child and Adolescent Fellowship at Yale University. She is an Institute Scholar and a CIRCLE Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health where she focuses on community-based initiatives to address mental health and substance use disparities among Indigenous youth through a historical and contemporary lens. She is a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians where she actively recruits Indigenous youth into the medical field. Aside from her work with Native communities, she is a co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale and the Yale Women’s Housestaff Association. Dr. Gillson graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth campus where her education was focused on rural and Indigenous health.

Dr. Anand Habib is an attending physician in hospital medicine and a Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025) in the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program (formerly RWJF Clinical Scholars Program). Originally from Houston, Anand studied Biology and International Security Studies at Stanford, explored medical anthropology at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and earned his MD at Harvard. He subsequently completed internal medicine residency and worked as an attending hospitalist at UCSF Parnassus, during which time he served as the Division of Hospital Medicine’s interim director of Social Medicine. He has previously worked as a global health fellow at a clinic in rural Haiti, collaborated with colleagues at Cambridge Health Alliance to pilot culturally informed cooking classes to support chronic disease management for elderly Haitian individuals, and spearheaded a national survey of thoracic oncologists to better understand how prognostic uncertainty affects prognostic discussions with patients who have advanced lung cancers. His practice is grounded in the belief that health outcomes are the embodied consequence of social inequalities and that health care is a human right. For him, medicine is a vehicle for pragmatic solidarity in the fight for health equity and social justice. His scholarly interests include: 1) Interrogating the phenomena of medical debt and financially toxic out-of-pocket costs with the aim of understanding whether policies like out-of-pocket cost caps and subsidies mitigate against patients' subjective and objective financial hardship. Relatedly, he is working with colleagues to understand how costs of care have been considered across medical specialties in clinical practice guidelines. 2) Investigating avenues through which hospital admissions can be used as opportunities to better manage patients' unmet health-related social needs. 3) In collaboration with Physicians for a National Health Plan, understanding the effect of financialization within health care on physicians' moral injury and structural disparities in patients' access to care. 4) Exploring issues of representation and equity within medical journals' editorial practices.

Hometown: Brooklyn, NYMedical School: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityUndergraduate: Princeton University Professional Interests: Quality improvement, global surgeryPersonal Interests: Watching Serena Williams hit first serves

Kathleen E. Fitzpatrick Rosenbaum, PhD, RN completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania at the Center for Health Outcomes & Policy Research. She is an interdisciplinary health services researcher working at Yale University in the School of Nursing, the School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy & Management, the school of Medicine, and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Her overarching goal is to identify and engage healthcare change agents to improve patient-centered care, patient experience, and patient outcomes by leveraging nursing. Dr. Rosenbaum researches hospital performance on patient safety and quality of care indicators to identify high hospital and healthcare system performers to develop and implement interventions to improve hospital and system performance across the country. Currently she is studying the impact of hospital and healthcare system mergers on nurses, nursing care, and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes.

Helena Addison PhD, RN is a postdoctoral fellow and VA scholar in the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University. She earned her PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing with her dissertation focused on Mental Health and Health-Seeking Behaviors of Formerly Incarcerated Black Men. She also earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at University of Maryland Baltimore County and her MSN through the Master’s Entry into Nursing Program at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her research interests were, in part, informed by her clinical experiences as a Registered Nurse in inpatient psychiatric hospitals caring for adults with mental illness and substance use disorder who, too often, have a history of incarceration. Her research interests include examining the impact of incarceration, violence, and additional trauma exposures on mental health, as well as the role of care coordination and multi-sector collaborations in increasing access to mental health care. As a VA Scholar, she is involved in research examining suicide risk and treatment engagement in veteran experiencing homelessness and/or criminal legal involvement. At Yale, she works with the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. Her overall career goal is to engage in innovative and interdisciplinary research that informs policies and practices to improve mental health among marginalized groups, and more broadly, promote health equity and social justice.

Marc Henry Estriplet, MD, MPH, has joined the Yale National Clinician Scholar Program (NCSP) following the completion of his general internal medicine residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Estriplet's academic journey began at Rutgers University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and pursued complementary minors in Economics and Health & Society. He subsequently matriculated to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (R-NJMS). Driven by a commitment to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of the healthcare system, Marc took an additional year to obtain a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, with a focus on health policy and management. Throughout his academic and professional development, Dr. Estriplet has demonstrated a profound commitment to addressing systemic inequities in healthcare. His leadership roles included serving as the northeast chair of medical students for the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), where he purposely worked towards advancing workforce diversity & inclusion. Concurrently, his scholarly research aimed to add to the knowledge base surrounding systemic inequities. Utilizing comprehensive datasets, he worked to examine the correlations between social status and mental health outcomes across racial demographics. Additionally, he spearheaded an initiative during his residency to enhance health policy education and critically examined the historical context of structural racism in health policy. Finally, he collaborated with one of New York City's largest homeless healthcare providers to streamline mobile clinic operations to improve access. Now, as an NCSP Fellow, Dr. Estriplet aims to investigate how different healthcare financing mechanisms can be strategically leveraged as catalysts towards more equitable health outcomes. Currently, he is investigating the factors that contribute to healthcare costs and their impact on the overall "health" of our healthcare system. He plans to examine how implementation science can be used to enhance the scalability and sustainability of alternative payment models (APM) and value-based care (VBC). Additionally, he intends to explore how political determinants of health can be utilized to alleviate health disparities. Dr. Estriplet's overarching career goal is to reimagine healthcare by altering the system's underlying incentives through strategic policy integration and innovative financial strategies. He aspires to develop a more equitable, patient-centered healthcare ecosystem that addresses systemic inequities at their fundamental origins and drives transformative healthcare delivery.

Sarah joins the Yale community after completing her Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Chicago. She received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College where she majored in Economics and Psychology. Dr. Follman is driven to explore more effective care for patients with psychiatric emergencies and substance use disorders while also addressing other pressing issues in the context of evolving social and political forces. She is interested to consider ways in which system improvements and innovative technologies can improve health outcomes and address psychological and socioeconomic determinants of health. Her aim is to promote care paradigms that are value-based while also mitigating care disparities. To date Dr. Follman’s work has centered around addiction medicine and value-based healthcare. As a medical student, Dr. Follman piloted an opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution protocol in the University of Chicago’s Adult Emergency Department, which received grant funding from the Portes Foundation / Institute of Medicine Chicago (IOMC). In conjunction with this intervention, her team developed a curricular innovation for medical students featuring didactics on addiction medicine and harm reduction, which was recognized with the Association of American Medical College’s Curricular Innovation Award. During residency, she was awarded grant funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) to pilot a new curriculum for residents with the aim of addressing stigma toward patients with substance use disorders. During her training, she also worked to develop medical education curricula on the topic of cost-effective healthcare, reducing waste, and addressing systemic issues to optimize quality of care and patient safety.

Olivia Lynch, MD, MPH is a General Surgery Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, completing her mid-residency research years with the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale. She received her BA and MPH from Yale in 2014 and 2015 and is excited to be back in New Haven. Her research interests encompass the intersection of cancer care, healthcare disparities and surgical outcomes, especially related to breast cancer surgery. Specifically, she is interested in investigating the financial toxicity of breast cancer treatment on young patients

Lauren Raymond, MD is a current general surgery resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital and joins the National Clinician Scholars program at Yale after her PGY2 clinical year for her dedicated 2-year research time. She received her medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon and her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Dr. Raymond’s research interests include exploring the intersection between patient frailty and perioperative outcomes to improve surgical expectation setting and goal-concordant care delivery in geriatric patients.

William Roberts MD, MSc completed his clinical training and in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Urban Health Primary Care program. He earned his undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and a Master's Science in Global health at Trinity College Dublin. He earned his MD from Hofstra University at the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr. Roberts' research mission is to address disparities in primary care by investigating gaps in healthcare delivery, strengthening the healthcare workforce, and advocating for policies that reduce structural inequities.

Annie Yang, MD joins the National Clinical Scholars Program at Yale after completing her Internal Medicine residency at UCLA, where she developed a clinical interest in hospitalist medicine. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard College and then medical school at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She hopes to improve care quality and address health disparities among vulnerable populations, particularly among the elderly and the underinsured, by studying health care utilization and low-value care in order to shape and inform future health policy. Her previous work includes characterizing the aggressiveness of cancer care at the end-of-life among New Jersey Medicaid beneficiaries and low-value prescribing of antipsychotics among patients with dementia. As a fellow, her research interests include studying the quality of care of long-term care and skilled-nursing facilities, and assessing care delivery among Medicaid beneficiaries by evaluating the impact of changes to Medicaid policies.

I am a resident physician in the Yale Emergency Scholars Program within the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital. I completed medical school at Wake Forest School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. My primary research interest is in using health services research as a tool to make health care more affordable and accessible for everyone. Outside of the hospital, I enjoy spending time with my family, sundry exercise, and sustainable agriculture.

Dr. Lisa-Qiao MacDonald is a fourth-year emergency medicine resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She grew up in western Massachusetts, attended Oberlin College, and earned her MD from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Prior to medical school she worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. His research interests are grounded in incorporating acute unscheduled care into health systems’ population health and value-based care strategies, particularly for underserved populations.

Emika Miller has served the older adult population for five years. She earned a BS in Social Psychology in 2013 before obtaining her BSN in 2016. She held several positions as a staff nurse in the intensive care and post-anesthesia units, caring for high-acuity adults with complex medical conditions. Emika obtained her MSN from The Ohio State University, specializing in adult-gerontology acute care, in 2020. She obtained her PhD in Nursing from Ohio State in 2025. Emika was called to nursing while on active duty in the United States Air Force. She deployed overseas and stateside, supporting the transportation of wounded service members to higher echelons of care. Emika transitioned to the reserves after 12 years of active duty to pursue her nursing education. Emika retired from the Air Force Reserves in 2023 after 22 years of service. As a palliative care nurse practitioner, Emika currently cares for older adults in their homes. Her current research interests include caregiving for Black older adults living with dementia, palliative care and hospice utilization disparities, and barriers to effective communication between caregivers and healthcare teams.

Dr. Richburg is a general surgery resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. She earned her MD from the University of Michigan Medical School, where she used qualitative methodologies to study medical ethics and low-value preoperative testing. She also holds a BS in Anthropology and Biomolecular Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is thrilled to join the NCSP cohort and learning more about mixed methods research.

Jung Yoen Son, PhD(c), MSN, RN, GNP-C is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, expected to complete her degree in June 2025. Her dissertation focuses on physical activity and sedentary behaviors of vulnerable older adults in residential care/assisted living facilities, and their care transition. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Catholic University of Korea and a master’s degree in nursing at the University of Michigan. Her long-term goal is to develop multilevel interventions that promote physical activity to optimize physical and cognitive function in older adults, supporting their aging in place, particularly in residential care settings.

Eric Sun, MD, MPH is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale National Clinician Scholar Program. He graduated from Brown University in 2013 with a degree in Biology. After working in health care consulting for 3 years he started medical school in 2016 and graduated from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2021. During medical school he also obtained a Master of Public Health in Health Policy at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow in the Center for Public Leadership. Eric completed his residency and chief residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. His goals are to innovate and transform primary care delivery to improve access and outcomes for underserved populations, with a focus on maternal and child health. His past research includes Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act and its impacts on peripartum care, provider perceptions of behavioral health integration into primary care, and improving connections back to primary care for postpartum patients. As a fellow, he aims to partner with communities to foster and study innovative care models that will improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities.

Rachel Sweeney completed her Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a member of the primary care track. She received her MD and MPH at the University of Pennsylvania where she developed an interest in caring for patients with criminal-legal involvement. Her research focuses on the use of medical authority in legal settings, and she hopes to further explore the cumulative impact of institutionalization on health. As an NCSP fellow at Yale, she is looking forward to working with the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice.