2014 MP Graduates

• Monica Mix, MD: Monica is a clinician-educator in the Med-Peds clinic at East Baltimore Medical Center. She serves as one of the Med-Peds APDs and as a preceptor in the Med-Peds clinic.
• Sara Mixter, MD: Sara is the director of the Johns Hopkins PACT (Pediatric-informed Adult Care and Transition) Clinic, where she provides primary care and transition care for adults with developmental disabilities and other complex childhood onset conditions. She is also a preceptor in the Med-Peds and IM resident clinics and works with the Pediatric Complex Care service as a peds hospitalist. Immediately after residency Sara served as the Assistant Program Director for Ambulatory Education for Internal Medicine in 2014-2015 and as an Assistant Chief of Service (IM Chief Resident) in 2015-2016.
• Deanna Wilson, MD: Deanna is a clinician investigator at the University of Pittsburgh within the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. Her current research focuses on building health equity for vulnerable populations with substance use disorders, with particular emphasis on engaging and retaining young adults who inject drugs into care. She sees individuals 12-76 for outpatient addiction treatment, serves as medical director for an adolescent addiction medicine clinic, and attends on the inpatient addiction medicine service. Following residency training, she completed Adolescent Medicine fellowship at Hopkins with additional training in Addiction Medicine. She also received her MPH through the JH Bloomberg School of Public Health.

2015 MP Graduates

• Zach Nayak, MD: Zach joined Total HealthCare in 2015, a Baltimore-based FQHC, where he provided primary care for children and adults as well as substance-abuse care. (http://www.totalhealthcare.org/). In 2023, he joined Green Spring Internal Medicine LLC (https://greenspringmed.com/). The practice is focused on innovative care delivery and payment models for independent primary care practices. Zach finished his MBA at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School through our Urban Health Scholars Program.
• Jocelyn Ronda, MD: After completing an Adolescent Medicine fellowship at Hopkins, Jocelyn provides Med-Peds primary care in Boston and serves as adolescent medicine faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Katie Shaw, MD: Katie joined the Med-Peds primary care practice at the East Baltimore Medical Center. She is a clinician-educator for our Johns Hopkins MP residents and a MP APD.
• Natalie Spicyn, MD: After 2 years in med-peds primary care at Chase Brexton where she earned her AAHIVM certification and experience in gender affirming health care, Natalie joined Park West Health System, another Baltimore-based FQHC, where she serves as chief of internal medicine & a pediatrician. At Park West, Natalie provides medical leadership for the HIV and substance use disorders programs (she is boarded in Addiction Medicine) alongside general primary care for children and adults. Natalie helped design and build the integrated behavioral health program at Park West, leads quality initiatives related to cancer screening, hypertension, and diabetes, and provides co-direction to the clinic’s COVID-19 vaccination program. She enjoys team-based care and bringing a health equity lens to her work in community medicine.

2016 MP Graduates

• Nikita Barai, MD: Nikita is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and serves as the Senior Medical Director for Quality for Mount Sinai Health Partners. In this role, Nikita collaborates with clinical and operational leadership across the health system to promote better clinical outcomes for patients, while also driving financial performance across Mount Sinai’s value based contracts and quality programs Prior to this role, she served as the Associate Medical Director for Population Health in the Internal Medicine Associates practice, the ambulatory teaching site for Mount Sinai’s Internal Medicine residency program and worked at New York City Health + Hospitals/Kings County as a clinician educator.
• Carolyn Bramante, MD: Carolyn completed a GIM/GPAM fellow at JHH and is now a translational researcher and med-peds physician at the University of Minnesota. She studies remotely delivered interventions to improve health in children and adults with overweight and obesity. She is core faculty in the Program for Health Disparities research and is motivated to reduce obesity in low-income populations. Prior to Covid-19, this was mostly through behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for obesity treatment and included creating a patient advisory panel to guide her work in this sensitive topic of obesity. Since Covid, Carolyn is running an outpatient trial for early treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection to prevent severe Covid-19 and long-Covid symptoms. This work will mostly benefit areas of the world without access to vaccines, as vaccine equity has been a huge issue during the pandemic.
• Iris Leviner, MD: Iris is providing MP primary care at Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore and is the Director of Pediatrics and Family Medicine there.
• Benjamin Oldfield, MD: Completed the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale and is now VP of Clinical Affairs at Fair Haven Community Health Care, a federally qualified health center in New Haven, CT. He is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, and addiction medicine, and is a Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

2017 MP Graduates

• Ani Ramesh, MD: Completed a palliative care fellowship at Johns Hopkins and now provides outpatient and inpatient palliative care for the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Working on building a pediatric palliative care program at Georgetown University Hospital.
• Candice Nalley, MD: Practiced internal medicine and pediatrics primary care at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Canton Crossing from 2017-2020. In 2020, she became the Medical Director of the Priority Access Primary Care program at East Baltimore Medical Center, where she currently provides intensive primary care to adult Priority Partners patients with the highest utilization of care.
• Daniel Hindman, MD: Daniel completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine and an MPH through the Urban Health Program. After completing fellowship, he joined the faculty at Hopkins as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics. He has led research on health equity, healthy communities, and telehealth. As faculty, he practiced adult primary care as well as pediatric hospitalist and ER medicine and helped with operations as the Medical Director for the Bayview Pediatric Combined Unit. In 2023, he joined Johns Hopkins Health Plans as a Medical Director. He currently works on utilization management, cost of care initiatives, and pretty much anything that he can reasonably pitch as an improvement to healthcare delivery within the Hopkins ecosystem. He is still making up his mind on what he wants to be when he grows up.

2018 MP Graduates

• Alejandra Ellison-Barnes, MD: Completed General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, during which she completed an MPH as an Urban Health Scholar and conducted policy-oriented research on the social and structural drivers of health over the life course, particularly among emerging adults (18-25), with a focus on nutrition/obesity as well as tobacco. Now an Assistant Professor in GIM engaged in several clinical roles throughout the institution while continuing her research.
• Angela Orozco, MD: Med-Peds Primary Care Doctor and Clinician Educator at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, a long-standing FQHC serving the local Latino community in Milwaukee, WI
• James Miller, MD: Jimmy works primarily in the Homeless Medicine and Urban Poverty arm of the Allegheny Health Network Center for Inclusion Health with a sub-focus in addiction medicine. He provides primary care for a number of different patient groups including people struggling with addictions and those experiencing homelessness. He staffs shelter clinics, engages in medical street outreach for the homeless, and prescribes MAT for persons with opiate addictions.
• Jeremy Snyder, MD: Jeremy is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico. He is the medical director of the young adult clinic for youth living with HIV at Truman Health Services. There he also provides HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis, as well as Hepatitis C treatment. In 2022, he also joined the ADOBE clinic, a multigenerational interdisciplinary clinic at UNM for youth and their families affected by the juvenile justice system.

2019 MP Graduates

• Justin Berk, MD: Justin is a med-peds clinician at Brown University and was previously the Medical Director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. He conducts research on addiction treatments for individuals leaving prison. He recently took on the role of Medical Director for the state’s new safe consumption site.He previously worked on the medical education podcast The Curbsiders and helped create The Cribsiders.
• Zachary Gitlin, MD: Zach has worked broadly in global health equity, starting his career with the IHS and the Diné peoples of the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico for 4 years. Zach currently serves as the In-Country Lead for Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya with the AMPATH Global Health Consortium and Indiana University’s Center for Global Health Equity. He is passionate about clinical care and research centered on primary and preventive services for resource-constrained communities, as well as building medical-education capacity focused on health equity, working and teaching for Physicians for Human Rights, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program and the AAP.
• Joseph Muller, MD: Seffy completed the addiction medicine fellowship at Hopkins in 2020 and since then has worked as a primary care doctor and addiction specialist at Unity Health Care, a large FQHC in Washington, DC, working in a community clinic and the DC jail. In 2022 he became the Medical Director for Addiction Services at Unity.
• Robin Ortiz, MD: Robin is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health through the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity at NYU on the physician-scientist track and is an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital. Prior, Robin completed the National Clinician Scholars Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after graduating from MP residency.

2020 MP Graduates

• Brittany Badesch, MD: PICU hospitalist in gap year before her JHH Pediatrics Chief year
• Cooper Lloyd, MD: From 2020-2023 Cooper was a med-peds primary care clinician-educator at Vanderbilt. She taught a course on Community Health to the medical students and was co-Medical Director of Shade Tree Clinic, Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic. In 2023, she took on a new role as Associate Medical Director for TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program.
• Jessica Ratner, MD: PC and addiction medicine at Bayview Comprehensive Care Practice and Center for Addiction & Pregnancy Pediatrics and part-time consultant to Baltimore City Health Department/B’More for Healthy Babies on perinatal SUDs
• Harita Shah, MD: Harita is a med-peds primary care physician and assistant professor at the University of Chicago. She leads community-based participatory research projects to improve access to care for underserved populations, specifically including HIV prevention and COVID-19 testing and vaccinations for Latinx communities. She is also part of the leadership for the LUCENT primary care residency track.

2021 MP Graduates

• Jessica Calihan, MD: After Addiction and Adolescent Medicine fellowships at Boston Children’s Hospital, Jessie completed a General Academic Pediatrics fellowship at Boston Medical Center. Beginning 9/2025 she is joining the Mass General for Children Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine faculty as a primary and specialty care provider and clinician-investigator.
• Kevin Klembczyk, MD: MP primary care physician at East Baltimore Medical Center.
• Christine Krueger, MD: Christine is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine and core faculty in the Yale Primary Care internal medicine residency program. As a clinician educator, she focuses on community engagement, advocacy, patient-centered communication, and using quality improvement to address health disparities. She also provides primary care at an FQHC in New Haven.
• Jaime La Charite, MD: Jaime is currently a National Clinician Scholar at UCLA and a primary care physician at Saban Community Clinic. She is doing research in adverse childhood experiences, resiliency building, and immigrant health.

2022 MP Graduates

• Martha Brucato, MD: Martha completed Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She is an intensivist at the Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center where she cares for critically ill medical and surgical patients. She also works in the pediatric ED at HCMC.
• Julie Gonzalez, MD: MP Primary Care Clinic preceptor and inpatient at Baylor
• Amanda Hesselton, MD: Pediatric ED/Hospitalist at Bayview
• Paul Loeser, MD: MP primary care at La Clínica del Pueblo

2023 MP Graduates

• Joan Park, MD: Medicine Hospitalist at JHH. Pediatric ED/Hospitalist at Bayview. HIV Primary Care doctor at the Bartlett Clinic
• Michael Rose, MD: Clinical Pharmacology Fellow at JHH studying HIV prevention. Also interested in writing and policy. Long term clinical interests include HIV primary care and addiction.
• Amitte Rosenfeld, MD: MP primary care clinician educator at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Lindsay Sheets, MDMP primary care provider for children and young adults with medical complexity and clinician educator in both IM and Peds resident continuity clinics at Johns Hopkins

2024 MP Graduates

• Joniqua Ceasar, MD: NCSP at University of Pennsylvania
• Sophie Crinion, MD: MedPeds Primary Care in Oakland, California
• Christle Nwora, MD: Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at Hopkins with a clinical interest in the care of young people with sickle cell disease
• Urveel Shah, MD: Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Illinois at Chicago. Core Faculty for the Pediatrics Residency. Primary Care Med Peds.

2025 MP Graduates

• Edward Corty, MD: Med-Peds primary care at East Baltimore Medical Center and part-time faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Director of Coaching for Hopkins Med-Peds residency.
• Ross Gilbert, MD: Adult Rheumatology Fellowship at Hopkins, pursuing combined Pediatric Rheumatology training
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