Natalie Nanez is a first-year pediatric resident in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy (LEAD) track and the global health pathway. Born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, she is the daughter of Colombian immigrants who arrived in the United States 30 years ago. Natalie earned a degree in neurobiology and physiology with a minor in psychology from the University of Connecticut before completing her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. Throughout her academic journey, Natalie has focused on working with underserved communities, promoting health literacy, and advancing culturally sensitive care, particularly within Latine populations. She is currently interested in partnering with Colombian schools to empower children with health knowledge and improving neonatal outcomes in low-resource settings. Guided by her immigrant background and cultural insights, Natalie is dedicated to integrating cultural sensitivity into pediatric care, bridging gaps in medical autonomy, and empowering families to take an active role in their health on a global scale.

Arielle Isaacson (she/her) is a first-year pediatric resident in the LEAD track of the Boston Combined Residency Program. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018 where she studied anthropology modified with global health and neuroscience. After college she moved to Botswana where she worked for the Botswana Harvard Partnership conducting research on adverse birth outcomes related to HIV treatment in pregnancy. She then attended Harvard Medical School. During medical school she returned to Botswana to study the longer-term outcomes of children born with neural-tube defects and other major congenital abnormalities. She hopes to build a career that merges her interests in disability and complex care, advocacy, and global health.

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Emily Martey is a first-year pediatric resident in the Leadership in Equity andAdvocacy (LEAD) track of the Boston Combined Residency Program. She earned a BA in Biology and Society with a minor in Global Health at Cornell University. Between college and medical school, she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital on research related to HIV and psychosocial comorbidities in the U.S.and sub-Saharan Africa. She completed her medical degree at the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, where she was part of the Global Health Equity Pathway. During her time there, her research evaluated the impact of HIV status on nutritional outcomes among pediatric patients in Mozambique. She plans to pursue a career that combines her interests in pediatric infectious diseases, health policy, and global health.

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Eleanor Semmes, MD, PhD is a pediatric resident who earned her BA in Political Economy and BS in Neuroscience at Tulane University and MD/ PhD at Duke University’s Medical Scientist Training Program. Her PhD research at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute focused on defining maternal-fetal immune responses to congenital CMV infection to guide vaccine development. Through the Duke Global Health Institute, she also completed a doctoral certificate and fieldwork with a pediatric oncology group in Mwanza, Tanzania to help improve clinical care, build local research capacity, and advance cultural awareness of childhood cancer. Dr. Semmes plans to integrate global health into her clinical training in residency and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship as well as future research endeavors related to her interests in early life immunity and vaccinology.

Faven Russom was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. She attended William and Mary earning a degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Africana studies. She completed her medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School where she dedicated herself to working with underserved communities and promoting diversity in medicine. During her time there, she served as Vice President of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), led a mentorship program for underrepresented high school students aspiring to medical careers, and served on the board of an organization focused on assisting eligible patients with Medicaid enrollment. She then moved to Boston where she is currently completing her pediatric residency in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy (LEAD) track at the Boston Combined Residency Program. Her background as the daughter of Eritrean immigrants and experience with Global Medical Brigades have profoundly shaped her perspective on healthcare and her pursuit of a career in global health. Outside of medicine, she enjoys arts and crafts projects, reading and exploring new restaurants.

Matthew Nagy is a 2nd-year pediatric resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Originally from the Midwest, he completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees in public health at the University of Michigan, where he developed an interest in addressing inequities through his work in the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory. During his graduate studies he spent time in rural Burundi, evaluating local interventions aimed at improving maternal and child health, and continued this work throughout medical school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. His clinical and research interests lie in pediatric hematology-oncology. As part of the Margaret C. Ryan Global Health Program, he hopes to partner with the local community leadership to build sustainable healthcare models that enhance capacity for diagnosing and treating pediatric malignancies globally.

Sitarah Mathias is a third-year pediatrics resident at Boston Childrens’ Hospital and A Global Health Pathway resident with interests in global health, neonatology and nephrology. During residency, she worked with the Global AIM Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the World Health Organization on reviewing evidence of different antibiotic combinations to update WHO Guidelines on the treatment of young infant sepsis. She is also a resident research collaborator with Cloudphysician Pvt Ltd, India, a tele-ICU company. She is currently working on characterizing neonatal AKI (Acute kidney injury) and its risk factors in Cloudphysician’s tele-NICU cohort in India.

Kendall Carpenter is PGY-3 in the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP). She attended Bowdoin College for undergrad where she studied Neuroscience and English. Between college and medical school, she spent a year working at a pediatric HIV clinic in Gaborone, Botswana, writing curriculum for the clinic’s psychosocial support department and doing research on factors influencing diagnostic delays of pediatric cancers in the country. She then attended Harvard Medical School and T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she obtained her MD and MPH in Global Health and interned at Harvard Humanitarian Institute (HHI) where she focused on social impact storytelling and implementing an educational distribution and impact assessment of the How I Live documentary, a film about closing the global survival gap for childhood cancer. During residency, she has worked closely with the pediatric oncology team at Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) on projects specifically looking at sarcoma epidemiology and outcomes within Rwanda. She plans to pursue a career in pediatric oncology with a research focus on global pediatric oncology and communication research.

Amundam Mancho is a third-year pediatric resident in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track (LEAD), as well as one of the global health residents. Her hometown is Mount Olive, NJ. Throughout her educational journey, her global health interests and experience includes systems strengthening and capacity building in resource limited environments, diabetes prevention in Southeast Asian populations, vaccine advocacy for communicable diseases including malaria in pediatric patients, and educational advocacy for elementary school children through her non-profit Footprints'. She aspires to be a clinical expert at the intersection of advocacy, health equity, and global health. Her clinical work is primarily focused in Western Africa, specifically in Cameroon and Ghana.

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Sidney is a chief resident at Boston Children's Hospital for the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP). She grew up in Vermont and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard University in 2014. As an undergraduate, Sidney conducted qualitative research in Rwanda and Tanzania on the effectiveness of NGO Government partnerships in healthcare systems. She then worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company, which included time working on strategy for the University for Global Health Equity in Rwanda. She attended medical school at the University of Vermont where she served as a member of the University of Board of Trustees. As a pediatric resident in the BCRP, she was in the global health pathway and conducted research on effectiveness of telemedicine in remote critical care settings.

Jeffrey is currently a chief resident in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. He grew up in Arlington, TX, with family roots in Trinidad & Jamaica. He went to Harvard for college, studying Neurobiology and African Studies before completing medical school at Stanford. In between, he spent a year conducting global health research in western Kenya. Making his way back to the east coast, he completed his MPH at Johns Hopkins, concentrating in Health Systems & Policy. His long-term interests are in promoting health equity in both domestic and global settings (especially the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa), with a focus on blood disorders, such a sickle cell disease. He is currently partnering with hematology trainees in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to explore the impact of vitamin D levels on development of avascular necrosis in the context of sickle cell disease.

Ryan Brewster, MD is a NICU hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and completing research and innovation fellowships with Ariadne Labs and Harvard HealthTech. As a BCRP resident in the global health pathway, he worked with a health technology organization, Cloudphysician, to evaluate and scale tele-ICU to the NICU population in India. Other projects included developed a low-cost, open-source bubble CPAP device and deploying a newborn digital clinical decision support tool in Uganda. Dr. Brewster graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Carl completed medical training in India followed by his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford in the UK as a Rhodes Scholar. He came to the BCRP on the integrated research pathway and Global Health pathway to pursue his interests at the intersection of pediatric critical care, infectious disease and access to health care. He has an academic orientation to his career and collaborates with groups in India and the US encompassing projects in his areas of interest.