Former Fellows

Emily Lupez, MD, MPH, is a General Medicine and Primary Care Research Fellow at CHA and Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include health inequities in vulnerable populations, social determinants of health, and access to care. She is originally from Durham, North Carolina and completed her BS in Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and her MD at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Prior to medical school she completed her MPH at University of South Florida and recently completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Himmelstein is a primary care physician at New Horizon Family Health Services in Greenville SC and is involved in medical education and health services research at University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Himmelstein’s research interests include health disparities in immigrant and Latino populations, linguistic disparities in healthcare access and community based primary care research development and implementation. She is originally from Costa Rica and grew up mostly in South Carolina where she completed her bachelor’s degree at Wofford College and her MD at University of South Carolina SOM Greenville. During medical school she completed her MPH at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and recently completed her residency in internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente...

Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin. Faculty in the Center for Advancing Population Science. Her research focusses on the care of justice-involved people and conditions common in this population.

Assistant professor of Medicine at Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine. She is a health services researcher and practices primary care/internal medicine. Her research centers on the effects of insurance and payment policies on care access for the poor and underserved.

Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine. She is the associate program director for the internal medicine residency program at the Boise VA Hospital. At the University of Washington School of Medicine, she is also Medical Student Clerkship Site Director, Boise VAMC.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of the Gehr Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Her research focusses on health disparities as well as access to care for vulnerable populations. Dr. Saluja is also the director of the Health Systems Science curriculum at Keck.

Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hostra/Northwell. Trained in internal medicine, her additional roles include researcher, educator, mentor and coach. She teaches interprofessional trainees on topics of health equity and forms community-academic partnerships to increase the health literacy of the general public.

Was the Director of Research at the Institute for Community Health and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Zallman was a mixed methods health services and health policy researcher focused on health equity and was a leading expert on immigrant health financing. (Deceased).

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine and Chief of Staff at the Boise VA Hospital. Dr. Wilper has extensive experience and knowledge of health care practices, processes, and programs in and outside of the VHA.

Professor of Medicine, Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is also Associate Director, VA Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research (CHOIR), at the VA Bedford Healthcare System.

Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health/Boston Medical Center. She conducts research in the area of reducing health disparities/improving quality of care among vulnerable populations.

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The SCAN Foundation. The SCAN Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States focused on improving the quality of health and life for older adults.

Professor of medicine and public health sciences and chief of the division of general internal medicine at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. He is also director of the division of health services research and policy in the Department of Public Health Sciences.

Medical Director of Integrated Health Services at Stout Street Clinic / Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. In addition, Dr. Moloo remains on faculty at the University of Colorado as a Professor of Clinical Medicine where he served as Director of Cardiac CT and Co-Director of Nuclear Cardiology for over 10 years.