Meet Our Scholars
First Year Clinical Scholars - 2012-2014
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Enesha Cobb, M.D. University of Michigan Enesha Cobb is an emergency medicine resident who is interested in the use of multimedia for patient education and the use of multimedia and social networking applications to improve health literacy and decrease high-risk behaviors amongst emergency department patients; she is also interested in boosting emergency medical care to a new level of involvement in health services research, community partnership, and the reduction of health disparities. |
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April Inniss, M.D. University of Michigan April Inness is a pediatrician who is interested in employing the life-course perspective to understand and address racial and ethnic health inequities. Career Interest: She aspires to influence policies related to social determinants of health, with the perspective that much of policy is fundamentally health policy. Research Interests: Dr. Inniss’ research interests include, the diversity of the U.S. pediatrician workforce; Health social movements at the level of grassroots; Community-based participatory research as a tool to build community capacity that can be used to address social determinants of health and improve the local social milieu; How child-serving institutions (such as schools and day care programs) can more effectively interface with the health care system to improve health status and health outcomes for children. |
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Peter Jenkins, M.D. University of Michigan Peter Jenkins After graduating from Williams College, Peter joined Teach for America and taught second and third grade in Baltimore for several years. Impressed by the health needs of his students, he moved to Philadelphia in pursuit of a career in medicine. While attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Peter studied injury prevention among adolescents in West Philadelphia. He then completed general surgery residency and a critical care fellowship at Penn. During residency, Peter studied variations in outcomes among trauma patients. Career Interest: To practice at a Level 1 academic trauma center and to promote an integrated disaster response system. Research Interests: Emergency and Trauma Surgery Outcomes, Disaster Response System Modeling, and Vulnerable Populations. |
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Kori Sauser, M.D. University of Michigan Kori Sauser is an emergency medicine resident interested in improving outcomes for patients who present to the emergency department with acute heart failure, namely by decreasing re-hospitalization. |
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Megha Shah, M.D. University of Michigan Megha Shah is a family medicine resident who is interested in the concepts of community engaged research and would like to select a health outcome to address for a specific community and conduct a community needs assessment with the help of community partners to develop strategies to improve health outcomes. |
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Katherine Vickery, M.D. University of Michigan Katherine Vickery is a family medicine resident who is interested in innovative approaches to healthcare re-design to improve health disparities by using participatory approaches to research that increase patient and community engagement and partner citizens with healthcare providers to improve health inequities; she is also interested in exploring innovative models for medical education using community-based participatory research to facilitate resident and medical student learning. |
Second Year Clinical Scholars - 2010-2012
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Oluseyi Aliu, M.D. University of Michigan Oluseyi Aliu, M.D. (VA Scholar), is currently a plastic surgery resident at the University of Michigan. He is a naturalized US citizen born and raised in Lagos Nigeria. He received a BA in biochemistry and molecular biology from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center. His research interests include devising ways to make more efficient use of capacity and expertise present in the current healthcare workforce in response to projected shortages, especially in primary care. He is especially interested in investigating the role task shifting or delegation can play in driving efficiency of use of healthcare workforce capacity. |
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Katherine Auger, M.D. University of Michigan Katherine Auger, M.D., is a pediatrician who completed her residency and a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. She is interested in investigating the system factors that affect outcomes in hospitalized children, including determining how the outpatient setting influences inpatient care. |
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Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H. University of Michigan Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., is a family physician who completed her residency at the University of Michigan. Her interests include using popular culture and media to improve health as well as investigating the relationship between the social determinants of health and current health policy. She received her Masters of Public Health in Health Management and Policy and Medical Degree from the University of Michigan. |
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Sidney Coupet, D.O., M.P.H. University of Michigan Sidney Coupet, D.O., M.P.H. is an Internal Medicine physician who completed his residency at Geisinger Medical Center. He completed a Masters in Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and his Medical Education at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research and professional interest surrounds the impact of Global Health on America’s Healthcare Professionals. More specifically, he will investigate whether the utilization of an International Clinical Experience/ Rotation would influence physicians to choose primary care professions, encourage them to practice in underserved communities and/or influence their style of practice. He intends to use his findings to impact policy on medical education and practice. |
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Adam Sharp, M.D. University of Michigan Adam Sharp, M.D., is an emergency physician who received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Utah. He completed residency and was elected chief resident at Indiana University. He is interested in quality improvement and cost containment for underserved populations visiting emergency departments. In particular he is interested in evaluating violent injury prevention programs for adolescents through community based participatory research. |
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Gordon Sun, M.D. University of Michigan Gordon Sun, M.D. (VA Scholar), completed residency at the University of Cincinnati Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in 2011. He is interested in addressing inequalities, inefficiencies, and fragmentation within the current American healthcare system. His research will analyze various outcomes in the US veteran population diagnosed with head and neck cancer. Using specific knowledge gained during this research, he will work towards improving health policies within integrated healthcare networks such as the VA and pursue important public health initiatives both within the VA system and the general US population. |
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Alan Teo, M.D. University of Michigan Alan Teo, M.D., is a psychiatrist who completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, and medical school and residency at the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests include the training of mental health clinicians and cultural aspects of psychiatry. His previous research has examined the relationship between accuracy of violence risk assessment and level of training, and the description of a form of social withdrawal in Japan called hikikomori. He hopes to further examine the influence of, and develop mental health interventions for, social isolation. In addition, he plans to explore the relationship between type of clinical training and mental health outcomes. |
