Mahshid Abir, M.D.
University of Michigan

Mahshid Abir is an emergency medicine physician. She received her bachelor's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from UCLA and both her medical degree and an internship in internal medicine from the University of Cincinnati. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Her research interest is in disaster medicine and preparedness. Particularly, she is interested in looking at health care needs and delivery in the acute phase of different mass disasters.

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Colin Cooke, M.D., M.Sc.
University of Michigan

Colin R. Cooke, MD, MSc, is a pulmonary and critical care physician who received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and his medical degree from the Ohio State University.  He completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine, and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.  While completing his fellowship he also received a master’s degree in Epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health.  His research interests include characterizing and removing disparities in ICU processes of care and research participation in clinical trials. In addition, Dr. Cooke is interested in understanding how families and physicians integrate prognostic information in the care of patients with critical illness.

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Stephen Henry, M.D.
University of Michigan

Stephen Henry, MD, (VA Scholar) is an internist who completed residency at the University of Michigan.  He graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University, where he developed a research interest in medical epistemology and the nature of evidence that led him to the RJW Clinical Scholars Program.  He is interested in studying clinical decision-making and doctor-patient communication, with a particular concern for developing effective methods to understand and promote individualized, patient-centered care.

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Kristin Jensen, M.D.
University of Michigan

Kristin Jensen, MD, is an Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Physician who completed her residency at the University of Michigan.  Her research interests focus on transitions of care from pediatric to adult care settings for individuals with developmental disabilities. Her aim is to help pediatricians and internists care for such individuals with better quality and continuity of care.  Kristin received her medical degree from Loyola University Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine and her bachelor of arts in History with a minor in German from Duke University.

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Elizabeth Krans, M.D.
University of Michigan

Elizabeth Krans, MD, is an obstetrician-gynecologist who completed her residency training at the University of Pittsburgh.  She received her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and her medical degree from the University of Mississippi. She is interested in improving the delivery of prenatal care with a particular interest in ways to tailor the structure and content of the prenatal care to different patient populations. 

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Kerianne Quanstrum, M.D.
University of Michigan

Kerianne Quanstrum, MD, is a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan. She received both her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and her medical degree from the University of Chicago. She is interested in the impact of unwarranted and inefficient care on healthcare costs, and in how to create incentives for efficient, quality care.

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Kimberly Smith, M.D.
University of Michigan

Kimberly Smith, MD, is a nephrologist who earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan.  She then completed her internal medicine and nephrology training at Vanderbilt University.  Dr. Smith is interested in factors limiting high-quality primary care of chronic kidney disease, with the aim of developing and evaluating effective quality-improvement interventions.

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Caroline Bonham, M.D.
University of Michigan

Dr. Bonham is a psychiatrist who completed her residency and a fellowship in rural and community psychiatry at the University of New Mexico.  She attended medical school at the University of Nottingham in the UK. Her research interest is the evaluation and implementation of best practices for enhancing the social and family support for consumers in the behavioral health system.

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Lisa Ross DeCamp, M.D.
University of Michigan

Dr. DeCamp is a pediatrician who completed her residency at the University of North Carolina.  She attended medical school at Duke, and during this time also received an MSPH from the University of North Carolina in the Department of Maternal and Child Health.  Her research interest lies in reducing health disparities among Latino children.  She plans to study how family and community level factors influence health care access and use as well as the impact of policy initiatives, such as dissemination of the medical home concept, on health disparities.  

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John Hollingsworth, M.D.
University of Michigan

Dr. Hollingsworth (VA Scholar) is a urologist who received his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed his residency training at the University of Michigan.  His research focuses on two areas: understanding the barriers to and promoters of technology diffusion and exploring the role that incentives play in predicting patient and provider behavior.

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Nicolas Osborne, M.D.
University of Michigan

Dr. Osborn is a surgery resident at the University of Michigan. He completed is undergraduate training at the University of New Hampshire and Medical School at Dartmouth. His research interests focus on factors that affect outcomes of vascular procedures and operational and structural factors that influence variations and disparities in surgical care.

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Aasim Padela, M.D., M.Sc.
University of Michigan

Dr. Padela is an emergency medicine physician who holds bachelor degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Classical Arabic & Literature, attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College, and completed his residency at the University of Rochester. His current research focus on cultural accommodations for, healthcare disparities of, and ethical challenges for Muslim and Arab American populations. He is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding, an American Muslim think-tank, working on a project relating to cultural barriers to clinical care for Muslim Americans, collaborating with Dar-ul-Qasim, an Islamic educational institution to probe the frontiers of Islamic bioethics, and conducting CBPR work in Greater Detroit on Arab and Muslim health. His other work focuses on the "culture" of clinical accommodation of patient values in the ED. Of note, he has spent time professionally in Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt.

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Jeremy Sussman, M.D.
University of Michigan

Dr. Sussman is an internist who received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College. He received his medical degree from UCSF and MS from UC Berkeley as part of the UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program.  He completed his residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital.  He is interested in how evidence-based medicine can be more practically applied in medicine and health care.

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Donna Zulman, M.D.
University of Michigan

Dr. Zulman (VA Scholar) is an internist who obtained her undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Stanford University, and prior to medical school she worked at the Institute for Health and Aging at UCSF, where her research focused on strategies to address the health needs of an aging population, including the effectiveness of long term care ombudsman programs. She received her MD from UCLA and completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include chronic disease management, health and health care disparities, and approaches to improving care for older adults in the primary care setting.

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Christie Lancaster, M.D., M.Sc.
University of Michigan

Christie Lancaster, MD is an obstetrician and gynecologist. As an undergraduate, she majored in Spanish at Davidson College and is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her residency in OB/GYN at the Universityof Florida.  Her research interests include screening for antenatal depression and utilization of care among obstetric patients with psychiatric disease.

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Comilla Sasson, M.D., M.Sc.
University of Michigan

Comilla Sasson, MD is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.  She completed her emergency medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  Her work with the uninsured population at Grady Hospital and on the national level in emergency medicine resident issues sparked her interest in pursuing the RWJ Clinical Scholars program.  Her areas of research interest include predictors of survivability of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and emergency department utilization patterns of nursing home patients within their last six months of life. 

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Vijay Singh, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.
University of Michigan

Vijay Singh, MD, MPH, is a family physician who earned a BA in Biology and an MD from Northwestern University.  Before residency he graduated with an MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he also completed a post-doctoral research training fellowship.  He completed family medicine residency at UCLA, where he served as an Academic Chief Resident in his last year of training.  Dr. Singh’s research career began in medical school, when he conducted a qualitative study at the Navajo Indian Reservation, performed a family violence screening project in the Cook County Hospital emergency department, and presented both of these topics at American Public Health Association Annual Conventions.  While a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, he co-wrote a book chapter on the health of children in cities and undertook research on developing a primary care screening program for perpetration of domestic violence.  As a Clinical Scholar he will gain a health services research training and perspective while continuing these investigations into family violence screening in primary care.

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