Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2020
Current TOPS Fellows
Micah Aaron received a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard Medical School in 2022. She works under the mentorship of Mary Beth Landrum at HMS to study variation in quality performance across large provider organizations to elucidate the conditions under which these organizations actually practice evidence-based medicine.
Stephen Lo received an PhD from clinical psychology from Ohio State University. He’s interested in addressing psychological and behavioral issues in patients with cancer, with a focus on developing and implementing scalable interventions to enhance patient outcomes in cancer. His mentor will be Joseph Greer at MGH.
Tom Roberts received an MD and an MBA from Stanford University and is currently a medical oncology fellow at DFCI. His research centers on two related challenges in cancer care: 1) how to deliver equitable clinical care at scale; and 2) how to improve healthcare efficiency to control costs and improve value for patients. He’ll work with Mike Hassett as his mentor at DFCI.
CLASS OF 2019
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Camille Mathey-Andrews received an MD from Harvard Medical School in 2018. During her TOPS fellowship, she will work at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute with Dr. Eliezer Van Allen. She will study computational cancer genomics and use bioinformatic approaches to investigate gene expression signatures that contribute to treatment resistance in cancer.
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Lucy Finkelstein-Fox received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut in June 2021. She plans to work under the mentorship of Dr. Elyse Park at the Massachusetts General Hospital developing resilience interventions for breast and gynecologic cancer survivors adjusting to stressful sexual health and relational changes.
Michael Anne Kyle received a PhD in management and health policy from Harvard Business School in 2021. She is also a registered nurse. Under the mentorship of Dr. Nancy Keating, she plans to focus on nonfinancial costs of care, with an emphasis on patient-facing administrative burden. In addition, she also plans to work on patient-reported outcome measures and whether they can be used as summary measures of quality.
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TOPS Alumni - Where are they now?
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CLASS OF 2022
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of the Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2021
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Andrew Hantel, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Population Health,
Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer Spencer, PhD
Ashley Nelson, PhD
Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School
TOPS (formerly called “PCORT, Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training”, PI Dr. Scott Gazelle) has a strong history of success! From 2002-2017, the program supported over 40 fellows in their research training. Our alumni hold leadership and research positions in a number of academic medical centers, cancer centers, policy and other positions around the U.S.
To find out more about past fellows' research activities, funding, and publications, click to check them out online!
Oreofe Odejide, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of both Hematologic Malignancies and Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2015
CLASS OF 2016
Kelly Edwards Irwin, MD MPH
Director, Collaborative Care and Community Engagement Program, Psychiatric Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Attending Psychiatrist, MGH Cancer Center and MGH Schizophrenia Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Vanessa Merker, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jose Alejandro Rauh-Hain, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gynecologic Oncologist, MD Anderson Cancer Center
CLASS OF 2014
Christy E. Cauley, MD
Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Loren Saulsberry, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences
CLASS OF 2013
Gabriel Brooks, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Medical Oncologist, Norris Cotton Cancer Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Mark G. Shrime, MD MPH PhD FACS
Research Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2012
Jennifer A. Shin, MD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Physician in Hematology-Oncology and Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
Thomas Tsai, MD MPH
Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
CLASS OF 2011
Paola Friedrich-Medina, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Mexico Region, St. Jude Global
Carrie C. Lubitz, MD MPH
Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Attending Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2010
Inga Lennes, MD MBA MPH
Senior Vice President Performance Improvement and Service Excellence, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of Clinical Quality, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Medical Director, Ambulatory Services, MGH Cancer Center
Nick Menzies, PhD
Associate Professor of Global Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
CLASS OF 2009
Shilpa Grover, MD MPH
Founder and Director Onco-Gastroenterology Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Staff Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology
Haejin In, MD MBA MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Surgical Oncologist, Montefiore Medical Center
Health Services Researcher, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nadine Jackson McCleary, BSN MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Oncologist, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Nadine Jackson McCleary, BSN MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Oncologist, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2008
Stacy W. Gray, MD AM
Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Clinical Cancer Genetics, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope
Susannah L. Rose, PhD
Scientific Director of Research, Office of Patient Experience, Cleveland Clinic
Assistant Professor and Professional Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Bioethics
Alexi A. Wright, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2007
Gregory A. Abel, MD MPH
Associate Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Older Adult Hematologic Malignancy Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Julia H. Hayes, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLASS OF 2006
Stacey B. Dacosta-Byfield, PhD MPH
Vice President of Research, OPTUM, Heath Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) – Oncology & Immunology
CLASS OF 2005
Michael Hassett, MD MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Amy Knudsen, PhD
Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2004
Christopher Lathan, MD MS MPH
Medical Director, DFCI at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Chief of Hematology/Oncology, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Faculty Director for Cancer Care Equity, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Pari Pandharipande, MD MPH
Chair, Department of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine
Jennifer M. Yeh, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Scientific Researcher, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health
CLASS OF 2003
Tanya Bentley, PhD
CEO, Health & Human Performance Foundation
Research Scientist at UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC)
Janie Lee, MD MSc
Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, MGH
Associate Professor, Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Director, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) Breast Imaging
CLASS OF 2002
Pamela McMahon, PhD
Project Director, Precision Medicine Prevention and Treatment, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Thomas Roberts, MD
Managing Member, Farallon Capital Management
Partner and Health Care Portfolio Manager at Noonday Asset Management, LP