Current Fellows
Yousef Chavehpour received a PhD in Health Policy, with a concentration in Health Economics, from Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on how provider organizations, health care markets, and changes in health care delivery shape access, quality, and outcomes for patients with cancer. His mentor at Harvard Medical School is Dr. Nancy Keating.
Alyssa Fenech received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Delaware in 2026. Her research focuses on adapting and testing scalable and accessible mind-body and cognitive-behavioral interventions for patients with head and neck cancer and other rare or understudied cancer populations. She will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Elyse Park and Dr. Lori Wirth at MGH.
Vishal Patel received his MD from Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Public Health from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. He is currently a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where his research uses quasi-experimental methods and large administrative datasets to study cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care delivery. During his fellowship, he will evaluate how AI-enabled clinical decision support is being adopted by clinicians and whether it meaningfully changes cancer care at a population level. His mentors are Dr. Thomas Tsai, Dr. Nancy Keating, and Dr. Anupam Jena.
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Emily Walsh received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Miami in June 2025. She is working with Dr. Jamie Jacobs of MGH and will continue there during her fellowship, developing and evaluating how digital health interventions can be sustainably and effectively implemented among patients with cancer in real-world contexts.
Austin R. Waters received a PhD in Health Policy and Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on prevention, access, and outcomes among cancer survivors and caregivers with an emphasis on LGBTQ+ and adolescent and young adult (AYA) populations. The common threads of his research revolve around health equity, health-related social needs, economic instability, the influence of policy, and technology use. His mentors are Jenny Mack at DFCI and Brittany Charlton at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sarah Piombo received her PhD in Preventive Medicine (Health Behavior Research) and MPH from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. Her research focuses on using social network analysis across the cancer continuum to understand how social networks impact health outcomes and can be leveraged in interventions. She works with Dr. K. Vish Viswanath at DFCI.
CLASS OF 2026
Ashley Odai-Afotey
Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Joseph Dottino
Gynecologic oncology specialist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bonnie Wong
Surgical Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital
CLASS OF 2025
Chao Cao
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member of Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Richard Newcomb
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kelcie Willis
Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry
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Zeba Ahmad
​​​​Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Health
Staff Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital​​
CLASS OF 2024
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Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health
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Micah Aaron
Stephen Lo
​​​​Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School Health
Thomas Roberts
Associate Director of Quality and Safety, Mass General Cancer Center
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
CLASS OF 2023
Clinical Fellow in Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Camille Mathey-Andrews
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Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Lucy Finkelstein-Fox
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Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Michael Anne Kyle
CLASS OF 2022
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Faculty Scientist I
Maine Health Institute for Research, Portland, Maine
Anny Fenton, PhD
Physician
Ackerly McBride Group, Washington, D.C.
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Daniel Lage, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Traversal Health, Nashville, Tennessee
Christopher Manz, MD
CLASS OF 2021
Assistant Professor 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
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Jennifer Spencer, PhD
Ashley Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School
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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.
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To find out more about past fellows' research activities, funding, and publications, click to check them out online!
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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
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Pari Pandharipande, MD MPH
Chair, Department of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine
