Discovery Year

Department of Medicine Health Services Scholars

The Health Services Research faculty in the Department of Medicine offer to host up to 10 students per year who are interested a Discovery Year to address health systems change. This experience will focus on a wide range of themes related to systems change, including:

• Social determinants of health and communities
• Systems improvement within public health and health care organizations
• Global health including climate change and disaster preparedness
• Quality of care
• Health equity, health disparities and structural racism

Students will partner with a faculty mentor and a community advisor in designing a Discovery Project, which the students will lead. The HSR faculty will provide regular seminars to provide students basic skills that complement their hands-on Discovery project.  Students are expected to be first author on at least one manuscript summarizing their project findings and submit it to a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

DGSOM Discovery Year Curriculum Description 

Faculty Mentors

Learn more about faculty and their research interests here.

• Jennifer Adrissi, MD
• Olawale Amubieye, MD
• Douglas Bell, MD, PhD
• Lawrence Benjamin, MD
• Robert Brook, MD
• Arleen Brown, MD, PhD
• Russell Buhr, MD, PhD
• Alejandra Casillas, MD, MSHS
• Carolyn Crandall, MD, MS
• Daniel Croymans, MD, MBA
• Allison Diamant, MD, PhD
• Kathryn Dovel, PhD, MPH
• Kenrik Duru, MD, MS
• Gabriel Edwards, MD, MPH
• David Eisenman, MD
• David Elashoff, PhD
• Joann Elmore, MD, MPH
• Obi Emeruwa, MD, MBA
• Jose Escarce, MD, PhD
• Susan Ettner, PhD
• Estelle Everette, MD, MS
• Maria Garcia-Jimenez, MD, MHS
• Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD
• David Goodman-Meza, MD, MAS
• Jeff Gorbein, DrPh, MS
• Maria Han, MD, MS
• Nina Harawa, PhD, MPH
• Ron Hays, PhD
• Adriana Izquierdo, MD, MSc
• Nicolas Jackson, PhD
• Cynthia Joseph, EdD
• Katherine Kahn, MD
• Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH
• Li-Jung Liang, PhD, MS
• Dan Ly, MD, PhD, MPP
• Mina Ma, MD
• John Mafi, MD, MPH
• Carol Mangione, MD, MSHS
• Emily Martin, MD, MS
• Folasade May, MD, PhD, MPhil
• Adys Mendizabal, MD
• Benjamin P. Meza, MD
• Tannaz Moin, MD, MBA, MS
• Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD, MPH
• Keith Norris, MD, PhD
• Michael Ong, MD, PhD
• Arpan Patel, MD, PhD
• Ioana Popescu, MD, MPH
• Tara Russell, MD, MPH, PhD
• Utpal Sandesara, MD, PhD
• Catherine Sarkisian, MD, MSHS
• Teresa Seeman, PhD
• Evan Shannon, MD, MPH
• Chelsea Shover, PhD
• Myung-Shin Sim, DrPH
• Sae Takada, MD, PhD
• Chi-Hong Tseng, PhD
• Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD, MPH
• Anne Walling, MD, PhD
• Xiaoyan Wang, PhD
• Melissa Wei, MD, MPH, MS
• Neil Wenger, MD, MPH
• Lauren Wisk, PhD
• Mitchell Wong, MD, PhD
• Jin Zhou, PhD
• Boback Ziaeian, MD, PhD
• David Zingmond, MD, PhD

For further information, please contact the program directors, Drs. Carol Mangione and Mitchell Wong.