Keeping Trust Afloat

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

Dr. Farmer is a medical anthropologist and physician. He serves as the Kolokotrones University Professor and the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty

Mark Graber, MD, FACEP

Dr. Graber is a national leader in the field of patient safety. He is the founder and President of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Dr. Graber originated the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week in 2002, and is a pioneer in efforts to address diagnostic errors in medicine. He has extensive background in biomedical and health services research, and is the Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

Christine Cote, MD

Dr. Cote is the Distinguished Fellow and Global Head of Medical Affairs at HITLAB (a Healthcare Innovation Lab). She has extensive professional history in health strategy, including at Johnson and Johnson as the Vice President of Strategy and Portfolio. There she led the Corporate Office of Science and Technology’s strategic planning, with an emphasis on capturing long-term transformational technologies and promoting Wellness and Prevention

Helen Routh, PhD

Dr. Routh is the Non-executive Chair of the Board at Ultromics, an AI-based ultrasound diagnostic support tool for coronary artery disease. She is also a Non-Executive Director at the Agfa-Gevaert Group, who develops, produces and distributes an extensive range of analog and digital imaging systems and IT solutions and at Health Innovation Manchester, a. Dr. Routh has extensive professional history in healthcare innovation, strategy and business for Royal Philips.

Alex Leow, MD, PhD

Dr. Leow is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Bioengineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Leow is a Co-founder of Collaborative Neuroimaging Environment for Connectomics (CoNECt), an inter-departmental research team devoted to the study of the human brain using multidisciplinary approaches of brain imaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, Big Data analytics, virtual-reality immersive visualization, and mobile technologies. In addition, Dr. Leow serves as the project lead of the BiAffect project, which inferrs neuropsychological functioning using passively-collected typing kinematics metadata from a smartphone keyboard.

Benjamin Schwartz, MD

Dr. Schwartz is a board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Director of Orthopedics For Anna Jaques Hospital. He is also an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Arthroplasty. Dr. Schwartz also serves as Member of the Practice Management Committee for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. He is the Founder of Good Bones Medical Advisory, LLC

Amy Molten, MD, FAAP

Dr. Molten is a board-certified Pediatrician and Director of Medicine for Buoy Health. She received her undergraduate degree in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1995) and graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine (2001). She completed a pediatric residency program at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital (2004). As a National Health Service Corps Scholar, she immersed herself in community health through 2011, when she moved to inpatient care as a attending physician and program director at Tufts Medical Center Floating Hospital for Children and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She joined Buoy Health in 2019. With her dedication to providing effective, compassionate, and patient-centered healthcare to everyone, she believes in the infinite potential of cross-disciplinary collaboration to better understand how technology and machine learning innovation in healthcare can improve public health.

Laura Hagopian, MD, FAWM, FACEP

Laura Hagopian, MD, FAWM, FACEP is an Emergency Medicine trained physician with 10+ years of clinical, research, and teaching experience. She has a special interest in using technology to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone. Laura is a part time practicing Emergency Physician at Lowell General Hospital. In addition, she completed both quantitative and qualitative medical research and served as the Principal Investigator for a Women’s Health study. She explored her interest in medical education by developing and giving lectures, creating simulation cases, facilitating e-learning, mentoring pre-medical students, and serving on the Medical Education Committee. Laura holds a degree in Chemistry from Lafayette College and attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed her residency at Boston Medical Center and fellowships through both the Wilderness Medicine Society and the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Rachel Lannigan, MPAS, PA-C

Rachel Lannigan, PA-C, is a Senior Clinician Researcher who joined Buoy Health in 2018. She leads clinical operations, including the development of internal tools that enable the team to maintain and enhance our product. Rachel has been a practicing Physician Assistant in family medicine and reproductive health since 2012. She graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s of Physician Assistant Studies from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science in Boston and cum laude with a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Florida. She is passionate about using data and technology to drive healthcare improvement. Prior to starting with Buoy, Rachel led teams to successfully carry out quality improvement initiatives and optimize care for highly complex patients. During graduate school, Rachel served as a Research Coordinator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She enjoys practicing yoga, hiking, skiing, cooking healthy meals and spending time with family.

Karin Bruil, MD

Karin is a physician from the Netherlands, where she received her medical training at the University of Groningen and affiliated hospitals University Medical Center Groningen, Ziekenhuisgroep Twente and Isala Klinieken. She spent six months in the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, to complete her graduate thesis on gastroparesis. She has an interest in Family Care Medicine and Gastroenterology and a passion for healthcare technology and innovation. Karin has 1.5 years of clinical experience in Internal Medicine and in the Emergency Department. During her training, Karin has been active in many boards, student councils, voluntary work, student teaching and fundraising activities. She currently works at Buoy Health as a senior physician researcher and has been on the Medical Team since 2017.

Sarah Hassonjee, MD

Dr. Hassonjee received her medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College with a BA in English. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Greenwich Hospital, Yale New Haven Health, and a year of radiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before entering the healthcare design space. She worked in the experience research and strategy groups at Mad*Pow, a design consultancy, where she led exploratory and evaluative user research with patients, providers, and caregivers for a variety of healthcare clients.

Bradley Silk, MS

Bradley is a graduate of Tulane University, where he received his BS and MS. Before joining Buoy, he completed research internships at MedVadis Research and Boston PainCare. Currently, Bradley works as a Research Assistant on the Medical Team at Buoy Health. Outside of work, Bradley enjoys reading, hiking, and learning to cook.

Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD, MPH

Jeff has been a faculty member at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He currently practices as a hospitalist at Newton Wellesley Hospital. In 1978, Dr. Rothschild received his MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin and trained in internal medicine followed by a fellowship in critical care medicine. He also received an MPH in 1998 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. Dr. Rothschild was a health services researcher at Brigham and Women with a focus on patient safety, quality improvement and information technology. More recently he was the Clinical Device Director for Partners Healthcare System integrating biomedical devices and physiologic monitors with the enterprise electronic health record.

Peter L. Steinberg, MD

Dr. Peter Steinberg is a board-certified urologist and the director of endourology and kidney stone management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Middlebury College (1999) and graduated from University of Pennsylvania Medical School (2003). He completed a urology residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (2009) and an Endourology Fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center (2010). Beyond training residents and medical students, his research interests include medicolegal and malpractice aspects of urology, quality improvement in urologic surgery, and reducing the no-show rate for kidney stone patients and communication in the operating room. He also enjoys skiing, sailing, squash, running, tennis, stand-up paddleboarding and personal finance.

Gerald W. Smetana, MD

Dr. Gerald Smetana is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston. He practices outpatient primary care general internal medicine in an academic setting at Beth Israel Deaconess, where he also completed his residency. Dr. Smetana received his medical degree at University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.

Bradley P. Graw, MD, MBA

Dr. Graw is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Dr. Graw completed two fellowships at Stanford University for joint replacement surgery and Sports Medicine. He received his medical degree at Georgetown Medical School where he also completed residency. He received his MBA at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

Anubodh (Sunny) Varshney, MD

Dr. Varshney is currently a fellow in cardiovascular medicine at the Brigham Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School, where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by his MD at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Vashney is interested in developing and evaluating innovative medical technologies and healthcare models to improve cardiovascular disease management.

Daniel A. King, MD, PhD

Dr. King is a fellow in Oncology at Stanford University. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Columbia University affiliated New York- Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. King received his medical degree at Wayne State University and a PhD at the University of the Cambridge.

Jack Wilkinson, MD

Dr. Wilkinson received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from Princeton University where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Princetonian. He is currently a resident in psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Outside of the hospital, Jack worked as an editor at The JoongAng Daily of South Korea and a freelance writer.

Lauren Nadler, MD

Dr. Nadler is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College. She has an interest in teaching as well as experience with college tutoring and writing MCAT preparatory materials. She believes family medicine challenges her to maintain a broad field of medical knowledge and she hopes to work in an academic setting in the future. In her free time, Dr. Nadler enjoys running, reading, and visiting historic sites.

Renita Kim, MD, MPH

Dr. Renita Kim is an Obstetrics and Gynecology resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the leading hospitals in the country. She pursued her undergraduate at University of Southern California, followed by her MD, MPH at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her colleagues describe her as data-driven, determined, and compassionate.

Claudia Gambrah-Sampaney, MD

Dr. Gambrah-Sampaney is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and is now a resident. She also graduated cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in biochemistry and Spanish. Her research explores the intersections between neurology, public health, and infectious disease. She has investigated nutrition and cerebral palsy in Botswana, and completed a year-long project in Brazil, researching growth and developmental outcomes of Zika virus infection in pediatric patients. Dr. Gambrah-Sampaney speaks four languages, loves staying active, and enjoys sharing her love for medicine through teaching and writing.

Danielle S. Murashige, MD, PhD Candidate

Dr. Murashige received her MD/PhD in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a BA in biology from the University of Virginia. She also completed a fellowship for the Whitaker International Program for Biomedical Engineering at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. She received several scholarships for research excellence, including the Hess-Newman Scholarship for Public Service and another from the American Diabetes Association.

Jesse Passman, MD, MPH

Dr. Passman received his BA from Rice University and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is currently a general surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include psychiatric outcomes of violent trauma, trauma surgery, global surgery access and education, as well as the public health implications and clinical outcomes of trauma. He performed global surgery research projects abroad in Madagascar and Ghana. Past work has led to presentations at the Academic Congress of Surgeons the American Medical Association, and the West African College of Surgeons.

Mina Pirzadeh, MD

Dr. Pirzadeh is a fellow in pulmonary and critical care at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she also completed her residency in internal medicine. She received her bachelor's degree in Neuroscience at the University of Michigan and then attended medical school at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Elliot Stein, MD

Dr. Stein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. After completing his internship at Pennsylvania Hospital, he will begin his residency in radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He also graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in molecular and cellular biology. He is an emergency medical technician (EMT) in two countries and three U.S. states. In his free time, Dr. Stein enjoys biking, cooking, and seeing live music.

Ivy Maina, MD

Dr. Maina graduated from Princeton University (BA, 2013) with a degree in psychology and received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is currently a resident physician in Otolaryngology at the University of Pennsylvania affiliated hospitals. After graduating from Princeton, she spent a year researching embryonic gene expression with the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health at UPenn. She also received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study abnormal innate immune responses and taste-related genes in chronic sinus infections. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, reading, listening to podcasts, and finding new DIY décor projects.

Laura Henry, MD

Dr. Henry is a first-year resident in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in political economy from Williams College. As a medical student, she was the editorial manager of an otolaryngology publication and has extensive experience with medical writing. She is currently working on research projects for publication in the sub-specialty fields of otology, head and neck cancer, and facial plastics. Outside the hospital she enjoys fly fishing, squash, hiking, and watching pro tennis.

Ezekiel Richardson, MD

Dr. Richardson is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and is currently a resident physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He completed an undergraduate degree with a concentration in health disparities at Stanford University. He spent a year working in the Maryland Department of Health as a John Gardner Public Service Fellow. Between his third and fourth year of medical school, he completed multiple publications on public health and health accessibility through the Center for Emergency Care and Policy Research Fellowship. He participated as a teaching assistant in anatomy, histology, and doctoring ethics courses at UPenn. In his free time, Dr. Richardson enjoys cooking, volunteering, and traveling in support of his partner’s work on girls’ education in Africa.

Tim Becker, MD

Dr. Becker graduated from Cornell University (BS, 2012) and UPenn Medical School (MD with a certificate in global health, 2018) and is currently a psychiatry resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School. Prior to medical school, he helped teach pre-medical biology and chemistry at Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar. He has contributed to research on neurotrauma and mental health in Botswana, HIV stigma among Asian-American immigrants, communication in pediatrics, and implementation of clinical pathways. In his free time he enjoys running, hiking, and exploring new places.

Katie Street

Katie is a senior marketing manager and digital consultant. She specializes in online marketing and content marketing. She has worked in the Search Advertising for 11 years. She received her BA from Bentley University.

Carina Ryder, MS, BSN

Carina is a Nurse-Midwife with 20 years of clinical experience in both high- and low-risk obstetrical settings. She received her MS and BSN from Columbia University of Nursing. Most recently she has extended her scope of practice to include care for the peri/menopausal woman, and has NCMP (North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Provider) certification in this area. Carina also has expertise in women's sexual health, sexual assault forensics and cervical cancer screening, management of abnormal pap smears and colposcopy, and the management and care coordination of higher risk obstetrical patients.

Tom (Tianyu) Liu, MD

Dr. Liu received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and is pursuing a career in ophthalmology. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College with a BA in biology. He has published research in multiple ophthalmology and healthcare journals and has received awards from Research to Prevent Blindness. In his free time, he enjoys running, biking, and spending time with his friends and family.

Dorothy Charles, MD

Dr. Charles received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and is pursuing a career in family medicine. She received a BA in molecular biology from Princeton University. Over the past several years, she has written about a variety of topics on different mediums, from cognitive neurology research in peer-reviewed academic journals to science op-eds for the popular press. Her interests in medicine include public health, women’s health, and health justice. She is also passionate about patient education and enjoys translating complex medical topics into language that is accessible to non-medical audiences.

Rochel Maday

Rochel specializes in writing for health, dental and orthodontist industry. She has written several eBooks that have ranked number one in their category. Rochel received her BA from College of Lake County.

Emily Martin, MD

Dr. Martin received her BA from Stanford University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a resident in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington affiliated hospitals. She has extensive experience with scientific writing and grant writing and is particularly interested in community health, community violence rehabilitation, and global medicine.

Sam Kelly, MD

Dr. Kelly is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, specializing in internal medicine and bioethics. He received his undergraduate degree from Emory University with a BA in Spanish. Dr. Kelly has formal training in medical interpretation and translation, along with several years of professional experience in medical communication and editing work for publication.

William C. Fix, MD

Dr. Fix received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Brown University. He has received awards from the National Institutes of Health and the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for oncology research. He performed clinical research with a focus on skin cancers in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, and hopes to pursue a career in dermatology.

Katherine Freeman, MD

Dr. Freeman received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and is planning to pursue a career in urology. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a BA in anthropology, studying women’s health and resilience. While at UPenn, she also served as a tutor and mentor for the Philadelphia City Rowing program, as well as a blog writer for the Leonard Davis Institute. She is also active in student government and served as the elected vice president for her college.

Sarah Yang, MD

Dr. Yang went to Harvard University for college and attended University of Texas Health San Antonio for medical school. She is now a fellow in musculoskeletal pain at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. She completed her residency at Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital with the University of Chicago, focusing on everything from spinal cord injuries to sports medicine. She is from Texas, born and raised and very proud to be a Texan.

Raquel Rodriguez, MD, MPP

Dr. Rodriguez graduated from Harvard College and then received her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016. She also completed a Masters in Public Policy from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Currently, she is a resident physician in family medicine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. She spends her free time kayaking, trying new foods, and reading about health innovation.

Andrew Q. Le, MD

Dr. Le obtained his MD from Harvard Medical School and his BA from Harvard College. Before Buoy, his research focused on glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. Outside of work, Dr. Le enjoys cooking and struggling to run up-and-down the floor in an adult basketball league.