2020-2021 Capstone and Discovery Projects
A total of 25 4th year medical students (completing 18 projects) were mentored by members of our FMCH faculty.
Divya Bhatia and Qiuwei Yang
Addressing Burnout through a Podcast: “Murmurs: Stories from our Journey in Medicine”
Advisor: Hugh Silk, MD, MPH
Abigail Bose and Ukpoing Etteh
Recognizing and Engaging Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A New Health Student Elective
Advisor: Jennifer Bradford, MD, MPH
Benjamin Cook and Julia Jennings
UMass Medical Spanish Curriculum
Advisor: Lisa Morris, MS
Lindsey Crowley
Patient as Teacher: Bringing the Perspective of Terminally Ill Patients to Medical Education
Advisor: Jennifer Reidy, MD
Juliana Dixon
Implementing Universal Screening for Social Determinants of Health in Adult Well Visits
Advisor: Melanie Gnazzo, MD
Jesse Feierabend-Peters
Coming Home: Understanding Navigator Best Practices to Assist Formerly Incarcerated Persons with Health and Human Service Needs
Advisor: Warren Ferguson, MD
Ellen Franciosi and Laura Thurber
Concussion Education in Youth Sports
Advisor: Lee Mancini, MD
Anna Gubala and Nicole Hayes
MEMBER: Evaluation of the Medical Resident Burnout and Exercise Relationship
Advisor: Jay Broadhurst, MD
Nicholas Hebda
Integrating Oral Health at a Free Medical Program in Worcester, MA
Advisor: Hugh Silk, MD, MPH
Avina Joshi
Health Education Fair at African Community Education, Worcester
Advisor: Olga Valdman, MD
Amy Kilzer and Brooke Moore
Medical Sign Language: Improving Deaf Patient Comfort and Communication with Medical Personnel
Advisor: Phil Fournier, MD
Kristina Lewis
Profound Stress and the Impact on Child Refugees in the Middle East
Advisor: Amber Sarkar, MD
Hau Nguyen
Assessing and Improving US Healthcare System Navigation for Refugee Patients
Advisor: Olga Valdman, MD
Leanne Ondreicka
Creation of a Home-based Physical Therapy Program for Patients with Overuse Knee Injuries
Advisor: Lee Mancini, MD
Aniket Pandya and Monica Tawadros
Joining the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic through the Head Start Program in Lowell, MA
Advisor: Leanne Winchester, MS, RN
Marya Pulaski
The Interstitium: Reflections Along the Path of Medicine Creating and Evaluating the Impact of a Medical Humanities Blog at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Advisor: Hugh Silk, MD, MPH
Rose Schutzberg
The Human Side (of Medicine)
Advisor: Sherrilyn Sethi, DMH
Vanessa Villamarin
Worcester Healthy Baby Collaborative-Baby Box Project: A Community-Based Public Health Project to Address Disparities in Infant Mortality
Advisor: Sara Shields, MD, MS