Leadership Team
Program Director
Scott Kopec, MD
Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine
Senior Associate Program Director
Paula M. Cullinane, MD, MPH
Program Director, Primary Care Residency Track
Elizabeth Murphy, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Program Director
Christie Donahue, MD
Associate Program Director
Maria M. Garcia, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Program Director
Andrea Poisson Irani MD
Master Clinician Educator
Christine MacGinnis, DO
General Internal Medicine
Dr. MacGinnis grew up in Worcester and was born at UMass Memorial Healthcare, Memorial campus. She was a high school softball standout and avid kickboxer until she ruptured her Achilles tendon. She attended Boston University and received a master's degree in Physical Therapy. After working two years as a physical therapist, she attended the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine & then returned to Worcester for IM residency at UMass Memorial, Memorial campus. Her last year she served as one of the chief residents. Upon graduation, she joined the Community Medical Group as a primary care physician working in outpatient and inpatient settings. She remains actively involved with teaching residents in both the clinic and the hospital. Dr. MacGinnis has a significant teaching presence in the medical school, where she serves as a mentor, head of house and course director. In June 2019 she was honored to receive the Sara Stone award for medical education and has recently taken on the role of division chief community internal medicine. She is married with three sons. She enjoys early morning workouts, all New England sports, and time spent with her family, friends and new puppy Pemi. If she wasn’t a physician, she thinks she may have been a prosecutor, which most of her family and friends attribute to her excessive love of Law and Order. She is however thrilled to be a physician and blessed to work with her talented colleagues as well as the gifted, dedicated residents and students that make up UMass Memorial Healthcare.
Master Clinician Educator
Prashant Veerreddy, MD, MPH, FACP
Hospital Medicine
Dr. Veerreddy was born and grew up in India. After graduating medical school from Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India, he moved to the United States in 2000 to pursue Master’s in Public Health at University of North Texas Health Science Center, FortWorth. After earning his MPH, he moved to Boston, MA to start his residency training in Internal Medicine at North Shore Medical Center, Partners Healthcare. He became a Chief Resident, during which he discovered his passion for medical education. He subsequently pursued a career in Academic Hospital Medicine and joined the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 2006. His desire to be a Generalist at heart and passion for Acuity has taken him to specialize in Acute Medical Care, and he currently practices as an Academic Hospitalist at UMass Medical Center. His clinical interests are in POCUS in IM, End-of Life care, EBM, Peri-Operative Medicine. Dr. Veerreddy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Medical School and UMass Medical Center. His penchants for medical education led to his appointment as a Master Clinical Educator (MCE) with the Kelley Firm of Internal Medicine Residency Program, UMass Medical School since 2012. Over the course of his career he has mentored and nurtured numerous resident physicians. He was subsequently also appointed as a Learning Community Mentor (LCM) for Burncoat House at UMass Medical School in 2021 and enjoys the same mentoring role with UMass Medical students. He always likes to say, "The day you stop learning, is the day you hang up your white coat to retire."
He is blessed with a loving family of wife and two daughters and loves spending time with them. He likes to play chess, tennis and cricket; has a passion for gardening; loves traveling and photography.
Master Clinician Educator
Majid Yazdani, MD
Hospital Medicine
Dr. Yazdani grew up in lower New York State and came up to Boston University for his undergraduate education. At BU, he stayed on for his masters in medical sciences and then attended BU medical school. He left Boston for his residency in internal medicine at University of Massachusetts. While working as an in-house doctor/intensivist at Deaconess Waltham hospital, an opportunity came up to return to University of Massachusetts as one of the initial hospitalists on staff. He has been in the Division of Hospital Medicine ever since. Dr. Yazdani has focused his career on medical education and working with learners at all levels of training. He is the director of the 4th year sub-internship in medicine and is co-director of medical consult services along with being the Sub-I director (aka Acting Internship Director). His clinical interests include peri-operative medicine, POCUS (point of care ultrasound) and end-of-life care/palliative medicine. Outside of the hospital, he enjoys spending time with his family and dog as well as getting into trouble working on various home improvement projects.
Master Clinician Educator
Jonathan C. Min, MD
Master Clinician Educator
Nancy Lee, MD
Hospital Medicine
Dr. Nancy Lee grew up in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston, as a child of immigrants from Taiwan and Vietnam. She attended Boston University for her undergraduate degree in Biology and worked in a research lab studying Tuberous Sclerosis and LAM at Brigham and Women’s while also working as a hospice volunteer. From here she went to UMass Medical School and the Internal Medicine residency program where she served as a Chief Resident, before joining the Division of Hospital Medicine as a hospitalist. As one of many UMass “lifers”, Dr. Lee is passionate about maintaining the inclusive and nurturing culture that UMass is known for. She has served as the Physician Director for 7 East as part of the UMass Acute Care Unit Collaborative and is the Director of the Hospital Medicine Advanced Practice Provider Service. Her areas of interest include medical education, mentoring trainees at all levels of training, end-of-life care/ palliative medicine, transitions of care, clinician wellness, social equity and inclusion. Outside of the hospital, Dr. Lee enjoys exploring new places and new foods/ cuisines with her wife and family.
Primary Care Residency Track Leadership
Elizabeth Murphy, MD, Track Director
Laura Hallett, MD, M Ed, Primary Care Core Faculty
Nancy Skehan, MD, Primary Care Core Faculty
Jeeva Subramanian, MD, Primary Care Core Faculty
Medicine-Pediatrics Program Director
John Solomonides, MD
Site Directors
Richard Palken, MD & Jeeva Subramanian, MD, Benedict Primary Care Site Directors
Andrew Siber, MD, Tri-River Primary Care Site Director
Brian Ferrara, MD, Milford Hospital Site Director
Paula Cullinane, MD, MPH, Memorial Site Director