This list of House Specialty Advisors is comprised of UMass Chan faculty who are highly recommended by students and/or faculty peers as passionate ambassadors for their field. To learn more about a specialty that you are interested in exploring contact your House Specialty Advisor to arrange a meeting or time to shadow* them in the clinical setting. (If you do not hear back after reaching out with a couple of emails, it is fine to contact a House Specialty Advisor in another House). When you do meet with a House Specialty Advisor consider interviewing them about their field by asking questions such as those in the list linked to here.

*Shadowing/Observerships:

For shadowing opportunities in a given field please contact your House Specialty Advisor, EXCEPT for dermatology and adult hematology/oncology. For observerships in those fields please contact the individual specified below:

• Dermatology contact: Esmeralda.Valois@umassmemorial.org
• Hematology/Oncology contact: Tricia.Galloway@umassmed.edu

Department	Quinsigamond House/Laurel House
Anesthesiology	Ronald Rubin Mark Dershwitz
Community Medicine
Dermatology *See top of page regarding observerships	Mary Maloney
Emergency Medicine	Timothy Gleeson
Family Medicine	Ron Adler Allison Hargreaves
Geriatrics	Erika Zimmons
Hospital Medicine	Rick Forster  Andrea Poisson Irani
Internal Medicine	Mary O'Brien
Internal Medicine Primary Care	Nancy Skehan
Internal Medicine Cardiology	Dave McManus
Internal Medicine Critical Care
Internal Medicine Endocrinology	Michael Thompson
Internal Medicine Gastroenterology
Internal Medicine Hematology / Oncology *See top of page regarding observerships	Neil Kluger
Internal Medicine Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine Nephrology	Jason Kurland
Internal Medicine Pulmonary Medicine / Critical Care	Paulo Oliveira Bruce Greenberg
Internal Medicine Rheumatology	Jonathan Kay
Medicine / Pediatrics	Erin O'Hara Susan Fine
Neurology	Edward Ginns
Neurosurgery	Gerald McGillicuddy
Obstetrics & Gynecology	Benjamin Hamar Dhivya Kannabiran
Ophthalmology	Gabriel Luna
Orthopedics	Marci Jones Nicola Deangelis
Otolaryngology	Christopher Ito
Palliative Medicine	Vandana Nagpal
Pathology	Dina Kandil
Pediatrics	Anne Powell
Pediatric Gastroenterology	Garrett Zella
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	Minjin Fromm
Plastic Surgery	Joyce McIntyre
Preventative Medicine	Mukti Kulkarni
Psychiatry	Brian Skehan
Radiation Oncology	Shirin Sioshansi
Radiology	Maria Barile
Surgery	Michael Hirsh Jennifer LaFemina
Urology	Mitchell Sokoloff
Vascular Surgery	Jessica Simons *

Pediatric Subspecialties
Cardiology: Mike Fahey 
Child Abuse: Stephen Boos
Critical Care: Scot Bateman
Emergency Medicine: Ian Goodman 
Gastroenterology: Matthew Shields
Hospital Medicine: Alexander Roseman
Infectious Disease: Tina Hermos
Nephrology: Ann Salerno 
Neonatology: Ruben Vaidya

updated APR 25 2023 | cjb