PGY-1

Adel Andemeskel, PGY-1
Adel was born and raised in Massachusetts. She attended Stanford University, majoring in Biology. After taking a community health advocacy course her senior year, she delved deep into social determinants of health and dreamed of primary care as a career. Upon graduating from college, Adel worked as a research coordinator in the rheumatology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for three years. Adel then attended medical school at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in southeastern Michigan. At OUWB, she was president of her school’s Student National Medical Association. She also learned about the wonderful world of med-peds, and found it to be the perfect fit for her! Throughout her life, Adel has been dedicated to her Eritrean community in Boston. She is passionate about improving diversity in medicine and recruiting those who identify as underrepresented in medicine (URiM) to the field. Adel is excited to continue fulfilling her passions at UMass Med-Peds!

Samantha Beck, PGY-1
Sam grew up in Middleton on the north shore of Massachusetts. She attended college at The Ohio State University where she studied biology and Spanish (as well as college football). After graduating, she worked with a Med-Peds-trained primary care physician as a scribe at a Cambridge Health Alliance clinic in Everett, MA. She went on to attend medical school at UMass Chan and loved it here so much that she wanted to stay for residency! During medical school, Sam was a leader of a free medical clinic and an elective course on Substance Use Disorders. She was involved in several qualitative research projects on Opioid Use Disorder. Sam also participated in the pediatrics Sidekicks student group where she was paired with a pediatric patient with a serious illness, serving a supportive nonclinical role for the patient and her family as she underwent treatment. Throughout medical school she learned about how challenging transitions of care can be for many patients with chronic diseases, and she hopes to play a role in easing these transitions with strong training in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Her career interests include cardiology, addiction medicine, and transitions of care. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys cooking, snowshoeing, traveling, listening to 60s/70s music, exercising, and cheering on the OSU Buckeyes.

Shauna Wassmus, PGY-1
Shauna grew up locally in Medway Massachusetts. She fell in love with figure skating at a young age and had the opportunity to travel and compete as part of a synchronized skating team. She attended Boston College where she majored in biology, continued to skate as part of the Boston College Synchronized Skating Team, and teach lessons at a local rink. During the school year she worked at the Boston College Campus School where she found a passion in caring for children with intellectual disabilities and complex medical diagnoses, ultimately inspiring her to pursue Med-Peds. In the summer she worked at a summer day camp where she loved working with young children and spending time outdoors. She earned a masters in biomedical sciences from Tufts and then worked as a scribe prior to attending medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. During medical school Shauna had the opportunity to rotate in the Complex Care Clinic, a primary care clinic that cares for adults with childhood onset diseases where she reaffirmed her career goals to practice as a primary care provider for this unique population after residency. In her free time Shauna loves to be outdoors hiking or running, doing yoga, reading (or listening to audiobooks!), and baking. She is so excited to have couples matched and be coming back home to UMass!