Medicine Scholars Program Celebrates Official Launch in September 

On Friday, September 26, 2025, the Medicine Scholars Program launched its first cohort of 11 faculty for the upcoming year. According to Pranoti Mandrekar, PhD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and director of the Medicine Scholars Program, the goals of the program are to nurture promising faculty to become influential academic leaders in medicine, promote the development and academic advancement of faculty through a program tailored to their needs, and to provide mentorship and foster a community of scholars to advance their scholarship. 

Faculty participating in the program include:  

• Shyam Patel, MD, PhD, Hematology/Oncology 

• Shruti Hegde, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine 

• Zahra Sheikh, MD, Geriatrics 

• Yael Rosen, MD, General Internal Medicine 

• Hassan Fouayzi, PhD, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences 

• Tasneem Ali, MD, Hematology/Oncology 

• Lindsey Bazzone, MD, PhD, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine 

• Michael Devine, DO, Hospital Medicine 

• Oliver Marasigan, MD, Hospital Medicine 

• Zheni Stavre, MD, Rheumatology 

• Dagmar Klinger, MD, Renal Medicine