Amy McMenamin, PhD, RN
Dr. Amy McMenamin is a registered nurse and health services researcher dedicated to advancing primary care for underserved populations. Her PhD research examined the interplay between nurse practitioner (NP) care environments, primary care provider shortages, and service utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). Building on this foundation, her current work focuses on generating empirical evidence on NP and physician care delivery patterns and exploring patient and administrator perspectives to identify barriers and opportunities for expanding NP-led care. Dr. McMenamin's long-term goal is to design innovative, collaborative, and NP-led care models that enhance access to high-quality primary care for patients with MCCs in underserved areas. Email: alm9180@med.cornell.edu
Cheyenne Acker
Cheyenne Acker is a fourth-year medical student at Weill Cornell, applying into internal medicine. She is interested in how loneliness and other social determinants influence health outcomes, as well as in patient education and engagement in care. She hopes to build a career advancing health equity through patient-centered care, education, and research.
Email: cka4001@med.cornell.edu
Daniel Mclnerney
Daniel Mclnerney attended the George Washington University where he received a Bachelor's degree in biology. He is a fourth-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine, plans to pursue Emergency Medicine and is interested in health policy and the corporatization of medicine. Email: dsm4004@med.cornell.edu
Daryl Kuevi
Daryl Kuevi is a senior at Hunter College, majoring in Human Biology with a minor in Computer Science. She had the opportunity to work under Dr. Arnab Ghosh on projects that focus on linking urban greening and community engagement with heat-related outcomes and community responses to urban greening and heat solutions. As a future physician, she believes it is important to understand how climate change impacts people's health and to be actively involved in finding solutions to address these issues. Email: dno4001@med.cornell.edu
Han-Wei Wu, M.D.
Dr. Han-Wei Wu is a joint pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine and a research fellow in the Cornell–Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship. His research focuses on innovative strategies to optimize cancer care delivery and transitions from diagnosis through survivorship, with a particular emphasis on adolescent and young adult patients. Dr. Wu completed his undergraduate and medical school studies through the Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME) BA/MD program at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He then completed his pediatrics residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago as part of the Accelerated Research Pathway of the American Board of Pediatrics. Email: uwt9001@med.cornell.edu
Holly R. Tomlin, MPH
Holly R. Tomlin received her international public health degree from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA. Subsequently she continued to work in New Orleans as a data scientist and clinical research coordinator and then as a field epidemiologist/program manager in Democratic Republic of Congo. Later, she worked as a medical writer in the biopharmaceutical industry. She is currently a student in the JM/MLS program at Emory University Law School.
She will enter Meharry Medical College School of Global Health as a Ph D student in Health Law, Policy, and Management in Fall 2025 where she will study the ramifications of health law and policy on social structures that promulgate poor health outcomes, particularly cardiometabolic disorders (diabetes and hypertension). As a Research Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine, she incorporates into her research the Political Determinants of Health and the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health frameworks, while working on initiatives to bridge community health and academic medicine. Email: hot7002@med.cornell.edu
Koeun Choi, M.D.
Dr. Koeun Choi is a clinician-researcher who is interested in primary care delivery, implementation science, and community based participatory research. Her focus includes understanding the contemporary needs of refugee, asylum seeking, and immigrant populations in the United States. She completed her Internal Medicine training and was a Chief Resident at Yale where she invested her time at the Yale Refugee Clinic, helped create the Advocacy Curriculum in ambulatory education, and worked as the Clinical Policy Fellow at the Department of Social Services for the State of Connecticut. She completed her undergraduate and medical school studies through the BS/MD program at Stony Brook University. During this time, she focused on working in rural communities with community health workers while exploring different models of healthcare delivery in low resourced countries. Her work included Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis epidemiological studies in Madagascar and HIV/TB community outreach programs in South Africa, as a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow. She hopes to continue to work with vulnerable communities while advancing primary care delivery and access to the immigrant populations of New York City. Email: kch4015@med.cornell.edu
Madeline Sterling, M.D., MPH, MS
Dr. Madeline Sterling is a practicing general internist and health services researcher. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the Initiative on Home Care Work at Cornell University. Her research aims to improve health and healthcare delivery for adults with cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions so that they can remain at home, avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, and age in place. To do so, she focuses on home health care, and in particular, training and empowering the home health aide workforce to improve patient care. Despite being the minute-to-minute observers of patients in the home, research has rarely focused on this marginalized workforce, which is comprised of mostly women and people of color. Her work seeks to change that and the way that clinicians interact with this large untapped segment of the healthcare sector. Dr. Sterling has published over 120-peer reviewed articles and obtained several grants as principal investigator from the NIH and other foundations. She particularly enjoys mentoring trainees and research team members, and fostering a collaborative, team-science environment. Email: mrs9012@med.cornell.edu
Milisia Fam
Milisia Fam is a rising third-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. Prior to medical school, she earned her BA/MA in Biology from CUNY Hunter College, where she developed a strong interest in healthcare disparities and preventive medicine through both volunteer experiences and personal encounters. Through this project with Dr. Monika Safford, she hopes to deepen her engagement with these issues and continue building a foundation for a career focused on preventive healthcare. Email: mif4001@med.cornell.edu
Monika M. Safford, M.D.
Dr. Monika M. Safford is a Professor of Medicine, general internist, and health services researcher with a focus on eliminating disparities in cardiometabolic disease outcomes, especially focused on socially marginalized populations. Dr. Safford has been the Principal Investigator of studies funded by NIH, ADA, PCORI, CDC, the VA, and AHRQ to conduct both observational research and pragmatic behavioral intervention trials. All four of the trials that Dr. Safford has conceptualized and led were among economically disadvantaged people of color. She is an award-winning mentor with a past K24; she has trained dozens of investigators to research primary care topics, including medication adherence, behavior change, peer support, clinical epidemiology, patient-physician communication, and practice change. Dr. Safford counts among her mentees the head of a major pharmaceutical company’s health services research group; a Dean of a School of Public Health; and several full Professors and Associate Professors with independent research careers in primary care topics. Email: mms9024@med.cornell.edu
Nicole Renee Palmer, MPH
Nicole Renee Palmer is a fourth-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine with a Master's in Public Health and a concentration in health policy. She is passionate about reducing health disparity and providing innovative solutions. Email: nrp4002@med.cornell.edu
Nila Uthirasamy
Nila Uthirasamy is a second-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. She graduated from Rutgers University as a Public health major with certificates in Health Disparities and Health Policy and is a fellow of New Jersey’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities program. Her prior research used qualitative and community-engaged research methods to address system-level factors impacting children and their families through intervention implementation. She is currently investigating the association of structural racism and cardiovascular health inequities among Black and White Americans. As a future clinician, she aims to keep health equity at the center of her work through direct clinical care, policy advocacy, and research. Email: niu4004@med.cornell.edu
Roshan Chudhry
Roshan Chudhry is a fourth-year medical student applying to psychiatry residency this year. She is interested in pursuing a career that integrates health equity and services research to better understand how psychosocial and structural factors influence mental and physical health, particularly in underserved communities. With a focus on the interplay between depression, social support, and chronic disease management, she is passionate about exploring how mental health care can be tailored to address the broader social and behavioral contexts that shape patient outcomes. As a future psychiatrist, she hopes to improve access to comprehensive, community-informed psychiatric care and also hopes to develop data-driven interventions that reduce disparities in order to promote long-term wellness. Email: roc4005@med.cornell.edu
