PURCH Learning Community: Brightwood House

Brightwood House Learning Community

PURCH Medical Students at a Brightwood House Learning Community Event

Brightwood House is the learning community for all PURCH students. With six faculty mentors and about 100 students, it is an especially close group.

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Meet the PURCHIES

> Profiles of our PURCH classes
> PURCH Student Highlights
> Visit Brightwood House on IG @umassbrightwood

Your Brightwood House Mentors

Brightwood House Learning Community Mentors 
Photo: (L to R) Sam Borden, Eric Churchill, Beth Eagleson, Rohini Harvey, Molly Senn-McNally, Jackie Wu

Director of Student Affairs, PURCH

Eric Churchill, MD, MPH
Explore student services and resources Eric has put together.

Faculty and Advisors

Specialty Advisors
Department Specialty Advisor
Anesthesiology
Stanlies D'Souza
Community Medicine
Eric Churchill, Andy Balder
Dermatology
(no observerships)
Emily West 
Emergency Medicine Liza Smith, Bryanne Macdonald
Family Medicine Robert.Baldor, Cortney Haynes, Nathan Macedo
Geriatrics TBD
Hospital Medicine Stephen Ryzewicz , Chris Bryson, Alexander Roseman
IM-Primary Care Stephen Ryzewicz , Eric Churchill
IM-Cardiology Quinn Pack
IM-Critical Care
Josh Allgaier
IM-Endocrinology
Michele Gortakowski
IM-Gastroenterology Yesenia Greeff
IM-Hematology/Oncology
(no observerships)
TBD
IM-Infectious Diseases
TBD
IM-Nephrology Spencer Hodgins, Kostas Papamarkakis
IM-Pulmonary Medicine/Critical Care
Carolyn Garcia
IM-Rheumatology
TBD
Medicine/Pediatrics
Maura Munoz , Alexander Roseman

Neurology

Anthony Jackson
Neurosurgery
TBD
Obstetrics & Gynecology Carolyn Delk , James Gebhardt  
Occupational Medicine
TBD
Ophthamology
Brian Bredvik  
Orthopedics
TBD
Otolaryngology TBD
Palliative Medicine Yael Tarshich , Emily Zametkin  
Pathology Rahul Jawale
Pediatrics (General) Hilary Branch ,  Alexander Roseman  (Hospital Medicine)
Pediatrics Emergency Medicine
Ian Goodman  
Pediatrics Neonatology
Ruben Vaidya  
Pediatrics Child Abuse
Stephen Boos
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Barry Rodstein
Preventive Medicine
Quinn Pack
Psychiatry Stephanie Daly  
Radiation Oncology
TBD
Radiology
Thomas Anderson
Surgery Kate Debbink
Urology
Aaron Berkenwald; Michael Zavaski  
Vascular Surgery
Matt Kronick
Residency Application Advisors
Anesthesiology
Brian C. Martin, Program Director
Maria Lopez, Program Administrator

Emergency Medicine
Adam Kellogg, Program Director
Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, Associate Program Director
Liza Smith, Clerkship Director

Family Medicine
Chandra Hartman, Program Director
Nathan Macedo, Associate Program Director

Internal Medicine
Riffat Sabir, Program Director
Christine Bryson, Associate Program Director
Kathryn Jobbins, Associate Program Director
Yesenia Greeff, Assistant Program Director

Medicine-Pediatrics
Sharon Wretzel, Program Director
Maura Muñoz, Associate Program Director

Obstetrics-Gynecology
Jacqueline Kates, Program Director
Carolyn Delk, Associate Program Director
Kimberly Marakovitz, Faculty

Pathology
Rahul Jawale, Faculty
Ashraf Khan, Chair 
James Mueller, Program Director 

Psychiatry
Steven Fischel, Program Director
John Hopkins, Associate Program Director
Sonia Riyaz, Faculty

Radiology
Martha Lopez, Associate Program Director
Christopher Mudge, Faculty

Surgery
Neal Seymour, Program Director 
David B. Tashjian, Associate Program Director

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