Your Learning Community - Brightwood House

Brightwood House, the Learning Community for PURCH Track students, is your social and academic home throughout medical school.

You will be assigned a Brightwood house mentor who will provide guidance on many issues ranging from academic achievement, career guidance, professional development, and personal support.

It is within your learning community that you learn the foundational skills of being a competent physician through the pivotal Doctoring and Clinical Skills course.

Brightwood House, comprised of four faculty mentors and about 25 students, is based at the Baystate campus but has community spaces on both campuses.

More about Learning Communities on the UMMS website.

Learning Community Mentors

Samuel Borden, MD

Eric Churchill, MD, MPH

Elizabeth Eagleson, MD

Jacqueline Wu, MD

Brightwood House Doctoring and Clinical Skills-1 Faculty

• Fahad Alroumi, MD
• Rebecca Blanchard, PhD
• Kevin Hinchey, MD
• Harry Hoar, MD
• Angela Sweeney, MA, Med
• Nadia Villarroel, MD
• Durane Walker, MD

Brightwood House Capstone Affiliate

Sarah Perez McAdoo, MD, MPH

Graduate Education

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 2001
• MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, 2006

Research/Clinical Interests

Dr. McAdoo is a public health physician involved in public policy, systems change, community building, and creating partnerships to improve adolescent health outcomes. She is the Co-Founder of the Youth Empowerment Adolescent Health Network (YEAH! Network).

More about the Capstone Scholarship and Discovery course at PURCH

Specialty Advisors

Department	Brightwood House Specialty Advisor
Anesthesiology	Salima Powers , Ravi Alluri
Dermatology (no observerships)	Emily West
Emergency Medicine	Ben Osborne , Liza Smith
Family Medicine	Robert.Baldor , Cortney Haynes
Geriatrics	Sik Kim Ang
Hospital Medicine	Christine Bryson , Stephen Ryzewicz
IM-Primary Care	Stephen Ryzewicz
IM-Cardiology	Amir Lotfi , Quinn Pack
IM-Endocrinology	Michele Gortakowski
IM-Gastroenterology	Jacob Alexander
IM-Hematology/Oncology (no observerships)	Nageshwar Jonnalagadda
IM-Infectious Diseases	Armando Paez ; Jacob Smith
IM-Nephrology	Dennis DiCampli
IM-Pulmonary Medicine/Critical Care	Fahad Alroumi
Medicine/Pediatrics	Sam Borden ; Maura Munoz
Neurology	Heydi Flores Podadera
Neurosurgery	Dennis Oh
Obstetrics & Gynecology	Carolyn Delk , James Gebhardt
Occupational Medicine	Maria Michas
Ophthamology	Brian Bredvik
Orthopedics	Lydia Parzych
Otolaryngology	Jacquelyn Reilly
Palliative Medicine	Christina Fitch  , Sik Kim Ang
Pathology	Lisa Cole , Roxanne Florence
Pediatrics (General)	Hilary Branch
Pediatrics (Subspecialties)	Ian Goodman (EM), Ruben Vaidya (Neonatology)
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	Barry Rodstein , Julio Martinez-Silvestrini
Preventive Medicine	Quinn Pack
Psychiatry	Stephanie Daly
Radiation Oncology	Michael Yunes
Radiology	Thomas Anderson
Surgery	Reginald Alouidor , George Orthopoulos , Jacqueline Wu
Urology	Lenny Shaker ; Michael Zavaski
Vascular Surgery	Matt Kronick

House Librarians

• Catherine Carr, MLIS
  Education and Clinical Services Librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
• Bridget Gunn, MSLS (at the Baystate campus)
  Information and Knowledge Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate campus in Springfield.