PURCH Learning Community: Brightwood House

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

Your Brightwood House Mentors

four portraits of the purch brightwood house mentors
Photo: (L to R) Sam Borden, Eric Churchill, Beth Eagleson, Rohini Harvey, Molly Senn-McNally, Jackie Wu

Meet the PURCHIES

Student Services & Resources

Explore the student services and resources that Eric Churchill, MD, MPH, PURCH Director of Student Affairs, has put together!

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Faculty and Advisors

Early Clinical Learning Faculty

Nadia Villarroel, MD, Course Director

Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH

Reva Kleppel, MSW, MPH

Kristy Peterson, LCCE

Durane Walker, MD

Specialty Advisors

Department	Specialty Advisor
Anesthesiology	Brian Martin
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	Stephen Bonasera
Hospital Medicine	Stephen Ryzewicz, Chris Bryson, Alexander Roseman
IM-Primary Care	Eric Churchill
IM-Cardiology	Quinn Pack
IM-Critical Care	Josh Allgaier
IM-Endocrinology	Michele Gortakowski
IM-Gastroenterology	Yesenia Greeff
IM-Hematology/Oncology (no observerships)	Chandravathi Loke
IM-Infectious Diseases	Durane Walker
IM-Nephrology	Spencer Hodgins
IM-Pulmonary Medicine/Critical Care	Carolyn Garcia
Medicine/Pediatrics	Maura Munoz, Alexander Roseman
Neurology	Anthony Jackson
Neurosurgery	Dennis Oh
Obstetrics & Gynecology	Carolyn Delk, James Gebhardt
Ophthalmology	Brian Bredvik
Palliative Medicine	Yael Tarshish, 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
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

Medicine-Pediatrics
Maura Muñoz, Program Director
Samuel Borden, 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
Sonia Riyaz, Program Director
Deepika Sundararaj, Associate Program Director

Radiology
Martha Lopez, Associate Program Director
Christopher Mudge, Faculty

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