Our Team
Leadership
Christine S. Ritchie, MD, MSPH
Founding Director
Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH
Chief of the Division of Palliative Care
Faculty
Sevdenur Cizginer, MD, MPH, AGSF
Physician Investigator
Lisa LaRowe, PhD
Instructor in Investigation
Consulting&Coaching Core Co-Director
Sachin J. Shah, MD, MPH
Physician Investigator
Bethany-Rose (BR) Daubman, MD
Physician Investigator
Joanna Paladino, MD
Physician Investigator
Consulting&Coaching Core Co-Director
Carine Davila, MD, MPH
Physician Investigator
Laura Petrillo, MD
Physician Investigator
Administrative Team
James Breed, MPA
Division Administrative Director
Michelle StPaul, MA
Sr. Research Administrative Manager
Kathleen Fitch, MSN, FNP-BC
Project Director, PCORI
Hannah Puttre, PhD
Program Manager, Education & Training
Fellows
Miranda M. Adelmann, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ferhat Yildiz, MD
Project Manager
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Natalia Giraldo-Santiago,
PhD, MSW
Social Work Interventionist
Arden O'Donnell, PhD,
MPH, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C
Social Work Interventionist
Clinical Research Coordinators
Heily Chavez, BA
Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator
Edward Pham, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Maimouna Sy, BS
Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator
Maggie Crean, MA
Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator
Roshni Sarathy, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator
Ayush Thacker, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Sahana Giridharan, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Sarah Stone, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Marley Vogel, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Affiliated Faculty and Collaborators
Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ana-Maria Vranceanu is a clinical health psychologist, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Founding Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (MGH/HMS). She is also the James and Elizabeth Gamble Endowed Chair Co-Director (Psychiatry) for MassGeneral Neurosciences, and Co-director for Grants Consultation and Support within the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Vranceanu has served as Principal Investigator (PI) for over 20 research grants and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. She is currently PI on several federally funded projects including: Active Brains Digital (NIA R01); Doorstep (NCCIH 34 with Cale Jacobs); Resilient Youth with Neurofibromatosis (DoD R01); Resiliency in Adults with Neurofibromatosis (DoD Ro1); Recovering Together (NINR R01); and Toolkit for Optimal Recovery (NCCIH R01). Dr. Vranceanu has a mid-career mentoring award (NCCIH K24) focused on mentoring interdisciplinary trainees at MGH and nationally. Dr. Vranceanu actively mentors clinical psychology interns as part of the CHOIR Track of the MGH Internship in Clinical Psychology as well as postdoctoral fellows, medical residents, and junior faculty members.
CASI Alumni
Tamra Keeney, PhD, DPT
Clinician Scientist
Dr. Keeney was a faculty member at the Mongan Institute Center for Aging and Serious Illness Research and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tamra Keeney completed her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Keeney conducted health services research and is interested in the relationships between frailty, function, and outcomes for persons with chronic diseases. She studied the role of palliative rehabilitation in improving quality of life for older adults with advanced heart failure. She also lead evaluation of the MGH Perioperative Surgical Care for Seniors program. Dr. Keeney was clinical lead of the Center for Aging and Serious Illness Data Core.