Discovery Year
Department of Medicine Health Services Scholars
The Health Services Research faculty in the Department of Medicine offer to host up to 10 students per year who are interested a Discovery Year to address health systems change. This experience will focus on a wide range of themes related to systems change, including:
- Social determinants of health and communities
- Systems improvement within public health and health care organizations
- Global health including climate change and disaster preparedness
- Quality of care
- Health equity, health disparities and structural racism
Students will partner with a faculty mentor and a community advisor in designing a Discovery Project, which the students will lead. The HSR faculty will provide regular seminars to provide students basic skills that complement their hands-on Discovery project. Students are expected to be first author on at least one manuscript summarizing their project findings and submit it to a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
DGSOM Discovery Year Curriculum Description
Faculty Mentors
Learn more about faculty and their research interests here.
- Jennifer Adrissi, MD
- Olawale Amubieye, MD
- Douglas Bell, MD, PhD
- Lawrence Benjamin, MD
- Robert Brook, MD
- Arleen Brown, MD, PhD
- Russell Buhr, MD, PhD
- Alejandra Casillas, MD, MSHS
- Carolyn Crandall, MD, MS
- Daniel Croymans, MD, MBA
- Allison Diamant, MD, PhD
- Kathryn Dovel, PhD, MPH
- Kenrik Duru, MD, MS
- Gabriel Edwards, MD, MPH
- David Eisenman, MD
- David Elashoff, PhD
- Joann Elmore, MD, MPH
- Obi Emeruwa, MD, MBA
- Jose Escarce, MD, PhD
- Susan Ettner, PhD
- Estelle Everette, MD, MS
- Maria Garcia-Jimenez, MD, MHS
- Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD
- David Goodman-Meza, MD, MAS
- Jeff Gorbein, DrPh, MS
- Maria Han, MD, MS
- Nina Harawa, PhD, MPH
- Ron Hays, PhD
- Adriana Izquierdo, MD, MSc
- Nicolas Jackson, PhD
- Cynthia Joseph, EdD
- Katherine Kahn, MD
- Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH
- Li-Jung Liang, PhD, MS
- Dan Ly, MD, PhD, MPP
- Mina Ma, MD
- John Mafi, MD, MPH
- Carol Mangione, MD, MSHS
- Emily Martin, MD, MS
- Folasade May, MD, PhD, MPhil
- Adys Mendizabal, MD
- Benjamin P. Meza, MD
- Tannaz Moin, MD, MBA, MS
- Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD, MPH
- Keith Norris, MD, PhD
- Michael Ong, MD, PhD
- Arpan Patel, MD, PhD
- Ioana Popescu, MD, MPH
- Tara Russell, MD, MPH, PhD
- Utpal Sandesara, MD, PhD
- Catherine Sarkisian, MD, MSHS
- Teresa Seeman, PhD
- Evan Shannon, MD, MPH
- Chelsea Shover, PhD
- Myung-Shin Sim, DrPH
- Sae Takada, MD, PhD
- Chi-Hong Tseng, PhD
- Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD, MPH
- Anne Walling, MD, PhD
- Xiaoyan Wang, PhD
- Melissa Wei, MD, MPH, MS
- Neil Wenger, MD, MPH
- Lauren Wisk, PhD
- Mitchell Wong, MD, PhD
- Jin Zhou, PhD
- Boback Ziaeian, MD, PhD
- David Zingmond, MD, PhD
For further information, please contact the program directors, Drs. Carol Mangione and Mitchell Wong.