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Learning Health Sciences Alumni
Welcome to alumni from our diverse education programs in the U-M Medical School Department of Learning Health Sciences. We want to share your stories, career updates and news. Please contact us to share. We want to hear from you!
Alumni by Year
2026
- Cassandra Turner, Winter 2026: "A Learning Health Systems Approach to Equitable Access to Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Interventions for Adults with Obesity." HILS Faculty Webpage | LinkedIn
- Yidan Cao, Winter 2026: "Precision Feedback to Support Social and Pediatric Primary Care Integration." LinkedIn
- Sarah MacDonald, Winter 2026
- Rachelle Partee, Winter 2026
- Watch this space for 2026 HILS Residential MS grads
- Watch this space for 2026 MHPE MS grads
- Watch this space for 2026 MESP grads
2025
- Melissa Zochowski, Spring/Summer 2025: "Maternal Health Infrastructure in the United States: Understanding Use of the Emergency Department During Pregnancy." LinkedIn
- Jennylee Swallow, Spring/Summer 2025: "Provider Documentation and Patient/Parent-Reported Social Needs for Children Living with Sickle Cell Disease: Implications for Quality, Completeness, and Utility of Social Needs Data to Support a Learning Health System." LinkedIn
- Kera Luckritz, Spring/Summer 2025: "The Influence of Trust on Patient’s Activity in the Electronic Portal." LinkedIn
- Kayla Marcotte, Spring/Summer 2025: "Optimizing an Assessment Model: Investigating How Multiple Observations from Workplace-based Assessments Can Be Used to Build Accurate Measurement Systems in Graduate Medical Education."
- Elizabeth Randolph, Fall 2025: "Maternal Healthcare Provider Burnout in Ghana: Developing Interventions."
- Flora Hurley, Spring/Summer 2025, LinkedIn
- Joel Kilpatrick, Spring/Summer 2025, LinkedIn
- Lauren Moore, Spring/Summer 2025, LinkedIn
- Candice Stegink, Spring/Summer 2025, LinkedIn
- Catherine Enochs, Winter 2025, LinkedIn
- Chevaz Thomas, Winter 2025, LinkedIn
- Adithi Voleti, Winter 2025
- Jessica Cyriaque-Staton, Fall 2025, LinkedIn
- Brent Domann, Fall 2025, LinkedIn
- Lauren Glowski, Fall 2025, LinkedIn
Donna Okoli, Summer 2025
Nicole Schnabel, Summer 2025
- Anesthesiology
Ruchika Gupta, MD 2025 Profile - Family Medicine
Jessica Barnes, MD 2025 Profile - Geriatric Medicine
Sara Margosian, MD 2025 Profile - Internal Medicine
Catherine McDermott, MD, Med 2025 LinkedIn - Internal Medicine (Rheumatology)
Ibtissam Gad, MD 2025 LinkedIn
Lauren He, MD 2025 Profile
Carleigh Zahn, DO 2025 LinkedIn - Neurology
Preeta Gupta, MD 2025 LinkedIn
Alan Salgado, MD 2025 LinkedIn - Neurosurgery & Neurology (Neurocritical Care)
Andrew Nguyen, MD 2025 Profile - Ophthalmology
Marguerite Weinert, MD 2025 Profile - Pathology
Sara Abbott Bailey, MD 2025 LinkedIn
Mark Girton, MD 2025 LinkedIn - Pediatrics
Monisha Sachdev, MD 2025 Doximity - Radiology
Eric Rawie, MD 2025 LinkedIn
2024
- Brianna Osorio, Spring/Summer 2024: "A Learning Health System Conceptual Framework to Guide Implementation and Sustainability of the Collaborative Care Model in Community-Based Mental Health Settings." LinkedIn
- Anjana Deep Renji, Spring/Summer 2024: "Designing a Provider-Facing Intervention for Patient-Reported Outcomes in Ophthalmology." LinkedIn
- Kate Weber, Spring/Summer 2024: "Detecting Risky Alcohol Use with Natural Language Processing and Computable Phenotypes in Clinical Records." LinkedIn
- Hyeon Joo, Fall 2024: "Integrating AI and Clinical Guidelines to Enhance Heart Failure Recognition Using Electronic Health Records in Preoperative Care." LinkedIn
- Emergency Medicine
Visiting Scholar, Univ of São Paulo, Brazil: Marcos Borges, MD, PhD 2024 Profile - Hematology-Oncology
Roma Bhatia, MD, MPH 2024 LinkedIn - Internal Medicine (Allergy & Clinical Immunology)
Ian Slack, MD 2024 Profile - Internal Medicine (Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine)
Neil Neixdorff, MD, MPH 2024 LinkedIn - Ophthalmology
Tatiana Deveney, MD 2024 Profile - Pediatrics (Anesthesiology)
Kamie Yang, MD 2024 Profile - Pediatrics (Anesthesiology & Surgery)
Anila Elliott, MD 2024 Profile - Pediatrics (Hematology-Oncology)
Jillian Simoneau, MD 2024 Profile - Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Alyson Pierick, MD 2024 LinkedIn - Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)
Jacqueline Meadow, MD 2024 LinkedIn - Radiology (Neuroradiology)
Remy Lobo, MD 2024 Profile
2023
- Victor Cattani Rentes, Spring/Summer 2023: "Development of a Maturity Model for Learning Health Systems: A Framework for Self-Assessment and Continuous Improvement." LinkedIn
- Anthony Michael Provenzano, Winter 2023: "Cross-Sector Care Activities and Health Information Technology Capabilities of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Michigan." LinkedIn
- Matt Emery, Summer 2023
- Sean Dineen, Fall 2023
- Amit Gupta, Fall 2023
- Charles Kropf, Fall 2023, LinkedIn
- Laura Ortiz, Fall 2023, LinkedIn
- Jenna Thomas, Fall 2023, LinkedIn
- Robert Huang, Winter 2023, LinkedIn
- Kate Kraft, Winter 2023
- Madelyn Lew, Winter 2023
- Kathleen Neuendorf, Winter 2023
- Marty Tam, Winter 2023, LinkedIn
2022
- Emily Kobernik, Spring/Summer 2022: “Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in Michigan: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Impact of an Obstetric Hemorrhage Patient Safety Bundle” LinkedIn
- Rama Mwenesi, Spring/Summer 2022: “Applying Learning Health Systems and Implementation Science Strategies to Understand and Improve Surgical Count Error Reporting Among Perioperative Nurses” LinkedIn
- Stephanie Hall, Fall 2022: "Understanding Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Learning Health Sciences Approach to Evaluating Underdiagnosis, Undertreatment, and Health Policy Impact"
- Roshan Paudel, Fall 2022: "Urinary Continence Recovery after Radical Prostatectomy Using Patient-Reported Outcomes Data: Variations, Predictions, and Prediction Accuracy” LinkedIn
- Angelina Adam, Spring/Summer 2022
- Megan Adam, Spring/Summer 2022
- Engers Fernandez-Nunez, Spring/Summer 2022
- Grace Hohn, Spring/Summer 2022
Featured News & Stories
Department News
Cassie Turner (HILS PhD 2026) Delivers Commencement Remarks
Congratulations to Cassie Turner for being selected as one of three student speakers to give remarks at Spring Commencement on May 2nd.
Medical School News
Look to Leadership column: When education becomes care
Every person who has ever taught a future healthcare professional will one day, in all likelihood, become a patient. It is one of the quiet truths of health professions education that the work of teaching is never purely academic. It ripples forward in ways we cannot always see, shaping the hands and minds that will one day care for us, our families and our communities.
Department News
HILS PhD Student Haoting Gao Wins OGPS Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award
Congratulations to Haoting Gao for winning the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award!
Department News
In Conversation: Chuck Friedman and Vasa Curcin discuss Learning Health Systems and AI
Professors Friedman and Curcin (Kings College) discuss Learning Health Systems and AI.
Points of Blue
Christian Thurstone, MD, MS, HILS-Online alum: Using practical tools for broad impact
In this article, Christian talks about his experience with the HILS Online MS program and how using what he learned has helped with publishing papers, implementing new programs and addressing behavioral and social health needs.
Medical School News
Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, appointed Assistant Dean for Faculty, Clinical Track
Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, has been appointed assistant dean for faculty, clinical track in the Medical School, effective May 11, 2026. In this role, she will provide leadership as part of the Office of Faculty Affairs on the oversight of clinical track faculty appointments, promotions, and advancement in the Medical School.
