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 Natasha Chida is a 2009 graduate of the Miller School of Medicine. Her medical school career was distinguished by service, leadership and excellence, inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor society in 2008, and as a senior graduating student was the winner of Jay Weiss Faculty award and the Teitler award for showing constant unselfish service to the university and community. Natasha was the founder of UM’s Physicians for Human Rights student chapter at UM, and has worked closely with the national organization on multiple projects including bringing PHR’s Asylum network to Miami in October 2009 to train local physicians on documentation of Torture and abuse for asylum seekers. Since starting internship Dr. Chida started her research on community health workers to bridge disparities in HIV and other chronic illnesses. She expects to continue her focus on advocacy and policy, particularly related to Women and Minorities, possibly in Pakistan and South Asia.
 Christopher Dodd, M.D., M.S., a native of Seattle, Washington, earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and completed his medical education at Boston University School of Medicine, where he also earned a Masters in Medical Science and Public Health, completing a thesis on End-of-Life Care in American Medicine. Dr. Dodd is currently a resident physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
To gain a better understanding of the social context that caused many of his patients at Boston City Hospital to fall ill in the first place, Dr. Dodd took the unusual step of splitting his final year of medical school into two. He worked extensively in Nicaragua with an organization that improves the health of poor communities through the creation of the human infrastructure necessary to provide access to primary health care, in addition completing public health and mini-economic projects that strike at the social roots of disease. Over the course of two years, he spearheaded the organization and training of more than 25 rural community health workers who are still functioning in their communities today Dr. Dodd also spent time at the first two community health centers built in the United States, in urban Dorchester Massachusetts, and in rural Mound Bayou Mississippi. Inspired by these experiences, he continues his momentum toward acquiring the necessary tools to make a large impact in resource poor communities, both locally and globally.
Presentations by Christopher Dodd, M.D.
1. The Shifting Burden of Chronic Disease to the Developing World
2. The Potential of the Medical Student in Resource Poor Settngs
3. Building the Evidence for the Community Health Worker Model
 Dr. Eyssallene attended the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry through its highly competitive and fully funded Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), graduating with joint degrees in May 2006, a singular accomplishment. She has a consistent and well-documented history of commitment to global health with participation in HOPE (Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa) during and since medical school. The organzation’s mission is to develop and offer health, education and economic programs in Borgne, a rural area of northern Haiti. Dr. Eyssallene continues to travel to this site on a regular basis, and has been heavily involved in multiple community activities both in Rochester and now here in Miami.
Dr. Eyssallene is the first of the Weiss residents who will be trained in Medicine-Pediatrics, a field that will give her the skills to address health care and health inequities all stages of life.
 Dr. Tai Camille Hunte grew up on the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. She remembers as a child seeing the poverty and sickness of children in Africa on television and deciding then that she wanted to become a doctor to help children in a similar position. Her father pointed out that if she wanted to help sick and poor children, she did not have to travel to Africa, but could find plenty of need right at home in the Caribbean
Dr. Hunte attended Howard University in Washington, D.C for undergraduate and medical education; and during which she saw an underserved population in our nation’s capitol. She gained more understanding of global health disparities while on an elective in Quito, Ecuador. Tai chose Jackson Memorial Hospital for her residency in Internal Medicine because she wanted to continue her training in a place where she could serve an indigent population. During her residency, she was awarded Intern of the Year, and selected to an innovative program – the Jay Weiss pathway in Social Medicine and Health Equity. She seeks skills that allow her to affect health care policy.
 Dr. Amy Kravitz grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and has travelled to almost every country since. She is a 2005 medical graduate of St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital Clinical School of Medicine. A review of her resume shows a wide and varied experiences in healthcare and health disparities in some of the most challenging areas of the world. Her International work has taken her to Kenya’s Rift valley as part of Yellow and Hemorrhagic Fever serological surveillance, parasite detection with children in Chihuahua – Mexico, site manager in the Southern part of Sudan working on Trypamosomiasis and Onchocerciasis, developing a mobile clinic program in Pristina, Kosovo, malaria control in Myanmar, and MDR protocols for tuberculosis in Georgia, USSR. In each of these varied locales her letters note not only her expertise but her grace and cultural sensitivity. Her efforts were rewarded with the International Gates Scholarship in 2005. Dr. Kravitz intent is to go into International Healthcare policy and development after completing her training.
 Dr. Anne Monroe grew up in Richmond, Virginia, attended Stony Brook medical school in New York, and during her medical training sought out rotations that solidified her interest in advocacy and global health. She participated in a health advocacy course at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx where she was exposed to and inspired by the work of physician-activists. Later during an elective in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, she saw many young patients who were ill with preventable and treatable diseases, in particular a young woman with advanced cervical cancer.
Dr. Monroe has also worked in an HIV clinic in New York City, an AIDS orphanage in Kenya and has visited public hospitals in Haiti and Peru. She has seen the realities of health care disparities both at home and abroad. Her experiences inspired her not only to be influential in the lives of individual patients, but also to try to make a difference on a larger scale.
Dr. Monroe's research interests include community-based participatory research focused on HPV, cervical cancer screening, and STDs in resource-limited settings. She recently researched, developed and published on-line module for GHEC on Gender and Global Health.
 Nidhip Patel is a 2009 graduate of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic medicine, and current house officer with the Medicine – Pediatrics training program at Jackson Memorial Medical center. During undergraduate and medical school Nidhip was extensively involved in advocacy working closely on the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, Association for India’s Development, and served as president for the Michigan state university chapter of PHR. His international experience includes rotations in Malawi, Africa – which affirmed his belief in addressing social and health inequities for marginalized communities both here and abroad. Dr. Patel has a particular interest in South Asia where he has visited and seen the effects of profound poverty, and desires to use his skills in medicine-pediatrics and activism to affect change.
From Left to Right: Christopher Dodd, Antonia Eyssallene, Anne Monroe, Tai Hunte, Amy Kravitz |
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