Global Health Program
Faculty
As we are fortunate to draw from many distinguished faculty from the Harvard Medical Institutions, there are many excellent mentoring experiences available for Pediatric residents interested in pursuing experiences in global health.
 |
| Dr. Burke with Zambia's First Lady, Maureen Mwanawasa |
Thomas F. Burke, MD, FACEP
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Director
Contact Information: tfburke@partners.org
In November 2006 Thomas F. Burke, MD, FACEP, was named as the first director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health. Dr. Burke brings a wealth of experience and skills honed in academic medical settings and community practice, an ideal combination for carrying out the Center for Global Health's expanding mission. He is also senior emergency physician at MGH, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital Boston.
Prior to joining the MGH, Dr. Burke was Associate Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a faculty member for the hospital's Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs. He also was Director of Development for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health and holds a faculty post at Children's Hospital Boston.
His many extraordinary experiences include 7 years in the U.S. Army with several overseas deployments and serving as the doctor for the FBI Hostage Rescue Team at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. He was director of the emergency department in the U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center during the Bosnian crisis and helped care for 28,000 refugees in Guantanamo Bay in 1995. Dr. Burke successfully started three companies (clinical applied trials and land development) and, in the mid-1990s, ran an NGO that developed medical education systems in Eastern Europe. Currently, Dr. Burke is the medical director for two companies that provide expeditions via private jets for international travel. Dr. Burke is an experienced, compelling public speaker. During the past six months, he has spoken at numerous national and international summits.
In addition to clinical articles that he has written for The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, 911 News, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, he is author of Topics in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (a textbook for eastern European physicians [in press]). He has also contributed chapters to Pearls and Pitfalls in Emergency Medicine (Stack LB, Storrow AB , Smith BA, eds., Greenwich: Clinical Communications, Inc., 1995). He is co-author of the column Notes from the ER.
Dr. Burke serves on several boards, including Americans for UNFPA and National Youth Leadership, and he has close ties to numerous national and international leaders.
David Y. Ting, MD
Harvard MGH Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, Program Director
Contact information: dting@partners.org
Dr. David Ting is an Assistant Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Ting graduated from Duke University with a B.S. degree in chemistry, and a double-major in political science, for which he received the Elizabeth G. Verville Political Science Award. He subsequently earned his MD degree at Duke, then completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency in the Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program (HCMP). During residency, Dr. Ting was recognized with the 1995 Donald Medeiras Resident Teaching Award in Pediatrics.
Upon graduation from residency in 1997, Dr. Ting became Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and he joined the staff of MGH as a primary care physician at MGH Everett Family Care, where he continues to precept residents and medical students. He also became an Assistant Program Director for the HCMP, where he oversaw significant growth in the training program. In 2002, he became Program Director; and currently continues as the Program Director of the Harvard MGH Med-Peds Program, which became a separately ACGME-accredited residency training program in 2006.
Dr. Ting’s academic interests include management and prevention of resident stress and burnout, which was his project focus while he was a Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education in 2005. He is also interested in studying and implementing mentoring programs for med-peds residents.
Dr. Ting became interested in global health when, as a medical student at Duke, he spent a year working at the Muhimbili Medical Center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has subsequently traveled and worked clinically in Costa Rica, Bangladesh, and recently Malawi, in southern Africa. His personal vision for involvement in global health is to participate and support sustainable development in the third-world, leading to improved health and health care for the world’s poorest citizens. He believes his position as a program director and faculty member comes with the responsibility to be a resource and encouragement to like-minded residents and students who have an interest and heart for reaching out to disadvantages people beyond our own country.
Kristian R. Olson, MD, MPH
Inpatient Clinical Educator, first Thomas S. Durant Fellow, CIMIT Global Health Initiative Program Leader, Senior Advisor to the MGH Center for Global Health
Contact Information: krolson@partners.org
Dr. Olson is on staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital as an Inpatient Clinical Educator in the Department of Medicine. He trained in the Harvard Combined Program in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He is a Senior Advisor at the MGH Center for Global Health and is the MGH Coordinator for the Humanitarian Studies Initiative for Residents Elective. In October 2006, he assumed the role as Program Leader of CIMIT’s Global Health Initiative directed a developing medical technology for low-resource settings.
Kris attended medical school at Vanderbilt University as a Justin Potter Scholar and, in 1996, was a US Fulbright Scholar to Australia where he completed a Masters of Public Health Degree in Epidemiology and International Health. In 2003, Dr. Olson was the first Thomas S. Durant Fellow in Refugee Medicine during which he obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London before spending most of 2003 working in refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese Border. In 2005, he worked with the American Refugee Committee in Darfur. Since 2005 he has worked as a consultant with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Tsunami-affected regions of Sumatra on primary health care rehabilitation. He has also worked on health projects in Cambodia and Kenya and is a Board Member of the Cambodian Health Committee.
W. Allan Walker, MD
Professor of Nutrition, Professor of Pediatrics
Contact Information: wwalker@partners.org
Allan Walker is the Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. After completing medical school at Washington University of St. Louis, he trained in Pediatrics and Immunology with Dr. Robert Good at the University of Minnesota before coming to Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School) to train in Gastroenterology and Nutrition with Dr. Kurt Isselbacher. Dr. Walker joined the faculty of Pediatrics in 1971 and became Professor in 1982. He currently is Director of Nutrition at HMS and Principal Investigator of the Mucosal Immunology Laboratory at MGHfC. Having consulted for AID and Harvard International he has developed many relationships with doctors in developing countries which have been the basis for international electives in the past. His research interests include the development of mucosal immune function and the role of breastfeeding and protective nutrients in the ontogeny of intestinal host defense. He has received numerous honors in recognition of his research including the Shwachman Award from NASPGHAN and the Hugh Butt Award from the AGA for mucosal immunologic observations and an R-37 (MERIT) Award from the National Institutes of Health for outstanding investigation in breast milk immunology. Recently, Dr. Walker’s laboratory has defined the cellular mechanism of probiotic protection in necrotizing enterocolitis.
Ian Michelow, MD
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Developmental Immunology
Contact Information: imichelow@parnters.org
Dr. Michelow originates from South Africa and he was trained in pediatrics in Johannesburg, where he remains in contact with friends in the public sector there. His work has granted him insight in working in a resource-poor setting in an area where HIV is prevalent. Since leaving South Africa in 1997, his clinical work and research is now based solely in Boston. Dr. Michelow’s research focuses on Innate Immunity. He is involved in 2 projects: 1) developing novel immunotherapeutic agents for treatment of Ebola and Marburg Viruses and 2) defining the early host responses to infection in an experimental burn model.
Ann Kao, MD, MPH
Assistant in Medicine and Pediatrics, Clinical Consultant – Cambodian Health Committee
Contact Information: akao@partners.org
Dr. Kao is currently a faculty member of the department of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as a Clinical Consultant for The Cambodian Health Committee. Previously she was the Commonwealth Fellow in Minority Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Durant Fellow in Refugee Medicine. Trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics, she joined tsunami relief efforts as part of “Project Hope” in 2005. She established a health center and hospital in a Rwandan refugee camp, and has also practiced international medicine in Romania and Vietnam. Dr. Kao also worked at a Navajo reservation in Arizona, and at an urgent care clinic in Massachusetts that serves Latin American immigrants. She received her undergraduate degree at Yale University, medical degree from the University of Washington, and completed her combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, and Children’s Hospital in Boston.
Kathleen Powis, MD
Global Women's Health Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Contact Information: kpowis@partners.org
Kate completed her medical education at Medical College of Virginia. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, having completed her Med-Peds Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. During residency she worked on multiple occasions in an area of Indonesia devastated by the 2004 tsunami. While she initially focused on rehabilitation of the primary health care system, she transitioned her focus to prevention of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.
Following residency, she accepted a Global Women’s Health Fellowship through Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The fellowship has afforded her the opportunity to continue to work on maternal child health. However, she has transitioned to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and has been working with the Botswana Harvard School of Public Health Partnership in Botswana on randomized control trials looking at PMTCT efficacy and safety.
Nupur Gupta, MD
Contact Information: ngupta3@partners.org
Who We Are | Opportunities for Pediatric Residents | Faculty
