Investigative Medicine Program

Alumni	Current Position
Charlotte Ariyan, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2003 — Matriculated July 2000 Strategies to Improve Islet Cell Transportation	Assistant Attending Physician Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY
Karen Dorsey, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2006 — Matriculated July 2003 Measurement of Physicial Activity in Obese and Non-Obese Children	Instructor, Pediatrics Yale University School of Medicine
Susan Hardy, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated December 2004 — Matriculated July 2002 Patterns, Probability and Predictors of Recovery from Disability in Activites of Daily Living among Community-Dweling Older Persons	Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh
Hatim Hassan, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2007 — Matriculated July 2002 Mechanisims of Regulation of Anion Exchanger SLC26A6	Associate Research Scientist Department of Medicine Section of Nephrology Yale University School of Medicine
Erica Herzog, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated December 2005 — Matriculated July 2001 Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells as Progenitors of Alveolar Epithelium	Assistant Professor of Medicine Yale University School of Medicine
Nancy Kim, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2008 — Matriculated July 2004 Persistence with Oral Hypoglycemic Therapy One Year After Initiation	Instructor, Section of General Medicine Yale University School of Medicine Staff Physician VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Samuel Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2004 — Matriculated July 2000 Trafficking and Secretion of Virulence-associated Proteins in Candida albicans	Section Chief, Infectious Diseases VA Albuquerque Medical Center Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases University of New Mexico Health Science Center Albuquerque, NM
Warren Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2006 — Matriculated July 2001 Characterization of Candidate Susceptibility Genes in Human Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Mesial Temporal Sclerosis	Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
John Liao, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2007 — Matriculated July 2004 Studies in Therapeutic Vaccination and Immune Evasion by PHV Oncoproteins	Instructor/Clinical Fellow Division of Gynecologic Oncology Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Edward J. Miller, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2008 — Matriculated July 2003 The Cardioprotective Effects of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase	Staff Cardiologist National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, Maryland
Varman Samuel, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated May 2004 — Matriculated July 2000 Mechanisns of Fat Induced Hepatic Insulin Resistance	Assistant Professor of Medicine Yale University School of Medicine
David van Duin, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated December 2007 — Matriculated July 2004 Toll-Like Receptors in Older Adults and Response to Vaccination	Assistant Professor Infectious Diseases Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University Foundation
Ram Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. Graduated December 2004 — Matriculated July 2002 Metabolic Characteristics of Obese Children with Normal vs Impaired Glucose Tolerance	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Hadassah Hebrew University School of Medicine Department of Medicine/Endocrinology