Faculty & Fellows

Fellowship Director - Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd.

Vice Chair for Research, Professor of Family Medicine,
Tufts University

Dr. Shaughnessy has been an educator in family medcine for thirty years and has been the Fellowship director since its inception. He completed his B.S. Pharm. at Temple University, Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Masters of Medical Education at the University of Dundee. He has completed two fellowships, the Faculty Development Fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina and the U.S. Bureau of Health Professions Primary Care Health Policy Development Fellowship. Click here to view Dr. Shaughnessy's curriculum vitae.

Dr. Shaughnessy is internationally known for his teaching in information mastery and has taught in Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Spain, Denmark, and Saudi Arabia, as well as throughout the United States. In 2002 he received the Innovative Program Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the 2005 Lifetime Faculty Achievement Award from the Family Medicine Education Consortium. Dr. Shaughnessy has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles on the topics of information management and medical education.

Other Faculty

The Malden-based residency faculty are also involved in the Fellowship. Drs. Caiazzo, Cheung, Early, Gordon, Pong, Sokol, Cerulli and Crespo have completed faculty development fellowships and most of the other teaching faculty have completed clinical fellowships.

Current Fellow

Omar Wahid, MD

(M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, Residency, Tufts University Residency at CHA)

Past Fellows

Tom Albert, MD (2018)

Lauren Hoogewerff, MD (2019)

Current position: Faculty, Institute for Family Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program (Downtown Residency in Urban Family Medicine)

Clinton Pong, MD (2017)

Current positions: Faculty member, Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance; Course Director, Competency-Based Apprenticeship in Primary Care, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University

Aaliyah Rizvi, MD (2017)

Current position: Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Boston University

Jessica Early, MD (2016)

Current positions: Director of Inpatient Adult Medicine, Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University

Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd (2016)

Current position: Director, Faculty Development, Director, Pain and Addictions Curriculum, Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University

Deborah R. Erlich, MD, MMedEd (2014)

Current positions: Family Medicine Clerkship Director, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University

Nancy Youssef, MD (2014)

Current position: Director of Education, Physicians Immediate Care Group, Chicago

Molly Cohen-Osher, MD, MMedEd (2012)

Current positions: Assistant Dean of Medical Education for Instructional Design and Development, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Boston University

Jennifer Sparks, MD (2012)

Current positions: President-Elect, Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Kristen Goodell, MD (2011)

Assistant Dean of Admissions, Boston University; Chair of the national Council on Graduate Medical Education and Co-Chair of the Leadership Development Task Force of the Council on Academic Family Medicine

Ariella Ofran, MD, MPH (2011)

Medical Director, Family Medicine clinic, Clalit Health Services (Israel)

Cung B. Pham, MD, MPH (2010)

Current position: Family physician, Health Care Partners, Redondo Beach, CA.