Recent Graduates

A Partial List of our Former Residents

• Naz Baecher, M.D.
  After completing her undergraduate studies in philosophy and neuroscience at Boston University, she went on to study medicine at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Ph.D. work in neurophysiology and biophysics at Georgetown University. She has collaborated with world-renowned physician-scientists from the National Institutes of Health, Boston, Georgetown, Karolinska Institute, and Linkoping University in Sweden. She also served on multiple experimental science committees representing scientists on Capitol Hill and judged annual science undergraduate competitions held by the National Institutes of Health. Stepping away from formal training, she helped establish a MedTech startup company in Virginia that provides nationwide telehealth to private corporations.
• Melissa Hensley, M.D.
  ​Melissa Hensley graduated from Nazareth College of Rochester with a degree in Biology. She earned her MPH at the University of Rochester. While working on her MPH, she worked as a research assistant for a project focusing on worksite wellness and obesity prevention. She completed her MD at the University of Rochester. After internships in general surgery and pediatrics, Melissa took time away from clinical medicine to care for her 4 children.  She is looking forward to getting back into preventive medicine, and public health. Interests include access to healthcare, social determinants of health, Women's health, and mental health.  
• Elizabeth Helm, M.D., M.P.H.
  After completing my undergraduate training (B.S. Biology, B.A. Psychology) and medical school at SUNY Buffalo, I came to Rochester for a combined Family and Preventive Medicine Residency. My primary interests are Global Health, Maternal Child Health, and Nutrition, which I have been able to explore through the MPH curriculum and Preventive Medicine rotations. My husband, a native Arkansan, is completed his Pediatric Residency in Rochester in 2015. We are planning to move to Cameroon with our abroad with our son and daughter practice full spectrum primary and preventive care as part of our missionary calling. Until then, we are enjoying (have enjoyed) the many things we love about Western New York: hiking, swimming, sledding, cooking, attending festivals, church, and family. We are grateful for the excellent training and wonderful people Rochester continues to bring into our lives.
• Amanda Hagen, M.D., M.P.H.
  Dr. Hagen completed her residency in July 2011 after an initial internship year in internal medicine and 4 years of service in the U.S. Navy. Her Masters in Public Health Thesis was an online survey of Navy personnel regarding the possible institution of a no-smoking ban on all Naval bases and ships. She was hired by the University of Rochester Occupational Medicine Practice prior to graduation and is currently an Instructor in that department.
• Arianne Marie Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H.
  Dr. Mitchell completed a preliminary clinical year in pediatrics and a fellowship in Preventive Cardiology research at the University of Rochester prior to joining the Preventive Medicine Residency training program.  Her Masters in Public Health Thesis was entitled “Relationships Between Attachment, Health Care Utilization and Morbidity in Maltreated and Non-Maltreated Infants.” She is currently an Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California.
• Dulan Hailoo, M.D.
  
• Jeanne Lee, M.D., M.P.H.
  Jeanne Lee graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience. After taking some time off to participate in volunteer work through the local church community, she continued at UM to obtain her MD as well as MPH in health management and policy. During this time, she served as the community service chair and the president of her medical school’s chapter of the American Medical Association and was able to advocate for vulnerable patients on a local, state, and national level. She completed her internship in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and is excited to begin her preventive medicine residency at URMC. Her interests include improving healthcare disparities, social determinants of health, access to healthcare, and education in the underserved pediatric population. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and puppy, cooking/baking, watching K-dramas, and painting.
• Donna Pratt, M.D.
  Dr. Donna Pratt, MD, attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine and completed her residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and her Masters in Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati. She practiced Occupational Medicine at a multi-specialty clinic serving light, medium and heavy industries, and then went on to serve as a Partner and lead physician in the Healthcare Services & Solutions practice at a global executive search firm. She also worked during this time in the VA system. She became aware of the need for more physicians in the Addiction Medicine field after the statistics of one in eight to ten people afflicted by this brain disease hit close to home, thru family friends and colleagues. She decided to complete a fellowship in Addiction Medicine and after practicing in the field she realized in order to broaden her impact, the field of Preventive Medicine and Public Health would allow her to intervene in the course of this and other chronic diseases allowing people to reach their full potential and be able to contribute to society in their particular calling.
• Krystalyn R. Bates, D.O.
  Krystalyn Bates received her B.S. in Health Sciences in 2012 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. While an undergrad, she became interested in food insecurity and helped develop programs to address both hungry students and reduce food waste on campus. After graduating, she joined a research team with Northshore LIJ Health Systems where she acted as a research intern in the Emergency Department assisting on project that ranged from HIV  education research to the economic viability of the developing clinical decision unit. In line with her enjoyment of both learning and teaching, she spent years working as both an EMT and EMT assistant instructor. During this time, she also had a third job where she worked extensively with the developmentally disabled community particularly with disabled wards of New York as a habilitation and care coordinator.  In 2019, Krystalyn graduated as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and she completed her Internship year with a Traditional Rotating Internship at College Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. As a Preventive Medicine Resident, she has strong interest in vulnerable populations, health care policy and outreach, as well as addiction medicine.  In her free time, she enjoys drawing, painting, skateboarding, reading, and learning about history and mythology. 
• Lovelyne N. Sharma, M.D.
  Dr. Lovelyne Ngujede Sharma received her medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon. For five years she worked as a general practitioner in various urban and rural settings in Cameroon, volunteered in orphanages and other local communities. Her focus was in prenatal and maternal health, preventive care, vaccination promotion, HIV, tuberculosis and tropical diseases like malaria and typhoid. She also mentored medical students during community medicine rotations. After serving her community, her passion for advanced technology and innovation led her move to the United States where she obtained a Master of Science in Health Informatics from the University of South Florida. She also completed two years of family medicine residency at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. During this time, her interest in preventive medicine was piqued even more during chronic disease management encounters. The advent of her father giving up a blossoming political career due to preventable chronic health conditions, and eventually passing away from complications thereof only strengthened her interests. Hence, her pursuit of a career in preventive medicine and public health with a particular interest in epidemiology. She believes that prevention of disease is a key management step in healthy living, decreased healthcare cost, better quality of life and decreased hospitalizations for avoidable complications. Her interests include leveraging innovation and technology to provide high quality care, access to healthcare for all, chronic disease risk assessment, education and prevention. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters, cooking contests with her mother and siblings, crocheting, music, reading, yoga and kickboxing.
• John Adib, M.D.
  Dr. John Adib, MD went to medical school at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He later pursued technical coursework and experience in health informatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a clinical residency in psychiatry at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Afterwards, Dr. Adib combined his technical and clinical backgrounds in healthcare consulting. He has worked at a variety of healthcare systems across the nation including the Mayo Clinic, Cedars-Sinai, and New York City Health + Hospitals. Driven by a lifelong social conscience to serve, Dr. Adib believes innovations in technology and data science can advance public health helping improve the lives of millions. For that reason, he has chosen to pursue training in preventive medicine.
• ​Alicia Bell, M.D.
  Alicia Bell graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Classics, B.S. in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She earned her MD degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine in Richmond, VA and completed her internship at the Highland Family Medicine Residency Program in Rochester, NY. Prior to her medical education, she obtained a M.S. in Physiology focusing on Complementary and Alternative Medicine from Georgetown University and was founding Project Manager of PharmedOut, an independent project that empowers prescribers to identify and counter inappropriate pharmaceutical promotion practices and to rely upon evidence-based resources in clinical decision-making. She has previously served as Treasurer of the Board of Directors for both the SNMA and NWHN and has been passionate about issues in women’s health, medical education, health disparities and community engagement. At VCU, she was also active in the International/Inner City/Rural Preceptorship (I2CRP), where she engaged in didactic, community-based, clinical and research experiences addressing medically underserved populations. She volunteered with the VCU Student Medical Legal Partnership organizing lectures and recruiting peers to advocate for health issues at the state-level. Her myriad interests include health policy, reproductive health, community-based participatory research, health and environmental equity, patient safety and quality, medical informatics, history of medicine, and medical education. She has co-authored articles in both consumer health literature and in peer-reviewed journals. She enjoys reading, playing multiple instruments, listening to all kinds of music, and eating good food.
• Y. Victoria Gadbois, MD, MHA
  Dr. Gadbois received her bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Dallas, her master’s degree in Health Administration from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, and her medical degree from Saint Matthew’s University School of Medicine. She conducted her residency training in internal medicine at NYU Winthrop Hospital.  For more than a decade, she has practiced primary care medicine in urgent care and in private practice.  She frequently collaborates with and volunteers in several faith-based medical clinics in urban and rural areas in southeastern Wisconsin. Her interest in preventive medicine is in improving clinical services in the primary care setting by integrating the knowledge and skills of clinical medicine with the special skill sets of medical management and population health, specifically in rural communities. Dr. Gadbois and her family are new to the Rochester area. She and her husband have two young and active children that keep them busy. When they are not working, they enjoy exploring the area.
• Scott Matthews, M.D.
  Scott Matthews was educated at Yale University and the University of New Mexico.  He has a long-standing interest in preventive medicine, as a researcher and a clinician. Scott’s research activities include mapping environmental gene flow, use of systems theory to develop health policy, polymer chemistry, drug delivery, infectious disease prevention, tropical medicine, urban water quality, and global health.  He is now in the process of filing a patent for an environmentally friendly mosquito larvicide effective against vectors of Zika virus, malaria, and dengue fever with longtime collaborator Ravi Durvasula. His clinical interests include environmental health, primary prevention of psychiatric illness, use of deciduous teeth to screen for lead exposure, treatment of immune dysfunction, addiction medicine, development of social media platforms to promote Type II diabetes management, and food intolerance.  Prior to his career in preventive medicine, Scott worked in music, pharmaceutical development, and education.  In his spare time, he enjoys music composition, Taylor guitars, running, yoga, and Muay Thai.
• ​Janaki Nathan, M.D.
  Janaki Nathan completed college at University of Chicago and earned a B.S. in Chemistry. After two years of doing basic science research, she attended medical school at University of Rochester. She especially enjoyed learning about the genetic and environmental factors that influence neuroscience, psychology, and human behavior. She also worked on two rewarding public health research studies: one assessing water use and need for a sanitation intervention in rural Ecuador and one evaluating a mentoring program designed to increase emotional literacy in Rochester elementary school children. After she received her medical degree, she started child neurology residency at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. There she realized that she wanted to do clinical work that focused more on psychological health. She relocated to Seattle, WA, where she worked at the University of Washington on a clinical research study examining the correlations between mental health symptoms in self-harming, suicidal adolescents and parental validating and invalidating behaviors. Following that experience, she returned to University of Rochester and started psychiatry residency before transitioning to preventive medicine residency. She enjoys supporting patients with chronic physical, mental, and social health problems to make health behavior changes that improve their quality of life. Outside of work, Janaki enjoys being in nature, running, yoga, spending time with family and friends, salsa dancing, art and music experiences, playing board games, gardening, and birdwatching.
• (Michael) Jacob Adams, M.D., M.P.H.
  Dr. Adams completed his residency in July 2011, during a leave of absence from his faculty position. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester with a primary interest in the health of cancer survivors, and a primary research focus in the cardiotoxic effects of cancer therapy, particularly radiation exposure to the chest. He credits his residency experience with expanding his clinical and research interests into the realms of patient safety and smoking cessation. For more information see Dr. Adams’ profile.
• Douglas J. Ball, M.D., M.P.H.
  Dr. Ball was the first resident in the re-established General Preventive Medicine and Public Health residency program at the University of Rochester and received his M.D. degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Upon graduating from the residency, Dr. Ball became the Medical Director for the Bureau of Emergency Management of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and later took the same position in the New York State Public Health Department. Currently he is board certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine, is a consultant with a private firm and is pursuing his doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina.
• Jill Abramson, M.D., M.P.H.
  After completing a residency in Pediatrics and her MPH, Dr. Abramson completed her preventive medicine residency training in our program. She is currently the Chief of the Program Development Section, Children’s Medical Services, Department of Health Care Services, State of California.