Current Grayken Fellows in Addiction Medicine

Third Year Fellows

Simeon Kimmel, MD

Medical School/Graduate School: Harvard Medical School

Previous residency training: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Infectious Diseases Fellowship

Interests:  improving care for patients with and at risk for infectious complications of addiction including HIV, hepatitis C, and bacterial infections secondary to intravenous drug use; how social inequality and marginalization mediate individual risk

Payel Jhoom Roy, MD 

Medical School/Graduate School: SUNY Stony Brook SOM

Previous residency training: Boston Medical Center, Internal Medicine

Interests: Addiction medicine, underserved populations, medical education

First Year Fellows

Miriam Harris, MD

Medical School/Graduate School: MD from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, MSc from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; Epidemiology and biostatistics (expected)

Previous residency training: Resident in Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Fellow in General Internal Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Interests: Women’s health and addiction, substance use disorder treatment in pregnancy, and harm reduction

Raagini Jawa, MD

Medical School/Graduate School:

Previous residency training: Resident in Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

Interests: Opiate use disorder, harm reduction and medical education

David Kispert, MD

Medical School/Graduate School:

Previous residency training: Resident in Internal Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

Interests: Harm Reduction, Innovation Research, Medical Education, Improving access to substance use treatments in outpatient settings including Needle Exchange Programs

Alyssa Peterkin, MD

Medical School/Graduate School:

Previous residency training: Resident in Internal Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA

Interests: Alcohol use disorder, under represented populations, harm reduction and public health