CURRENT AND FORMER FELLOWS

Current Fellows (2010-2011)

Deborah R. Erlich, MD, has always lived in the Northeast, including several moves through New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and has lived in Cambridge and Boston for the last decade. She earned her bachelor's in psychology at Harvard and wrote a thesis on perceptions of race. After college, she worked with cancer patients at Mass General Hospital and then went to medical school at Tufts, when she embraced Family Medicine and medical education. Deb has worked at hospitals in San Francisco, Israel, and England, where she got along in Spanish, Hebrew, and "British." Her medical interests include child/adolescent medicine, women's health, skin care, and preventive medicine. On the opposite end of the medical spectrum is her husband, an anesthesiology resident with an interest in critical care. Outside of work they enjoy cooking, swimming, motorcycling, and snowboarding, but not all at the same time.

Past Fellows

Jennifer Sparks, MD, native Floridian, completed medical school at the University of South Florida and her residency in Family Medicine at University of New Mexico Family Medicine. Her teaching interests include curriculum design, application of education theory, and teaching chronic pain management. Her clinical interests include international medicine, provision of care to immigrants in a culturally based context, maternity care, and community outreach. When not teaching, studying, or practicing, Jen pursues international travel and service, the arts, symphony, and community volunteering.

Molly Cohen-Osher, MD, hails from New Jersey. She completed her medical school training at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, NJ. After spending her intern year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Family Medicine Residency Program, she finished her family medicine training the MacNeal Family Medicine Residency Program in Berwyn, IL. Her teaching interests center on faculty development, curriculum development, procedure skills assessment, and education theory. Her clinical interests include office procedures, the care of inpatients, and the care of children. In her free time, she performs with an a cappella group, travels, and snowshoes in the parks in and around Boston.

Cung B. Pham, MD, MPH completed the Fellowship in 2008. A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine and the Northridge Family Practice Residency, Cung now teaches full time.

Ariella Ofran, MD, MPH completed the Fellowship in 2009. A native Israeli, Ariella practiced and taught at the Maccabi Halth Services Northern District offices, establishing a new clinic alongside an academic teaching clinic. She has returned to Israel where she is teaching and practicing in a clinic that serves a mixed Arab-Jewish population. She is also quite involved in improving CME across the country.

Kristen Goodell, MD, completed the Fellowship in 2009. She is graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and our own Tufts Family Medicine Residency. Kristen divides her time between a private practice in nearby Medford, Massachusetts, and teaching activities. She is quite involved in medical student education at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving as clerkship coordinator and course director for the Foundations of Medicine course. She also teaches in the residency and fellowship programs.