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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

A residency program is, in many ways, nothing more than the constellation of people that work together to make it happen. Across the spectrum of general medicine and in its subspecialties, our dedicated and diverse faculty brings enthusiasm for teaching and learning, commitment to providing high quality patient care, and interest in mentoring resident physicians. As the profiles below depict, they also bring passion for the mission of the institution and creativity in research and advocacy that advances that mission.

Anne Fabiny, MD
"Cambridge Health Alliance is the only academic health center in greater Boston that has two outstanding clinical programs to serve frail, community-dwelling older adults. The organization has a clear commitment to meeting the needs of this population, which also allows us to also teach in a wide variety of settings."

Anne Fabiny is the Chief of Geriatrics at CHA. She is a clinician-educator and deeply committed to providing students and housestaff with a meaningful, evidence-based education in the care of older adults in a variety of settings. She is the co-director of the Harvard Medical School/Reynolds Foundation Award Advancement of Geriatrics Education Project. Dr. Fabiny completed her residency training in family medicine at the University of Wisconsin and her fellowship in geriatrics at Harvard. She has served as the geriatrics fellowship director and director of geriatrics education at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before coming to CHA in 2006.

Rose Goldman, MD
"Understanding our patients means seeing them in their environmental and social context. At Cambridge Health Alliance we reach beyond the office."

Dr. Goldman has spent 20 years bridging the worlds of environmental medicine and public health with clinical medicine through teaching, research, clinical practice, and public service. After completing residencies in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, she joined the faculty at The Cambridge Hospital in 1981. She founded the hospital's program in Occupational and Environmental Medicine where she continues an active clinical practice. At Harvard Medical School, at Harvard School of Public Health, and within our residency program, she is recognized as an enthusiastic educator and mentor. Her research interests include in neurotoxicity, heavy metals, repetitive strain injuries, and pediatric environmental health.

David Himmelstein, MD
"Cambridge Health Alliance is unique, driven by a mission of service for the oppressed. It fulfills this mission not just by seeking excellence in the clinic, but also by nurturing research and advocacy on behalf of the underserved."

Dr. David Himmelstein is a respected primary care clinician and internationally-recognized health policy researcher. He completed an internal medicine residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, and a research fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard. He is a leading advocate for US national health insurance and co-founder of the single-payer advocacy group, "Physicians for a National Health Program." He has published five books and more than seventy research articles on access to care and health care financing. At Cambridge Health Alliance, Dr. Himmelstein supervises a journal club for residents, and leads both the Department's Division of Social and Community Medicine and the general medicine research team

Marie Louise Jean-Baptiste, MD
"Cambridge Health Alliance has given me the tools and the opportunity to work with an ethnically diverse community. I take great pride in being able to serve in such an extremely rich milieu and am fortunate to be able to fulfill my deepest aspirations in serving this community."

Dr. Jean-Baptiste graduated from the School of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Haiti. After completing her primary care training at The Cambridge Hospital, she joined the faculty. Her areas of interest are HIV medicine and culturally competent care. She serves as the residency program's Director for Minority Affairs and works to recruit and mentor resident physicians from under-represented minority backgrounds. She has also helped establish a support system that includes events to facilitate relationships between minority residents and faculty. Dr. Jean-Baptiste teaches cultural competence at Harvard Medical School.

Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD
"I feel proud and fortunate to be part of an institution where human relationships are recognized as centrally important to what we do. Our physicians genuinely care about their patients, our teachers about their students, colleagues about each other."

Dr. Liz Gaufberg trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry at CHA and has been on the faculty of both departments for the past 12 years. She directs both psychosocial social training for the CHA Medicine Residency Program and social science training for the Harvard Medical School Cambridge Integrated Clerkship. Liz has a strong interest in medical professionalism and has developed an interactive professional boundaries curriculum for medical trainees. Liz is a co-founder of the CHA medical humanities initiative which strives to incorporate art and literature into medical student and residency education, and is a co-editor of Auscultations, the CHA employee literary arts journal.

"Without a doubt this has been one of the most professionally rewarding jobs I've ever held. The staff is outstanding in both their level of expertise and their commitment to patient care and academics. The community is supportive and diverse. And the program for medical education seems to have found that delicate balance between high expectations and humane treatment."

Michael Payne was born and raised in Chicago. He earned BA, MD, and MPH degrees from Harvard and completed both an internal medicine residency and a gastroenterology fellowship in Boston. He worked for 15 years in a private multispecialty group in Williamstown, MA where he served as the hospital's chief of endoscopy. He spent three years with a gastrointestinal specialist group in Nashville, TN before joining the Cambridge Health Alliance staff in 2006. He has had a long interest in education and has lectured widely in colleges across the country on diversity and academic performance. He serves as a nonresident tutor and pre-med advisor at one of Harvard College houses. When he is not teaching or taking care of patients, he enjoys astronomy, scuba diving, fencing, and helping his four children with homework.