News from Cambridge Health Alliance
January 7, 2010
Cambridge Health Alliance's Revere Family Health
Center Expands Staff to Improve Primary Care Access
Revere, MA…Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) has expanded
the staff at its Revere
Family Health center to meet the growing need for primary care
services. Physicians Shusmita Dhar, MD, and C. Jasmine
Karalakulasingam, MD, have joined the practice while Megan
Littlefield, MD, has been named the center's co-medical director.
The changes bolster CHA's capacity to care for more patients in
the metro-north communities of Revere, Everett, Chelsea, and Winthrop.
Dr. Shusmita "Shoma" Dhar comes to Revere Family Health
from CHA's Cambridge Family Health North practice. She received
a medical degree at Brown University, where she led innovative service
programs for the underserved, including a medical student volunteer
program to care for the homeless at the Rhode Island Free Clinic.
She completed the Harvard Medicine-Pediatrics Residency program
and has published research on promoting health literacy among refugee
women domestically and rural women internationally. Dr. Dhar will
see patients of all ages.
Dr. C. Jasmine Karalakulasingam recently completed the Don Hoskins
Quality and Patient Safety Fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center
in New York. In addition to serving as an internal medicine and
pediatrics physician as part of the fellowship, she worked extensively
with hospital leadership on a number of quality improvement projects.
She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, earned
her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and acted
as chief resident while training in the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics
Residency program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Karalakulasingam will see patients
of all ages.
Dr. Megan Littlefield joined Revere Family Health in 2005. Since
then, she has led a number of initiatives to enhance the quality
and effectiveness of care both at the center and throughout CHA.
Prior to joining CHA, she attended the University of Maryland School
of Medicine and trained at the University of Chicago in internal
medicine and pediatrics, serving as chief resident at MacNeal Hospital.
As the center's co-medical director, she will continue her efforts
to advance quality and optimize use of electronic records, in addition
to seeing patients of all ages.
CHA's Revere
Family Health Center, located at 454 Broadway in Revere, is
accepting new primary care patients of all ages. For more information,
call 781-485-8222.
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