University of Michigan Scholars

Justin Hunt, MD
University of Michigan

Justin Hunt, MD is a psychiatrist who completed both medical school and general psychiatry training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR.  While completing residency, Dr. Hunt developed an interest in studying college mental health services.  Through his residency research track, he completed a qualitative study examining college counseling centers throughout the South and Midwest.  In addition, he was awarded the prestigious Laughlin Fellowship by the American College of Psychiatrists and also participated in the NIMH-funded Career Development Institute hosted by the Univ. of Pittsburgh and Stanford University Departments of Psychiatry.  He is active on the national level by serving as a consultant to the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Mental Health on College and University Campuses.   His current research interests focus on the organization of college mental health services and financial barriers to care including frequent gaps in insurance coverage among the college and broader young adult population. 

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Christie Lancaster, MD
University of Michigan

Christie Lancaster, MD is an obstetrician and gynecologist. As an undergraduate, she majored in Spanish at Davidson College and is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her residency in OB/GYN at the Universityof Florida.  Her research interests include screening for antenatal depression and utilization of care among obstetric patients with psychiatric disease.

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Tammon Nash, MD
University of Michigan

Tammon Nash, MD is a pathologist who earned her BS in Physiology from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. She received her medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. She completed her residency at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI and her fellowship in Transfusion Medicine at the Blood Center of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Nash is interested in Transfusion Medicine and policy and her research will focus on significant disparities in health care as they relate to underrepresented minorities and factors influencing blood and organ donation.

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Comilla Sasson, MD
University of Michigan

Comilla Sasson, MD is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.  She completed her emergency medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  Her work with the uninsured population at Grady Hospital and on the national level in emergency medicine resident issues sparked her interest in pursuing the RWJ Clinical Scholars program.  Her areas of research interest include predictors of survivability of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and emergency department utilization patterns of nursing home patients within their last six months of life. 

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Lisa Schweigler, MD, MPH
University of Michigan

Lisa Schweigler, MD, MPH (VA Scholar) is an emergency medicine physician who completed her residency at the University of Michigan/St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2007. Her current research interests center around the problem of emergency department overcrowding. She is focusing on how overcrowding affects the function of the ED as a safety net, specifically for vulnerable populations. Additionally, Lisa also has an interest in international emergency medicine, specifically how ED utilization differs between countries and health systems.

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Vijay Singh, MD, MPH
University of Michigan

Vijay Singh, MD, MPH, is a family physician who earned a BA in Biology and an MD from Northwestern University.  Before residency he graduated with an MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he also completed a post-doctoral research training fellowship.  He completed family medicine residency at UCLA, where he served as an Academic Chief Resident in his last year of training.  Dr. Singh’s research career began in medical school, when he conducted a qualitative study at the Navajo Indian Reservation, performed a family violence screening project in the Cook County Hospital emergency department, and presented both of these topics at American Public Health Association Annual Conventions.  While a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, he co-wrote a book chapter on the health of children in cities and undertook research on developing a primary care screening program for perpetration of domestic violence.  As a Clinical Scholar he will gain a health services research training and perspective while continuing these investigations into family violence screening in primary care.

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Gareth Warren, MD
University of Michigan

Gareth Warren, MD (VA Scholar) is a general surgery resident at SUNY Upstate Medical University.  He is interested in disparities and outcomes in renal transplantation within minority and underserved populations. Gareth completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland.

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Carla Keirns, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Carla Keirns, M.D., Ph.D. is an internist from the University of Pennsylvania who holds a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science. The topic of her Ph.D. is also the clinical topic she would like to study – asthma – particularly the association of high community rates of asthma with low socio-economic status.

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Manya Newton, M.D.
University of Michigan

Manya Newton, M.D., MPH is an emergency physician. She studied English and anthropology at Rice University, medicine at New York University School of Medicine, and public health at Columbia University prior to her training in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan.  Her primary interests are social disparities in the emergency department and the demography and economics of the uninsured. As a Clinical Scholar, Dr. Newton conducted research to evaluate the feasibility of a health and legal intervention for the uninsured in the emergency department and is currently evaluating the differences in PCP usage, ED usage, and health outcomes between urban and rural uninsured. Dr. Newton is enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and was just awarded the Rackham Merit Award for her research on and interest in health disparities and the underserved.

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Ann-Marie Rosland, M.D.
University of Michigan

Ann-Marie Rosland, MD is a general internist examining the care of adult chronic diseases, with an emphasis on chronic disease care in underserved communities.  She received her MD from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, and was an internal medicine resident at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was designated the C. William Hansen Primary Care Resident of the Year.  Prior to entering the Clinical Scholars program she worked as a clinician in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health Community Health Centers. Dr. Rosland has presented research on uninsured U.S. Veterans and on teaching Community Oriented Primary Care to resident physicians.  She has been invited to speak to medical trainees on physician advocacy and on caring for underserved patients.  Her current research projects address social barriers to chronic disease care and the role of family and community health workers in a Community Based Participatory Research intervention for diabetes patients in Detroit, Michigan.  

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