Yale University Scholars

Chisaraokwu Asomugha, MD, MPH
Yale University

Chisaraokwu Asomugha, MD, MPH is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in history at Stanford. She received her medical degree from Duke University, a masters degree in public health at the University of North Carolina and completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Pittsburg. Dr. Asomugha is interested in research and advocacy related to child abuse and neglect.

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Jill Barron, MD
Yale University

Jill Barron, MD is a child psychiatrist who received her undergraduate degree in foreign languages at Adelphi University. She attended Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico and completed her medical degree at SUNY Brooklyn School of Medicine. Dr. Barron recently completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center and at the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy. Her research interests include understanding the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and the development of best treatment practices to inform policy and protect at-risk children. She is also interested in mental health parity.

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Peggy Chen, MD, MSc
Yale University

Peggy Chen, MD, MSc is a pediatrician who received her undergraduate degree in English at Stanford. She received her medical degree at Columbia and a masters degree in science in health policy, planning and finance at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics. Dr. Chen completed her pediatric residency at Yale. She has a particular interest in health inequalities in the pediatric population and pediatric care in resource-limited areas.

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Luke Hansen, MD
Yale University

Luke Hansen, MD is an internist who received his undergraduate degree in American studies at Yale and his medical degree at Loyola University in Chicago. Dr. Hansen completed a residency in general internal medicine/primary care as well as a tenure as Chief Medical Resident at Brown University-Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Hansen’s research interests are in disparities in access to health services and disparities in health outcomes with a particular focus on pain management.

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SreyRam Kuy, MD
Yale University

SreyRam Kuy, MD, (VA Scholar) is a surgery resident who received her undergraduate degrees in philosophy and microbiology at Oregon State University and worked as a Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar for Senator Tom Harkin.

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Mitesh Rao, MD
Yale University

Mitesh Rao, MD (VA Scholar) is a surgery resident who received his undergraduate and medical degrees in a 6-year program at Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College. He is currently a surgery resident at SUNY Upstate Medical College. Dr. Rao is interested in breast cancer treatment and preventive care disparities in African American and Caucasian populations.

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Mehul Dalal, M.D., M.Sc.
Yale University

Mehul Dalal, M.D., M.Sc. is an internist who received his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University and both his medical degree and masters in Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed a primary care medicine residency at New York University/Bellevue Hospital after which he stayed on as an attending physician for one year. Dr. Dalal’s research interest is in the application of clinical practice guidelines in the primary care setting.

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Rachel Skeete, M.D.
Yale University

Rachel Skeete, M.D. is an internist who received her undergraduate degree in Community Health from Brown University. Following graduation, she worked as a coordinator for AmeriCorps and then returned to Brown for medical school. She completed a general internal medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. After residency, she worked as a hospitalist within the VA system and was an attending physician on the Rapid Response Team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Skeete is interested in research on health disparities with particular emphasis on the social and environmental factors that influence health outcomes. She is interested in examining the impact of neighborhood contextual factors on outcomes in chronic disease and using this to direct health policy research.

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