Our Team
2022 Team
KELLY WONG HEIDEPRIEM
Founder of Patient Voting
SABA PARACHA
Executive Board Member
NICOLE BURNS
National Co-Director
ANITA ZAHIRI
Executive Board Member
KEYANA ZAHIRI
National Co-Director
ANNA BRINKHUIS
Social Media and Graphic Design Manager
2020 Board
ALISON
HAYWARD, MD MPH
Emergency physician
Faculty in the Division of Global Health, Brown Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Representing
Rhode Island
Research Team
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OLIVER TANG
Research Team Leader
SABA PARACHA
Research Team Member
NICOLE BURNS
Research Team Member
GIOVANNI KOZEL
Research Team Member
KEYANA ZAHIRI
Research Team Member
Hospitals
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Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
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The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
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Newport Hospital, Newport, RI
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Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
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Northwell Health System, NY
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Philadelphia, PA
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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), Philadelphia, PA
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Sanford Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD
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Avera Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD
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Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton, SD
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Dignity Health – Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge, CA
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Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles, CA
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University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI
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Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, FL
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Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
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Penn State Health, Hershey, PA
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Medical School Chapters (Coming Soon)
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
Representing
South Dakota
State Representatives
McKenna Mathews
Created Spanish language version for South Dakota
Current junior at Augustana University. Interested in public health.
Vedant Thakkar
Working in resources for long-term care facility residents
Augustana Universtiy student. Interested in cell and Molecular Biology, especially in the area of drug development and vaccination
Chris Lucido
Patient Voting Coordinator - South Dakota
MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. MD/PhD track.
Geralyn Palmer
Patient Voting In-Hospital Team
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MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
Michael Andreone
Patient Voting In-Hospital Team
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MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
Matthew Wennberg
Created Spanish language version for South Dakota
Biology and Spanish major at Augustana University. Interested in medicine.
Isabel Bathke
Working in resources for long-term care facility residents
Augustana Universtiy student. Biology Major interested in Medicine
Christopher Van Hove
Patient Voting In-Hospital Team
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MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
Jordan Dykstra
Patient Voting In-Hospital Team
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MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
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Lincy Smith Méndez
Created Spanish language version for South Dakota
Junior at Augustana University majoring in Psychology & Modern Foreign Language (French and Spanish) on a pre-medicine track.
Amrutha Alluri
Working in resources for long-term care facility residents.
Augustana Universtiy student.
Kristin Inman
Patient Voting In-Hospital Team
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MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
Sean Clausen
Patient Voting In-Hospital Team
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MS4 at University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
COLLIN
MICHELS, MD
Emergency Medicine resident
Stanford Emergency Medicine residency
Representing
Northern California
KRISTEN
SANTARONE
Medical Student
Third year medical student at Nova Southeastern University
Representing
Florida
SHARLEEN
YUAN, MD PhD
EM/IM resident
University of Maryland
Representing
Maryland
JENNIFER
TSAI, MD
Emergency Medicine resident
Yale Emergency Medicine residency
Representing
Connecticut
FARAH
RAHMAN, MPH
Medical Student
Started an initiative for family medicine health clinics within the Loyola University Health System. Click on the IL page for more on her project.
Representing
Loyola Health System, Illinois
COMING
SOON
Title
Bio
Representing
State
EMILY
AGER, MD
Emergency Medicine resident
University of Michigan
Representing
Michigan
AARON
GILANI
Medical Student
MS3 at Indiana University School of Medicine and founder of Prescribe It Forward
Representing
Indiana
AARON
SHAPIRO, MD
Resident Physician
Founder of Citizens Physicians.
Representing
Bronx, NY
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ERIN SMITH
LISA SCHAVRIEN
Obstetric Nurse Navigators
Created Northwell Health Voting (patientvoting@northwell.edu). See more on the NY state page.
Representing
Northwell Health, New York
BRENDAN KELLEY
Medical Student
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Current medical student
Representing
Albany area
KELLY WONG, MD
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Founder of Patient Voting
Emergency Medicine resident at Brown University interested in patient advocacy and rural medicine.
Representing
Rhode Island, South Dakota
ALISON
HAYWARD, MD MPH
Emergency physician
Faculty in the Division of Global Health, Brown Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Representing
Rhode Island
RONALD PHILLIPS
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Medical Student
Medical Student at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Representing
Rhode Island, Pennsylvania
Chelsea Woicekowski, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Emergency Medicine physician assistant.
Representing
Main Line Health Hospitals, Pennsylvania
Ben
Meyerink, MD
Family Medicine Physician
Mayo Family Medicine Residency alum.
Representing
South Dakota
Doug Scaffidi
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Emergency Department Technician
Bio here
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Representing
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center