I grew up primarily in West Virginia and attended Marshall University for both my undergraduate and medical education. Throughout medical school, I developed a passion for the intersection of pediatrics, psychiatry, and community advocacy, particularly through my work in rural health, child and adolescent mental health, and pediatric research. One of my most meaningful experiences has been founding The Giving Palm, an organization that brings diverse books and literacy programming to hospitalized children and underserved communities. I am excited to continue exploring these interests through the Boston Children’s Hospital–Tufts Medical Center Triple Board Residency Program and to learn how to better support children and families through integrated care. Outside of medicine, I enjoy being active, exploring new places with my dog, and spending time in the pottery studio.

I am from Massachusetts and grew up in Amesbury, MA. I went to Merrimack College and received my B.S in Biology. After college, I worked in a lab and completed my Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine. I returned to Tufts for medical school where I received my MD.

Kaye-Alese (she/her), originally from Jacksonville, Florida, went to college at the University of
Central Florida where she majored in Psychology and was Captain of the varsity volleyball
team. She then completed a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on Public
Health and Urban Education at UCF. Subsequently, she spent three years as a Project
Coordinator for the Vice President of Administration and Finance and CFO at UCF. Kaye-Alese
then came up to Boston for the MD/JD program at Boston University. She spent an additional
year as BU School of Medicine’s inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Fellow. Kaye-Alese has
huge amounts of leadership and service. As BUSM’s Diversity & Inclusion fellow, she
completed over 70 projects including development of an anti-racism curriculum, development
of the Glossary for Culture Transformation, and work as a faculty consultant implementing
antiracist curriculums. She presented at multiple grand rounds at various medical schools.
She has had substantial experience with development of other curricula as well, including a
professional development curriculum for college seniors and a cultural humility workshop for
MS1s. And she co-led content development for the Rethinking Advocacy in Medicine
Conference. She has been equally productive as a law student, with roles such as President
of BU’s Women’s Law Association and Editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine.
She has received national recognition for advancing diversity and policy transformation with
the Ms. JD Limitless Award, a national award celebrating women at the forefront of driving
change in the legal community and dedicated to advancing gender equity in law. Kaye-Alese
is joining the BCRP through the Triple Board track and has specific interests in health equity
policy, child abuse pediatrics, and adolescent medicine. Outside of work, Kaye-Alese enjoys
cooking and travel and has been to over 30 countries.

My name is Marissa (she/her), and I was born and raised in Ellicott City, Maryland. I went to college and medical school in New Orleans, Louisiana at Tulane University. I majored in Neuroscience and Psychology in undergrad. During medical school, I was involved in our student run health and vaccine clinics, teaching yoga and mindfulness practices to children/teens, and medical education. While in medical school, I also got my MPH in Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences. My MPH projects focused on health equity and resource cataloguing for families with young children with mental health needs. My academic interests in residency include medical education, integrated models of care with pediatrics and child psychiatry, early childhood mental health, and hospital/ICU medicine. In Boston, I live with my partner who I met in New Orleans while we were both in graduate school. Outside of the hospital, you can find me going for walks around the city, going to Pilates, hot yoga and other group fitness classes, watching reality TV with my co-residents, getting ice cream from Scoop and Scootery, and traveling.

I am a city boy at heart who grew up on a farm on the bayou in Southwest Louisiana. I attended Tulane University in New Orleans for undergraduate where I studied neuroscience and French. Among my earliest research experiences in the labs of Dr. Stacy Drury and Dr. Meghan Howell, I was first exposed to the world of child psychiatry and its interconnectedness with pediatric medicine, in addition to the idea of Triple Board training. Fast forward to medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, I continued to find my interests at the intersection of psychiatry and medicine with highlight rotations being addiction psychiatry consults, emergency psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. I plan on using my Triple Board training in a consult-liaison role and hope to work with patients with medical complexity. Outside of work, I am always traveling with my mom and my friends (9 new countries in residency and counting), going to spin or workout classes, or figuring out my next dinner reservation or recipe that I’m making. 

Tobi earned her MD in El Paso, TX from the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and her MPH from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, following undergraduate studies in biochemistry and justice and peace studies at Georgetown University.  Tobi’s clinical, research, and advocacy interests center on preventive psychiatry, early intervention, childhood trauma, suicide prevention, and the integration of mental health care into pediatric and community settings. She is particularly passionate about improving outcomes for children and adolescents affected by structural inequities, including youth involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Her work also explores global child mental health, culturally responsive care, and opportunities to strengthen mental health systems through education, research, and policy.  She is committed to a career that bridges clinical medicine, public health, and advocacy to advance equitable access to compassionate, evidence-based care. Outside of clinical training, Tobi enjoys cooking, traveling, and eating!

Originally from California, I attended undergraduate school at the University of San Diego before moving across the country to Massachusetts with Teach For America. For 6 years, I taught high school science and coached both varsity softball and volleyball in Boston Public Schools before returning to my medical studies. During that time, I earned a Master's of Education and, later, a Master's of Medical Science at Boston University completing my thesis work with the Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital investigating multidisciplinary treatments for children with chronic pain. I then continued my medical education journey in Philadelphia where I completed medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine and was able to further explore my interests in pediatrics, psychiatry, and academic medicine. I am beyond thrilled to return to Boston and have the opportunity to provide integrated care to the community I have come to know and love with the Boston Children’s Hospital – Tufts Medical Center Triple Board Residency Program.  If you can’t find me in clinic, you can find me back at the high school helping assist my husband who now coaches both varsity teams or out and about at a playground or park with our cars loving toddler and mini goldendoodle.

I am a proud second-generation Filipinx-American born in upstate NY but raised in Corpus Christi, TX. I spent six years in the Bay Area at Stanford where I majored in Human Biology with honors in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity before spending another two gap years working in health tech, as a personal trainer, and in higher education. I went to medical school at Texas Tech in Lubbock where I became heavily involved in their free clinic and community outreach groups and did research in pediatrics and psychiatry. My experiences and the many mentors I met along the way solidified my passion for improving access to multidisciplinary care and patient-centered approaches to addressing medical and psychiatric concerns within the family system. I am excited to combine my Triple Board training here in Boston to destigmatize mental health, particularly for immigrant and minority populations and bridge the knowledge gap between the specialties to make psychiatric care more accessible in primary care settings and vice versa. Being a Triple Boarder in this program has given me ample opportunity to engage in these efforts on all three fronts. In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my partner in Philadelphia (also a resident lol), anything food related, traveling, thrifting (hit me up if you find a sick vintage soccer jersey), staying active, playing pickleball, and trying out/brewing coffee.