Internal Medicine Residency - Leadership

Internal Medicine Residency Program Leadership

Kathleen Finn MD, M.Phil – Program Director

Hometown: East Northport, NY
College: University of Pennsylvania
Medical School: Harvard
Residency/Fellowship: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Academic Interests: Passionate about medical education and teaching and medical education research. Check out my publications on Effect of Increased Inpatient Attending Supervision on Medical Errors, Patient Safety and Resident Education (JAMA IM 2018) or How to Become a Better Clinical Teacher: A Collaborative Peer Observation Process (Medical Teacher 2011) or Misinterpretation of the American Board of Internal Medicine Leave Policies for Resident Physicians Around Parental Leave (Annals of Internal Medicine 2020).
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: Perfect sized residency program for personalized education and attention with a wide variety of opportunities.
Things I do for fun: I love running, skiing, biking, travel (especially traveling by bike), going to the theatre or orchestra, trying new restaurants. Plus, binge watching the latest shows on Netflix.

Taimur Dad MD, MS – Associate Program Director for Resident Development

Hometown: Born in Pakistan, immigrated to the Greater Boston Area which I now call home!
College: Brandeis University
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Residency/Fellowship: Tufts Medical Center (for IM residency and Nephrology fellowship).
Academic Interests: How to foster the growth and development of trainees in medicine through advising, mentoring, and coaching. Developing opportunities for trainees to be involved in teaching and medical education scholarship. Applying core concepts of adult learning theory to medical education.
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: Smaller academic program with a collegial and supportive environment, ability to learn from specialists through the subspecialty ward services, location in the heart of Boston.
Things I do for fun: Being physically active, travelling, reading, and spending time with family.

Natasha Pradhan, MBBS – Associate Program Director for Simulation and POCUS

Hometown: Pune, India
Medical School: B. J. Govt. Medical College, Pune, India
Residency/Fellowship: Tufts Medical Center (IM residency) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship)
Academic Interests: I am passionate about learning through team-based simulations, point-of-care-ultrasound and medical education research. My clinical interests include pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure.
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: In one word- for the people! The work environment is friendly, collegial and supportive. A great place to build a career.
Things I do for fun: In my free time I enjoy biking around the city, salsa dancing and am learning how to ski. I also enjoy traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Kinjalika Sathi, MD – Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Education

Hometown: Denver, CO
College: University of Pennsylvania
Medical School: Tufts School of Medicine
Residency/Fellowship: Tufts Medical Center
Academic Interests: My clinical interests include obesity medicine (including medical weight loss), women’s health, and addiction medicine/OBAT. I am passionate about medical education and enjoy mentoring residents and watching them grow as physicians.
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: Hands down the people - warm, friendly, approachable group that I felt like I could learn a lot from and would always support me in my career.
Things I do for fun: Reading/book clubs, running, board games (Settlers of Catan), drawing/sketching, and spending time with my family including my fun-loving twins.

Prianka Chawla, MD – Associate Program Director for Wellness and Assistant Director of Ambulatory Education

Hometown: Dover, MA
College: Wellesley College
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency/Fellowship: Tufts Medical Center
Academic Interests: I love the opportunities to teach at the medical school, as well as being involved with curriculum and educational experience for the IM residents. Even better is the opportunity to engage learners during preclinical years, work with them again on the wards, and then watch them grow as residents, chiefs, fellows and on. Similarly, I thrive on longitudinal relationships with my primary care patients, and the privilege of helping people improve their physical and mental health alike.
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: The people, great support, ability to take care of people from all walks of life, opportunities to be involved in medical education at multiple levels.
Things I do for fun: Exercise (Peloton), create food with veggies from our garden, dance, hike with family including small children and our dog, explore all of the amazing destinations in New England.

Rachel Erdil, MD – Associate Program Director for Academic Advising and Curriculum

Hometown: Northampton, MA
College: Wellesley College
Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Residency/Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital (Med-Peds residency), MGH-BWH (Infectious Diseases fellowship)
Academic Interests: My clinical interests include longitudinal care of people living with HIV/AIDS, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and antimicrobial stewardship. I love being able to teach and mentor learners from the early days of medical school through the end of fellowship, as well as working to improve the curriculum and mentorship opportunities for learners at all levels.
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: I chose Tufts for the mix of high-acuity, complex patients in an incredibly supportive and collegial community where there are many opportunities to pursue my interests within medicine and medical education.
Things I do for fun: I love getting outdoors – particularly hiking and exploring new parks and playgrounds with my husband and son. I also love gardening and cooking with veggies grown at home, learning new recipes, traveling, and trying to find the best falafel in every city.

Anita Yu – Program Administrator

Hometown: Quincy, MA
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: I’ve worked at Tufts for many years. It is a great place to work. Everyone is friendly and it is easy to get to know everyone. We are in the heart of Chinatown so lots of great food options, including dumplings.
Things I do for fun: I support all New England sports teams – Go Patriots! Go Celtics! But I especially love Tom Brady.

Kelly Chen – Program Coordinator

Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
College: Boston University
Why I chose Tufts Medical Center: It’s a place with great resources and diversity and a perfect environment to start your career; and people are very supportive of each other in all aspects of life!
Things I do for fun: Huge foodie! Trying out different restaurants, experimenting recipes from Youtube, driving, traveling, zip-lining, K-POP, K-drama & K-everything.

Meet the core faculty