People

Faculty

Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH

Fellowship Director

Caleb Dresser, MD, MPH

Staff

Ashley Smith

Program Coordinator

Ashley is a graduate of UMass Boston with a background in communications, marketing, and events. She joins the fellowship as a Program Coordinator after her time as a Communications Intern at UMass Boston's Sustainable Solutions Lab.

Fellows

Noah Rosenberg

Noah attended medical school at NYU before joining BIDMC for residency and chief residency. His research interests are at the intersection of infectious disease and climate change, studying extreme heat effects on readmission, and is excited to be pursuing the Climate Change and Infectious Diseases Track within the fellowship program to further study its effect on vector-borne, water-borne, and zoonotic diseases. 

Fellowship Alumni

Catharina Giudice, MD

Fellow (2023 - 2025)

Catharina is an Emergency Physician who is joining the fellowship after completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County & University of Southern California Residency and medical school at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She has helped develop a climate change elective curriculum for EM residents worldwide, contributed to a literature review article aimed at improving heat stroke management in the ED, and spearheaded multiple publications on managing pathologies affected by climate change

Latoya Storr, MBBS

Fellow (2023 - 2024)

Dr. Latoya E. Storr, MBBS, is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Consultant Physician in the Accident & Emergency Department at the Rand Memorial Hospital on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas. Dr. Storr completed her medical school and residency training at the University of the West Indies and is an Associate Lecturer for the Emergency Medicine program at the University of the West Indies School of Clinical Medicine & Research in the Bahamas.

Tess Wiskel, MD, MPH

Fellow (2022 - 2024)

Tess is an Emergency Physician and a graduate of the Brown University Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She has centered her career on improving care for at risk populations, both locally and globally. During medical school and residency, she conducted research, education and advocacy focusing on global and women’s health, including developing an accident and emergency HIV testing program in Belize and an educational elective in reproductive health in emergency care. 

Kimberly Humphrey, MBBS, MPH&TM

Fellow (2022 - 2023)

Kimberly is an Emergency Physician and Public Health Medical Consultant for the South Australian Government, leading work in climate change and health focused on mitigation and adaptation for South Australia’s health systems. She is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and is Chair of the South Australia Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) Committee and Deputy Chair of the DEA National Board.

Caleb Dresser, MD, MPH

Fellow (2019 - 2021)

Caleb was the 2019-2021 Fellow in Climate and Human Health and the inaugural fellow in the program. During fellowship, Caleb’s academic work focused on understanding and communicating the health impacts of climate change, including potential impacts on human migration and climate-related mobility, heat-related illness, hurricanes, wildfires, and electrical outages.

Graduate Student Affiliates

Neil Singh Bedi

Neil Singh is working with our team to study the operational implications of climate-responsive hazards using medical records and geospatial data sets. His past work has included analyzing the exposure of hospitals to wildfires in California and analyzing the implications of climate change for healthcare in urban settings.

Zilin Lu

Athanasios Burtolos

Athanasios worked with our team to analyze the relationship between local weather conditions and Emergency Department daily arrival volume at our medical center. His research, which included integration of rolling averages into a multivariable model and the use of training and test sets to assess model performance, was selected for the Master Scholar session at SAEM 2023, and is currently under review for publication.

Emma Webb

Emma worked with our team to study the exposure of patients who use electricity-dependent medical equipment to a locally relevant Cliamte-responsive hazard, specifically storm surge flooding from hurricanes. Her research showed that a substantial number of patients who use home nebulizers live in areas at risk of flooding during future hurricanes and was published in the Rhode Island Medical Journal.