Leadership
About Our Team
The Internal Medicine Residency Program at BIDMC, led by Chief of Medicine Dr. Mark Zeidel and program director Dr. Christopher Smith, emphasizes mechanism-based learning while providing compassionate and comprehensive patient care. This thereby enhances opportunities for personal and career growth for our graduates, future clinicians, clinician-educators, and clinician-scientists alike.
Internal Medicine Residency Program LeadershipMark Lawrence Zeidel, MD
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Dr. Mark L. Zeidel, Herrman L. Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), is a widely respected scientist, clinician and teacher known for his NIH-funded research in epithelial biology and water transport. He came to BIDMC in July 2005 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where his tenure spanned 12 years, first serving as Chief of the Renal and Electrolyte Division of the Department of Medicine, and then, starting in 1999, as the Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College, he received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected to the national honor medical society, alpha omega alpha. He then served as an intern and resident in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, followed by a renal fellowship at the same institution. He has served on many regional and national committees and is recognized by his peers for his numerous accomplishments, including elected membership to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.
Christopher Smith, MD
Director, Internal Medicine Training Program
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
Dr. Christopher Smith is the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, he completed his internal medicine residency training at BIDMC, followed by his Chief Residency. Dr. Smith completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and served for many years as the Director of the Fellowship. In addition to being the Program Director, Dr. Smith continues as Director of the Clinician Educator Track, has a busy primary care practice, teaches in many different venues, and publishes on a variety of clinical and educational topics including the teaching and assessment of procedural skills, assessment of clinical competence, and the evaluation and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries.
Kelly L. Graham, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director
Director of Primary Care Track
Director, Ambulatory Training Program
Dr. Kelly Graham is the Director of our Ambulatory Training Program and of our Primary Care Track. She earned her medical degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine and her internship and residency at BIDMC. After residency, Kelly served as the primary care chief medical resident and went on to complete her General Medicine Research Fellowship and Master's in Public Health at the Harvard combined program in General Medicine and at the Harvard University School of Public Health. She also conducts health services research related to unplanned hospital readmissions and educational research on innovative teaching methods. She developed our ambulatory medicine curriculum and teaches on the topic of cardiovascular primary prevention, which is her area of clinical expertise as a primary care physician and preceptor.
Program Leadership
Aarti Asnani, MD
Associate Program Director, Resident Research
Cardiovascular Medicine
Neal Biddick, MD
Associate Program Director
Hospital Medicine
Virginia "Ginny" Brady, MD
Associate Program Director
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Leo Celi, MD
Associate Program Director, Resident Research
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Jonathan Crocker, MD
Associate Program Director
Global Health Track Director
Katherine Swan Ginsburg Director
Hospital Medicine
Jason Freed, MD
Associate Program Director
Hematology Oncology
Ariane "CoCo" Fraiche, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Kenneth Mukamal, MD
Resident Research Liaison
General Medicine
Daniel Ricotta, MD
Associate Program Director, Director of Simulation Training
Hospital Medicine
Lisa Samelson, PhD
Associate Program Director, Resident Research
Gerontology
Elizabeth "Lika" Targan, MD
Associate Program Director
General Medicine
Julius Yang, MD, PhD
Director of Quality and Operations
Hospital Medicine
Core Faculty for Belonging and Wellness
Virginia "Ginny" Brady, MD
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Emmanuel Mensah, MD, MBA
Hospital Medicine
Daniele Ölveczky, MD, MS
Hospital Medicine
Pablo Quintero Pinzón, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Ria Roberts, MD
Hospital Medicine; Gerontology
Firm Chiefs
Ariane Fraiche, MD
Infectious Disease
Shani Herzig, MD, MPH
Hospital Medicine
Zahir Kanjee-Khoja MD, MPH
Hospital Medicine
Jason Matos, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Page Widick, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Deepa Rangachari, MD
Medical Oncology
Wendy Stead, MD
Infectious Disease
Jeffrey William, MD
Nephrology