Fall 2019 Fellows Yearbook

Caroline Schulman Caroline Schulman is a third year Emergency Medicine resident at the George Washington University Hospital. She graduated from Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, OR and moved to Washington, DC after graduation. She received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. She is interested in learning more about health policy especially having seen how healthcare varies throughout the country. She cannot imagine a more fitting place to place to expand her knowledge than in the nation’s capital. Caroline

Schulman is a third year Emergency Medicine resident at the George Washington University Hospital. She graduated from Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, OR and moved to Washington, DC after graduation. She received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. She is interested in learning more about health policy especially having seen how healthcare varies throughout the country. She cannot imagine a more fitting place to place to expand her knowledge than in the nation’s capital. Sonia Silinsky-Krupnikova Sonia is an internal medicine resident in her third and final year of Primary Care residency training at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.S. in Neurobiology and Physiology and a minor in Jewish Studies. She completed medical school at the George Washington University and is applying to fellowship programs in Rheumatology. Dr. Silinsky Krupnikova has particular interest in clinical reasoning and in medical humanities, including narrative medicine and medical history.

Joel Willis Joel Willis is currently the inaugural Health Policy Fellow for the ABFM’s new Center for Professional and Value in Health Care. He recently completed a Family Medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic. He attended Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in an accelerated Physician Assistant to D.O. program. As a P.A. working in a family medicine residency program he was engaged in specific research focused on community outreach and fall risk

in elderly populations. He holds an MPhil from Cambridge University and a M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. His current interests include patient safety, burnout in healthcare, and access to care in underserved populations.