Program Leadership
Internal Medicine Residency Program Leadership
George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP (Lon.)
Dr. George M. Abraham is Chief of Medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS). He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
He is the Emeritus President of the American College of Physicians (ACP), which is the largest internal medicine specialty organization in the world, having served from 2021-22. Prior to that, he served as Governor of the Massachusetts Chapter, Chair of the Board of Governors (ACP) and as a member of the Board of Regents (ACP).
Dr. Abraham is the Immediate-Past Chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), the organization that oversees licensing of over 1.1 million physicians in the US, and also the Federation Credentials Verification Service (FCVS). Prior to that, he was the Chair of the Board of Registration (Licensing) in Medicine, Massachusetts.
Dr. Abraham serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and prior to that, has served as the Chair of the Infectious Disease Board of the ABIM.
In other roles in leadership, he has served as a Trustee of the Massachusetts Medical Society (owner of the New England Journal of Medicine), as President of the Worcester District Medical Society, as the Chief Medical Officer of the Central Massachusetts Independent Physician Association and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts.
He has received several awards including the AOA Volunteer Faculty Award and the Outstanding Primary Care Educator Award of UMass Medical School; the Leadership Award of the MA chapter of the ACP; and the Phi Lambda Sigma honorary Membership, MCPHS, Worcester, Massachusetts, Saint Vincent Hospital Physician of the Year 2015, among others. Most recently, he is the recipient of the John H. Clarke Leadership Award awarded by the Federation of State Medical Boards.
He is an invited speaker both locally, nationally and internationally, and as President, he has championed the cause of DEI and written extensively about the same. Consequently, he has been invited to, and has spoken both nationally and internationally on DEI, and continues to do so. His particular passions is for inclusivity, and has chosen to focus on the international medical graduate community that forms 25 percent of the US physician workforce and over 30% of the ACP’s membership.
His research interests include hepatitis C and B disease, travel medicine and infection control, as well as medication safety and systems improvement. He has authored over 125 publications, abstracts and book chapters, and is an invited speaker at national and international meetings.
Dr. Abraham earned his medical degrees from the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India, completed his residency and chief residency at Saint Vincent Hospital, and received his master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Selected Bibliography (recent):
- Qaseem A, Yost J, Miller M, Andrews RE, Jokela JA, Abraham GM, Forciea MA, Humphrey LL for the Scientific Medical Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians. Outpatient Treatment of Confirmed COVID-19: Living, Rapid Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 1) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-2249
- Qaseem A, Yost J, Abraham GM, Andrews RE, Jokela JA, Miller MC, Humphrey LL, Obley AJ, Akl, EA for the Scientific Medical Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians. Outpatient Treatment of Confirmed COVID-19: Living, Rapid Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 2) DOI: 7326/M23-1636
- Patel R, Dani SS, Khadke, S, Kumar A, Ahmad J, Saji, AM, Shah J, Mehta N, Wener K, McQuillen DP, Abraham GM, Faust J, Maley J, Patel S, Mullington J, Wachter RM, Mosenthal A, Sax PE, Ganatra S. Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir for Acute COVID-19 in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease and Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JACC: Advances, Vol.3,No.6, 2024, June 2024:100961 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Shanmugavel Geetha H, Gogtay M, Prabhu S, Sekar A, Singh Y, Abraham GM. Martin S. Can inflammatory markers be used as an early predictor for mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 patients with Stages IIIb-V chronic kidney disease? Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 9, Issue Supplement_2, December 2022 https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac492.323
- Kumar MS, Kumar SA, Mishra R, Rai M, George S, Abraham GM, Seetharaman K. Self-Sustainability with Therapeutic Phlebotomy, a Solution to the National Blood Crisis?. Blood. 2023 Nov 28; 142:5051. American Society of Hematology (ASH) Nov 2023. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-187612.
Faculty
Medicine Department Core Faculty
Saint Vincent Hospital at Worcester Medical Center
Administration
George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP (Lon.)
George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP (Lon.)
Chief of Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital
Director, Division of Indectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: MBBS, MD, Christian Medical College
MPH: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Chief Medical Resident: Saint Vincent Hospital
Susan V. George, MD, MACP, SFHM, FRCP
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: MBBS, National University of Singapore
MRCP: Royal College of Physicians, UK
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Chief Medical Resident: Saint Vincent Hospital
Nitin Trivedi, MD, DM, FACP, FACE
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Director, Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: MBBS, MGM Medical College
DM: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Fellowship: Joslin Diabetes Center and Brown Medical School
Brandi L. Hoag, DO
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Director, Saint Vincent Ambulatory Care
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: University of New England Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Chief Medical Resident: Saint Vincent Hospital
Suzanne G. Martin, MD, FACP, FASN
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Specialty Education Coordinator Renal Medicine
Director, Division of Renal Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine
Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chief Medical Resident: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellowship: Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jennifer B. Sargent, DO, FACP
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Chief Medical Resident: Saint Vincent Hospital
Gary P. Blanchard, MD
Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Clerkship Director, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: Tufts University
MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Fellowship: Brown University
Blood Disorders and Cancer Medicine
Kala Seetharaman, MD
Director, Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology
Education: Government Medical College Bellary, Karnataka, India
Residency: Illinois Masonic Medical College, Chicago, IL
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Cardiovascular Medicine
Mark Kranis, DO, MS
Specialty Education Coordinator, Cardiovascular Medicine
Education: MS Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, DO
Nova Southeastern
University, Ft Lauderdale, FL
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Chief Medical Resident: Saint Vincent Hospital
Fellowship: Saint Vincent Hospital Cardiovascular Disease
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Gerardo P. Carino, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Specialty Education Coordinator
Education: MD, PhD, Brown University School of Medicine
Residency: Brown University, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: Brown University, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Jensen Galvis, MD
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Core Faculty
Education: MD, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Residency: Temple University Hospital, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: Temple University Hospital, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Endocrine and Metabolic Medicine
Nitin Trivedi, MD, DM, FACP, FACE
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Director, Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: MBBS, MGM Medical College
DM: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Fellowship: Joslin Diabetes Center and Brown Medical School
Sai Katta, MD
Division of Endocrinology, Core Faculty
Education: MBBS, MD, J.J.M. Medical College, Davangere
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: SUNY Upstate Medical University, Endocrine Medicine
Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Medicine
Curuchi Anand, MD, FACP
Director, Division of Gastroenterology
Specialty Education Coordinator, Gastrointestinal Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: MBBS, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal
Residency: Henry Ford Hospital
Fellowship: University Hospital of Arkansas
Geriatric Medicine
Gary P. Blanchard, MD
Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Clerkship Director, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: Tufts University
MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Fellowship: Brown University
Jarod Faucher, DO
Coordinator, Transitions of Care
Education: Lake Erie Colleg of Osteopathic Medicine, PA
Fellowship: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA Residency, Saint
Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA
Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP (Lon.)
Chief of Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital
Director, Division of Indectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Education: MBBS, MD, Christian Medical College
MPH: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital
Chief Medical Resident: Saint Vincent Hospital
Renal Medicine
Suzanne G. Martin, MD, FACP, FASN
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Specialty Education Coordinator, Renal Medicine
Director, Division of Renal Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMassChan Medical School
Education: University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine
Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chief Medical Resident: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellowship: Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Peep Pachu, MD
Division of Renal Medicine, Core Faculty
Education: MD, Ross University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Connecticut, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: Nephrology, University of Connecticut
Rheumatic Diseases and Musculoskeletal Medicine
Suzanne Gilman, MD
Specialty Education Coordinator, Rheumatic Diseases & Musculoskeletal Medicine
Education: Washington University in St. Louis - School of Medicine
Residency: UMass Memorial Medical Center
Fellowship: Washington University in St. Louis- Barnes Jewish Hospital
Gary Wolf, MD
Specialty Education Coordinator, Rheumatic Diseases & Musculoskeletal Medicine
Education: Boston University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Fellowship: Saint Vincent Hospital
Hospital Medicine Core Faculty
Sarat C. Malempati, MD
Hospital Medicine, Core Faculty
Education: MBBS, MD, Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences
Residency: Saint Vincent Hospital, Internal Medicine, Chief Medical Resident,
Internal Medicine
Mahawa K. Sam, MD
Hospital Medicine, Core Faculty
Education: MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Rhode Island Hospital Alpert Medical School of Brown University,
Internal Medicine University of Connecticut, Internal Medicine
Jessica C. Veulens, MD
Hospital Medicine, Core Faculty
Education: MD, Ross University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Connecticut, Internal Medicine
Fellowship: University of Connecticut, Renal Medicine