Spanish Speaking Staff and Providers
BIDMC Latino Provider Group
Mission Statement
Our mission is to identify and support efforts to integrate culturally appropriate patient care, in the areas of access, program development, staff recruitment and retention, research, education and training, while providing a forum for Latino and bilingual providers working with BIDMC's Latino patient population.
Behavioral Neurology Unit
Claudia Epelbaum MD
Psychiatrist
Karla Castellanos, CRS
Community Resource Specialist, social work
María Munoz Cunio, MD, PhD
Staff neuropsychologist
Albert Galaburda, MD
Chief of Division of Behavioral Neurology and Memory Disorders
Miosotis Galdos
Administrative Assistant II
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
BIDMC Support
Madelyn Ruiz
Physician referral
Cardiology
Julián Aroesty, MD
Marisol Diaz
Administrative Assistant II
Lawrence García, MD
María Pavón
Stress test technician
Dermatology
Clara Curiel, MD
Director of Pigmented Lesion Clinic; Co-director of Cutaneous Oncology program
Brian Jiang, MD
Dermatologist
Enrique Caballero, MD
Endocrinologist / Clinical Investigator/Program Director
Elizabeth Halprin, MD
Endocrinologist
María Koen, RN
Nurse Educator
Nicolas Musi, MD
Endocrinologist
Fernando Salcido
Patient Services Coordinator
Valeria Montagnani, RD
Nutrition Educator/Researcher
Kirsten Ward, MS, RCEP
Exercise Physiologist,
Environmental Services
Miguel Proano
Environmental Services Operations Manager
Gerontology
Regina Marranzini
Research Assistant
Gastroenterology / Hepatology
Stephanie Cooper, MD
Richard Doyle, MD
Kenneth Falchuck, MD
Miron Falchuck, MD
Andres Gelrud, MD, MMSc
Fellow
Health Information Management
Olga Marcial
Supervisor
Dinorah Martinez
Medical record Assistant
Hematology/Oncology
Jeanette Aitelhadj
Administrative Assistant
Clara Curiel, MD
Director of Pigmented Lesion Clinic; Co-director of Cutaneous Oncology program
Bruce Dezube, MD
HIV provider, AIDS cancer, hematology
John Murphy, LICSW
Hem/Onc social worker
Grisel Rivera
Research Admin. Assistant II
Human Resources
Maribel Collazo
Recruiter
Information Systems
Jose Cruz
IS support center
Inpatient Staff
Zeny Mejia
Patient Care Technician, Farr 5
Interpreter Services
Manuel Avellan
Staff interpreter
Shari Gold-Gomez
Manager
Natalie Hardee
Staff interpreter
Lucy Kirsch
Staff interpreter
Guillermo Nojechowicz
Staff interpreter
Jose Parra
Staff interpreter
Enrique Sanchez
Staff Interpreter
Davide Romero
Administrative Assistant
IRB Administration
Isabel Romero, MS
IRB full board administrator
Labor and Delivery
Marybeth Meservey, RN
Clinical nurse IV
Liver
Andres Cardenas, MD
Instructor in Medicine, will see patients starting January 1, 2004
Neonatology
Maya-Ri Sanchez-Hernandez
Clinical Coordinator for preemie follow-up program
Neurology
Juan Antonio Acosta, MD
Instructor in Neurology
Nutrition
Trixie Stewart
Nutritionist
OB/GYN BIDMC
Jacqueline Calcano
Administrative Assistant
Ivonne Gomez-Carrion, MD
Sigal Klipstein, MD
Adrienne Lara-Fuller, MD
Pamela Lotke, MD
Denise Morin, MD
Diane Morof, MD
Resident
Nina Ryan-Douglass, LICSW
Senior Clinical Social Worker
Valerie Sugiyama
OB/GYN Chelsea
Sonia Ordoñez, MD
Ophthalmology
Jorge Arroyo, MD
Orthopedics
Roberto Jose Fajardo, PhD
Post-doc researcher, orthopedic biomechanics
Pastoral Care and Education
Father Bruce Teague
Catholic Priest / Chaplain
Pathology
Maria Botero, MD
Resident
Physical Therapy
Darlene Harrier, PT
Rehab services, physical therapist
APG / Chelsea
Jose Abrego, MD
Lucia Aponte
Medical Assistant
Lillian Robles
Practice Assistant
Sumaya Ruiz
Medical Assistant
APG / Jamaica Plain
María Copello, MD
John Jewett, MD
Natalia Sedo, ANP
Bowdoin Street Health Center
Jean Alves, MD
Robyn Churchill, CNM
Joseph Ingelfinger, MD
Sr. Margaret Nelson, FNP
Martin November, MD
OB/GYN
Rose O'Brien, RN
Clinical nurse specialist, cardiovascular and diabetes education
Elizabeth Solis
Family planning coordinator
Theresa Weir, FNP
HCA
Higuaniona Almonte
Medical Assistant
Rafael Campo, MD, MA
Internist
Leonor Fernandez, MD
Internist
Alex Gonzalez, MD
Internal medicine JAR
Greg Piaza
Elisa Valente, MD
Internal medicine, junior resident
John Yang
Peter Gonzalez, MD
Internist
Maria Teresa Cuddihy, MD
Internist
Michael Dwight Howell, MD
Internist
Corinna Manini
Medicine Intern
María Mejía
Community Resource Specialist
HCA Psychiatry
Ernestina Pelayo, MD
Staff Psychiatrist
Teresa Rodriguez-Jacobson, LICSW
Staff Social worker
Psychiatry/BNU
Orquidea Tejeda
Administrative Assistant II
Latino Mental Health Service
Nancy Avendaño
Staff Assistant
Antonio Bullón, MD
Psychiatrist
Karla Castellanos, CRS
Community Resource Specialist
María Munoz Cunio, MD, PhD
Staff neuropsychologist
Fabiana Wallis, Ph.D.
Psychologist/Program Director
Radiology
Janet Baum, MD
Carlos Caceres, MD
Bertrand Janne d'Othee, MD
Staff radiologist, interventional radiologist
Isabella Palma-Iodice
CAT scan technician
Safety and Security
Victor Sanchez
Day shift supervisor
Social Work
Laura Goorin
Program advocate, Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery
Nina Ryan-Douglass, LICSW
Social worker, OB/GYN
Lisa Tiezsen, LICSW
Co-director of Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery
Shapiro Institute for Research and Education
Justina Yee
Graduate medical education
Surgery
Linda Alvarado
Operating room scheduler
Leonardo Claros, MD
General Surgery Resident
Rafael Gonzalez Jr., LPN
Scrub nurse
María Mata
Unit coordinator, Shapiro 3 ambulatory surgery
Thelma Williams
Surgical Specialties practice Assistant 2
Atreva Health Care, Jamaica Plain
Francisco Trilla, MD
Internist
Richard Anderson, NP
Rosemary Burns, NP
Nydia Collazo
Administrative Assistant
Linda Currini, NP
Catherine DaSilva, NP
Angela Patterson, NP
Patricia Tonra, NP
Independent Practice
Jose Molinar, MD
Internist
Independent Practice
Jose Ruano, MD
Internist
Osher Institute, HMS
Robert Graham, MD
Internist/ Clinical Research Fellow in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Sandra Rodrigues, PhD
(post-doc, department)