Meghan M. Kiefer is originally from Seattle and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton in English with a certificate in African-American Studies.  She graduated from the University of Washington in 2009 with honors and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha society.  She completed her internal medicine residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the primary care track.  While at MGH, she received the MGH Senior Resident Teaching Award and the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring Award.

 

Dr. Kiefer is currently an NRSA Primary Care/General Internal Medicine fellow at the University of Washington; her research interests are in patient education, focusing on health literacy and chronic disease management, and in medical education, particularly the factors that cause students to choose (or not choose) primary care.  She has an interest in Native and underserved populations and has worked on developing curricular materials and teaching seminars for community health workers. She  will complete her Masters in Public Health at the University of Washington in June 2014 with a focus on health services.

 

In her spare time, she enjoys running, reading, and spending time with her husband and their two young sons.

Curtis R. Chong, MD, PhD, MPhil was born and raised in Honolulu where he attended public schools, sang in the Honolulu Boy Choir, and was the 1993 Honolulu Star Bulletin Newspaper Boy of the Year.  He received his A.B. in biochemical sciences from Harvard University magna cum laude followed by an M.Phil. in Chemistry with Sir Alan Fersht at the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College).  He then received his MD and PhD in pharmacology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  His PhD thesis research was recognized by the 2010 Bial Award Diploma of Distinction presented by the President of Portugal, and he led a team commercializing his thesis to win the 2007 Rice University Business Plan Competition.  Dr. Chong has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and Nature Medicine; his research on finding new uses for existing drugs has been profiled in Popular Science and The New York Times.

 

Dr. Chong completed his categorical residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and is board-certified in internal medicine.  He is currently an oncology fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where he has received research support from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Young Investigator Award), Uniting Against Lung Cancer, and the American Cancer Society.

 

An intrepid traveler and avid long-distance runner, Dr. Chong has visited 45 countries and completed marathons on 6 continents.