{"id":81,"date":"2016-08-09T05:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:20:24","slug":"program-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/program-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class='gdl-toggle-box'>\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Rachel P. Simmons, MD - Internal Medicine Residency Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Simmons_-Rachel-MD-20221-214x300.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown: <\/strong>Indianapolis, IN<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:\u00a0<\/strong>Purdue University<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine<br \/>\n<strong>Email:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:rsimmons4@lifespan.org\">rsimmons4@lifespan.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-4083<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Simmons spent her formative years near Detroit, Indianapolis, and Philadelphia. She attended Johns Hopkins University for medical school and completed her residency, chief residency, and infectious diseases training at Massachusetts General Hospital. For nine years, she was an Associate Program Director at Boston University. She became Program Director at Brown University in 2022, and her interests include evaluation of clinical competence, assessment, equitable practices in graduate medical education recruitment, and infectious diseases education.<\/p>\n<p>She loves exploring the beaches and bakeries of Rhode Island with her children and husband. She enjoys reading (mostly fiction), running, hiking and is looking forward to doing more traveling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Kelly McGarry, MD - Program Director, General Internal Medicine\/Primary Care<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Head-shot-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Warwick, RI<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> Brown University<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Yale University<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:kmcgarry@lifespan.org\">kmcgarry@lifespan.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-8060<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McGarry joined the Division of General Medicine at Brown in 1996 and has been here ever since! In 1998, she became the Associate Program Director for the GIM\/Primary Care program and then assumed the position of Program Director for GIM\/Primary Care in 2007. In 2020, she became the Division Director for General Internal Medicine, one of the largest divisions within the Department of Medicine. She sees primary care patients at Brown Medicine Academic Practice in the Women\u2019s Health Division and serves as a ward attending on our Med B Service. She has received numerous teaching awards from the medical students and residents. Her scholarly areas of interest include primary care and medical education, mentoring in academic medicine careers, care of vulnerable populations, including the LGBTQ+ community, and women\u2019s health. She is also active in the RI Medical Society Climate Council and other areas of advocacy. She values the connection to patients and her learners and finds joy and fulfillment in helping students and residents grow professionally and personally. Dr. McGarry is the immediate past-governor of the Rhode Island ACP Chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends and anything outdoors, especially running, biking, and hiking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Stephanie Catanese, MD - Associate Residency Director, General Internal Medicine\/Primary Care<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/images\/steph.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Parkland, FL<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> University of Florida<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong>Temple University School of Medicine<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:scatanese@lifespan.org\">scatanese@lifespan.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-5953<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stephanie Catanese is the Associate Residency Director for the General Internal Medicine (GIM) Program. A graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and the Brown General Internal Medicine\/Primary Care Track, Dr. Catanese focuses her role on Performance Assessment, Academic Support, and Professional Development. She is a member of our Residency Clinical Competency Committee and has a special interest in working with learners requiring extra support. She enjoys caring for primary care patients at our academic practice as well as on the inpatient wards, where she teaches residents and students. She continues to be a formidable force on the Volleyball court as a member of the ACE Inhibitors. In addition to her central role in residency leadership, she chairs the Department of Medicine\u2019s Committee for Physician Well-being.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>E. Colin Daingerfield, MD - Assistant Program Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ECD-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1680\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> North Brunswick, NJ<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> University of Delaware<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:edaingerfield@brownhealth.org\">edaingerfield@brownhealth.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-793-3209 <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Daingerfield grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He went on to complete his Internal Medicine residency and chief residency here at Brown, after which he joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Miriam Hospital. In addition to his role as Assistant Program Director, his scholarly interests include medical education, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, procedural training, and ABIM board prep.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of medicine, Dr. Daingerfield enjoys all things outdoors with his wife and daughter. He is the principal percussionist for the Providence Medical Orchestra, an avid disc golfer, and fan of the bad New York sports teams.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Arkadiy Finn, MD - Associate Residency Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finn-arkadiy-md-2022-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1680\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Kishinev, Moldova, Former USSR<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Tufts University, Boston, MA<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:afinn1@lifespan.org\">afinn1@lifespan.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-793-2104 <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Finn joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Miriam Hospital in 2011 after completing the Brown Internal Medicine Residency program. He has had a variety of academic roles including subinternship director, Medicine clerkship director and core clinical faculty. As the Associate Program Director for the Miriam Hospital site, Dr. Finn has an active role in resident education and clinical operations. His interests include mentorship, medical writing and involvement in professional societies. Dr. Finn feels passionate about patient care, efficiency on the wards and fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment. <\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, he spends time with his three boys including listening to music, reading and skiing. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Sarah Freeman, MD - Assistant Program Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/freeman-sarah-md-2014-web_0-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1680\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Hyde Park, NY<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> Brown University<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Weill Cornell School of Medicine<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:Sarah.Freeman@brownhealth.org\">Sarah.Freeman@brownhealth.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-8472<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Freeman is an alumni of the Brown internal medicine residency program and a current associate program director. She majored in Biomedical Engineering at Brown University and received her medical degree from Cornell University in New York City.  Her career as an academic hospitalist started at The Miriam Hospital. She then worked at the University of Utah before joining the Division of General Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital in 2015. Dr. Freeman helped initiate both the bedside procedure and board preparation curriculums for the residency program. She serves as director for the point of care ultrasound (POCUS) program, co-director of the medicine consult service, and chairs the resident selection committee.<\/p>\n<p>Both at and outside of work, Dr. Freeman will never turn down a good cup of tea. She loves being outdoors with her family\u2014especially hiking in New Hampshire and biking on the East Bay Bike Path. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Jennifer Jeremiah, MD - Associate Residency Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jj.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Cranston, RI<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> Brown University<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Brown Medical School<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:jjeremiah@lifespan.org\">jjeremiah@lifespan.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-4083<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jeremiah, a Brown lifer (undergraduate, medical school and residency, a Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator and has been on the Brown faculty since graduation.  She has been privileged to be an Associate Program Director for the last seventeen years. Her passion in medical education is ensuring that residents receive the information, coaching and support they need to reach their highest potential during training. She chairs the Department of Medicine Clinical Competence Committee (CCC) whose responsibility is to review resident progress, identify areas to help residents grow and create action plans so that all residents will become consummate internists. She is also the Director of Faculty Development in Clinical Education. In this role, Dr. Jeremiah provides programs to help educators be astute evaluators and providers of valuable, actionable feedback. Dr. Jeremiah sees primary care patients in the Brown Medicine Academic Practice (BMAP) and serves as a Med B ward attending at Rhode Island Hospital. When asked about her favorite aspects of her role, Dr. Jeremiah states \u201cI have the privilege of watching our residents become accomplished, independent, caring, and confident clinicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jeremiah currently lives over the RI border in Rehoboth MA.  She has two children, Vincent who recently sadly moved to Florida and Penelope who is a recent college graduate. She loves all kinds of outdoor activities, has hiked in 17 National Parks, perhaps unwisely horseback rides and skis, loves travel and the mountains of Maine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Hussain Khawaja, MD - Associate Residency Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hussain-Khawaja-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Lahore, Pakistan<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a>hussain_khawaja@brown.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-5312<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Khawaja joined the Division of General Internal Medicine in 2014 and has been the Inpatient service chief at Rhode Island Hospital since 2015. In addition to being one of the Associate Program Directors for the Internal Medicine Residencies, he also serves as the Vice chair of the Residency Clinical Competence Committee (CCC). His interests include medical education, faculty development, mentorship, and quality improvement. Dr. Khawaja feels passionate about his clinician educator role in which he gets to care for patients in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, while working with residents and medical students. Taking this passion a step further, he serves as a co-leader of the Clinician Educator Track for the residency as well.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, he loves spending time with his family, exploring the extremely amazing food scene in Providence, doing Peloton workouts and going to different Rhode Island beaches in the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Jessica Murphy, MD - Associate Residency Director for Ambulatory Care<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Jessica-Murphy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Thousand Oaks, CA<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> University of California &#8211; Berkeley<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:jessica_murphy1@brown.edu\">jessica_murphy1@brown.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-444-4934<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Murphy grew up in Southern California and completed her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley. She attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and went on to complete her Primary Care-Internal Medicine Residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Following residency, she completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship, a Preventive Medicine Residency, and a Master of Science in Health Services Research at Boston University. She joined the faculty at Brown in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Murphy sees primary care patients and precepts residents at the Center for Primary Care, and serves as a ward attending on the inpatient service at Rhode Island Hospital. She takes joy in the relationships she has with her patients and in helping residents gain confidence and skills as they progress through their training. Dr. Murphy oversees the ambulatory \u201cY\u201d experience for our residents, directs the Academic Half Day, and serves as co-lead for the Clinician Educator Track. Her scholarly areas of interest include medical education, curriculum development, resident evaluation, direct observation, inbox management, EHR navigation, and social determinants of health.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, transforming her yard into a wildlife habitat with native plants, growing her own fruits and vegetables, and a wide spectrum of fiber arts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n<li class='gdl-divider'><h2 class='toggle-box-head title-color gdl-title'><span class='toggle-box-head-image'><\/span>Fred J. Schiffman, MD - Associate Residency Director<\/h2><div class='toggle-box-content'><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fred.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"248\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> New York City<br \/>\n<strong>Undergrad:<\/strong> Wagner College<br \/>\n<strong>Medical School:<\/strong> New York University<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:fred_schiffman@brown.edu\">fred_schiffman@brown.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone:<\/strong> 401-793-4035<\/p>\n<p>Fred J. Schiffman, M.D. is a hematologist\/oncologist at Brown and Lifespan. Dr. Schiffman is the Sigal Family Professor of Humanistic Medicine at Brown, Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, and Associate Director of the Categorical Residency Program at Brown. He is the Associate Physician-in-Chief at The Miriam Hospital. His areas of expertise include malignant and non-malignant hematological problems and disorders of the spleen. Dr, Schiffman has published in a broad range of hematologic areas and on a variety of subjects regarding the education of students and house staff. The recently awarded Sigal Family Professorship in Humanistic Medicine has allowed him to lead and participate in several programs in the arts dealing with the interface between humanities and medicine, such as the Cops and Docs Program at the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2018, he co-edited a hematology textbook \u201cAnemia: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management\u201d, and in 2022, he was the co-editor for \u201cCecil\u2019s Essentials of Medicine\u201d. Fred J. Schiffman, M.D. is a hematologist\/oncologist at Brown and Lifespan. Dr. Schiffman is the Sigal Family Professor of Humanistic Medicine at Brown, Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, and Associate Director of the Categorical Residency Program at Brown. He is the Associate Physician-in-Chief at The Miriam Hospital. His areas of expertise include malignant and non-malignant hematological problems and disorders of the spleen. Dr, Schiffman has published in a broad range of hematologic areas and on a variety of subjects regarding the education of students and house staff. The recently awarded Sigal Family Professorship in Humanistic Medicine has allowed him to lead and participate in several programs in the arts dealing with the interface between humanities and medicine, such as the Cops and Docs Program at the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2018, he co-edited a hematology textbook \u201cAnemia: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management\u201d, and in 2022, he was the co-editor for \u201cCecil\u2019s Essentials of Medicine\u201d. In 2024 he was selected to be editor-in-chief for the 11th edition of \u201cCecil\u2019s Essentials of Medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownim.org\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}