AMTI Leadership
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH
AMTI Co-lead
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH co-founded and co-leads the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative. She is an expert clinician and trainer on medical evaluations of survivors of torture and ill-treatment. She is an Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco and Core Faculty in the UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences. She is a physician who is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and practices at San Francisco General Hospital. She is the Executive Director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative and Medical Director of UCSF Human Rights Collaborative where she performs forensic medical evaluations for people seeking asylum in the United States and teaches learners and clinicians. She serves as a medical expert with Physician for Human Rights, Synergy, and others to document human rights abuses using trauma-informed care and the Istanbul Protocol. Her special interests are in immigrant health, human rights, and addiction medicine.
Eleanor Emery, MD
AMTI Co-lead
Eleanor (Ellie) Emery is an internist with the Department of Internal Medicine at Northern Navajo Medical Center and an Instructor of Medicine, Part-Time at Harvard Medical School. Her work includes clinical, advocacy, and research efforts focused on improving access to high quality, trauma-informed care for underserved communities, including on Navajo Nation where she lives and practices clinically. Ellie has expertise in conducting forensic medical evaluations for people seeking asylum in the U.S. and has founded and led asylum clinics at Weill Cornell Medical College, Massachusetts General Hospital, UCLA, and Cambridge Health Alliance. She co-leads the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative, a national working group of 80 experts from over 40 institutions that developed a virtual, peer-reviewed introductory curriculum featuring best practices in asylum medicine based on international standards. Ellie also serves as the Program Director of Asylum Medicine Education at the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, and in this capacity developed and co-leads an interdisciplinary, year-long elective course in asylum medicine for CHA residents.
C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD, MPH
AMTI Co-lead
C. Nicholas (Nick) Cuneo, MD, MPH is an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is affiliated with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights and the Center for Humanitarian Health. In addition to his work as the Medical Director of the HEAL Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative, which he co-founded, he works as an academic hospitalist for children and adults at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Nick has extensive global health research and program management experience, particularly in Haiti, where he was a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow, and South Africa, where he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Public Health. He is a graduate of the Harvard Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital Medicine-Pediatric Residency and served as chief resident for the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He earned his B.S. in biology and anthropology at Duke University, his M.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his M.P.H. in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Introductory AMTI Curriculum Contributors
Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, City University of New York
Alexander Blum, Johns Hopkins University
Alexandra Norton, Johns Hopkins University
Alice Lu, University of California, San Francisco
Alisa R. Gutman, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc, Harvard University
Amanda Maase, BA, Tufts University
Amy Zeidan, MD, Emory University
Anisa Bughal, MD, Creighton University
Anita Mathews, MD, Cambridge Health Alliance
Anum Hussain, Cornell University
Ariana Traub, Emory University
Ariel Shidlo, PhD, Research Institute Without Walls
Arno Vosk, MD, Society of Asylum Medicine
Beselot Birhanu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Braden Hexom, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Cameron Dietiker, MD, University of California, San Fransisco
Chanelle Diaz, MD, MPH, Montefiore Medical Center
Christeen Samuel, Johns Hopkins University
C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University
Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH, University of California, San Fransisco
Deborah Ottenheimer, MD, FACOG, Ottenheimer Health
Diya Kallivayalil, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance
Douglas Stephens, JD, Catholic Charities San Francisco
Eleanor Emery, MD, Cambridge Health Alliance
Eléna Jimenez Gutiérrez, MD, University of Virginia
Elora Mukherjee, JD, Colombia University
Farah Chammaa, Chicago Medical School
Federico Palacardo, Cornell University
Gabrielle Milner, Johns Hopkins University
Gretchen A. Heinrichs, University of Colorado, Denver
Hannah Janeway, MD, MS, Refugee Health Alliance
Homero Lopez, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy
Jacob Blum, Johns Hopkins University
Jar-Yee Liu, University of California, San Fransisco
Jaylee Caruso, University of New Mexico
Jenny Wen, MD, MPH, Cambridge Health Alliance
Jill Jones, Harvard University
Joanne Ahola, MD, Physicians for Human Rights
Joseph Shin, MD, Cornell University
Karen Musalo, JD, UC Hastings
Karina Anaya, MD, Refugee Health Alliance
Katherine Blanton, BA, Harvard University
Katherine McKenzie, MD, Yale University
Kathryn Hampton, Mst, MA, Rainbow Railroad
Katherine Peeler, MD, Harvard University
Kelsie Avants, DO, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kennji Kizuka, JD, MPA, Human Rights First
Lynn Midani, BS, University of New Mexico
Madelyn Perez, MD, MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago
Malini Ramaiyer, Johns Hopkins University
Marguerite Changala, MD, University of California, San Diego
Mathhew Gartland, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Megan Berthold, PhD, LCSW, University of Connecticut
Mehar Maju, MPH, University of Washington
Michawl Khoury, MD, Emory University
Minal Giri, MD, Midwest Human Rights Consortium
Priyanka Narayan, Cornell University
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, Georgetown University
Reine-Marcelle Wendy Ibala, MPH, Cornell University
Rose L. Molina, MD, MPH, Harvard University
Sabi Ardalan, JD, Harvard University
Sara A. Snyder, PsyD, MPH, MA, Cambridge Heallth Alliance
Sarah Messmer, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Shawn Singh Sidhu, MD, University of California, San Diego
Shruti Anat, Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Bousleiman, Harvard Univeristy
Stuart Lustig, MD, MPH, Cigna
Sural Shah, MD, MPH, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Taylor Kuhn, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Tim Treinin, Johns Hopkins University
Triveni Defries, MD, MPH, University of California San Francisco
Victoria Fonzi, Emory University
Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe, Northwestern University
Vidya Ramanthan, MD, MPH, University of Michigan
Vikrant Garg, MA, MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago
Yenys Castillo, PhD, Physicians for Human Rights
