Clinical Faculty

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Shima Anwar and family at a Red Sox game

Shima Anwar, MD, PhD

shima.anwar@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I was an extra for the Bollywood movie Zero (they happened to be filming in Alabama, where I went to medical school); Lemons are my favorite food; I have a sweet 1 year old boy; his favorite thing to do is to dance to baba black sheep

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Stuart Bauer

Stuart B. Bauer, MD

stuart.bauer@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Love to sail the New England Coast; Cross country skiing in winter and hiking in Spring and Fall; Collecting and analyzing old wooden jigsaw puzzles

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Joseph Borer

Joseph G. Borer, MD

joseph.borer@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Organized and ice-skated 100 mile marathon during medical school; For 4 years after high school / before undergrad, was “The Furniture Doctor”; One of 12 children raised on dairy farm in Freedom, NY (Parents both saints!!)

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Bartley Cilento and family at beach

Bartley G. Cilento Jr., MD, MPH

bartley.bilento@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Love to work with my hands: restore old cars, home renovation, landscaping; wish I had more time to be an accomplished golfer; Love to travel – want to live in Italy for a year upon retirement –travel and learn the language

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Carlos Estrada

Carlos R. Estrada, Jr., MD, MBA

carlos.estrada@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I’ve run 3 marathons, and gotten slower with each; I am a fanatical Cleveland Browns fan; I have an amazing singing voice (only I think so)

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Julia Finkelstein and family

Julia B. Finkelstein, MD, MPH

julia.finkelstein@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Despite living in the northeast my entire life, I quite enjoy the sun; I thoroughly enjoy music/going to concerts; I teach/mentor students in the Master’s in Healthcare Quality program at Harvard Medical School

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Christine FitzGerald and partner in canyon

Christine T. FitzGerald, MD, PhD

christine.fitzgerald@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I enjoy snorkeling, scuba diving and traveling to warm places; I love music but leave all the singing to my husband and kids; I enjoy hiking, snowshoeing and kayaking which makes New England a wonderful place to live

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Lillian Hayes and family

Lillian C. Hayes, PhD, ABPP

lillian.hayes@childrens.harvard.edu 

3 fun facts: I love adventure, my favorite so far was skydiving over the Alps in Switzerland; I make really great homemade pizza; I am very serious about Halloween and love creating fun costumes

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Melise Keays and family

Mélise Keays, MD, MSc

melise.keays@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: In my spare time, I’m a professional tag-team hockey parent to three wonderful children; as the only Canadian faculty at BCH Urology, I serve as a great resource for outdoor rink maintenance, Canadian travel recommendations or great recipes for Poutine, Tourtière or delicious breakfast Crêpes

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Michael Kurtz

Michael P. Kurtz, MD, MPH

michael.kurtz@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: High school wrestler in the 96lb weight class; Love puns (it’s a problem); Kayaked around Manhattan in a day

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Richard Lee and family on boat

Richard S. Lee, MD

richard.lee@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Completed Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon; Live in Boston, but love all Philly Sports (Go Eagles!); Love to cook, and am constantly feeding 4 hungry boys

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Ted Lee and family

Ted Lee, MD, MSc

ted.lee@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I was a waterboy for the Notre Dame football team; I never lived in one place for more than 4 years until residency at Michigan; I studied monkeys (Barbary macaques to be exact!) on the Rock of Gibraltar as an anthropology major during college

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Erin McNamara and child

Erin McNamara, MD, MPH

erin.mcnamara@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Living in Boston is ideal for me because I like winter sports (skiing, x country skiing and snowshoeing) and I enjoy getting outdoors (easy access to Vermont, NH and Maine); my favorite thing to do is to spend time with my toddler daughter; My guilty pleasure is attending concerts and music festivals

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Caleb Nelson and family in front of a train

Caleb Nelson, MD, MPH

caleb.nelson@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I was a religion major in college; I once spent a winter teaching kids to ski in Maine; I know a lot about World War II

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Siam Oottamasathien skiing

Siam Oottamasathien, MD

siam.oottamasathien@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I was born and raised in Colorado – very proud to be a Colorado native; Love to ski, golf, and fly fish (a bit nonexistent lately because of my 3 young boys); I enjoy watching the Cooking Channel and Great British Baking Championship

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Kenneth Softness and family

Kenneth Softness, MD

kenneth.softness@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: Taylor Swift is usually playing in my OR; love grilling and cooking on weekends; attended middle school and high school with co-fellow Peter Cai (Go Panthers)

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Deborah Stein and dog

Deborah Stein, MD

deborah.stein@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I was on the Tufts University swim team in college; I can wiggle my ears (without using my hands); I have a sister who looks nothing like me but we have identical voices (our mother cannot tell us apart by listening)

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Hatim Thaker

Hatim Thaker, MD

hatim.thaker@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: classical music and Zero 7 enthusiast; traveled to 45 countries; played a dead body in a movie

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Evalynn Vasquez and partner in front of a windmill

Evalynn Vasquez, MD, MBA

evalynn.vasquez@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I love to travel, try new restaurants, and go on new adventures. I also love animals; It is important for me to have quality time with my family and friends; I still take piano lessons from my childhood piano teacher

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Scott Wang and family in a canyon

Scott Wang, MD, MPH, MBAn

hsin-hsiao.wang@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: My favorite video game is super Mario; My favorite sport is scuba diving; I love to BBQ when I have free time

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Margaret Werner in a kayak

Margaret Werner, MD

margaret.werner@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I love all animals but especially dogs and horses; I love to be outdoors including gardening, hiking, kayaking and watching my kids play sports; My favorite part about living in New England is each season brings different fun activities to do

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Vivian Williams holding a cake

Vivian Williams, DNP, MSN, RN, CPNP

Vivian.Williams@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I was going to attend a college for art instead of science; I have a baking business focusing on clients with food allergies; I’m an animal lover

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Rena Xu

Rena Xu, MD, MBA

rena.xu@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I used to work in management consulting; I enjoy photography; I am writing a book.

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Richard Yu

Richard N. Yu, MD, PhD

richard.yu@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I like large breed dogs; I travel to Africa annually for surgical education; I have a pilot’s license

Research Faculty

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Rosalyn Adam in a laboratory

Rosalyn Adam, PhD

rosalyn.adam@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I participated in 2 Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thons as part of the Urology Department Stream Team; I’ve pushed 325lb on the sled in the gym even though I’m only 5’3”; I once drove over the Great Continental Divide in a Chevy Camaro

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Min Dong and family

Min Dong, PhD

min.dong@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I once sat behind Senator Warren on a flight from DC to Boston; I won a beer-drinking contest in college; my parents always wished I could be a doctor and work in a hospital

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Zohreh Izadifar in front of giraffes

Zohreh Izadifar, PhD

zohreh.izadifar@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I have been to 5 out of the 7 continents; I enjoy adventure and fun challenges. Have taken skydiving and Angels Landing hike off my bucket list; my PhD thesis was highlighted in radio news and a daily newspaper

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Tanya Logvinenko on a rappel line

Tanya Logvinenko, PhD

tanya.logvinenko@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: 3 fun facts: I like traveling; my family has 2 black rescue cats and a rescue dog; I like to draw

Program Manager

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Jill Harris Tucker and family

Jill Harris Tucker

jill.tucker@childrens.harvard.edu

3 fun facts: I sang in an acapella group at Boston University; this was my first job out of college; I love Boston and have lived here my entire life