2026-2027 Family Medicine-Psychiatry Program Residents
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Sekinat Mumuney, MD, MPH
Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Health Center: Family Medicine Melnea Cass
Sekinat (Seh-KEE-Nah) was born in Maryland, but grew up in a typical Nigerian household in Fayetteville, GA. Her interest in global health and health equity was first sparked during middle school when she attended boarding school for two years in Lagos, Nigeria. After returning to the U.S. and completing high school, she obtained her Bachelor and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Mercer University (Macon, GA). She developed an interest in research and its relationship to medicine during her undergraduate career through various summer experiences and sought a more immersive research experience before medical school. This desire led her back to Maryland where she completed two years of research in the NIH Postbaccalaureate (Postbac) IRTA Program. During this time, she enjoyed learning more about health equity through the NIH Academy on Health Disparities and engaging with her local community via volunteering with PG County youth, trying out diverse cultural cuisine, and Afrobeat dance classes. Not having had her fill of research, she decided to attend CCLCM, where she could get additional research training and pursue an MPH, alongside her clinical training. During medical school, Sekinat continued to explore her diverse set of interests. She hopes to use her combined Family Medicine/Psychiatry training to compassionately and responsibly care for underserved and marginalized populations domestically and abroad. In her free time, Sekinat enjoys experiencing culture through food and travel, reading, trying out random new activities (she is currently trying get into roller skating and properly learn to swim), learning more about her culture and faith, and spending time with family (both biological and chosen). She is looking forward to exploring Boston and this next season of life.
Helen "Bronwyn" Stone, MD
Medical School: UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program
Health Center: South Boston Community Health Center
Bronwyn grew up in the south San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her undergraduate degree in Molecular Environmental Biology from UC Berkeley and worked for a few years in viticulture, eventually co-founding a business focused on sustainable pond management in Sonoma County. She then transitioned to teaching middle and high school science while exploring a career in medicine. Volunteering with a street medicine team in Santa Cruz affirmed her decision, and she applied to medical school with the aim of serving urban under-resourced populations, a commitment that drew her to the UCLA/Charles R. Drew Medical Education Program. Her background in environmental science and education continues to inform the lens through which she sees medicine today. While in medical school, she was especially drawn to ways physicians could serve a community outside the clinic walls. She continued to work with unhoused populations in Los Angeles and led a community-based research project on domestic violence prevention in Quito, Ecuador. This experience drove home her desire to continue to engage and prioritize the voices of the communities where she works. Outside of medicine, she loves to dance tango, salsa, kizomba, or anything with a beat. She is delighted to be a part of BMC and get to know Boston!
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Joel Burt-Miller, MD, MPH
Medical School: University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Joel is originally from the Bronx, New York, and raised in a culturally rich Caribbean immigrant community. Joel completed his undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, majoring in Biology and Health: Science, Society, and Policy as a Posse Scholar. Following college, he was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to teach English to first- and second-generation learners in New Delhi, India. Upon his return to the U.S., he obtained a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Duke University. As a medical student, Joel founded the Ubuntu Healing Project and became the principal investigator for its research study, assessing burnout, social isolation, and belonging within his learning community. Embracing Ubuntu, a philosophy learned during an undergraduate semester abroad in South Africa, he successfully created an avenue for wellness among medical professionals and learners. Subsequently, he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He also obtained his Master of Public Health in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow. Joel hopes to utilize his training to reimagine existing healthcare structures and envision innovative avenues for promoting holistic individual and collective healing. He is excited to join the BMC family! Outside of medicine, Joel enjoys writing and performing hip-hop songs, exploring new restaurants, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
Jennifer Tucker, MD
Medical School: Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina
Raised in Merrillville, IN, Jennifer had an early passion for community service, the Black community, and the Spanish language. She attended Washington University in St. Louis. She majored in Biology, minoring in Spanish and Public Health. She also led the Minority Association of Premedical Students and was a Goldman Fellow. After graduation, she studied biotechnology, Spanish, and Communications while working as a graduate assistant at Purdue University Northwest. During this time, she served various youth and community organizations in Northwest Indiana as an AmeriCorps member and worked as an ED Scribe, where she really felt the need for improvement in access to primary and psychiatric care. She then studied medicine in Cuba at la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM). She graduated with a Titulo de Oro (summa cum laude). Jennifer wants to use combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry training to establish safe, person-centered medical homes for minoritized communities in the global South, at home and abroad. She also seeks to cultivate increased safety and opportunities for underrepresented in medicine (URiM) healthcare professionals. Her extra-professional joys include faith, family, singing, volleyball, and tennis. Jennifer is excited to explore Boston and experience east coast living.
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Janani (Jan) Arangan, MD
Medical School: Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine
Janani was born and raised in Orange County, CA, surrounded by her family's rich Indian culture and traditions, as well as by immigrant communities from all over the world. She developed an early interest in languages after studying abroad in Spain while in high school, then went on to double major in Portuguese and Environmental Science, with a focus on public health, at Duke University. After graduation, she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) courses to immigrant janitorial workers in Oakland, CA, and participated in the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) program in the Brazilian Amazon for nine months. Janani then connected her classroom teaching experience to the clinic through volunteering as a health educator at a reproductive community clinic in San Francisco. During medical school, she ignited her passions for primary care and quality improvement work by engaging low-income, Spanish-speaking patients with diabetes at a community health center in New Haven, CT. She hopes to utilize her combined Family Medicine/Psychiatry training to lead integrated care teams and improve patient outcomes in the primary care setting. Janani's desire to work with under resourced communities led to her commitment as a scholar in the National Health Service Corps. She was also inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Janani is looking forward to exploring Boston and continuing to work with patients in Spanish and Portuguese, as well as learn Haitian Creole!
Kardeem Joseph, MD
Medical School: Meharry Medical College
Kardeem was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York to Haitian parents, and moved to the metro-Atlanta area before attending undergrad at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. There, he received his BS in both Psychology and Biology, and worked as an Emergency Department scribe prior to matriculating into Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. During medical school, Kardeem worked with marginalized groups, working with the Unhoused Neighbors population at Restoration Pointe, a shelter for men experiencing homelessness, and the Salt Wagon Clinic, a free student-run health clinic. He co-founded the Salt Wagon Mental Health Clinic to provide free mental health care to the community in addition to free primary care. He also established Products of Our Environment with 3 of his peers, a non-profit focused on connecting youth with mentorship and opportunities, while participating in various community service projects, and was ultimately inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He looks forward to joining BMC and working in both Psychiatry and Family Medicine, as it is an opportunity to serve and provide primary and psychiatric care to a community who may traditionally be ambivalent towards receiving care. Outside of medicine, Kardeem loves producing music, playing sports, travelling, comedy, spending time with family and friends, and most importantly, sleeping.
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Kathryn Cushing, MD
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine
Kathryn was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs. She then ventured out to Villanova University for undergrad and majored in Neuroscience and Biochemistry with a minor in Spanish. Following her college graduation, she returned to Chicago for medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she received the College of Medicine merit scholarship. Her research continued with UIC's CoNECt lab where she used fMRI to study the effective connectivity of reward networks in treatment-resistant depression. For three years of medical school, she was President of the UIC chapter of Chicago Street Medicine, a non-profit organization that provides healthcare and harm reduction resources to folks living unhoused in Chicago. This ignited her passion for providing holistic healthcare to underserved urban populations, particularly compassionate addiction care informed by both Primary Care and Psychiatric perspectives. Outside of medicine, she enjoys taking leisurely walks with her elderly dog, practicing yoga, and enjoying time with family and friends.
Belinda Zhou, MS MD
Medical School: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Belinda Zhou grew up in Queens, NY, and moved to Providence, RI, to attend Brown University, where she majored in History. In college, she served as a Health Leads advocate, which introduced her to the importance of considering and addressing social determinants of health. After working in Hong Kong for a year, she returned to Rhode Island to attend the Warren Alpert Medical School, where she completed the Primary Care-Population Medicine master's program to further examine issues related to health equity and advocacy. She pursued her passion for immigrant and refugee health through volunteering with Clínica Esperanza, a local free clinic that serves a significant Latinx population, and creating a patient navigation system for asylum seekers who had evaluations completed through the local branch of Physicians for Human Rights. She also spent time working with housing unstable patients and people with substance use disorders, addressing both clinical and social needs. Belinda is pursuing combined training in family medicine and psychiatry in hopes of providing comprehensive, holistic health care to marginalized populations. Outside of medicine, she enjoys reading fiction, yoga, hiking, and eating good food.