Sojourns Scholar Cohorts

Since 2014, we've selected groups of committed catalysts working toward a more person-focused, holistic, sustainable and healing health care system. Learn more about these inspiring leaders.

2022

Sarah Byrne-Martelli

Massachusetts General Hospital

Alyssa Aguirre

The University of Texas at Austin

Channing Tate

University of Colorado

Colleen McIlvennan

University of Colorado

Cristal Brown

University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Dio Kavalieratos

Emory University

Edward Peñate

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Erin Collins

The Peaceful Presence Project

Heather Bemis

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Karen Moss

The Ohio State University

Michelle Fortier

University of California Irvine

Nneka N. Ufere

Massachusetts General Hospital

2021

Natalie McAndrew

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Becca Hutchinson

Becky Cammy

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health

Billy Rosa

Nurse Practitioner

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

David Wang

Jung Kwak

The University of Texas at Austin

Khaliah Johnson

Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Elizabeth Dzeng

University of California, San Francisco

Michelle M. Milic

Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Tracy Fasolino

Nurse Practitioner

Clemson University

2020

J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Angela M. Feraco

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Bethany-Rose (BR) Daubman

Massachusetts General Hospital

Cara L. Wallace

Saint Louis University

Donald Sullivan

Oregon Health and Science University

Heather Coats

University of Colorado, College of Nursing

Jennifer Needle

University of Minnesota

Rachel Rusch

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Rachel Thienprayoon

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Stephanie P. Wladkowski

Eastern Michigan University

Tamryn Gray

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Laura Gelfman

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sanai

2019

Kei Ouchi

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Meghan Potthoff

Creighton University

Ranak Trivedi

Stanford University/VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Danetta Sloan

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

David Wu

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center

James Fausto

University of Washington

Jessica Merlin

University of Pittsburgh

Susan Lysaght Hurley

Care Dimensions, Inc.

Kashelle Lockman

University of Iowa College of Pharmacy

Megan Lippe

The University of Alabama

2018

Cardinale Smith

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joanna Paladino

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Ariadne Labs

Carey Candrian

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Rebecca Wright

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Charlotta Lindvall

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Allison Kestenbaum

UC San Diego Health

Bridget Sumser

UCSF Medical Center

Jennie Kung

Health System Executive

Abby Rosenberg

University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital

Elizabeth Anderson

Western Carolina University

Stephen Berns

Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont

Deborah Fisher

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Children's National

2017

Valerie Cotter

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Andrew Epstein

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Matthew Gonzales

Providence Institute for Human Caring

Vanessa Grubbs

University of California, San Francisco

Stephanie Harman

Stanford University School of Medicine

Debra Lotstein

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Phillip Rodgers

University of Michigan

Tatiana Sadak

University of Washington

Gretchen Schwarze

University of Wisconsin

Jennifer Seaman

University of Pittsburgh

2016

Eric Roeland

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health

Brook Calton

The Massachusetts General Hospital

Constance Dahlin

Nurse Practitioner

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

Susan DeSanto-Madeya

Associate Clinical Professor

DorAnne Donesky

Nurse Practitioner

University of California, San Francisco

Joshua Lakin

Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center

Justin Sanders

Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center

Jennifer S. Scherer

NYU School of Medicine

Anne Walling

University of California, Los Angeles

Brie Williams

University of California, San Francisco

2015

Daniel Lam

University of Washington, Seattle

Deborah Lafond

Nurse Practitioner

Children’s National Health System, Washington, D.C.

Corita Grudzen

NYU School of Medicine, New York City

Dulce Cruz-Oliver

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD (formerly Saint Louis University)

Jennifer Tjia

University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts

Jennifer Walter

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rachelle Bernacki

Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Ariadne Labs, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Seiko Izumi

Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, Portland, Oregon

Thomas LeBlanc

Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina

Zara Cooper

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

2014

Abraham Brody

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University, College of Nursing, New York City

Anne Kinderman

San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF

Arif H. Kamal

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Claire Creutzfeldt

University of Washington, Seattle

Caroline Hurd

University of Washington, Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, Seattle

Elizabeth Lindenberger

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City

Lynn F. Reinke

Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Puget Sound Healthcare, Seattle

Toby Campbell, MD, MSCI

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin

Renee Boss

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore

Wendy Anderson, MD, MS

University of California, San Francisco