The Minority Housestaff Organization (MHO) serves as a support base for minority residents at BWH. The organization strives to mentor and educate medical students though programs and lectures. It also promotes diversity with the residency programs and actively recruits medical students nationally. The group also promotes mentoring and interaction with BWH faculty by organizing events for faculty and residents outside of the hospital. Community service, directed at the local community surrounding the hospital, is a goal of the organization, which can be seen through projects like BUILD (Brigham Intern Learning Day). The purpose of the day is to introduce the new interns to the surrounding communities where many of the patients come from.
Selected Minority Housestaff Members
Natasha Archer 
Natasha M. Archer graduated from Yale University with a BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. After spending two years in Hunan, China as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow, she returned to Yale for medical school, where she graduated cum laude and was also elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and received the Dean's Prize for Community Service. She is currently a Med-Peds and Global Health Equity resident at BWH. She plans to work clinically in the U.S. and Haiti, but also hopes to use her training to affect change in global health/social policy.
Stavonnie Henderson
Stavonnie Henderson graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Biology and minor in Afro-American Studies. After working for a period in New York as an educational center director, she attended Morehouse School of Medicine, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She is currently a Primary Care resident at BWH and will be completed a Dermatology residency at Duke University following graduation, where she hopes to combine her diverse backgrounds in the practice of medical dermatology.
Maricruz Merino
Maricruz Merino graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rhode Island with a BS in Biological Sciences. As part of the Dartmouth-Brown program in New Hampshire, she received a Schweitzer Fellowship to conduct work in a women's prison. At Brown Medical School, she received the David S. Greer prize and was also elected AOA. She is currently an internal medicine resident in the DGM primary care program. She plans to pursue academic medicine in the area of primary care and women's health, and has strong interest in health equity.
Gabrielle Page-Wilson
Originally from Oakland, CA, Gabi Page-Wilson graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Psychology. She then received her teaching certificate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education before going on to Harvard Medical School. During her time at HMS, she completed a year long Doris Duke Clinical research Fellowship, and graduated with Honors int he field of Reproductive Endocrinology. Following residency, Gabi plans to complete a fellowship in Endocrinology.
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