Founded in 2017, the House Staff Council is a dedicated group of elected representatives from each training program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Our Mission Statement
As residents, we are on the front lines of patient care. We are grounded in the day-to-day operations of the hospital, and as such, we are well positioned to identify areas of improvement and provide insightful solutions. Our collective experience represents a valuable voice that should be heard when hospital leaders make decisions that affect our patients and our colleagues.
The Brigham and Women’s House Staff Council aims to better advocate for the issues we care about, to foster community among residency programs, and to represent house staff with a unified voice.
The Council will have members from all residency programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and solutions to complex problems will be born out of dialogue from the vast array of clinical specialties we represent. Undoubtedly, the important issues of the day will vary, but the principles of advocacy, community, and inclusive representation will serve as the foundation for the Council for years to come, such that we can all be a part of improving the hospital we care so much about.
View the HSC Constitution
Current Representatives (2020-2021 Academic Year)
Executive Board
Co-presidents
Vishal Arora (Internal Medicine)
Kelly Schuering (Internal Medicine/Primary Care)
Vice President
Elena Lagon (OB/Gyn)
Secretary
Cathy Wang (Internal Medicine)
Treasurer
Vihang Nakate (Neurology)
Representatives by specialty
Anesthesia (5)
Michelle Baker
Eric Chen
Serena Dasani
Kunal Mandavawala
Brian Park
CT Surgery (1)
Morgan Harloff
Dermatology (1)
Cristy Garza-Mayers
Emergency Medicine (3)
Connor Brown
Christopher Murray
General Surgery (3)
Cullen Roberts
Biqi Zhang
Medicine - Categorical (5)
Vishal Arora
Jingyi Gong
Nick Spanos
Cathy Wang
Christine Wang
Rebecca (Becky) Zon (Heme-Onc Fellow)
Medicine - Primary Care (2)
Prihatha Narasimmaraj
Kelly Schuering
Medicine -Pediatrics (1)
Madeline Pesec
Neurology (2)
Jonathan Crowe
Vihang Nakhate
Neurosurgery (1)
Martina Mustroph
OB/GYN (3)
Elena Lagon
Ellen Murphy
Raj Reddy
Oral Medicine (1)
Shaiba Sandhu
Orthopedic Surgery (1)
Stephen Maier*
Akachimere Uzosike*
Otolaryngology (1)
Ciersten Burks*
Lucy Xu*
Pathology (2)
Mia DeSimone
Victoria Lane Thomas
Plastic Surgery (1)
Arman Serebrakian
Psychiatry (3)
Christina Maceknski
Glynis McGowan
Jessica Principe
Radiation Oncology (2)
Dalia Larios
Michael Milligan
Radiology - Diagnostic (4)
Ariadne DeSimone
Gerald Hefferman
Jeanne Kochkodan-Self
Sana Majid
Radiology - Interventional (1)
Olumide Oludlade
Urology (1)
Tracy Han*
Marie Valovska*
* Alternate
Committee Chairs
Resident Resources
Jonathan Crowe
Sana Majid
Inter-professional Relations
Raj Reddy
Arman Serebrakian
Advocacy and Inclusion
Jingyi Gong
Prihatha Narasimmaraj
Resident Outreach and Social
Serena Dasani
Jeannie Self
