Mass General Hospital Pediatric Residency Program
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Email: lbreton@mgh.harvard.edu
Overview
The mission of the Mass General Brigham for Children Pediatric Residency Program is to develop independent, innovative pediatric leaders through education and personalized mentorship in a supportive academic learning environment committed to excellence in family-centered clinical care, research, and advocacy. We aim to train the next generation of outstanding pediatric leaders dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the children in the communities in which they work through innovative, evidence-based, multidisciplinary practice.
Our Values
- Clinical excellence provides the foundation for a successful career as a pediatric physician.
- As a training program and as a profession more broadly, it is essential that our workforce reflects the patients we serve and offers a variety of perspectives.
- To be truly effective as clinicians we must put the knowledge and experience gained at the bedside towards advocating for positive change in our community.
- Creating a network of encouraging mentors and peers is critical in developing resilient physicians.
- Supporting the unique trajectory of a trainee allows for each individual to develop to their full potential.
Mass General Brigham for Children residents work at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), leveraging the resources of one of the oldest general hospitals in the country. Community hospital sites (Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Cambridge Health Alliance) allow residents to provide expert care in neighboring communities. Residents gain experience across a 21-bed Level IV NICU and 13-bed PICU at MGH, as well as the only regional center with simultaneous Level I adult trauma, burn, and pediatric trauma designations.
Mass General Brigham for Children offers a rich ambulatory learning environment encompassing a comprehensive range of pediatric subspecialty care, multidisciplinary clinics, robust primary care and acute care services, and a strong emphasis on the integration of care for children and families.
Our general pediatrics training allows residents to explore varied career opportunities while preparing them to achieve extraordinary professional success. Our graduates are some of the most trusted primary care providers in their communities and some of the region's top subspecialists.
Residents at Mass General Brigham for Children are their patients' primary caregivers in inpatient environments, deriving immense learning and clinical experience through the care of a diverse patient population. Leveraging the resources of this academic center, the program meets the diverse and unique learning, research, and clinical interests of each resident within a close-knit community where resident support and mentorship are cornerstones of a safe and productive learning environment.
Unparalleled Access to Faculty
At Mass General Brigham for Children, residents are at the heart of a close-knit, collaborative community. Our world-class faculty are not only leaders in pediatric care, research, and education but are deeply committed to supporting each resident's growth. Through mentorship, shared passions, and personal connections, residents gain unparalleled opportunities to explore their interests, advance their careers, and make a lasting impact on the health of children and families everywhere.
Our Commitment to Our People and Our Communities
As a Mass General Brigham for Children resident, you will have the privilege of caring for children and families from a wide range of backgrounds. Clinical training occurs at our main campus in Boston, as well as at community health centers in Charlestown, Revere, and Chelsea, and affiliated hospitals in Cambridge and Newton. Our community health centers provide care to one of the most linguistically and culturally varied patient populations in the state.
Our training program equips residents to recognize and respond to health disparities, and to provide equitable, high-quality care to every child. Mass General Brigham for Children is proud to support future pediatricians dedicated to advancing equity in child health through compassionate, community-centered care.
Mass General Brigham's Center for Academic Development and Enrichment includes a trainee and student engagement division that creates formal and informal opportunities for trainees to build social and professional connections, engage in peer mentorship, and develop leadership skills.
Resident Life
Our residents are a diverse group of extraordinary individuals who form a tight-knit community and excel in many areas above and beyond pediatrics. We have an extraordinarily active advocacy group that has been honored with several awards including the prestigious national Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award. Our pediatric residency program at Mass General Brigham for Children is more than just a training experience — it's a family!
Residents love to spend time together outside of the hospital, enjoying the amazing city of Boston and the scenic New England region. We have regular wellness events such as apple picking, ski trips, having potlucks and picnics, bowling and pizza nights, and hiking trips.
Life-Long Relationships
The motto of care for patients at Mass General Brigham for Children is "Once we start caring, we never stop." Similarly, once you've joined the Mass General Brigham for Children Residency family, you will always be a part of it. Graduates routinely return to receive mentorship as their careers unfold, and many have stayed or come back to Mass General Brigham for Children at some point in their careers.
Employee Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
- Malpractice insurance coverage by the hospital
- Assistance in managing initial costs of rental housing (Mass General Brigham Lease Guaranty Program)
- Subsidized parking and preferred access to selected parking facilities on the main campus or satellite facilities
- Subsidized MBTA passes
- Facilities for parking and storage of bicycles
- $10,500 stipend for personal expenses
- Reimbursement for UMSLE Step 3
- Tuition assistance for coursework
- $1,500 annual CME allowance to support local, state, or national conference fees
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Personal Benefits
- Reduced membership rates at the nearby Charles River Park Health Club
- Discounted museum, ski passes, and tickets for local sporting events
- Backup childcare located on site
Salary and Contract
Mass General Brigham offers a wide range of benefits and a competitive salary for residents and clinical fellows.
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Educational and Professional Development Resources
Curriculum
We train physicians in all aspects of general pediatrics, with an emphasis on graduated autonomy and individualized training. With mentorship, residents choose their own subspecialty electives and create their own individuated curriculum rotations — meeting all ACGME Requirements. Our goal is to prepare residents for a lifetime of service to children whether as a generalist or a pediatric specialist.
Our residents experience the full range of the practice of pediatrics including federally qualified health centers, community health clinics, private practices, community hospitals, and world-renowned quaternary care centers.
Resident Rotation Schedules
PGY-1 Schedule
- 10 weeks – MGH Inpatient Medicine (6 weeks of day shifts and 4 weeks of night shifts)
- 8 weeks – Pediatric Emergency Medicine (at both MGH and Cambridge Hospital)
- 4 weeks – Newton-Wellesley Hospital Community Inpatient Pediatric Medicine
- 4 weeks – MGH NICU
- 4 weeks – MGH Newborn Nursery
- 4 weeks – Development & Behavioral Pediatrics
- 4 weeks – Ambulatory Medicine
- 4 weeks – Outpatient Subspecialty Medicine
- 4 weeks – Electives/Individualized Curriculum
- 2 weeks – Scholarship (academic work including QI, research, or advocacy which can be combined with additional elective experiences)
PGY-2 Schedule
- 8 weeks – MGH Inpatient Medicine (6 weeks of day shifts and 2 weeks of night shifts)
- 8 weeks – PICU
- 6 weeks – Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- 4 weeks – Newton-Wellesley Hospital Community Inpatient Pediatric Medicine
- 4 weeks – Brigham & Women’s Hospital Birth & Transitions
- 4 weeks – Adolescent Medicine
- 4 weeks – Ambulatory Medicine
- 2 weeks – Mental Health
- 6 weeks – Electives/Individualized Curriculum
- 2 weeks – Scholarship (academic work including QI, research, or advocacy which can be combined with additional elective experiences)
PGY-3 Schedule
- 8 weeks – MGH Inpatient Medicine (6 weeks of day shifts and 4 weeks of night shifts)
- 8 weeks – Pediatric Emergency Medicine (at both MGH and Cambridge Hospital)
- 4 weeks – MGH NICU
- 4 weeks – Resident as Educator
- 22 weeks – Electives/Individualized Curriculum
- 2 weeks – Scholarship (academic work including QI, research, or advocacy which can be combined with additional elective experiences)
The ambulatory curriculum at MGB /MGH provides residents with both longitudinal and block-based outpatient experiences that develop core skills in primary care, subspecialty medicine, and community health across the full spectrum of pediatric practice. Rotations include the following:
Adolescent Medicine is a 4-week block rotation for PGY-2 residents taught by multidisciplinary providers in a wide variety of settings where adolescents seek care. Settings include adolescent focused primary care practices, tertiary care center subspecialty clinics (e.g. substance use disorder treatment clinics, mental health clinics, sports medicine, gynecology, reproductive health, and LGBTQIA clinics), and community-based experiences such as the teen health clinics in the Boston-area public schools.
Ambulatory Medicine rotations are four 2-week long rotations each centered around a central theme including the following: Pediatric Surgery and Surgical Subspeciality Clinics (Pediatric General Surgery, Urology, Orthopedics, and Sports Medicine), Community Health, Care of the Child with Complex Care Needs, & Lifestyle Medicine. Each rotation also includes acute and urgent care experiences at both a community-based, safety-net hospital and academic tertiary care center. Residents can also complete selective experiences in care of families seeking asylum through the MGB Asylum Clinic or families experiencing homelessness via Boston Healthcare for the Homeless.
The Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Rotation is a 4-week rotation during the PGY-1 year. During the rotation, residents are given the opportunity to learn from a wide variety of community and clinical providers to gain a better understanding of child development and the systems in place that support children. The Lurie Center for Autism serves as the core site for the rotation where residents meet and work with a developmental-behavioral pediatrician mentor to see how to apply general development and behavioral principles into practice.
The Outpatient Subspecialty rotation provides PGY-1 residents with early exposure and hands-on experience to four pediatric subspecialties: Pediatric Pulmonology, Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Pediatric GI, Hepatology & Nutrition. Each experience emphasizes comprehensive, integrated patient care in an outpatient setting and often within the community. Residents will engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, honing their skills in diagnosis, management, and long-term follow-up for children with common and complex health conditions across the above-mentioned subspecialty clinics across Mass General Brigham for Children.
The MGBfC Pediatric Emergency Medicine rotation provides the residents in every year of training with opportunities to triage, evaluate and manage children with a broad range of medical and surgical problems with varying levels of acuity. The rotation is based in the Pediatric Emergency Department located at MGH- an urban referral pediatric emergency department designated as a level I pediatric trauma and burn center staffed by Pediatric Emergency Medicine attendings and staff. Patients will include children, adolescents, and young adults from birth to 21 years. The Pediatric Emergency Medicine rotation combines shifts at both MGH, as well as shifts at Cambridge Hospital, a local community, safety-net hospital.
The Cambridge Hospital Emergency Department rotation offers PGY-1residents the opportunity to evaluate and treat a wide range of pediatric illness in the community setting. Interns work directly with on-site attending emergency physicians as the pediatric expert and primary caregiver to the pediatric patients. Rotators will have exposure to front-line urgent care medicine including bedside procedures such as orthopedic splinting, abscess incision and drainage, and laceration repairs. The rotation provides a comprehensive community experience that also assists PGY-1 residents in developing disposition plans and care coordination in a setting with more limited pediatric resources and sub-specialist availability than the tertiary care center.
The goal of the MGH Pediatric Inpatient Medicine rotation is to develop the ability of residents to evaluate and manage patients with a broad range of medical problems and make decisions about need for hospitalization, changes in status necessitating intensive care, and readiness for discharge. The rotation is based on a general pediatric ward in a tertiary care setting with patients aged birth to 21, and exposes residents to complex, referral-based medical problems. Learning will occur in a multidisciplinary team-based system. First year residents will be the primary caregivers for their patients, under the close supervision of third year residents, who will serve as team leaders. Residents will benefit from guidance by admitting pediatric and subspecialty attendings, as well as the service attending who will round with the team on a regular basis. Second year residents will work in pairs managing a separate general medical service, overseen by a pediatric hospitalist, allowing them to expand their independent management of patients with appropriate faculty support.
PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents also complete a Community Hospital Inpatient Medicine rotation at Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH), which is a community hospital serving a wide service area in the western suburbs. The spectrum of pediatrics at NWH includes the Pediatric Inpatient Unit, Newborn Nurseries, SCN, Pediatric Subspecialty Clinics and the Pediatric Emergency Department. Residents rotating at NWH manage a general pediatric inpatient unit under the supervision of attending hospitalists and community pediatricians. All house staff operate under the supervision of the patient’s attending physician. Residents provide daytime coverage at NWH; overnight coverage is provided by NWH hospitalists and moonlighters. The team consists of one PGY-2 supervisory resident and one intern, joined by medical students from Tufts University and PA students from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Many of our own MGH graduates join the Newton-Wellesley community after residency.
The NWH intern rotation is designed to allow interns to learn how to manage common pediatric illnesses in a community inpatient setting. There is also a strong emphasis on the teaching of medical and PA students on this rotation.
The NWH Supervisory Resident rotation is designed to allow junior and senior residents to supervise a team admitting patients to an inpatient pediatric ward in a community hospital. Leadership and supervision skills are paramount for the successful resident on this rotation. Communication and the management of transition to higher level of care when necessary are critical components.
The goal of the MGH Newborn rotation is to expose first year residents to the well-baby care and develop their ability to evaluate newborns and counsel new families. The rotation is based in a busy urban newborn nursery with a large referral obstetrical service. Frequent teaching sessions are provided by members of the newborn hospitalist service on topics such as rashes, circumcisions, septic risk evaluation, breastfeeding, hypoglycemia, and anticipatory guidance after leaving the hospital. In addition to caring for well newborns, interns will attend deliveries to learn the basics of neonatal resuscitation, a skill set that is further developed in our rotation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The goal of the MGH NICU rotation is to develop the ability of residents to evaluate and manage critically ill infants with a broad range of medical and surgical problems. The rotation is based in an 21-bed level IV neonatal intensive care unit. Learning will occur in a multidisciplinary team-based system. Interns will be the primary caregivers for their patients, under the close supervision of staff, neonatologists, and intensive care fellows. The most important goal of the intern experience in the NICU is to develop a comprehensive knowledge of one’s patients and establish a relationship with the family as the primary physician on the NICU team. Residents return to the MGH NICU as senior residents in a supervisory role and have opportunities to teach as well as further develop their neonatal intensive care skills while covering the patient care overnight every fourth night. The NICU Senior rotation is designed to allow seniors to demonstrate the confidence and competence necessary to manage an intensive care unit for critically ill neonates.
The overall goal of the second-year resident Birth & Transitions rotation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital is to develop the ability of residents to evaluate, resuscitate and manage newborns in the delivery room, and immediately thereafter. At the Brigham, pediatric residents have the opportunity to lead the initial evaluation and management of neonates in the delivery room (including neonatal resuscitation as appropriate), triage and evaluate neonates presenting with distress or illness in the first hours of life, provide appropriate care for neonates in a level 2 nursery, and appropriately counsel pregnant women and their families who are likely to have a premature baby as consultants. The rotation is based in a metropolitan referral hospital that boasts nearly 10,000 deliveries per year.
The Mass General Brigham for Children PICU is a busy 14-bed mixed medical and surgical pediatric ICU embedded in a quaternary referral center. The goal of the PICU rotation is to help cultivate the clinical acumen of junior residents, providing them with the tools to assess and treat critically ill children with a broad range of pathophysiologies. Residents are the responding clinicians, working closely with fellows and attendings as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Trainees are exposed to interventions specific to the ICU setting, including ECMO, CPR, CVVH, non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation, ICP monitoring, management of severe shock, poly-trauma, multi-organ failure, and post-operative management of various high-risk surgeries. Residents receive a core curriculum in addition to teaching on rounds; they also play an active role in our scheduled simulation-based team training exercises. Procedures are a mainstay of critical care, many of which residents have the potential to experience: IV placement, arterial puncture, bag mask ventilation, central venous line placement, intubations, and thoracentesis. As a major referral center, the PICU receives patients from throughout New England, as well as specific burn patients referred from Shriners Hospital for Children, complicated airway reconstruction patients from the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, and at times, children transferred from distant parts of the US and the world.
Here at Mass General Brigham for Children, we encourage residents to tailor their residency training to meet their unique educational goals. Instead of placing residents into predefined “tracks,” we offer opportunities to explore diverse interests and create a residency that aligns with their individual learning and career goals. A total of 40 weeks of curriculum is dedicated to individualized learning, which are planned and co-created with input from mentors. Residents can choose from a variety of subspecialties or create unique curricular experiences. We have seen residents create incredibly rich and diverse experiences, such as working on a hospital boat in Cambodia, collaborating on comparative zoology with veterinarians, developing an emergency medicine curriculum in Kenya, and partnering with the Chief Quality Office of the hospital. At Mass General Brigham for Children, we recognize that one size does not fit all; no two residents have the same training experience because no two residents are alike. We value individuality and autonomy in designing training that meets each resident's unique needs.
Our elective offerings include the following:
- Allergy & Immunology
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology
- Child Abuse Prevention
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology/Oncology
- Hospice and Palliative Care
- Infectious Disease
- Medical Genetics
- Nephrology
- Neurology/Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pulmonology
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Sleep Medicine
- Sports Medicine
We also believe that being an educator is a core skill of any pediatrician. As such, we have developed the Ward Teach rotation, which is a 2 to 4-week rotation in the PGY-3 year which combines medical student teaching with mentored large group teaching opportunities. During this rotation, the resident runs Morning Case Conference twice a week and one Wednesday noon conference every other week. Each Ward Teach resident is paired with a faculty mentor for 1:1 teaching and feedback on this large group teaching during the rotation. The conferences are designed to allow the residents to improve teaching skills. Residents of all three years, the hospitalist and teaching attendings, as well as medical students, attend the conferences. Additionally, the ward teach spends a significant amount of time with the medical students on their pediatric clerkship in their first clinical year. The ward teach observes medical students’ presentations on rounds, observes their initial histories and physicals when admitting new patients and reads their admission notes and gives them feedback verbally and in writing. The ward teach also leads 1-2 teaching sessions for the medical students, helps them with their physical exam skills in the newborn nursery, and leads 1-2 simulation sessions for the medical students. During this rotation, residents can also elect to participate in YSIM, a community–based youth program that seeks to expose children and adolescents from underserved communities to careers in healthcare through simulated patient encounters. The overall goal of the senior resident ward teach rotation is to provide residents with the opportunity to teach in different settings to different levels of learner in a mentored setting in which they receive feedback through a structured “Resident as Educator” curriculum.
A preponderance of evidence supports simulation in augmenting development of clinical skills. As a result, our program deeply values simulation experiences. Our current simulation curriculum includes the following:
- A longitudinal simulation to support clinical reasoning that takes place multiple times per year during each phase of training. Scenarios are actual cases borrowed from the inpatient learning environments, which prepare residents well for many of the clinical scenarios they will encounter clinically.
- Urgent and emergent simulated scenarios in the intensive care clinical learning environments.
- Procedural simulation including laceration repair, venipuncture, IV placement, lumbar puncture, emergent thoracostomy, implantable birth control placement, and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
- Simulation in trauma-informed behavioral de-escalation.
- Simulated serious conversations conducted by dedicated faculty from the Pediatric Palliative Care and Nephrology divisions.
Scholarship Opportunities
Residents have access to the #1 NIH-funded research hospital in the United States. Basic science, clinical, and translational research opportunities span all areas of pediatric care.
The community health centers offer ample opportunities to engage in advocacy and community health interventions.
All residents received access to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s QI modules, resulting in the IHI Certification in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
For individuals interested in medical education, the Pediatric Education Innovation & Research Center (PEIRC) supports scholarship and mentorship in both undergraduate and graduate medical education.
Institution-wide Centers of Expertise allow trainees numerous opportunities including small group workshops, funding opportunities, and access to faculty leaders to refine their skills in Global and Humanitarian Health, Health Policy and Management, Medical Education, Patient Care Quality and Patient Safety, and Research.
How to Apply
The Pediatric Residency Program offers the following:
- A three-year categorical pediatrics program (NRMP 1261320C0)
- A one-year preliminary pediatrics program prior to advanced training programs, such as dermatology, radiology, anesthesiology, PM&R (NRMP 1261320P0)
- A combined Child Neurology Residency program through the Child Neurology Match. Child Neurology Program applicants need to apply to the MGH Child Neurology Program. You will have an opportunity to meet and interview with the Pediatric Residency Leadership Team during Child Neurology interview day. The Pediatric Residency Program reserves two positions for child neurology residents who will complete two years of training in general pediatrics. You do not need to apply to the categorical pediatric residency program separately to be considered for these reserved positions. All inquiries should be directed to the Program Administrator, Virginia Tosney-Trask.
Applications will be received via ERAS. Interview invitation decision dates as well as interview dates for the 2026-2027 application cycle will be posted soon.
- The Pediatric Residency participates in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and will only accept applications through that platform.
- Applicants should have no more than 3 letters of recommendations from faculty who know them well. A pro forma letter of recommendation from department chairs is not required unless the writer knows the applicant well.
- To be considered for an interview, applicants must have successfully completed USMLE Step 1. The residency supports the move to Pass/Fail and has historically not observed any “cut-offs” for scores.
- USMLE Step 2 must be successfully completed by the close of the Match but is not a requirement to secure an invitation to interview. The Program does not observe any “cut-offs” for scores to be considered for an interview for applicants who have completed Step 2 prior to the ERAS application submission.
- A personal statement is required. It should reflect your personal experiences and communicate your unique path to a career in pediatrics in lieu of a recapitulation of your CV or other elements of your ERAS application.
- We respectfully request applicants not re-send their applications via email.
- International Medical Graduate applicants: the program supports both J-1 and H1B visas. ECFMG certification is required: Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
Program Leadership
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH - Department Chair
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH, is the Chair of Pediatrics at Mass General for Children and the Chair of Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She previously served as the Division of Pediatric Palliative Care in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) for nearly 30 years. She also served as the Vice President for Faculty Development at the Dana-Farber. She is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She holds an MD degree (1990) from Harvard Medical School and an MPH (1998) from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Wolfe’s research is focused on easing suffering and promoting wellbeing in children with serious illness and their families. She also co-directs the Multinational Pediatric Palliative Care Research Network.
Shaun Fitzgerald, MD, MPH - Program Director
Dr. Shaun Fitzgerald is a pediatric hospitalist and member of the Child Protection Team at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Program Director for the Pediatrics Resident Program at Mass General for Children. He was born and raised in the Greater Boston Area and attended College of the Holy Cross as an undergraduate, before moving to Chicago to complete his service in AmeriCorps working for the National AIDS Fund. He returned to Massachusetts to complete medical school at UMass Medical School followed by his pediatric residency at Mass General Brigham for Children. He also completed a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, simultaneously earning an MPH from UC-Berkeley. Dr. Fitzgerald finds that caring for hospitalized children imparts a deep sense of meaning to his practice which he enjoys sharing with trainees. In addition, he finds that the inpatient care space provides a rich learning environment for trainees to develop not only knowledge in the management of acute and chronic illness, but also the skills necessary to provide effective patient and family-centered care.Outside of clinical practice, Dr. Fitzgerald actively participates in process improvement projects with residents, leveraging their experience in front line care and desire to innovate care delivery to bring about better and more equitable care for children at MGH and beyond. Dr. Fitzgerald’s academic interests also lie in antibiotic stewardship among hospitalized pediatric patients. In all capacities, the times spent working with, teaching, and learning from residents have been among Dr. Fitzgerald’s favorite and most rewarding experiences. He is very excited to help lead the new generation of Mass General Brigham for Children trained pediatricians.
Anna Handorf, MD- Associate Program Director
Dr. Handorf grew up on the South Shore of Boston and attended Case Western Reserve University for her undergraduate degree. She returned to Massachusetts to attend the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed her residency at Mass General Brigham for Children, followed by a fellowship in medical simulation and medical education in the MGH Learning Laboratory. Clinically, she works as a pediatric hospitalist at Newton Wellesley Hospital, as an Associate Program Director for the MGH Pediatrics Residency Program, and as a health professions education researcher at MGH in the Pediatric Education, Innovation, and Research Center (PEIRC) and the Peter L. Slavin, MD Academy for Applied Learning in Healthcare. Dr. Handorf is the Director of TinyTalks, an innovative platform of short, chalk-talk-style educational videos of clinical pearls targeted to pediatric residents. She loves spending time with her MD/PhD student husband and cat (who thinks he's a dog). She enjoys taking cooking classes while traveling, hiking in the White Mountains, and practicing yoga.
Jennifer Hanson, MD- Associate Program Director
Dr. Hanson grew up in the Boston area on the South Shore. She attended the Tisch School for the Arts at NYU and majored in theatre for her undergraduate degree. Following graduation she moved with her now husband to Paris, France for a year where she worked in cardiology research and explored as much of Europe as they could pack into their time there. She then went on to medical school at UMass before completing her residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Mass General Brigham for Children, and ultimately joined the residency team as an associate program director. Clinically, she works as a primary care pediatrician at MGH Revere Health Center and loves the diversity of her patient population. Professionally Jen is interested in physician wellness including novel approaches such as medical improvisational training, health disparities in primary care, and medical education. Outside of work Jen enjoys spending time with her husband and daughters, attending theatre, and spending as much time as possible outdoors skiing, boating, fishing, swimming, and working on hiking all the 4,000-foot mountains in the New Hampshire White Mountains.
Carlos Torres, MD- Associate Program Director
Dr. Carlos Torres was born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin during his teenage years, afterwards attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, then attended pediatric residency at Mass General Brigham for Children and served as a chief resident. A proud pediatrician and clinician-educator, Dr. Torres is dedicated to advancing health equity and mentoring the next generation of compassionate physicians. He practices primary care at MGH Chelsea, a community health center serving underserved and diverse populations, and serves as a student advisor at Harvard Medical School. His academic interests center on community engagement, medical education, and identity formation in learners. He is particularly passionate about supporting physicians from all backgrounds in creating spaces where individuals can grow both professionally and personally. Outside of his professional life, Dr. Torres finds joy in spending time with his husband and their dog, connecting with his large extended family, exploring new places, nurturing his garden, and diving into a good book—his lifelong passion.