Katherine (Kate) Horan, M.D., fulfilled her lifelong dream and joined Doctors Without Borders after completing her residency. During that time, she has served as the managing physician in a malaria and malnutrition ward in rural Chad, the director of a refugee camp hospital in South Sudan, and a technical adviser for a 300-bed pediatric hospital in Mali. Dr. Horan is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.
Jonathan (JD) Drew, M.D., joined Doctors Without Borders after completing a fellowship in wilderness medicine and disaster medicine. He served on his first mission in war-torn Central African Republic, considered to be one of the most dangerous and challenging environments for humanitarian missions. “I’ve never been happier; this is the kind of medicine you dream about practicing as a kid,” he says. “It’s challenging, yes, but I really believe my training at MSIH was the perfect way to prepare for this.”
Megan Straughan, M.D., is a general surgeon at UNC Rockingham in Eden, NC. Dr. Straughan completed her residency in general surgery at Prisma Health in Greenville, SC. She then completed a global surgery fellowship with Creighton University during which she worked at Butaro District Hospital and lived at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Butaro, Rwanda. She continues to return to Butaro and UGHE (COVID permitting).
Miriam Jacobs, M.D., is a senior fellow in oncology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She became interested in cancer immunotherapy during her first year at MSIH while taking Immunology with professor Dr. Ron Apte. Dr. Jacobs’ fellowship research focuses on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T Cells and CAR NK cells for solid tumors. Her published work includes research on outcomes of patients with lymphoma after CD19 CAR T cell therapy. Dr. Jacobs recently received an ASCO Young Investigator Award to support my research on memory-like NK cells and solid tumors. Previously, Dr. Jacobs completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of California San Diego.
Prakash Ganesh, M.D., M.P.H., is a currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and in the Center for Community Health Integration at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is also the Preventive Medicine Residency Associate Program Director at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center for the categorical and combined Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine residencies. Dr. Ganesh is currently practicing at Neighborhood Family Practice, a Federally Health Qualified Center.
Following graduation, he completed a combined residency in Family Medicine and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2015-2019, Dr. Ganesh practiced global health in Malawi, where he worked in a large refugee camp, provided inpatient care at a tertiary hospital and worked for the Lighthouse Trust through the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) at the University of Washington. Additionally, he worked as a clinical instructor and lecturer at the Malawi College of Medicine.
His focus areas include HIV, Hepatitis C, refugee health and global health.
Jonah Mink, M.D., is a family medicine physician in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also the Medical Director for Healthy.io, an Israeli start-up company. He started Migrant Health:IL with a fellow MSIH Alumnus to improve medical care for refugees, asylum seekers and migrant workers in Tel Aviv. Dr. Mink serves as a clinical advisor/medical director for numerous companies ranging from telemedicine to remote patient monitoring to mobile phone enabled artificial intelligence diagnostics. Following graduation, he completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Dr. Mink has also co-taught a first-year course at MSIH, “Introduction to Global Health.”