Our Residents

Laetitia Badio (PGY 3)
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, she fully witnessed the consequences of insufficient resources in the face of high demands. Shortly after, she relocated to the United States to complete her undergraduate studies. She attended the University of Miami and obtained her medical degree at Meharry Medical College. There, she found her passion for caring for underserved and immigrant populations at a student-run clinic in Nashville.
Now a pediatric resident, she hopes to build upon her experiences with Emory’s Global Health Track to tackle long-term sequelae of natural disasters in underdeveloped countries.

Taisha Blair (PGY 3)
Vanessa Ford (PGY 3)
A born and raised Atlantan, Dr. Ford brings to the Global Health Track experience living in Taiwan and medical rotations in Rwanda and Guatemala. She went to UGA for college and majored in biology and psychology. After undergrad, she taught English in Taiwan before embarking on medical school and residency. Traveling throughout Southeast Asia reinforced her desire to help narrow gaps in healthcare inequity around the world, including in the United States. She is applying for PICU fellowship and has completed a project examining barriers to Polio eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan during her residency.

Madeleine Hebert (PGY 3)
Dr. Hebert grew up in southwest Louisiana, a native Cajun. She attended Vanderbilt in Nashville where she volunteered with refugee communities teaching a health curriculum. She studied abroad in Denmark and participated in public health projects in both Morocco and London—experiences that helped inform her understanding of the diverse health practices and delivery systems that overlap and integrate across communities. She is now a resident in Emory’s Child Neurology program with particular passion for the recognition and management of neurologic diseases like epilepsy in underserved communities.

Preethi Rajan (PGY 3)
Dr. Rajan is known for her boundless energy and her love of great conversation with a side of dessert at any hour. She studied Global Health and Psychology at Emory University where she worked with Bhutanese refugee communities in Clarkston, GA. There she began to understand the immense impact of social determinants of health, particularly with regards to health literacy and barriers to access. As a medical student, she participated in both short-term and long-term global health projects, in the Dominican Republic and in India. She is passionate about a career in primary care pediatrics and about the responsibility of physicians to advocate for social justice.

Jerome Leonard (PGY 2)

Matt Mosgrove (PGY 2)

Sheena Patel (PGY 2)
Sheena Patel was born and raised in Maryland and attended University of Maryland for her undergraduate degree, majoring in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience. She also participated in the Global Health Scholars Program there. Sheena went on to attend University of Maryland School of Medicine where she had the great fortune of participating in Indian Health Services which fostered and even deeper appreciation and interest in global health. She is very excited to be a part of the Global Health program and the exciting opportunities to come!

Kaitlin Weisshappel (PGY 2)
Kaitlin Weisshappel grew up in the small town of Shawano, just north of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Typical to many children in the region, she grew up farming, playing in the woods, and spending time with family. She comes from a very large family, with her mom having greater than 60 first cousins!
Katie’s interest and approach to medicine stems from her Oneida identity. Many Native Americans suffer from diseases like diabetes, and the Oneida are no exception. Doctors practicing medicine within the Oneida understand how Natives use traditional medicines, and seek to balance that with the science behind genetic predispositions. Katie knows this from personal experience. Having her blood glucose levels checked since childhood has impressed on her the reality of genetic predispositions at a personal level. Her nephew’s diagnosis with Trisomy 21 spurred her to earn her medical degree and become a Pediatric Geneticist. Katie sees medicine as a calling tied to her heritage and her family’s collective struggle.
Dr. Weisshappel would like to strike a balance between a patient’s traditional approach to medicine and Western Medicine. She wishes to create an environment where doctors can comfortably ask about a person’s family medicine as easily as they ask of family history. She would like to find a way to heal people with a combination of our gold standards of care, while not neglecting each person’s history and culture.

Sonal Dugar (PGY 1)

Megha Kalia (PGY 1)

Maansi Malhotra (PGY 1)

Tory Prynn (PGY 1)
