Massachusetts General Hospital | MassGeneral Hospital for Children

Meet the Team

Clinical Team

The Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition Program at MassGeneral Hospital for Children provides multidisciplinary care for children with gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic and nutritional disorders. Learn more.

Basic Science Team

The major mission of the Mucosal Immunology and Developmental Gastroenterology Laboratories at MGH remains a multidisciplinary approach to characterize the role of the enterocyte in mucosal barrier function at the interface between microbial luminal stimuli and lymphoid effector responses. Learn more.

First Year Fellows

Maureen Leonard, MD Medical School: New York Medical College Residency: Tufts Medical Center Current Research Interest: TBD Research Mentor: TBD SOC Chairperson / Advisor: TBD

Claire Zar-Kessler, MD Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Current Research Interest: TBD Research Mentor: TBD SOC Chairperson / Advisor: TBD

Second Year Fellows

Navneet Hundal, MD Medical School: St. George's University, Grenada Residency: SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, NY Current Research Interest: Th2 cells and their receptors in patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Research Mentor: Wayne Shreffler, MD SOC Chairperson / Advisor: Qian Yuan, MD

Mark Kusek, MD Medical School: University of Nebraska College of Medicine Residency: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Current Research Interests: Investigating factors that could affect eosinophil migration in esophageal epithelial cells. Research Advisor: Bryan Hurley, PhD SOC Chairperson / Advisor: Christopher Moran, MD

Third Year Fellows

Sarah Kadzielski, MD Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine Residency: Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA Current Research Interest: Medical education and Procedural training, Quality Improvement and Safety Research Mentor: Christopher Thompson, MD, MS SOC Chairperson / Advisor: Uzma Shah, MD; Harland Winter, MD

Khoa Tran, MD Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA Residency: University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Current Research Interest: GI Motility, Hirschsprung’s disease Research Mentor: Braden Kuo, MD SOC Chairperson / Advisor: Jaime Belkind-Gerson, MD; Allan Goldstein, MD