Meet some of the past fellows of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship.

Addiction Medicine Fellows 2022-2023

Donna Ugboaja, MDDonna Ugboaja

Dr. Ugboaja completed her undergraduate education at Cornell and received her MD from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is currently a completing her Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Prior to her medical training, Dr. Ugboaja worked as a union organizer and she is passionate about a career where she can continue to work on social justice, represent the voices of communities, provide direct care to vulnerable patient populations. Through fellowship and beyond she plans to combine her clinical work with advocacy and community organizing.

Ted Weatherwax, MDTed Weatherwax

Dr. Weatherwax completed his undergraduate education at Montana State University and received a master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Tulane. He received his medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and is completing his family medicine residency at the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority, serving as Chief Resident. Dr. Weatherwax brings his passion for recovery and renewal from his experiences with his own tribe to a career pathway of addiction medicine. He hopes to utilize his addiction medicine training to lead the deployment of evidenced based addiction management throughout rural IHS facilities.

Samuela Manages, MDSamuela Manages

Dr. Manages completed her undergraduate education at University of Maryland. She received her medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Following residency, she began a career practicing rural family medicine in a health center in Maine and serving as a preceptor for Maine Medical Center/Tufts University trainees. Dr. Manages helped to start and lead an office-based addiction medicine treatment program in the health center where she works and is interested in honing her addiction medicine expertise during fellowship training. She hopes to continue to lead the growth and expansion of effective substance use disorder care in rural settings following fellowship.

Logan Adams, MDLogan Adams

Dr. Adams completed his undergraduate education at Lubbock Christian University. He received his medical degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and is completing his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Adams’ passion for addiction medicine is interwoven with his commitment to caring for vulnerable populations, including those who are unhoused, and addressing inequities in healthcare and society which he saw up close as director of his city’s only free clinic during medical school. He plans to pursue a career in primary care and addiction medicine in low barrier settings developing and advocating for innovative models of addiction care through street medicine, homeless respite care, and shelter-based clinics.

Addiction Medicine Fellows 2021-2022

Sunny KingSunny Kung

Dr. Kung was born in Taiwan and grew up in the Bay Area, CA. After undergrad at UC Berkeley she moved to the Midwest for medical school at the University of Chicago. She completed her internal medicine-primary care residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital where she cultivated her interest in patients with SUDs. Her clinical interests also include racial justice, immigrant health, homeless health, decarceration and advocacy. Her hobbies include rock climbing, hiking, cooking and riding her moped across town.

Ogorchukwu Faith OmedeOgorchukwu Faith Omede

Dr. Omede is originally from Southern Nigeria, but after spending some time in the other countries, namely the U.K., Ukraine and now the U.S., he is a bit of a global citizen. He will be joining the fellowship from North Shore Medical Center. He enjoys bowling, a night out with friends and running on the scenic Massachusetts beaches. Addiction medicine is both a passion and calling for him.

Clare LandefeldClare Landefeld

Dr. Landefeld grew up in Cleveland and California, and loves to travel, hike and camp. Clare is joining from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the pandemic, she discovered a love of the New York Times Spelling Bee, and re-discovered a love of board games and puzzles. She is passionate about addiction medicine, primary care and incorporating health equity into our health care system.

Maya AppleyMaya Appley

Dr. Appley is from Lafayette, LA. She received her MD/MPH from Tulane University in New Orleans and completed Internal Medicine residency at UCSF. Her professional interests include, harm reduction, low-barrier substance use treatment, women’s health, medical education and care for people experiencing homelessness and people who have experienced incarceration. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, Pilates, reading, most things outdoors and is hoping to get back into weaving and pottery this year.

Addiction Medicine Fellows 2020-2021

Dr. Sarah Axelrath Dr. Sarah Axelrath received her medical degree from the University of Colorado in 2017, after which she completed her residency training in Internal Medicine through the Primary Care track at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2020. She is passionate about providing high quality, full-spectrum primary care for patients with substance use disorders, focusing specifically on patients experiencing homelessness and incarceration.

Dr. Julianne “Jules” ElofsonDr. Julianne “Jules” Elofson grew up in Lincoln, RI and went to Brown University for undergrad before moving to Boston for her medical training. She attended medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine and then completed Internal Medicine Residency in the Primary Care Track at Mass General. She has always been interested in caring for vulnerable patient populations and entered residency intending to practice primary care in an underserved community setting. Over her residency, she developed an additional interest in Addiction Medicine while working as a resident PCP at Charlestown HealthCare Center and doing rotations with the Mass General inpatient Addiction Consult Team.

She is thrilled to have been accepted to the Mass General Addiction Medicine fellowship. In 2020-2021, she will also be participating in the Yale REACH program to gain additional training in providing culturally-informed addiction treatment to patients from underrepresented minority populations. In the future, Jules envisions herself working in a mostly clinical role practicing primary care and Addiction Medicine, possibly in a community health center or criminal justice setting.

Dr. Bridget FoleyDr. Bridget Foley grew up on Cape Cod, MA. She was an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and attended University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her interest in addiction medicine began while working with pregnant patients with SUDs during an internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology. During her family medicine residency, her research focused on examining the delivery of preventative care to patients with SUDs and improving rates of screening for SUDs in her continuity clinic. She was an advocate for a formalized addiction medicine curriculum within her residency program. She is passionate about providing primary care, prenatal care and addiction treatment and hopes to continue to expand her knowledge and serve as an advocate for her patients.

Previous Years

Dinah Applewhite

Dinah Applewhite is a graduating primary care resident. Her interest in substance use disorders began while attending The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. She was an active member of Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, worked on Baltimore’s mobile syringe exchange program and conducted research on topics including alcohol withdrawal and naloxone distribution. During residency, she has been involved in advocacy efforts to bring supervised consumption spaces to Massachusetts, and has researched the use of psychoactive medications among individuals attending a syringe exchange program. She hopes to provide primary care and addiction treatment to high risk individuals and continue her work in harm reduction advocacy and research.

Jiunling Janet Ho

Jiunling Janet Ho is completing an addiction medicine fellowship part-time while practicing as a palliative care physician and internist at Mass General. She left sunny California to complete residency training in primary care and a chief resident year at Yale University, after which she completed a fellowship in general internal medicine and a public health degree at Harvard University. Her goals for pursuing (yet more) training with this fellowship are to improve the care of patients at the intersection of addiction, pain and co-morbid serious illness, advocate for better cancer survivorship care relating to substance use and dependence and to strengthen provider knowledge and skills in treating patients with addiction within palliative care and oncology. She will be practicing palliative and addiction medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Gene Lambert

Gene Lambert is a staff consultant with the Addiction Consult Team of the Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative. He completed the Addiction Medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2019. He has been a practicing hospital clinician since 2002. He provides acute care medicine and substance use care at Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical interests include the acute management of substance use disorders, medical complications of alcohol use disorders and provider education of the care of hospitalized patients with substance use disorders.

Eric S. Lott, MD

Eric S. Lott, MD, completed his residency training in internal medicine residency at Maricopa Medical Center and Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ and subsequently completed the Addiction Medicine Fellowship in 2019. He is now the associate program director of the Honor Health/CBI Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Lott participates extensively in educating residency and fellowship programs about the neurobiology of addiction, stopping stigma and treatment/management of substance use disorders. He is also the associate medical director of the Physician and Professional Health Program in AZ. Dr. Lott treats patients with substance use disorders along with a wide range of medical conditions associated with addiction (hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis, infections). He has a primary focus on implementing evidenced based addiction care in every medical setting. He continues to advocate for improved health care treatment models for substance use disorders as a chronic disease process.

Rachel Simon

Rachel Simon was born in New York, NY. She was an undergraduate at Brown University and attended Harvard Medical School. Throughout her academic training, she has focused on the effect of incarceration on patient health, particularly substance use disorders. As a resident at Mass General, she was a recipient of the Jackson White Coat grant, which funded her qualitative research examining the reasons hospitalized patients with SUDs are at risk of leaving against medical advice. She is passionate about providing evidence-based, compassionate care for patients with SUDs in both the community and correctional setting.

John Weems

John Weems was born in Katy, TX and, after graduating from Loyola Marymount University, worked as a case manager for people struggling with homelessness and addiction. He attended Harvard Medical School, where he worked to improve medical student education in substance use and substance use disorders. He completed residency in internal medicine-primary care at Mass General and Charlestown Community Health Center. He is interested in improving the care of patients with addiction by training health care workers and incorporating wisdom from the harm reduction movement into routine medical care.