Residency Program — Resident Profiles
Learn more about our current residents and their remarkable work in the Public Health/Preventive Medicine Residency Program by reading their profiles below.
Michael Kwakye (Second year)
Dr. Michael Kwakye joined the PH/PMR program after completing his intern year at Rush Medical University Hospital and working in clinical practice over the last six years. He completed his medical school education at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Kwakye is passionate about providing holistic and practical evidence-based care to members of underserved communities in NYC in various medical settings. He has provided medical care and education to homeless populations, chronically ill and bed-bound patients in homecare, elderly patients in inpatient medicine, and has worked in outpatient care with patients primarily of low socioeconomic status and with poor access to healthcare resources. He aims to provide lifestyle implementation practices to his patients to help them address the root of disease and prevent medical conditions from arising. He is a proponent of physical activity and a plant-forward diet and believes health education plays a major role in helping people improve their health span and lifespan. He has recently written a book recently related to his passions to make health education accessible. He is excited and eager to be a part of the NYC Health Department and to learn the tools necessary to excel in the field of preventive medicine.
Madhury (Didi) Ray (First year)
Madhury (Didi) Ray, MD, MPH, CEM is an innovator in disaster management working at the intersection of medicine, data, health equity, and public health at the New York City Health Department. As the inaugural Paul Farmer Resident in Anti-Racism and Preventive Medicine, Dr. Ray hopes to focus her work on climate change's impact on human health. Her previous projects integrate diverse disciplines, from inventing a novel, participatory method to define disaster risk to standing up NYC's first COVID-19 mass vaccination sites to designing NYC's first hyperlocal emergency response. Her interdisciplinary approach began when she graduated as a triple major in Russian, Mathematics, and Pre-medicine from the Pennsylvania State University. She then earned a medical degree from Drexel University and a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School with a specialization in Global Health and a concentration in Humanitarian Studies. Dr. Ray is also a Certified Emergency Manager. Dr. Ray counts her time as a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution as one of her most formative experiences. She is currently a Visiting Scientist at Yale University and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR). In 2021, Dr. Ray was named a 40 Under 40 Rising Leader in Public Health by the de Beaumont Foundation.
Kimberly Murdaugh (First year)
Dr. Kimberly Murdaugh joined the PH/PMR program after completing an Internal Medicine preliminary year at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. After completing medical school at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Murdaugh earned a Master of Science degree from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is a physician-scientist and filmmaker with a longstanding interest in community health and preventive medicine. Drawing from an education in chemistry and engineering, as well as clinical training in radiology, she has developed new medical devices, imaging methods, and health screening resources for preventive and diagnostic care in vulnerable patient populations. She is passionate about health equity, palliative care, and maternal, infant, and reproductive health.
Saul Bautista (First year) Dr. Saul Bautista was raised in Newark, N.J. He is an Army veteran and previously served as director of medical education and community engagement at Ethos Farm to Health—a pioneering non-profit that merges healthcare with regenerative farming to educate physicians and farmers while addressing climate change. Dr. Bautista education includes a bachelor's degree in biology from Rutgers-Newark, a Master of Public Health from the Rutgers School of Public Health, and a medical doctorate from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He has 2 years of post-graduate training in internal medicine and pediatrics. In 2015, collaborating with mentors Dr. Saray Stancic and Dr. Ronald Weiss and founded the Rutgers NJMS Lifestyle Medicine Group where he oversaw the creation and implementation of various institutional and community lifestyle medicine initiatives. He was featured in the documentary film “Code Blue: Redefining The Practice Of Medicine” which presents the clinical practice of Lifestyle Medicine as a solution to the chronic illness epidemic. For his efforts he was nationally recognized receiving the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Donald A. Pegg Student Leadership Award and one of 60 military veterans selected nationwide as a Tillman Scholar in 2019. His future pursuits lie in the field of lifestyle medicine. His vision is to foster communities that build a culture of health which mitigates and prevents chronic disease by empowering people with the skills needed to be active stewards of their health.