Current Family Medicine Fellows

Ashlyn Brown, MD
Academic Fellowship

Ashlyn Brown, MD (she/her/hers) joined DFMCH as a fellow in 2024. Brown’s interests are rooted in providing trauma-informed care to vulnerable and underserved communities. Her areas of interest are reproductive health and justice, gender-affirming care, and medications for substance use disorders.

In medical school, Brown was a member of the Gold Humanism Society. She also received a McGovern-Tracy award while in residency for her work co-teaching anatomical and reproductive health.

Emily Claypool
Primary Care Research Fellowship

Emily Claypool, PhD (she/her/hers) joined DFMCH as a fellow in 2024. Claypool earned her PhD at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy & Practice where she also completed a NIH T32 predoctoral fellowship in health services research. Supported by the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation, her dissertation titled “What does it mean ‘to work’? The Politics of Scientific Reform in a Harm Reduction Clinical Trial” ethnographically investigated a type-1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of a harm reduction and peer recovery intervention to prevent opioid overdose among people recently released from jail and prison. She examined the micro-interactional dynamics of how researchers of various disciplines, clinicians, activists, and carceral administrators collaborated amidst diverging ethical and institutional obligations and professional commitments. Working alongside trial actors for over two years, she demonstrated how the paradigm of the clinical trial and the institutional demands to which it must adhere often override the goals of practitioners and researchers for social and structural change.  

Claypool’s research draws on science and technology studies (STS), implementation science, and extensive experience participating in the conduct of large-scale clinical trials to understand the institutional, political, and social conditions that shape service users’ trust and mistrust in health service systems and the technologies researchers advance or implement. She is particularly interested in understanding the contemporary social conditions that engender (mis)trust in experts and how scientific values and increasing trends toward “evidence-based” practices are negotiated with the fundamental ethical, moral, and social values of both health service users and providers during the interactive practice of knowledge “translation.”

Michaela Frey, MD
Academic Integrative Health Fellowship

Michaela Frey, MD (she/her/hers) joined DFMCH as a fellow in 2024. Frey is a proud Oregonian, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Since childhood, she has worked toward her goal of becoming a family physician serving rural communities. She studied bioengineering at Oregon State University before attending medical school at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR. Her formative medical training in full-spectrum family medicine was completed at the Full Circle Health Family Medicine Residency of Idaho.

Frey became a public advocate for Indigenous health and Native peoples in higher education beginning in her undergraduate years. A descendent of the Choctaw and Mojave tribes, she is particularly invested in the holistic health of Indigenous and underserved populations. She is passionate about the accessibility of behavioral health, obstetric care, and integrative health for all.

In her free time, Frey is an outdoor enthusiast and is always excited for a new adventure. She can be found hiking, camping, hunting, riding horses (or Harleys), and skiing, usually with her husband. On inside days, she enjoys playing cello and cooking. She is grateful for the opportunity to join the integrative medicine team at UW-Madison and expand her techniques in supporting comprehensive and sustainable health for the individual, family, and community.

Raj Grewal, MD
Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Rajbir Grewal earned her undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her medical degree from Windsor University School of Medicine. She then completed her Family Medicine residency training at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education in Kingston, PA. Following residency, Dr. Grewal worked as a primary care physician for the Lake County Health Department in Illinois (a Federally Qualified Health Center) and as a telehealth physician for LeadR Medical. As a primary care provider, she saw firsthand the impact that substance use disorders have on individuals and their loved ones. She is particularly interested in working to bridge the gap between primary care and SUD treatment. Outside of work, Dr. Grewal’s interests include traveling, cooking, watching movies, and spending quality time with her family and friends.

Erin Gutowski DO, MPH, FAAPC
LGBTQ+ Health Fellowship

Dr. Gutowski (she/they) is a practicing pediatrician at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse for the past 6 years and is delighted to have the opportunity to complete the LGBTQ+ Health Fellowship while in practice. She earned her medical degree from the Lake Erie College of Medicine and completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Their professional interests include gender-affirming healthcare, sexual health education and sex-positive harm reduction, building resiliency in at-risk youth, as well as adolescent confidentiality and advocacy.

Erin enjoys horseback riding, hiking, reading (preferably in a hammock), gardening and foraging, spending time with family and her animals (they currently have horses, dogs, chickens, geese, cats and will hopefully add goats and pigs to the farm in the coming years!)

Miena Meek Hall, MD, IBCLC
Primary Care Research Fellowship

Dr. Hall earned her medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her Family Medicine Residency at the UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale Hospital. Her professional interests include breastfeeding and lactation medicine, women’s health, and pediatrics. Dr. Hall is both an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and a fellow of the University of Rochester Medical Center Lessons in Lactation Advanced Curriculum (LILAC).

Dr. Hall enjoys reading, hiking, volunteering, baking, and spending time with family and friends. She credits her breastfeeding journey with her four children as her continuing inspiration to help lactating dyads in need.

Ravi Hirekatur, MD
Academic Integrative Health Fellowship

Ravi S Hirekatur earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He took a long route to medicine via Engineering. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (mathematical modeling of industrial systems). He worked as an Industrial Systems Engineer for 4 years prior to going back to school for pre-medical studies at University of Kansas. During his first-year medical school summer, he apprenticed with a Quichua shaman in Ecuador, while living with him in the rainforest, studying medicinal plants. He did his internship in Family Medicine at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and completed the residency in Family Medicine at UW-Madison. He has worked in different capacities at UW including Urgent Care, Float, Primary care and IBD Integrative consult service. His interest in Integrative Medicine preceded medical school and has been a lifelong student of Ayurveda. He is pursuing Integrative Health Fellowship to focus more on helping patients achieve optimal health. His interests outside of Medicine include Mindfulness meditation, nature and wildlife photography, yoga, and cooking.

David Mallinson, PhD
Primary Care Research Fellowship

David Mallinson is an epidemiologist and health services researcher who uses administrative health care data to investigate a broad range of questions in maternal and child health. His substantive areas of research include estimating the harms of adverse birth outcomes on early-life development and evaluating the impact of prenatal care interventions on families’ health and health care. His methodological areas of research include developing strategies to estimate health-related spillover effects within families and validating birth record data. David earned his PhD in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. Before starting the Primary Care Research Fellowship, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas-Austin Population Research Center. In his free time, he enjoys kayaking, bike riding, cooking, and going to museums.

Joseph Park, MD
Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship

Joseph Park, MD is originally from Pennsylvania and completed his residency in pediatrics at University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH. He is tremendously excited to continue west and join the University of Wisconsin sports medicine team. He is honored to learn from the faculty and staff at UW, and looks forward to working closely alongside Badger athletes. Outside of anything sports, he enjoy camping, fishing, and drinking coffee.

Laura Prieto, PhD
Primary Care Research Fellowship

Dr. Laura Andrea Prieto is from Bogotá, Colombia and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Prieto earned her PhD in Kinesiolgy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a concentration on Motor Control and Behavior and adapted physical activity. Her research focus is on adapted physical activity and dance for people with disabilities, specifically for Latine/x older adults with disabilities. She has worked with adults and children with disabilities in community centers, schools, and dance studios to promote active lifestyles through movement. Dr. Prieto’s dissertation work focused on the planning and evaluation of community-based physical activity programs including the evaluation of a program for autistic children and their families and the planning of future program for Latine/x older adults. Dr. Prieto plans to expand her dissertation work to working with Latine/x older adults with Parkinson’s disease in and out of the United States with the direction of Dr. Kristen Pickett in the Department of Kinesiology. Outside of research, Dr. Prieto enjoys dancing, being outdoors, and having “asados” or cookouts with family and friends.

Sydney Tan, MD
Primary Care Research Fellowship

Sydney Tan grew up in the Chicago suburbs and earned her bachelor’s degree in Contemplative Studies at Brown University. She stayed at Brown for her medical degree where she investigated how contemplative practices affect stress and coping in medical training. She is currently a general surgery resident completing two years of dedicated research time. Her research investigates the use of contemplative practice training for physicians to provide better patient care. Outside of work, Sydney enjoys being in nature, yoga, cooking, and travelling.

Elizabeth Ver Hoeve, PhD
Primary Care Research Fellowship

Elizabeth Ver Hoeve, PhD (she/her/hers) joined DFMCH in 2024 as a fellow. She received her PhD in clinical psychology with a specialization in health psychology from the University of Arizona. Her academic training, clinical training, and research experiences focused on characterizing and intervening on biopsychosocial factors that impact the lives of individuals as they adjust to health-related challenges such as cancer diagnosis and treatment. Her research focuses on health equity, treatment adherence, and biobehavioral oncology.

For her dissertation, Ver Hoeve evaluated the implementation effectiveness of an evidence-based bilingual and bicultural community-focused patient navigation intervention at an NCI-designated cancer center.

As part of the Primary Care Research T32 Fellowship, Ver Hoeve will utilize implementation science principles to quantitatively and qualitatively address care coordination and integration challenges between primary care and oncology care services with particular attention toward medically underserved patients in primary care settings across the state of Wisconsin.

Outside of research and clinical work, Ver Hoeve enjoys spending time with her family, working on house projects, and exploring Madison parks.

Karina Viloria-Rodríguez, MD
Academic Integrative Health Fellowship

Karina Viloria-Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican native, daughter of Dominican parents, initially completed her bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She subsequently pursued a medical degree at Central East University in the Dominican Republic. Eager to specialize in a particular field, she had the privilege of undertaking a residency in Family Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas Campus, where she actively engaged with underserved communities. This experience allowed her to learn invaluable local medicinal practices and recipes. In the realm of Family Medicine, she has found fulfillment in various aspects of her work, including performing minor procedures, serving as a hospitalist, and above all, focusing on preventive medicine. With a firm belief in the intrinsic connection between mind, body, and soul, Karina embraces the concept of Integrative Health, which promotes overall wellness. Beyond her professional endeavors, she cherishes quality time spent with her beloved dog, Purkinje Carpentier, exploring and connecting with nature, nurturing her plants, and, true to her Caribbean roots, immersing herself in the myriad experiences offered by the sea and rivers.