Majid Sadigh, MD
An infectious-disease specialist and internationally recognized global health expert, Dr. Majid Sadigh is Director of the Global Health Program at Nuvance Health//UVMLCOM . In 2016, he was honored as the inaugural Christopher J. Trefz Family Endowed Chair in Global Health at Nuvance Health.
Since arriving in the United States from his native country of Iran in 1984, Dr. Sadigh has built an extensive worldwide network of universities, hospitals, and clinics that supports the education of students, residents, and clinicians. Anchored at NH , the program’s U.S.-based sites exchange students, scholars, and clinicians with academic and healthcare institutions in sixteen sites in nine countries: Dominican Republic, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, India, China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
A tireless advocate for empowering global health leaders, Dr. Sadigh has mentored generations of students, residents, physicians, and administrators around the world. He is an honored teacher and mentor, earning the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award in 2007 at Yale, and serving through AmeriCares during the 2014 Ebola crisis in Liberia and recipient of Anvar and Pari Velji-CUGH Faculty Leader Award in 2022.
Mitra Sadigh
Mitra Sadigh is writer, editor, and researcher at the Nuvance Health/UVMLCOM Global Health Program where she works on the program’s Global Health Diaries blog and eMagazine. She also teaches Decolonizing Global Health for the program’s virtual global health elective. With two bachelor’s degrees in music and philosophy, she is an activist with a passion for creative storytelling as a means of advocacy. She has published on many topics including health equity, social and cultural determinants of health, medical education, and rural healthcare access. She is also a second-year medical student at the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine where she formerly served as President of the Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA) as well as Physicians for Human Rights, Policy Advocate for Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), and member of the Social Determinants of Health Curriculum Committee.
Stephen Scholand, MD
Associate Director Global Health Program at Nuvance Health/UVMLCOM, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UVMLCOM
Dr. Stephen Scholand is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the University of Arizona, where he works closely with residents and fellows in training as a bedside clinician.
He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Frank H Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut. There, he serves as course director of the Hospitalist Medicine elective at Midstate Medical Center in Meriden, CT. Pre pandemic, he served in a close supportive role for students involved in our overseas and domestic clinical rotation sites. His experience focused mainly on Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Vietnam. “Post” pandemic, he is looking forward to more clinical interaction and instruction at the bedside in many of our overseas sites.
He has been active in the field of Global Health for more than 20 years, from his first experiences as a physician in training at a major city hospital in metro Manila, Philippines.
He has been active in the field of global health for more than 20 years, beginning as a physician in training in urban Manila, Philippines.
He is a rabies sub- specialist and has been active in the field for many years. His latest efforts include the ‘Zero by Thirty’ WHO goal which is to eliminate human cases of dog rabies around the world.
Mary Shah, MLS, AHIP
Medical Librarian and Archivist at Norwalk Hospital
Mary Shah teaches classes on cultural competency, health literacy, searching the literature, and evidence-based practice, and directs the Archives and Oral History Project.
Ms. Shah also gave Grand Rounds for the Department of Medicine on Cultural Competency and Clinical Communication. She is on the steering committee of the Global Health Program and the new Linde Health Educators without Borders Program. She is a senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, inaugural scholar in the Nuvance Health Pat Tietjen MD Teaching Academy, and serves on the Nuvance Health GMEC committee for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as well as co-chair of the archives committee of the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Caucus of the Medical Library Association.