About: I am from New York City and studied musicology as an undergraduate at Amherst College. I then taught 8th-grade humanities in East Harlem for two years before beginning medical school at Columbia University. I completed internal medicine residency here at MGH, and I will return to serve as chief resident after my second year of cardiology fellowship. Career-wise, I am interested in general cardiology and cardiovascular medical education, and I hope to obtain a master’s degree in medical education during my final year of fellowship. My research to date has focused on the optimization of appropriate use criteria for echocardiography, and I am currently working on a few projects that attempt to identify novel educational models to help reduce the utilization of unnecessary testing within cardiology. In my free time, I love going to Red Sox games (as a diehard Yankees fan, of course), touring the MFA and Isabella Stuart Gardener museums, running on the Charles River, exploring the amazing Boston food scene, and playing cello and piano.
Contact: jsalik@partners.org