Preventive Medicine Fellowship: University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
Family Medicine Residency: Brown Family Medicine Residency
DO, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine; MPH, University of Massachusetts; BS, Lafayette College

Dr. Szkwarko is the Director of the Brown FM Global Health Fellowship and the co-director for resident scholarly development. She also serves as the departmental faculty mentor for the Brown Residency International/Global Health Training pathway. At Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Unversity, she serves as the co-director for the Health Systems Strengthening 3 course as part of the primary care population medicine pathway and the co-director of the women’s reproductive health scholarly concentration. She completed her residency at Brown in 2015 and went on to complete a preventive medicine fellowship at the University of Massachusetts during which she received her Masters in Public Health and further explored her interests in global health and research. She is the Family Medicine lead for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) - a large academic collaboration between Moi University in western Kenya, Brown University, and several other North American institutions that aims to strengthen healthcare, improve education, and expand research efforts in the region. Her research interests are in TB prevention globally. She has been involved in child TB contact management in Kenya, and she is particularly interested in identifying and studying strategies that can improve the various steps throughout the child contact management care cascade globally. Domestically, she is interested in improving latent TB infection testing and treatment in primary care. She is the course director for the University of Massachusetts latent TB infection ECHO. Most recently, she received a mentored research award through the Advance-CTR to conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of a latent TB infection ECHO in Rhode Island. She is passionate about family medicine physicians engaging more in research to improve care among underserved populations globally. Outside of medicine, she enjoys running, backpacking yoga, meditation, and gardening. 

Family Medicine Residency: University of New MexicoMD/MPH, George Washington University School of Medicine; BA, Cornell University

Fadya El Rayess has been a member of the residency leadership team since 2011, serving as Assistant and Associate Residency Director before becoming Residency Director in 2017. A National Health Service Corps Scholar, Dr. El Rayess worked in RI community health centers for 12 years prior to joining the residency leadership. She is a 1999 graduate of the University of New Mexico Family Medicine Residency and completed a Faculty Leadership Development Fellowship at Brown. She also has an MPH in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from George Washington University. Her clinical interests include global health, advocacy, health disparities, reproductive health, LGBT health and care of immigrants and refugees. She is the Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration on Caring for the Underserved at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and volunteer faculty for the student clinic at Clinica Esperanza. Dr. El Rayess is responsible for the department’s global health initiatives for residents and the Family Medicine Global health Fellowship. She serves on the Brown Council for Diversity in Medicine and Brown University’s Global Health Initiative Executive Committee. In 2009, Dr. El Rayess and her family spent a year in Lesotho, Africa, where –as assistant residency director – she provided educational support for the development of a Family Medicine Residency in a small, resource-limited medical school. An avid kayaker and potter, she enjoys running, yoga, reading women’s literature in translation and spending time with her family.

Global Health Fellowship: Brown Family Medicine Residency
Family Medicine Residency: Brown Family Medicine Residency
DO, Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine; BS, Simmons College 

Dr. Graham is a recent graduate of the Brown Family Medicine Residency. She completed a Global Health Fellowship in 2019 and practices family medicine with a focus on gender and sexual health at Thundermist Health Center. She is also a clinical instructor for family medicine residents at Thundermist. In addition, she has done teaching surrounding family planning in Mexico where she collaborates with Compañeros En Salud/Partners In Health. She is a bilingual provider and volunteers at Clinica Esperanza. She is also involved in anti-racism work with Alpert Medical School and completed their BASCE fellowship in 2019: Brown Advocates For Social Change and Equity.

Odinaka is a Global Health Fellow who is also simultaneously completing a Maternal Child Health Fellowship. She received her degree from Ross University School of Medicine and completed her residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Her interests include women’s health, health equity and Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Currently in fellowship, she is actively involved in faculty development, medical student mentorship and anti- racism work. In her free time she enjoys traveling, spending time with family, and learning the Igbo language. 

Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Carolyn earned her BA in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University in 2011 and her medical degree from Loma Linda University in 2018. She subsequently completed her Family Medicine residency at Ventura County Medical Center in 2021. She joins Brown as a Global Health Faculty Development Fellow with clinical interests in maternal and child health, women's health, tropical medicine and point of care ultrasound. Through her fellowship training, she hopes to explore development of health and medical education systems with emphasis on bidirectionality, equity and resiliency. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring the outdoors, reading and traveling.