Candida was born and raised in Alabama. Candida attended nursing school in Nashville, TN, at Belmont University where she graduated with her RN, BSN. Her experiences throughout nursing school provided her with the exposure needed to realize that she wanted to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a doctor. Candida then moved to New York City, where she completed her postbaccalaureate studies at Columbia University. She then received her M.D. at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she was selected for the Gold Humanism Honors Society, and received the 2024 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Student Award and Psychiatry Academic Award. She is beyond excited to continue her training at Brown University in the Triple Board program. She is committed to providing compassionate and comprehensive care to vulnerable children and their families who have endured significant abuse and neglect. Outside of work, Candida enjoys singing and playing the piano, traveling, and spending time with loved ones.

Jess grew up in Verona, NJ, as the daughter of an oncology nurse who first inspired her to pursue medicine. She attended Cornell University for undergrad, where she majored in Human Development and minored in Biological Sciences. While there, Jess spent most of her time with Cornell Outdoor Education, teaching backpacking courses, overseeing student-run pre-orientation trips, and training as a wilderness EMT. After graduating in 2019, she spent one year working with the afterschool program at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private elementary school in the Bronx. Jess then returned to New Jersey to attend Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She dedicated her time to student wellbeing initiatives such as Mind-Body Medicine and pre-clinical psychiatry curriculum development. Her work focused primarily on intentional language choice and the importance of self-compassion. Outside of the hospital, Jess has worked longitudinally with an organization called Hearts of Hope to develop an art therapy program for children in the hospital. In medical school, Jess was awarded the 2024 Award for Academic Excellence in Psychiatry as well as the AMWA Glasgow-Rubin Certificate of Academic Achievement for graduating in the top 10% of her class.

Jess is thrilled to be joining the Brown Triple Board community where she hopes to grow as a compassionate care provider and psychotherapist. She ultimately hopes to use her combined training to work as a child psychiatrist with children and families experiencing medical challenges. Outside of medicine, Jess is frequently found outdoors as she finds joy doing activities such as hiking, skiing, and paddle-boarding. She enjoys caring for all of her many plants and one very tiny orange cat. In fact, she’s probably running away from one of her bites right now!

Perpetual Essence Adachukwu Chiamaka Taylor was born in Framingham, MA and raised in Cromwell, CT. She very proud of her Nigerian (Igbo) heritage. Most people call her “Perp”, “Pep”, or “Pepsi”. As a Christian, she has always believed in taking care of those who cannot care for themselves- this value has guided her throughout her life. Perpetual has been interested in becoming a physician since she was a little girl and her experiences witnessing her youngest brother, Jayden, suffer from congenital heart disease as an infant inspired her to pursue pediatrics. She attended Sport and Medical Sciences Academy for high school, graduated from Southern Connecticut State University Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Chemistry minor. Shortly thereafter, she became a behavior technician and cared for a young boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder using Applied Behavioral Analysis to teach him new skills; this experience was the first of many to entice her toward pursuing child psychiatry. Matriculating into the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in August 2020, Perpetual made it a point to become involved in extracurricular activities including but not limited to becoming the Mentorship Chair of the Student National Medical Association, President of the Christian Medical Dental Association, student representative for the Admissions Committee and Clinical Skills Program, and volunteering at Hands on Hartford and South Park homeless shelters. Upon medical school graduation, she was selected as Commencement Speaker for the graduate ceremony. She was given an award for Excellence In a Specific Discipline-Psychiatry. Perpetual’s ultimate dream is to work in a pediatric emergency room, stabilizing children with medical and/or psychiatric crises and treating every patient and their family member with compassion, dignity, and humility. She attributes her success to God, her family members, close friends, and mentors without whom she would not be in the position that she is in today. 

Emily (she/her) was born and raised in the suburbs of Orlando, FL. As an undergraduate nursing student, she researched mental health interventions for migrant workers in rural Florida. She worked for six years as a nurse in adult and pediatric cardiovascular ICUs. She was awarded the 2016 Exemplary Professional Practice Award for her work in Pediatric Cardiac ICU. During this time she volunteered for the Victim Service Center of Central Florida and conducted medical relief work in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. In medical school, Emily worked at UF's Equal Access Clinic, a homeless medical outreach program, and the Healthy Kids Medical Legal Partnership. She also provided tutoring and mentorship to first- and second-year medical students. She was selected by her peers for membership in the Golden Humanism Honor Society where she was co-editor of the Chapman Arts and Literary Magazine, a publication highlighting artwork by medical providers that reflects their experiences in medicine. She graduated medical school with an Award of Distinction in Mind-Body-Medicine for her work exploring resilience levels and coping strategies utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic by graduate health students.

In her career, she hopes to provide integrated healthcare for medically complex patients and their families. Emily enjoys scrapbooking, reading, hiking, curling up with her three cats, and trying out new recipes. She cannot wait to experience full seasons in Rhode Island, and is so happy to call Providence her new home, and Brown Triple Board her team.

Shauna grew up in Guilford, CT before attending college at UCLA where she majored in Neuroscience with a minor in Spanish. Her involvement in Camp Kesem, a camp that supports children through and beyond a parent’s cancer, sparked her interest in mental healthcare for the pediatric and young adult population. Shauna received her MD in 2023 from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where she was the recipient of the Robert F. Miller Community Service Award for her work as one of the directors of Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic, Shade Tree, which provides free holistic healthcare to uninsured patients in Nashville. Shauna’s interest in caring for pediatric patients in marginalized communities drove her to start a specialized clinic within Shade Tree to meet the medical and psychiatric needs of the uninsured, immigrant pediatric patient population.  She is overjoyed to be joining the Triple Board program at Brown, where she found a caring, family-like community with top-notch training at clinical sites dedicated to each of her areas of interest. In her free time, Shauna enjoys playing music, reading, spin classes, and hiking the National Parks (she thinks the Badlands in South Dakota is the most underrated). She is especially excited to be back in New England nearby family and friends!

Raphaela (she/her) was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She attended Brown University through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) and received her B.A. in English with a focus on nonfiction writing. During her undergraduate studies she was involved with student theater and peer mentorship endeavors throughout campus. Before returning to Brown for medical school Raphaela spent time in Brooklyn, NY as a nanny. She then moved to San Francisco to help build a speakeasy magic theater. Raphaela received her M.D. from Brown University with a scholarly concentration in Medical humanities & Ethics where she was selected for the Gold Humanism Honors Society and the 2023 recipient of the Christopher Benedick Child Psychiatry Award. Raphaela has been involved with sexual health education initiatives, medical storytelling podcasts, and implementing reflective practice in the medical school curriculum. As a triple board resident she hopes to grow as a physician and work to integrate mental health care into everyday primary care for kids and teens. She is very passionate about medical education and hopes to become a clinician-educator. Outside of the hospital you can find her sewing, knitting, gardening, dreaming about dogs, or eating ice cream.

Nicole (she/her) was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Bronx, New York. She completed her undergraduate studies at Amherst College where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Languages and Civilizations, and completed a post-baccalaureate program. She received her MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she was selected for a Dean's Recognition Award, Distinction in Research, and the Maurice Greenhill Award in Psychiatry. At Einstein, she was part of the ECHO Board, a student-run Saturday clinic providing free healthcare to uninsured patients. She is excited to join the Triple Board team and she is passionate about caring for the physical and mental health of children and their families. She has many interests including integrated primary and psychiatric care, emergency psychiatry, eating disorders, mood disorders, and Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry. She likes spending time with her husband Matt and her dog Stitch, dancing, and exploring new restaurants and coffee shops in Providence.

Michael Hoggard was born in California but was raised between Utah and Finland. He studied economics for his bachelor's degree before completing a master's of public health in Finland, during which he focused on refugee health and health economics. He spent 5 of the 7 years before medical school living, studying, or conducting research on 3 continents.

Niralee is the daughter of first-generation immigrants and grew up in western MA. She studied Mathematics and Arabic at Williams College. After college, she taught math and co-curricular yoga at an international high school in Jordan, then moved to Palestine where she joined a tech startup and co-developed a mini-MBA program for youth entrepreneurs. She was then director of Tomorrow’s Youth Organization, a nonprofit community center in Nablus, Palestine supporting the education, health, and psychosocial well-being of families living in the area’s refugee camps and underserved urban neighborhoods. Working there compelled her to retrain in medicine to better understand and address the impact of early life and intergenerational trauma on the mind and body. After a premedical post-bacc, Niralee moved to Rhode Island and earned her M.D.-M.Sc. in Brown’s Primary Care-Population Medicine program, where she grew her love for teaching and interest in improving access to mental health care. She is a member of the Gold Humanism Honors Society and received the 2022 Christopher Benedick, MD, Child Psychiatry Award. As a resident, Niralee aspires to provide care that centers the strengths and stories of her patients and their communities. Outside of work, Niralee enjoys dancing, rock climbing, biking along the RI coast, and gathering the people she loves around food.

Hannah is from Ridgewood, NJ. She majored in neuroscience at Muhlenberg College, where she first became interested in the dynamic relationship between mind and body. After graduating, Hannah worked at the Child Mind Institute in NYC, where she developed a passion for working with young children and their families who have anxiety conditions, with a special interest in Selective Mutism. She also worked at a non-profit called Positive Exposure, which uses the visual arts to create human-centered medical education resources that celebrate the beauty in human diversity. At Penn State College of Medicine, Hannah combined her love for medicine and the arts as an active member of the on campus a capella group and an actress in several performances on campus. As a triple board resident, Hannah is interested in pursuing a career in integrated care. She aspires to work with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and to continue to develop and apply her love for behavioral, exposure based therapies for children with anxiety conditions.

Elizabeth earned her MD from the University of Missouri. Prior, she double majored in biology and dance at Loyola Chicago. Elizabeth has a passion for equity and social justice. Throughout medical school, she lived at St. Francis House, a local homeless shelter and soup kitchen. She was Chair of Community Outreach at the student-run free clinic before becoming a Clinic Director. She collaborated on efforts to improve gender affirming care through the establishment of a free specialty clinic for transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) patients and founding a TGNC health conference. She also led initiatives to care for survivors of intimate partner violence and to promote trauma-informed care. Her research focused on Indigenous health, including the development of a program for healthcare providers to improve their care of Indigenous patients. She is excited to meet, listen to, and support her new patients and community as a triple board resident! 

Katie grew up in the Chicago suburbs and completed her undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis where she earned her B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology. Before medical school, she spent two years working in Women’s Mental Health research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She then received her MD and Master of Science in Population Medicine from Brown University, where she was selected for AOA and was the 2021 recipient of the Christopher Benedict, MD, Child Psychiatry Award. During medical school, Katie’s scholarly work focused on leveraging the pediatric primary care setting to improve access to mental health care for children and their moms, as well as community-based work focused on improving health care for women with substance use disorders in early recovery. Katie is passionate about integrated behavioral health in the primary care setting for children and adolescents, and she hopes to use her triple board training to help support primary care pediatricians in meeting the demand for child mental health services. Katie is also passionate about teaching and mentorship and looks forward to continuing to grow as a clinician-educator during residency. Outside of the hospital, Katie enjoys exploring the top-notch Providence food scene, enjoying the beaches and mountains of New England, and spending time perfecting her homemade pasta recipe. 

Ashley was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. She attended Brown University through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME), a combined eight-year program where she earned her degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. Ashley was a member of Casa Machado (Brown's Latinx program house) and worked with The Samaritans of RI as a suicide hotline volunteer for several years. In medical school, she volunteered as a crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line and was a member of the Latinx Medical Student Association. Ashley received the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's Medical Student Fellowship and spent a summer during medical school researching irritability in very young children at Bradley Hospital's Pediatric Partial Hospital Program. She was the recipient of the 2020 Christopher Benedick, MD, Child Psychiatry Award. She is passionate about mentoring underrepresented minority students and working with underserved communities. Ashley is interested in integrated primary care and increasing access to mental health services. Outside of medicine, Ashley is an avid reader who also enjoys scrapbooking, trying new restaurants, staying active with Zumba, and binge watching all eight Harry Potter movies!

Chase received his MD with Distinction in Community Service and Advocacy from St. Louis University (SLU) School of Medicine, and his BA in Biology from Claremont McKenna College. He was selected for AOA, as well as Outstanding Student in Child Psychiatry, on graduation from SLU. Throughout medical school, Chase completed research in a variety of fields, with a particular focus on fetal surgery for myelomeningocele repair and congenital cardiac disease. He also headed the Advocacy and Service Learning Community at SLU, organizing school-wide service days, volunteering, and establishing relationships within the St. Louis community. In this role, Chase worked closely with the St. Louis Juvenile Justice system to help improve the transition of psychiatric care for children being released from juvenile corrections back into their communities. 

Stephanie grew up in the Chicago suburbs and then received her undergraduate degree in Global Affairs from Yale University. After completing a post-bac program and a year working in health systems research, Stephanie received her MD and MPH from Emory University in Atlanta. She is a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys eating her way through Providence, specifically from cool ice cream pop-ups ranging from Asian style bubble waffle ice cream cones to small batch seasonal ice creams from a local coffee shop, and finding nature within the city along Blackstone Blvd.