UMass Medical School

The UMass Medicine in Motion chapter partners with existing campus groups to provide fun opportunities for members of the UMass community to engage in physical activity. These events will bring together students, physicians, and other healthcare workers for stress-relieving, community-building, wellness-strengthening experiences. Examples of our activities include partnering with doctors from our Peds division to promote a UMass team for a 5k in Worcester and working with educational leaders to pair physical activity with in-class learning.

CHapter leadership

Emily Vicks

Emily is a second-year medical student originally from Clinton, New York. She is a certified spin and yoga instructor and actively teaches for MIM (and friends and family in quarantine). She went to college in Middlebury, Vermont, where she spent most of her time hiking, ski patrolling, and teaching spin. She continues to ski, hike, and move her way through medical school, and she loves being a part of MIM because she can connect with people that share this same passion for mindful movement and cultivating self-love and appreciation for what our bodies do for us each and every day.

Marianna Paradise

Marianna Paradise is a second-year medical student at UMass Medical School. She attended University of Maryland, College Park for her undergrad education (go Terps!) and was a member of the club rowing team. When she’s not studying, she is busy baking or running (slowly). Mari is excited to share her passion for fitness with her community and is a proponent of leading a well-balanced life in order to prevent burnout. 

Jennifer Sullivan

Jenny is a second-year medical student at UMass Medical School. She received her undergraduate degree in Global Health at Georgetown University in 2018, where she was also a diver on the Swim and Dive team for four years. Jenny is excited to find the same sense of community, support, and passion for fitness that she had during college athletics as a member of Medicine in Motion. In addition to her role as a chapter lead at UMass, she is also the VP of Sponsorship at MiM.

Vanya Zvonar

Vanya is a second-year medical student at UMass Medical School. She is originally from the South End of Boston, and went to Harvard for undergrad. She has always loved dancing, and has been a part of many dance teams, as well as teaching Zumba during undergrad. In Worcester, she spends many mornings running (hills are the best!) and trying to find her inner peace doing hot yoga. She also loves escaping to Vermont to hike and ski with her family and her crazy puppy Koko. Being a part of MiM and meeting others passionate about fitness and wellness has been a wonderful opportunity, and she looks forward to doing more workouts with all of you!

EVENTs

TDD 5K

March 31, 2019

The TDD5k—run on March 31st at Worcester State University—benefits UMass’ Neonatal ICU and was formed by a family to honor the lives of their triplets who died while being cared for in our NICU. A Pediatrics attending—Tom Guggina—has formed a UMass team; we invite anyone interested in Medicine in Motion to join our team on March 31st. Cost is $25 if you join a team and $35 if you sign up as an individual.

•Website to register: https://app.racereach.com/event/tdd-5k/register

•Team name: Kelley Kangaroos

•Password: Kellyhouse

Register Here

Morning Workout at Green Hill Park

September 23, 2020

The UMass MiM team wrapping up an awesome morning HIIT workout led by our very own Emily! We had a great time safely meeting up in the mornings in Green Hill Park in Worcester before the weather turned on us!

Morning Zoom Workout

November 17, 2019

With it getting chilly outside, the UMass MiM team has started hosting weekly morning zoom workouts led by Emily. It’s been great to continue seeing each other and keep moving!

Boston Athletic Association (BAA)

June 23, 2019

Go to this link to sign up! 2) Choose option “Team member – early bird.” 3) Select the team called “UMass Medicine in Motion” 4) Input credit card information. (If you fail to raise $300 by end of June, they’ll take the difference from the card you give). 5) Start fundraising / training!

Register Here

Orange Theory Class

October 3, 2020

The UMass MiM team after an awesome Orange Theory Workout! It’s been great partnering with different local gyms and sport stores as we work to grow the MiM mission in the Worcester community.

Chris Lites
Chris is a second year medical student at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. After graduating from Columbia University in 2016 with a degree in Neuroscience and Behavior he worked in consulting and then managed a private practice for a cardiologist. Currently obsessed with boxing, calisthenics and functional strength training, Chris has always been a fitness fanatic. Since becoming a NASM certified personal trainer in 2018 he has been committed to promoting exercise and general wellness within each of his communities.
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Jacob Klickstein
Jacob is a 4th year MD/PhD student at Tufts University School of Medicine working on his PhD in neuroscience. He currently works to create motor neurons from human stem cells, but when he isn’t in the lab, he can be found running down the esplanade, practicing handstands or tending to his indoor forest. Before joining Tufts, he worked as a clinical research assistant creating and maintaining a patient tissue bank for Alzheimer’s disease research. While at MGH, he helped establish the MGH running club and ran the 2017 Boston marathon. He continues his obsession with running as the leader of the TUSM running club and now as the COO at Medicine in Motion.
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Amanda Cao
Amanda is a 2nd year student at Harvard Medical School. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri before attending college at MIT, where she graduated in 2019 with a degree in Biology. Amanda has always enjoyed playing sports and keeping active, and her favorite forms of exercise include swimming and boxing. Amanda is excited to work with Medicine in Motion to combine her interest in physical activity with her passion for building community within her profession.
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Michael Duggan
Mike is a second year medical student at the University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School in Brisbane, Australia. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2016 with a BS in Biology, he worked as a clinical research coordinator on childhood obesity focused research projects at Massachusetts General Hospital. His biggest fitness accomplishments to date are running the Boston Marathon and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. He is looking forward towards utilizing fitness to create and develop a sense of community among medical students.
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Shani Aharon
Shani Aharon is a 4th year medical student at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. She considers herself adventurous, and would try any sport once: she grew up figure skating, rowed crew in college, played ultimate frisbee while working, and now runs in her free time in medical school. Having a few years of work-life balance as a healthcare consultant prior to medical school, Shani is passionate about maintaining mind-body wellness and helping do the same. She’s excited to put her past experience to good use as the CFO of Medicine in Motion.
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Logan Briggs
Logan Briggs is a 4th year Harvard Medical Student. He swam for, and captained, the Dartmouth swim team and graduated in 2016. During a gap year before medical school, he worked as a wilderness guide in Tanzania and biked across the US to raise money for medical service work that he later performed in Nepal. Having been a lifelong swimmer, transitioned to triathlete, Logan strongly believes that regular exercise and social connection is the key to balance and happiness. He helped found Medicine in Motion to extend those benefits to others.
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Chase Marso
Chase is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical school and co-founder of Medicine in Motion. A former Augustana University quarterback and basketball coach in his hometown of Brandon, SD, he has always had a passion for physical fitness and a desire to encourage others in athletic achievement. Chase sees Medicine in Motion’s mission of inspiring others towards their physical fitness goals while promoting philanthropy as Medicine in Motion’s most unique and worthwhile endeavor.
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Cray Noah
Cray is an engineer and doctor-in-training dedicated to innovating ways to increase access to preventative medicine and health technology. As a fourth-year student in Harvard’s MD/MBA program, he brings experience working at the nexus of biomedicine and business in the medical device startup space during his time at Georgia Tech and now in Boston. While passionate about innovative biotechnology, Cray believes creating community through exercise and fitness is the best form of preventative medicine to date and is dedicated to furthering that mission through Medicine in Motion. A native Texan, Cray has transitioned from football to triathlons, tennis and sailing since moving northeast.
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Michael Seward
Mike is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School (HMS) where he co-founded Medicine in Motion in 2017 with Chase, Logan, and Derek. As a varsity ice hockey player at Harvard College, he became interested in nutrition and for his senior thesis implemented a traffic-light food labeling study in the college dining halls to encourage healthy eating choices. After graduating, he worked for two years in clinical research at an Obesity Prevention Program at HMS and worked at the Hospital for Special Surgery where he saw the alarming rise in knee replacements mirror national trends in obesity. This sparked his interest in the intersection of orthopaedic surgery, nutrition, and fitness, and his medical school thesis investigates a pre-operative remote weight loss intervention and mobile app for patients anticipating total joint replacement surgery.
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Derek Soled
Derek is a fourth-year MD/MBA candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. He serves as the student council co-president at the medical school. Derek graduated from Yale University in 2016 as a double major in biology and sociology and was the captain of the Yale fencing team. He then pursued a MSc in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford where he set an all-time record in the pole vault. A recipient of the Walter Byers Scholarship, an honor bestowed by the NCAA to the country's best overall male and female student-athlete each year, and a current member of Team USA for fencing, Derek is passionate about sport and continues to compete at a professional level as well as coach low-income children in Boston. As a first-year medical student, Derek co-founded Medicine in Motion.
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Avik Chatterjee, MD, MPH
Cross-Fit Extraordinaire
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Frank McGovern, MD
Collegiate Swimmer, Triathlete
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Noelle Saillant, MD
Runner, Cyclist
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Dana Stearns, MD
Professional Cyclist
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Jennifer Tan, MD
Bootcamp, Cyclist
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Grant Riew
Grant is a first year medical student at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology and Economics. He is interested in the effects of modern environments (low activity, lots of sitting, and lots of calories!) on human health and disease and has previously researched the effects of exercise on joint health. Grant is now excited to be involved in MiM research and and can’t wait to get active with others to promote healthy lifestyles. In his spare time, Grant enjoys hanging with friends, going on long walks, and playing the cello.
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Sara Rubin
Sara is a 6th year MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and is currently in her 4th year of the Immunology PhD Program studying blood cell development in zebrafish. After graduating from Princeton University in 2014 with a degree in Chemistry, she spent one year conducting research that the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. In addition to her passion for medicine and science, Sara is an avid athlete who over the years has participated and competed in many different sports including gymnastics, softball, tennis, and pole vaulting. She was introduced to CrossFit and weightlifting in 2014 and hasn’t looked back since, always looking for opportunities to train and compete with friends and to share her love and knowledge of the sport of fitness with others. She is eager to bring her passion for fitness and community building to Medicine in Motion.
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Jenny Sullivan
Jenny is a second-year medical student at UMass Medical School. She received her undergraduate degree in Global Health at Georgetown University in 2018, where she was also a diver on the Swim and Dive team for four years. Jenny is excited to find the same sense of community, support, and passion for fitness that she had during college athletics as a member of Medicine in Motion.
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Erica Lee
Erica is a third year undergraduate student at the University of Maryland - College Park in the Integrated Life Sciences Honors College. She is pursuing a degree in biology with a minor in business. She is interested in the effects of burnout in the medical field as well as how action can be taken to mitigate this growing issue. Erica has been swimming and playing soccer since she was six years old and looks forward to being able to combine her love of sports and science!
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