Curriculum Vitae

Education and Training

2019 - 2022

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL

Residency in Family Medicine, OB/Women's Health Track

2014 - 2019

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Doctor of Medicine

2010 - 2014

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology, Minor in Neuroscience

Research Experience

June - July 2015

Research Assistant

Penn Center for Community Health Workers, University of Pennsylvania

Principal investigator: Judith Long, MD

June - July 2014

Research Assistant

Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Principal investigator: Murray Grossman, MD, EdD

2013 - 2014

Undergraduate Senior Thesis

“Sex Differences in APOE ε4-Associated Risk for Primary Progressive Aphasia”

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Adviser: Lynn Enquist, PhD

2012 - 2013

Penn Access Summer Scholars (PASS) Program Intern

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Principal investigator: Murray Grossman, MD, EdD

Publications

Kangovi S, Carter T, Charles D, Smith RA, Glanz K, Long JA, Grande D. Towards a scalable, patient-centered community health worker model: adapting the IMPaCT intervention for use in the outpatient setting. Population Health Management. 19(6): 380-388, December 2016. doi:10.1089/pop.2015.0157.

Charles D, Himmelstein K, Keenan W, Barcelo N for the White Coats for Black Lives National Working Group. White Coats for Black Lives: Medical students responding to racism and police brutality. Journal of Urban Health. 92(6):1007-10, December 2015. doi: 10.1007/s11524-015-9993-9

Charles D, Olm C, Powers J, Ash S, Irwin DJ, McMillan CT, Rascovsky K, Grossman M. Grammatical comprehension deficits in non-fluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 85(3):249-56, March 2014. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2013- 305749

Presentations and Posters

Ha YP, Hollander E, Deininger N, Charles D, Smith M, McKee S, Riley IV T, Snyder R, Gould P, Dobkin J, Narva A, Gehman J, Cole A, Cobb S, Flesch J. The Penn Votes Project: A non-partisan, interdisciplinary initiative for facilitating voting among registered voters hospitalized on Election Day. APHA 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo, Virtual, October 2020.

Charles D, Cronholm P, Chertok J. Mapping the Gap: Exploring Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding Rates at Penn Family Care. Penn Medicine Center for Health Equity Advancement Health Equity Week, Philadelphia, PA, April 2019. Poster Presentation.

Charles D, Goodwin M, McKee S, Merrihew L, Nandiwada DR. Diagnosis of Isolated Unilateral Absence of the Left Pulmonary Artery (IUAPA) in an Adult. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2017. Poster Presentation.

Charles D, Olm C, Powers J, Ash S, Irwin DJ, McMillan CT, Rascovsky K, Grossman M. Selective grammatical comprehension deficits in non-fluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2013. Poster Presentation.

Olm C, Charles D, Ash S, Weinberg D, Boller A, Haley J, Grossman M. Selective sentence processing deficits in nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia. American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2013. Poster Presentation.