Program Administrators
Program  Director: Eleanor M. Summerhill, MD
Eleanor M. Summerhill, MD. is the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Her previous publications, background, and research training are in molecular biology and the genetics of obstructive pulmonary diseases, including asthma and COPD. Areas of ongoing interest in the field of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine involve sepsis therapeutics, respiratory muscle physiology, diaphragmatic ultrasound, and disaster preparedness in the ICU setting. In her present role as an Internal Medicine Residency Director, Dr. Summerhill is also very involved in ongoing curricular development at the resident level. She has a particular area of interest and expertise in curriculum development utilizing simulation in medical education.
 Associate Program Director: Joseph Rabatin, MD
Joe Rabatin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the oldest of six children. He studied English at Georgetown University and graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in 1989. He has published research about mentoring in medicine, the medical interview, clinical bedside teaching, and professional writing. Dr. Rabatin worked in the Bellevue Hospital Primary Care clinic and taught at NYU Medical School for fifteen years in New York City prior to moving to Rhode Island. At Memorial Hospital of RI he now serves as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency program. He is Memorial Hospital’s clerkship director for the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University third year medical student rotation. He treats patients in the Memorial Hospital medical clinic, and he is conducting research as part of a national project on how the workplace affects physician performance.
Assistant Program Director: Joseph Diaz, MD, MPH
Joseph Diaz, MD, MPH, joined the medical faculty and the Center for Primary Care and Prevention at Memorial Hospital of RI in July, 2001 after completing his residency in the General Internal Medicine Program at Rhode Island Hospital as well as a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at RIH.
Dr. Diaz has an appointment at Brown University as Associate Professor of Medicine. He is an active clinician, educator and researcher. His research, supported by a career development award from the National Cancer Institute, focuses on colorectal cancer screening among primary care patients. In addition to his clinical and research work, Dr. Diaz is also the co-coordinator of the Department of Medicine's medical exchange program to the Dominican Republic.
Chief, Department of Medicine: Andrew Artenstein, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Andrew W. Artenstein, MD, FACP, FIDSA, is the Chief, Department of Medicine, Memorial Hospital of R.I., the founder and Director of the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens, and a Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown Medical School. Prior to coming to Brown, he
served as a Principal Scientist and Infectious Disease Officer and Head of the Section of Protective Immunity in the Division of Retrovirology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, dividing his time between his lab in Washington DC and field sites in Thailand. His primary research efforts involve anthrax toxin pathogenesis and inhibition, biodefense vaccines, biomedical engineering approaches to infectious disease diagnostics, and bringing biodefense to vulnerable populations within communities. He serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and as a consultant on numerous national advisory panels regarding biodefense and emerging infectious diseases, including as a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the New England Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (NERCE) at Harvard Medical School. He has published more than 75 articles and chapters in the medical literature and is the editor of Vaccines: A Biography, a book on the history of vaccines.
 Internal Medicine Residency Chief Resident, Mazen O. Al-Qadi, MD
Mazen is a graduate of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Alpert Medical School of Brown University in June 2011. He completed his medical education at Jordan University of Science & Technology, Jordan in 2003. His primary areas of interest are Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Mazen has been very active in medical education and basic & clinical research. Dr. Al-Qadi has been investigating the apoptotic changes of murine pulmonary endothelial cells exposed to tobacco smoke. He also studied the physiologic predictors of nocturnal hypoxemia and differences in ventilation between obese people with and without obesity hypoventilation syndrome. He presented his research in national and international scientific meetings and published several abstracts. Most recently, he received the award for best poster presentation and second award for best oral presentation at the MHRI annual Kenney Research Day in 2011. Dr. Al-Qadi will join the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN in July 2012.
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