2024-25 Linde Fellows

Meet Our Current Fellows

Huma Farid, MD

Division Chief for the Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Huma Farid is an obstetrician gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Harvard College and her MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed residency at Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital and then joined the faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she serves as the Director of the Colposcopy Clinic. She is a graduate of the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education, the Assistant Program Director for the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency at BIDMC, and the Division Chief for the Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is an Assistant Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Farid’s Linde Fellowship project focuses on increasing patient access in the ambulatory clinics for the Division of Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology at BIDMC.

Sarah Berry, MD MPH

Geriatrician and Investigator, Hebrew Senior Life, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Sarah Berry, MD MPH is a geriatrician and investigator at Hebrew SeniorLife and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Berry graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Utah before completing a geriatric fellowship with the Harvard Multicampus Geriatric Medicine Program. Previously she served as the Fellowship Director for this program. Her research focuses on injurious falls and medications in older adults, particularly frail nursing home residents. Her current funding includes serving as the PI for a large, randomized control trial to prevent injurious falls through medication optimization in patients receiving post-acute care in a nursing home (PCORI).

Dr. Berry’s goal is to grow age-friendly programs at BIDMC and BILH. She is particularly interested in improving transitions of care for frail patients requiring nursing home services. For her Linde Fellowship project, she will implement a program to document frailty screening congruent with the frailty domain of the Age Friendly Hospital Quality Measure, and then pilot an inpatient intervention on a few units to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a frailty pathway for patients receiving hospital services. 

Christine Pierre, MD 

Associate Medical Director, Extended Care Community Care Program of BILH

Christine Elizabeth Pierre, MD, CMD is a Geriatric Primary Care Physician and Associate
Medical Director at the Extended Care Community Program of Beth Israel Lahey Health. She is fluent in Haitian Creole and Spanish and proficient in French. Dr. Pierre received her Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Latin American Studies at Barnard College of Columbia University. Furthermore, she was a Research Data Coordinator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. From there she went on to earn her MD from Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies. She completed her residency in Family Medicine and fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

For her Linde fellowship project, Dr. Pierre is going to focus on improving the care transition communication pathway. EPIC will be used as the communication platform among the BILH inpatient hospital team, the BILHPC primary care office, and the BILHPC medical providers in the post-acute setting.

Laura Reis, MD

Dr. Laura Reis is a family physician who has been practicing at the BILHPC Jamaica Plain office for eight years and serving as medical director there since 2021. She graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 2009 and completed residency at the Stanford-affiliated O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in San Jose, CA, in 2012. She was on faculty at residency programs for four years after completing residency until joining BILHPC. She continues to precept medical students year-round. 

Dr. Reis will be focusing on pediatric care for her Linde Fellowship project. She enjoys caring for children in her practice, and she wants to help other family doctors grow their pediatric patient populations. She hopes to improve the patient experience for children and their families across the BILH network, and she aims to create a data dashboard to help family medicine practices monitor and improve the quality of care for their pediatric patients.