Yale Career Panels: A Candid View of the Medical Profession

Alan Astrow is chief of the division of hematology and medical oncology at New York–Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he focuses on the care and medical treatment of breast cancer. He is also adjunct clinical assistant professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he teaches Jewish medical ethics.

Dr. Astrow has a long-standing interest in improving communication between doctor and patient and in the spiritual basis for medical practice and has published extensively in these areas. He has served on the editorial advisory board for the Art of Oncology section of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and on the advisory board for the annual Conference on Medicine and Religion.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, Dr. Astrow obtained his MD from the Yale School of Medicine. He did his internal residency at Boston City Hospital and his fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at NYU Medical Center.

Rushad Dordi is currently a senior analyst at Deep Track Capital, a biotechnology investment fund based in Greenwich, CT. He previously worked as an analyst at Broadfin Capital, an equity long/short investment fund focused exclusively on healthcare companies. Alongside his career in finance, Rushad maintains a part-time medical practice as an internal medicine physician at NYU Langone Hospital/Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

Rushad has an MD from Columbia University, and completed a residency in internal medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelors degree in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Economics. He has authored over a dozen abstracts and papers on cardiovascular disease, and is the author of a book chapter on cardiorenal disease for a leading medical text.

Kathy May Tran is a Hospital Medicine doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. As an educator, she teaches residents on the wards and directs the Hospital Medicine Elective. She was Associate Director for Practice of Medicine, a required first-year course that teaches the fundamentals of clinical medicine. Kathy is an Associate Editor with the New England Journal of Medicine and produces the weekly Case Records with an annual readership of 2 million. She is Co-editor for the upcoming book 50 Studies Every Hospitalist Should Know from Oxford University Press.

Kathy’s interests in well-being, diversity, and equity have led to several grant-funded initiatives: Stories of the MGH, which shares true, personal stories of healthcare workers; Virtual Bedside Concerts, which connects musicians and patients 1:1 to combat loneliness and isolation; Boston Hope Music, which matches conservatory students to clinicians for music learning that heals the healers; and the MGH Asian American and Pacific Islander Coalition.

Kathy is a Vietnamese American from the deep South. After studying Psychology at Yale, she did research at Yale Med and MD Anderson in Houston and worked as a pediatric ophthalmic scribe/technician in New York City. She attended NYU Med, took a personal leave, then finished Internal Medicine residency at MGH 3 years ago.

Peter Young is CEO and President of Young & Partners, a leading boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings.

Prior to founding Young & Partners, Peter was head of various related industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders, and Lehman Brothers, a private equity investor with J.H. Whitney & Co., and a strategy consultant with Bain & Company serving life science and chemical companies. Peter received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar with Highest Distinction), an M.S. in Accounting from the New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.