Events

Please join us for a panel of four alumni in healthcare from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital on November 3 at 7pm via Zoom. Drs. Fangman, King, Thadhani and Grevet (biographies below) will share their stories and answer questions about how Carleton prepared them for their medical careers. There will be plenty of time for Q and A.

Please register for the zoom link here.

John Fangman, MD, ’88; Chief Medical Officer, Mass General Brigham Community Physicians in Boston

John Fangman graduated from Carleton with a major in political science in 1988 and earned his MD degree from the University of Minnesota. Following his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s hospitals in 1998, he was a practicing med-peds physician in the assistant residency program of the Harvard Med-Peds Program.  He later completed an adult infectious disease program at MGH and BWH.  Dr. Fangman returned to the Midwest in 2005 to lead HIV programs at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  During his 15 years in Wisconsin, he held a variety of roles including medical director for a large urban HIV program, Division Chief for infectious and Senior Medical Director for ambulatory services.  He returned to Boston in 2020 where he is a practicing infectious disease doctor and Chief Medical Officer at Mass General Brigham Community Physicians in Boston. His work has focused on pandemic response and Mass General Brigham’s efforts to promote value, equity and care transformation.

Randy King, MD, PhD, ’88; Harry C. McKenzie Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Dr. King graduated from Carleton in 1988 with a chemistry degree, and then earned a PhD in Biochemistry from UCSF, and an MD from Harvard Medical School. Dr. King’s lab investigates the control of cell division and how this process is perturbed in cancer.  His lab integrates chemical and cell biological approaches to develop new inhibitors that may lead to new treatments for cancer. In medical education, Dr. King currently serves as the course director for Foundations, the first basic science course in the Pathways curriculum, which integrates science teaching across ten different disciplines. He also co-directs an Advanced Integrated Science Course in Cancer Biology in the post-clerkship phase of the Pathways curriculum.

Valerie Thadhani, MD, ’89, Director of Health and Wellness, Milton Academy Lower School

Valerie Thadhani graduated from Carleton in 1989 with a biology major and a concentration in Francophone studies. She earned her MD from Yale University in 1993 and completed her residency in internal medicine at Mass General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Thadhani worked as a Primary Care Physician at MGH Healthcare-Revere, a community clinic for the underserved for 4 years before moving to Bullfinch Medical Group. During this period, she was an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. After working for the next 8 years as an urgent care physician, Dr. Thadhani shifted her career to education, and is now the Director of Health and Wellness at Milton Academy Lower School.

Jeremy Grevet, MD/PhD, ’11; Resident Internal Medicine, Mass General Hospital

Dr. Grevet graduated from Carleton in 2011 with a double major in chemistry and mathematics, and entered the MD/PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania. His PhD focused on Sickle Cell Disease by using CRISPR-based approaches to identify therapeutic targets for this disorder. After graduating in 2020, Dr Grevet began his residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Now in his second year of residency, he is planning to pursue his interest in hematology/oncology.