Ivonne McLean

Dr. Ivonne McLean is a board-certified family medicine physician at the Institute Family Health, where she completed a Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellowship.  She has stayed on as faculty and is also an Empire Clinical Research Investigators Program (ECRIP) Fellow. Dr. McLean completed her residency at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester, where her interest …read more

Ashley Guadalupe-Padgett

Dr. Ashley Guadalupe-Padgett was born in NY and grew up in the Bronx and Queens. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook University. Prior to medical school, Ashley worked as an ABA therapist at an early intervention center providing one-on-one therapy to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Her professional …read more

Maurice Martin

Dr. Maurice Martin led an independent family medicine office in Somerville, Massachusetts from 1979-2017. He was Chief of Family Medicine at Somerville Hospital and Cambridge Health Alliance for fifteen years and has worked with Harvard medical students and Tufts family medicine residents in a part-time capacity throughout his career. Dr. Martin plays saxophone with the Brooklyn-based …read more

Margaret Walsh

Margaret Walsh is the director of the Institute’s Family Nurse Practitioner Fellowship. Since 1994, she has provided primary care at the Institute’s Walton Family Health Center in the Bronx, where she still maintains an active patient panel. She has been responsible for the development of interdisciplinary models of care at the Institute, including several curriculums …read more

Caitlin Weber

Dr. Caitlin Weber is from Connecticut. She attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she majored in biology and English, followed by medical school at Albany Medical College. She then moved to Texas, completing a family medicine residency at the University of Texas at Austin and serving as chief resident during her …read more

Gabrielle Surick

Dr. Gabrielle Surick grew up in northern New Jersey. She graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, with a major in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, and wrote her honors thesis on narrative medicine. She received her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. While there Dr. …read more

Joseph Lurio

Dr. Joseph Lurio is a senior family physician and director of the addiction medicine fellowship at the Institute for Family Health; and an associate professor and community preceptor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  Dr. Lurio has over 30 years of clinical experience as a family practitioner in underserved communities, and maintains an active patient …read more

Guedy Arniella

Guedy Arniella is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with extensive experience working in East and Central Harlem and the South Bronx. She is the director of community health and outreach at the Institute, and oversees the residency’s community health placements. Ms. Arniella’s focus has always been to help improve the quality of life of …read more

Veronica Rivera

Veronica Rivera, MD completed her residency in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco / San Francisco General Hospital program. She served an additional year as chief resident and then stayed at UCSF to complete a clinical geriatrics fellowship. In addition to seeing patients at the Family Health Center of Harlem, …read more

Victor Sta. Ana