BWH Division of Women's Health
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Dr. Dana Callahan is a primary care physician with a clinical focus in women’s health. She received her B.A. in Neuroscience at Middlebury College and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she served as Chief Medical Resident. She subsequently completed her medical education fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, during which she received her M.Ed. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Associate Site Director for the Medicine Sub-internship.
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Site Director, Medicine Sub-Internship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Primary Care
Dr. Callahan’s prior research in the Young-Pearse Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital focused on using human-derived cell models to study the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease. As a medical education scholar, Dr. Callahan’s current research interests include workplace coaching, outpatient faculty development, longitudinal clinical programming, competency-based assessment, and the undergraduate-to-graduate medical education transition.
Muratore C, Srikanth P, Callahan DG, Young-Pearse TL. Comparison and optimization of human iPSC neuronal differentiation protocols. PLOS ONE 2014; 28;9(8):e105807.
Muratore CR, Rice HC, Srikanth P, Callahan DG, Shin T, Benjamin LNP, Walsh DM, Selkoe DJ, Young-Pearse TL. The familial Alzheimer’s disease APPV717I mutation alters APP processing and Tau expression in iPSC-derived neurons. Human Molecular Genetics 2014; 23(13):3523-36.
Srikanth P, Han K, Callahan DG, Makovkina E, Muratore CR, Lalli MA, Zhou H, Boyd JD, Kosik KS, Selkoe DJ, Young-Pearse TL. Genomic DISC1 disruption in hiPSCs alters Wnt signaling and neural cell fate. Cell Reports 2015; 12(9):1414-29.
Muratore CR, Zhou C, Liao M, Fernandez MA, Taylor WM, Lagomarsino VN, Pearse II RV, Rice HC, Negri JM, He A, Srikanth P, Callahan DG, Shin T, Zhou M, Bennett DA, Noggle S, Love JC, Selkoe DJ, Young-Pearse TL. Cell-type dependent Alzheimer’s disease phenotypes: probing the biology of selective neuronal vulnerability. Stem Cell Reports 2017; 9(6):1868-84.
Callahan DG, Taylor WM, Tilearcio M, Cavanaugh T, Selkoe DJ, Young-Pearse TL. Embryonic mosaic deletion of APP results in displaced Reelin-expressing cells in the cerebral cortex. Developmental Biology 2017; 424(2):138-146.
Scott KW, Callahan DG, Chen JJ, Lynn MH, Cote DJ, Morenz A, Fisher J, Antoine V, Lemoine ER, Bakshi SK, Stuart J, Hundert EM, Chang BS, Gooding H. Fostering student-faculty partnerships for continuous curricular improvement in undergraduate medical education. Academic Medicine 2019; 94(7):996-1001.
Callahan, DG, Garabedian, LF, Harney KF, DiVasta AD. Will it hurt? The intrauterine device (IUD) insertion experience and long-term IUD acceptability among adolescents and young women. Journal of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology 2019 Dec;32(6):615-621.
Gheihman G*, Callahan DG*, Onyango J, Gooding HC, Hirsh DA. Coproducing clinical curricula in undergraduate medical education: Student and faculty experiences in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships. Medical Teacher 2021 Nov;43(11):1267-1277. *co-first authors
Callahan DC, Osman NY, Klig JE, Farrell SE, Stuart JC, Coll MD, Katz JT, Ramani S, Montgomery MW. Facilitating the transition to residency: A resident-as-coach pilot program. Medical Teacher, 2024, in press.
Research Program of the Division of Women’s Health
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115
