Fellows of Jonathan Edwards

Jill Carrera

Bio:

Jill (she/they) is a Senior Associate Director in the Office of Fellowships. Previously, Jill worked in Yale Undergraduate Admissions as Director of Recruitment. She completed her B.A. in Theatre Studies at Yale University and worked in administrative theatre in NYC for a year before returning to Yale. She helps manage and advise students for various fellowships, namely the Fulbright Grants & Truman Scholarships, and also oversees the ISA process. Jill served on the FSY Advisory Committee for a few years, where she was able to continue cultivating her professional interests in increasing opportunities and engagement amongst students from underrepresented backgrounds. In her free time, Jill enjoys playing board games with friends, cooking with her husband Reed, and cuddling with her cat, Laena. 

Richard Carson

Bio:

Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering

richard.carson@yale.edu

Sarah Chang

Bio:

Sarah is the Director of Student Accessibility Services, the office responsible for accommodations for all students at the university that register with a disability. Before coming to Yale, she worked in many areas of disability support including serving as a disability advocate, managing residential facilities for adults with disabilities, and as a disability coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis. Sarah earned a B.S. from University of Missouri St. Louis and a J.D. from University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. She grew up in rural Missouri and identified as a first-generation and low-income student. When Sarah’s not working with students, you can find her hiking Connecticut trails with her family and Old English Sheepdog, Coco.

Contact Sarah at sarah.chang@yale.edu

Sharon Chekijian

Bio:

Dr. Chekijian joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 2007 where she works full time as an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine as well as in the Section of Administration. She has served as the inaugural Medical Director of patient experience since 2011. She is also the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner group in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Chekijian is a seasoned educator and is the founding Medical Director of the APP post-graduate training program which admitted its 1^st cohort in 2015. She completed the Yale Medical Education Fellowship in 2014.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include emergency care systems’ development in low and middle-income countries, unintentional injury prevention in low and middle-income countries, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA). Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright in 2020 for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and supported from a research standpoint by the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 under the working title “The Hidden Map” that premiered at the Toronto Pomegranate Film Festival in 2019.

sharon.chekijian@yale.edu