Our Team
Leadership
James Spears, MD
Dr. James Spears, a family physician, has worked with underserved populations in New York City for more than 20 years. He previously worked at multiple drop-in sites and homeless shelters in Manhattan with the Institute for Urban Family Health. He helped establish a medical practice at the Times Square Hotel, the largest single room occupancy (SRO) in the United States. Dr. Spears established and developed the Nagle Family Health Center for Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, and he has helped develop the Family Medicine Residency Program at Columbia, where he served as Medical Director for five years. Dr. Spears is currently the Medical Director of the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic of the Actors Fund, serving the uninsured and underinsured entertainment professionals of greater NYC. He also teaches Columbia VP&S medical students at all levels of training, including at Columbia-Harlem Homeless Medical Partnership since its inception. He is from California, where he received his undergraduate degree from Stanford and his MD from the University of California, Davis.
Allie (Alexandra) Brown, MD
Alexandra Brown was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and French and completed a Master’s of Arts in French Cultural Studies at Columbia University’s Reid Hall campus in Paris. Prior to attending medical school at the University of Vermont, she worked for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organization in Switzerland. She has always been focused on working with medically underserved populations. She has worked at Planned Parenthood of Baltimore, as a counselor for surgical patients, for AmeriCorps in Baton Rouge as a Breast and Cervical Cancer Outreach coordinator, and now is thrilled to work at Farrell Community Health Center.
Medical Students
Our trained team of medical students includes pre-clinical students, board members, and clinical students.
Isaac Alter
- External Finance
Simran Chand
- Outreach Chair
Maya De Jonge
- Education
Shravya Gurrapu
- Quality Improvement
Shruthi Shivkumar
- Internal Finance
Lorenzo Talbot-Foote
- External Affairs
Tina (Xinzhu) Yang
- Internal Affairs
Harry Fillmore
- Clinical Student
Carina Sirochinsky
- Clinical Student
Michael Kirschner
- Clinical Student
Victoria Solomon
- Clinical Student
Dean Strup
- Clinical Student
Michelle Shui
- Clinical Student
Cathy Shang
- Clinical Student
Adrie Bergstein
- Clinical Student
Alice Linder
- Clinical Student
Lotanna Ezenekwe
- Clinical Student
Fi van Wingerden
- Clinical Student
Lindsey Maclay
- Clinical Student
Omid Cohensedgh
- Clinical Student
John McGroven
- Clinical Student
Amissa Brewer
- Clinical Student
Cibel Buamgart
- Clinical Student
Sam Burnim
- Clinical Student
Connor Stonesifer
- Clinical Student
Kenny Hubbell
- Clinical Student
Michael Calavano
- Clinical Student
Ariel Pourmorady
- Clinical Student
Sarah Householder
- Clinical Student
Hannah McMullen
- Clinical Student
Joe de Jonge
- Clinical Student
Ryan Huff
- Clinical Student
Yogi Kim
- Clinical Student
Sam Kokoska
- Clinical Student
Xander Harris
- Clinical Student
Phoebe Greenwald
- Clinical Student
Catherine Jennings
- Clinical Student
Bernardo Da Silva
- Clinical Student
Abby Dolmseth
- Clinical Student
