The Center for Career Development and the Princeton Association of New England invite current undergraduate students and recent alumni interested in healthcare to an event that will offer insights into both the history and current professional reality of the field. 

This program will consist of a panel of Princeton alumni who work at Massachusetts General Hospital in a variety of roles (clinical, research and administrative), followed by a brief visit to the Paul S. Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation. Panelists will discuss their pursuits in a range of specialty areas and offer advice for those interested in the field. The panel will be moderated by Suzanne Morrison ‘89, Software Trainer at Massachusetts General Hospital. Come have your questions answered! Lunch will be provided.

Summer City Connections is a location-based program designed to foster relationships and professional development among current Princeton students, recent graduates and alumni during the summer.

Alumni panelists

Dr. Paul Biddinger '90, M.D., FACEP

Dr. Biddinger is the chief preparedness and continuity officer at Mass General Brigham (MGB) and the chief of the Division of Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGB. He holds the Ann L. Prestipino MPH Endowed Chair in Emergency Preparedness and is also the director of the Center for Disaster Medicine.  

He serves as the director of the Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation, and Practice (EPREP) Program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and at the Chan School. Dr. Biddinger serves as a medical officer for the MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) in the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Biddinger is an active researcher in the field of emergency preparedness and has lectured nationally and internationally on topics of preparedness and disaster medicine.  

He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on multiple topics related to disaster medicine and emergency medical operations and has responded to numerous prior disaster events, including Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, the Nepal earthquakes, and many others. He completed his undergraduate study in international relations at Princeton University, attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, and completed residency training in emergency medicine at Harvard.

Dr. Leland Hull '08

Dr. Hull is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Havard Medical School and clinician-investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

Her research focuses on designing, implementing, and testing approaches to bring genomic medicine to the front lines of clinical care to improve disease risk prediction and personalize clinical decision-making. Clinically, she is a practicing primary care physician at the MGH Internal Medicine Associates and she also serves as clinical director of the MGH Preventive Genetic Counseling Service, which offers expedited genetic counseling for common guideline-concordant preventive genetics questions (e.g. obtaining breast cancer susceptibility testing, arranging for preconception carrier screening). 

She completed her undergraduate at Princeton in 2008 (Molecular Biology), her medical degree at Stony Brook School of Medicine in 2013, and her Master’s of Public Health at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health in 2018. Outside of the office, she enjoys running, yoga, being outdoors, and spending time with friends and family. She lives in Sherborn, MA with her husband, John, and their two sons, Teo and Jamie. 

Livia Qoshe '21

Livia is a programmer analyst in the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at MGH, which focuses on simulation modeling and decision science in public health research. Prior to joining MPEC, Livia studied neuroscience and computer science at Princeton, and conducted her senior thesis research in computational psychiatry, studying reinforcement learning and the risk sensitivity in stress and anxiety. Outside of work, she loves book clubs, hiking, and volunteering at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Cambridge Public Library.