Jenelle Corey-Caprigno, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
Bio: Originally from California, I attended undergraduate school at the University of San Diego before moving across the country to Massachusetts with Teach For America. For 6 years, I taught high school science and coached both varsity softball and volleyball in Boston Public Schools before returning to my medical studies. During that time, I earned a Masters of Education and, later, a Masters of Medical Science at Boston University completing my thesis work with the Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital investigating multidisciplinary treatments for children with chronic pain. I then continued my medical education journey in Philadelphia where I completed medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine and was able to further explore my interests in pediatrics, psychiatry, and academic medicine. I am beyond thrilled to return to Boston and have the opportunity to provide integrated care to the community I have come to know and love with the Boston-Children’s Hospital – Tufts Medical Center Triple Board Residency Program. If you can’t find me in clinic, you can find me back at the high school helping assist my husband who now coaches both varsity teams or out and about with our new puppy Duncan (Dunkin’ Donuts collar and all!).
John Rafael, MD
Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Lubbock
Pronouns: he/him
Bio: I am a proud second generation Filipinx-American who was born in Rochester, NY, and grew up in Corpus Christi, TX. After high school, I went to Stanford, where I majored in Human Biology, did an honors thesis in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, and was hugely involved with one of their student-run free clinics; somewhere along the way I spent 6 months in Italy, half in Florence for school and half in Rome for an internship. I spent another 2 years in California as a working professional in health tech, as a personal trainer, and in higher education back at Stanford’s Department of Psychology. I returned to Texas for medical school at Texas Tech in Lubbock where I became heavily involved in their free clinic, did a plethora of research in pediatrics and psychiatry, and served in leadership for our Barbershop Blood Pressure group. These various experiences, along with the many mentors I met along the way, solidified my passion for Improving access to multidisciplinary care, hearing and validating patients’ unique stories, and addressing both medical and psychiatric concerns within the family system. I am excited to combine my Triple Board training here in Boston to destigmatize mental health, particularly for immigrant and minority populations and bridge the knowledge gap between the specialties to make psychiatric care more accessible in primary care settings and vice versa. In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my partner, a medical student at Dartmouth, cooking with friends, hiking, dancing, completing HIIT workouts while watching Korean dramas, and finding new reads on my partner’s Kindle.