Triple Board Training - Current Residents

Cassandra Scott, MD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Pronouns: she/her

Bio: I was born NYC and raised in the NYC suburbs by my French-American family. I went to McGill University in Montreal to study Computer Science and Biology for my undergrad degree. I took a year abroad at the University of Edinburgh to continue studying and do some research, and while there ended up meeting my now-spouse, Gregor. I moved to Boston in 2016 for med school at Tufts and stayed for the Triple Board program. During Triple Board training, I have become passionate about medical education, psychotherapy, physician/trainee mental health, and integrative behavioral health. I can often be found cooking and baking bread, knitting, playing games, and catching up on reading. When not at work, though, I am most often devoting time to my husband's and my newest project, our daughter Mallory, who was born during intern year. Together, we often go on walks around our neighborhood, travel to see grandparents, and review early childhood developmental milestones!

Allison Seats, MD
Creighton University School of Medicine
Pronouns: she/her

Bio: I'm originally from Golden, CO where I grew up skiing, hiking and playing volleyball. After high school, I attended Creighton University and majored in Biology with a minor in Spanish. During this time, I developed an interest in medicine and global health in the Dominican Republic through yearly medical service trips. After my graduating, I returned to Colorado to earn my Masters in Biomedical Sciences from Regis University. Shortly after, I headed back to Omaha for medical school at Creighton. I spent my first two years in Omaha but then decided to pick up and move to Phoenix, Arizona to Creighton's regional campus. That's where I discovered my shared love of pediatrics and child psychiatry. I'm thrilled to move cross country once again to further explore medicine through the triple board program at Tufts Medical Center.

Kathryn Martin, MD MPH
University of Oklahoma
Pronouns: she/her

Bio: Born and raised in Oklahoma, I grew up devouring stories of global adventures and medical mysteries. My curiosity led me to Georgetown, where my undergraduate studies focused on health and environmental issues in Asia and Latin America. After college, I served for two years as a schoolteacher and health educator in rural Yunnan with Teach for China. After seeing the range of factors that determined my students’ health, I was driven to pursue my MPH in population and family health as well as humanitarian assistance from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. I then served as a Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow with the National Academy of Medicine and as a Programme Officer in Child Health at UNICEF-China in Beijing before attending medical school at the University of Oklahoma in my hometown of Tulsa. My medical studies honed my interest in caring for the whole child, mentally and physically, which drove me to explore the Triple Board path. I am thrilled to be joining the Triple Board team at Tufts! I also am looking forward to enjoying life in Boston, including exploring the various parks and cooking spicy Yunnan dishes to share.

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.

Cade Herman, MD
Hometown: Sulphur, Louisiana
Undergrad: Tulane University (Neuroscience and French)
MD: Tufts University School of Medicine

Obaro (Tobi) Okopie, MD, MPH
Hometown: Houston, TX
Undergrad: Georgetown University (Biochemistry)
MD: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
MPH: University of Texas School of Public Health