Dr. Rabatin is a member of the Affinity Primary Care Practice at Butler Hospital. He has extensive experience teaching and training medical students. Before coming to Brown, Dr. Rabatin was a physician at Bellevue and has work with the Survivor of Torture Clinic at the New York University.

Dr. Verma is currently the Medical Director of Brockton Primary Care in the Boston VA Healthcare System.  He is also the Medical Director of Grand Islander Center in Middletown, RI. He received his Doctor of Medicine from St. George’s University and his Master of Public Health from Boston University. Dr. Verma completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Brown University and a Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He participated in our first formal asylum evaluation seminar that launched the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic and has been instrumental in evaluating asylum cases in the community ever since.

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Margret Chang completed her medical degree at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She then went on to pursue a residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brown. As a student and a resident, Margret has been heavily involved in working with the refugee population in Providence, focused mainly on the intersection between refugee trauma and its effects on chronic disease. She completed the PHR Asylum Evaluation Workshop in Spring 2014, while still in residency, and was able to serve as one of its first physician evaluators. 

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Margret is now an attending physician at the Family Health Center in Worcester, MA where she cares for underserved patients in the outpatient setting as part of a National Health Service Corps scholarship commitment. She has conducted her own evaluations of asylum seekers since completing the training, and spends most of her present time caring for asylees once they have gained citizenship. She credits her training with PHR to being key for preparing her for dealing with a diverse community of immigrant and refugee patients, all with significant trauma physical and mental trauma histories in their backgrounds.

Carrie Rugierri is a mental health counselor, licensed in the State of Rhode Island since 1995 (RI#00055). She is also a board-certified expert in traumatic studies (BCETS). She has worked with children, adults and families in private practice for 30 years, with a focus on trauma, complex trauma, and complicated bereavement. She has conducted numerous forensic trauma evaluations for RI Department of Children Youth and Families. She attended the Physicians for Human Rights training for psychological evaluation of asylum seekers, on February 25, 2017 at Columbia University.