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it is verified with the insurance company. In addition, psychiatric providers should
be contacted directly for information on their participation with managed care and
insurance companies.
Dr. Ayyala earned her MD from Temple University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Following residency training, she completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship in Medical Education at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. During this fellowship, she completed formal longitudinal coursework through the Johns Hopkins Faculty Development Program in both curriculum development and teaching skills.
Dr. Ayyala joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2017 and leads curriculum development and implementation efforts around unconscious bias, microaggressions, and structural racism in the health equity and social justice longitudinal thread for clerkship students. Her work in curriculum development around topics of health equity and social justice has been presented regionally and nationally and published in peer-reviewed journals including Medical Teacher and The Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Ayyala is committed to promoting physician wellness, health equity, and humanism in medicine. She has experience in physician wellness research and peer-support interventions spanning the learning continuum from undergraduate medical education to faculty wellness. She currently serves as faculty vitality champion representing the Department of Medicine in the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Faculty Vitality Taskforce and Chair for the Department of Medicine Wellness Committee.
In September 2020, she was appointed as Director of the Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism and Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. The Center, founded in 2004 with a grant from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, promotes dignity and respect for the individual, commitment to the relief of suffering, and the delivery of care that is kind, just, and humble.
Dr. Ayyala is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and practices general internal medicine in the primary care clinic at University Hospital's Ambulatory Care Center and attends on the general medicine wards at University Hospital.
Education
MD, 2012, Temple Uinversity School of Medicine BA, 2008, Temple University
Licensure & Certification
Medical Licensure New Jersey
Relevant Publications
Ayyala MS, Hill J, Traba C, Soto-Greene M, Shiau S, DallaPiazza M. Teaching Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19: a Virtual Look Through the Lens of Structural Racism. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jul;37(9):2323-2326.
Brazeau CMLR, Ayyala MS, Chen PH, Swarbrick M. Virtual faculty development peer programmes support physician well-being. Med Educ. 2022 May;56(5):554-555. doi: 10.1111/medu.14748.
DallaPiazza M, Ayyala MS, Soto-Greene ML. Empowering future physicians to advocate for health equity: A blueprint for a longitudinal thread in undergraduate medical education. Med Teach. 2020 Jul;42(7):806-812. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1737322.
Ayyala MS, Rios R, Wright SM. Perceived Bullying Among Internal Medicine Residents. JAMA. 2019 Aug 13;322(6):576-578. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.8616.
Ayyala MS, Skarupski K, Bodurtha JN, Gonzalez-Fernandez M, Ishii LE, Fivush B, Levine RB. Mentorship Is Not Enough: Exploring Sponsorship and Its Role in Career Advancement in Academic Medicine. Acad Med. 2019 Jan;94(1):94-100.
