Adult Medicine and Primary Care in Boston

A team model of care with a focus on wellness and prevention.

About The Adult Medicine Program at South Boston Community Health Center

The Adult Medicine Program at South Boston Community Health Center provides comprehensive primary care to adults aged 18 and older. This includes routine physicals, same day visits for urgent problems, preoperative physicals, and routine follow-up treatment of chronic problems such as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure and chronic heart and lung diseases.

As part of our routine medical exams, we provide:

  • screening for cancer
  • diabetes
  • hypertension and other chronic diseases
  • cholesterol screening
  • counseling on healthy lifestyles
  • immunizations.

We also help coordinate specialty referrals and home care when appropriate.

Each care team in Adult Medicine is led by a Medical Doctor along with Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Care Managers, and Medical Assistants working together to ensure seamless continuity. One of the major reasons we have care teams at the Health Center is so you will always meet with a provider who knows you. For example, if your primary care provider (PCP) is ever not available for an appointment with you, one of their team members, familiar with your health and treatment goals, will see you instead.

Adult Medicine and Primary Care Locations in South Boston

South Boston Community Health Center
409 West Broadway
South Boston, MA 02127
617-269-7500

Adult Medicine Team 1

Sophie Kerman, MD

  • Medical School: Brown University
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Addiction Medicine, HIV, Infectious Disease, Health Equity
  • Languages: English

Kevin Savage, MD

  • Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Infectious Diseases
  • Languages: English, Spanish

Katherine Zeitler, MD

  • Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Languages: English

Pamela Cattel, MD

  • Medical School: Boston University School Medicine
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Boston Medical Center
  • Special Interests: Geriatrics, Women's Health
  • Languages: English

Adult Medicine Team 2

Katie McMenamin, MD

  • Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Languages: English

Robert Fain, MD

  • Medical School: Brown University
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Outpatient Mental Health Care, Immigrant Health, Population Health Research
  • Languages: English, Spanish

John Stone, MD

  • Medical School: Albany Medical College
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Internal Medicine
  • Languages: English

Megan Chapman, NP

  • Medical School: Boston College
  • Board Certification: Certified Nurse Practitioner
  • Languages: English

Suru Lin, MD, MPH

  • Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Boston Medical Center
  • Special Interests: Medical Education
  • Languages: English

Adult Medicine Team 3

Ryanne Dymek, MD

  • Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine - Chicago
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Women's Health
  • Languages: English

Alejandro Campos Rodriguez, MD

  • Medical School: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
  • Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Special Interests: Endocrinology & Metabolism, Obesity Medicine
  • Languages: English, Italian, Spanish

Sarah Sloan, MD

  • Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Boston Medical Center
  • Special Interests: Women's Health, Community Health
  • Languages: English

M. Azzam Mehssen, MD

  • Medical School: University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine, Aleppo, Syria
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Carney Hospital: Primary Care/Internal Medicine Track
  • Special Interests: HIV Medicine, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Languages: Arabic, English

Adult Medicine Team 4

Morgan Larrabee, NP

  • Medical School: Simmons University
  • Board Certification: Family Medicine
  • Special Interests: Women’s Health, Infectious Diseases, Anxiety
  • Languages: English

Emma Pitoniak, NP

  • Medical School: Boston College
  • Board Certification: Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Special Interests: Diabetes, Women's Health
  • Languages: English

Sheel Saxena, MD

  • Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Board Certification: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Boston Medical Center
  • Special Interests: Sports Medicine
  • Languages: English, Hindi

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“There’s an emphasis on education here. Dr. Chiakpo and Marianna (a nurse in training) provided a lot of background concerning my issue and even brought in diagrams, which I greatly appreciated, since I’m a visual learner. They both gave me space to ask questions on everything. I really appreciated the time they spent with me.”
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