Chandler Villaverde, MD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Medicine

Dr. Chandler Villaverde is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics trained physician with an interest in subspecialty care delivery in low resource settings. He is currently working with Partners In Health / Inshuti Mu Buzima as an Oncology Program Internist, splitting time between direct clinical care, research projects, and teaching. He also works as a hospitalist at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. His current research interests include understanding and improving outcomes for cancer patients from low- and middle-income countries. He also enjoys teaching medical students, from the classroom to the bedside.
 
Chandler earned his MD from Brown University and completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. During medical school, he completed a one-year Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship in Kampala, Uganda, helping to study the neurodevelopmental outcomes of children with severe malaria. After residency, he completed a Global and Rural Health Fellowship at the University of Washington, splitting time between the tribal health system in Alaska and working with Partners In Health / Inshuti Mu Buzima in Rwanda.