Dr. Nokes received his MD and MPH degrees from the University of Connecticut and completed residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester (NY) in the program's inner-city track. He completed a four-year National Health Service Corps commitment at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center—a community health center in Lawrence, Massachusetts—where he has continued to practice since 2001. He has served in a number of faculty and leadership roles in Lawrence, including Chief of Family Medicine at Lawrence General Hospital. He currently is Director of Medical Student Education for the health center and a faculty member at the health center-based Lawrence Family Medicine Residency Program, where he directs pediatric training experiences for the residents, precepts residents in the hospital and clinic, and works on a variety of initiatives to address Social Determinants of Health at the health center and in collaboration with the Merrimack Valley Accountable Care Organization. He is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he was a co-founder of the Health Justice Scholars Program (then known as the Tufts Student Service Scholars Program) in 2013, assuming directorship in 2018. In the Spring of 2022 he was appointed as the inaugural H. Jack Geiger, MD, Director in Health Justice at TUSM. His interests include structural competency, social needs screening and intervention, health inequities, and medical student/resident education. 

Sabrina Chaklos, MD

Dr. Sabrina Chaklos attended Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA and received her MD degree in 2006.  She completed internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD in 2009.  Dr. Chaklos remained at Johns Hopkins Bayview as a hospitalist and Instructor in Medicine for several years prior to returning to New England.  She continued to pursue her passion for medical education, returned to Boston, and now works as a hospitalist at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center.  She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts, serves as a faculty coach, and is now the course director for the Problem Based Learning course.  Her interests including exercising, swimming, and she is a loyal patron of the arts, currently on the museum council at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  She also enjoys performing arts and traveling.