PHELPS NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM AT FAMILY MEDICINE

The Family Medicine Residency Program (FMRP) at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow began 2021 by welcoming a new leadership team. Dr. Rebecca Collins the new program director, will lead alongside recently promoted Associate Program Director Dr. Samantha Rai and Dr. London Muse, who was promoted to associate program director in 2019.

Collins completed her family medicine training at Columbia University”™s Center for Family and Community Medicine, medical school at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and public health training at A.T. Still University. She is one of the founding faculty members of this residency program, which concentrates on comprehensive health care to underserved communities.

Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Muse completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 2008, her medical education at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, in 2012, and her family medicine residency training at Phelps in 2015. After learning Spanish during her residency and providing care at Open Door, she joined the practice as a full-time faculty physician becoming the medical director at Sleepy Hollow Open Door in January 2017, In 2019, she was promoted to associate program director and continues to serve in this role as part of the new leadership team.

Before joining the leadership team, Rai earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training and served as a chief resident at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program, an affiliate of the University of California, San Francisco. On returning to New York, she joined Mount Kisco Open Door in 2005 and later served as the medical director for clinical quality for the entire organization. Inspired to share her passion for family medicine, Rai joined the Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program faculty in 2014.