Zachary Bay, MD - Quinsigamond House Mentor

Dr. Zachary Bay, MD grew up outside Detroit, MI. He went to the University of Michigan majoring in Cellular Molecular Biology for his undergraduate education. He went to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. He completed his Family Medicine residency at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Lawrence, MA where he did an integrated fellowship in HIV and Viral Hepatitis. He currently works at Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center where he practices primary care, Office Based Addiction Treatment, outpatient Obstetrics care, and dedicated time for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Latent Tuberculosis (“Infectious Diseases”) clinic. He also works at Family Health Center of Worcester where he precepts the Family Medicine Residents and is the co-director of the Spanish Track for the residency program. He has the privilege of working with shadowing premedical college students, medical and nurse practitioner students, medical and nurse practitioner residents, as well as the Family Medicine department’s HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fellows where he works as one of the site directors.

At the medical school, he is a small group leader for both the Early Clinical Learning and Core small groups. His main goal is to remind students that medical hierarchy is nonsense and that we all have an equal amount of value regardless of what year (or decade) or school or practice we are in. He has yet to meet a student he can’t find something to love about.

He lives in Worcester, MA with his partner, Tyler, his adopted son, Jakob, and his dog (who’s received the best being in the house award 3 years running), Oddie. He loves to garden, dabbles in exercise, and is obsessed with languages (which his partner would say is very unfortunate).

Giishpin wiikaa ani-zagaakwaag gi-bimaadiziwin, aabajitoon gi-waagaakwad.

If ever there is bramble in your path, use your ax.

Ojibwe Metaphor, Anton Treuer