Graduates Since 2006: Where Are They Now?
Class of 2006
Jameela Yusuff – Assistant Professor, SUNY Downstate (Brooklyn, NY) Eid Azar – Chief ID Division, St George Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon) Diana Florescu – Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, NE) Andrew Cha – Section Chief, ID, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center (Chicago, IL)
Class of 2007
Laila Fernandes – Assistant Professor, Wright State University School of Medicine (Dayton, OH) Meredith Deutscher – Kaiser Permanente (Layette, CA) Sandhya Sathyakumar – Northwest Infectious Disease Consultants (Niles, IL)
Class of 2008
Giorgio Tarchini – Chief Medical Officer, Westside Regional Medical Center (Plantation, FL) Ashley Newberry – Allina Health Coons Rapid Clinic (Coon Rapids, MN) Maher Madhoun – Stamford Hospital (Stamford, CT) Gabriel Sandkovsky – Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Bethesda Hospital East, Delray Medical Center, and Medical Clinic Practice (Boca Raton, FL) Franco Falcone – Kings County Hospital and Coney Island Hospital, NYC Health and Hospitals (NY, NY)
Class of 2009
Xin Pang – New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center (NY, NY) Sunita Singh – Private Infectious Diseases Practice (Santa Cruz, CA)
Class of 2010
Ambreen Khalil - Staten Island University Hospital (Staten Island, NY) Dahlia Philips – Summit Medical Group (Berkley Heights, NJ) Denisse Balcacer – Private Infectious Diseases Practice (Seminole, FL) Liliana Rios – Orlando Immunology Center Physicians (Altamonte Springs, FL) Sireesha Reddy – Newtown Medical Center (Randolph, NJ) Rashmi Singh – Sentara Hospital Medicine Physicians (Woodbridge, VA)
Class of 2011
Robert Goldstein – Montefiore New Rochelle and Schaffer Extended Care Center (New Rochelle, NY) Leonidez De Guzman – Good Shepard Health Care System (Hermiston, OR) Mary Clarisse Kilayko – Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield, MA)
Class of 2012
Gweneth Francis - Atlanta ID Group (Atlanta, GA) Vicente Maco Flores – Putnam Community Medical Center (Palatka, FL) Anca Georgescu – Summit Medical Group (Livingston, NJ) Cristina Batog – Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Medical Clinic Practice (Minneapolis, MN)
Class of 2013
Catalina Salinas - Medical Clinic Practice (Quito, Ecuador) Shelly Latte – Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital (New York, NY) Krystina Woods – Medical Director of Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai West (New York, NY)
Class of 2014
Jatinbhai Patel - St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center (Pueblo, CO) Jennifer Turley-Leoniak – Tenet Health Systems-Emanual Medical Center (Turlock, CA) Rokhsareh Roxanne Tajrishi – Hoag Hospital and Clinic (Los Alamitos, CA) Raffaella Kalishman – Englewood Health (Englewood, NJ)
Class of 2015
Logan Felix – Infectious Disease Consultants, PLLC (Tucson, AZ) Veenu Gill – Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (Glendale, AZ) Mark Manguerra – MedStar St. Mary's Hospital (Hollywood, MD)
Class of 2016
Sonal Bajaj – St. Mary’s Medical Center-Huntington (Huntington, West Virginia) Karina Auffant – Palm Beach Infectious Disease Group (Delray Beach, FL) Teresa Giraldo – Monongahela Valley Hospital and Clinic Practice (Pittsburgh, PA) Jun Makino – Medical Infectious Diseases Practice (Japan)
Class of 2017
Yolima Salazar – Rockville Hospital/Manchester Hospital (Waterbury, CT)
Class of 2018
Angela Chiang – St. Mary’s Healthcare and Medical Clinic Practice (Monterey Park, CA) Rahul Gaikwad – ID Faculty, Mount Sinai Morningside/Mount Sinai West (New York, NY) Alexander Lafortune – Lincoln Hospital (Bronx, NY) Bryan Tolentino – Community Healthcare Network (New York, NY)
Class of 2019
Michelle Ordoveza – Montefiore Hospital (Bronx, NY) Katerina Oikonomou – Hospital of Larissa (Larissa, Greece) Michael Williams – Advanced Care Physicians (New York, NY)
Class of 2020
Stephen Catalya – Washington Township Medical Foundation (Fremont, CA) Rita Jammal – Woodhull Hospital, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (Brooklyn, NY) Joseph Saabiye – University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) Monica Vidaurrazaga – Family Health Centers of San Diego (Hillcrest Clinic) (San Diego, CA)
Class of 2021
Sarah Humphreys - ID Faculty, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai-Union Square (New York, NY) Kateryna Lewis - Infectious Diseases Attending, Lee Health, Lee Memorial Hospital (Fort Myers, FL)
Class of 2022
Jane Eblacas – ID Physician, Private Practice (Palm Beach, FL) Vani George – Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY) Chi Doan Huynh – Ryan Health (New York, NY) Mikhail Khaitov – ID Physician, Private Practice (New York, NY)
Class of 2023
Nikita Ekhelikar – ID Care, Infectious Diseases Specialists of New Jersey (NJ) Mudita Patel – Einstein Healthcare Network at Montgomery, Jefferson Health (Philadelphia, PA) Itay Rabinovitz – ID Physician
Class of 2024
Anjali Anne Ajit – Critical Care Fellow, Montefiore Hospital (Bronx, NY) Harika Kalangi – ID Faculty, Northwell Health System (New York, NY) Carolina Moreira Sarmiento – ID Physician, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (Atlanta, GA) Laura Rivera Boadla – ID Faculty, St. Barnabas Hospital (New York, NY)
Contact Us
Geraldine Vargas Fellowship Coordinator Division of Infectious Diseases geraldine.vargas@mountsinai.org
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