GME Graduation 2024

Graduate Medical Education
Graduation Ceremony and Presentation of Awards
June 5, 2024

PROGRAM

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4 p.m.
Welcome
Antoinette Spevetz, MD
Designated Institutional Official, GME

Congratulations

Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE 
Co-President/Chief Executive Officer
Cooper University Health Care
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Annette C. Reboli, MD
Dean
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Residents' Remarks

Clint Badger, MD
Neurological Surgery

Luke Stanisce, MD
Otolaryngology

Tara Jennings, MD
Micrographic Surgery & Dermatologic Oncology

Awards Presentation

Diane Barton Award for Compassionate Care

Dorothy and Sol Sherry Award for Teaching Excellence

W. Eric Scott, MD Award for Excellence in Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine

Recognition of Graduates

Recognition of Program Administrators

Closing Remarks

Antoinette Spevetz, MD

RECOGNITION OF GRADUATES

Future Employment/Training

*Chief Resident/Fellow

Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Ryan Schmidt, MD, Program Director

• Anne Duckles, MD
• Molly Kastner, MD
• Alyssa Lombardi, MD, PhD
• Sean Paul Schlosser, MD

Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Kinjal Patel, MD, Program Director

• Lukas Klima, MD

Anesthesiology
Irwin Gratz, DO, Program Director

• Stuart Pasch, MD
• *Dhaval Rana, DO
• Calvin Ro, DO
• Osama Sayed, MD
• *Andrea Villa, MD

Breast Surgical Oncology
Catherine Loveland-Jones, MD, Program Director

• *Jenna Mancinelli, DO

Cardiovascular Disease
Joanne Mazzarelli, MD, Program Director

• *Ayobamidele Balogun, MD
• *Akiqul Miah, MD
• *Gregory Norcross, MD
• *Lowell Safren, MD
• *Christopher Sangiovanni, MD
• *Jetmir Vojnika, MD

Critical Care Medicine
Jason Bartock, MD, Program Director

• *Sandhya Ashokkumar, MD
• *Devon Gaines, MD
• *Troy Rivera, MD
• *George Sangah, Jr., MD
• *Thomas Sewatsky, MD
• *Gage Stuntz, MD
• *Nafisa Wadud, DO

Diagnostic Radiology
Sabina Amin, MD, Program Director

• Peter Jang, MD
• Gabriel Meshekow, DO
• Paras Patel, DO
• *Anthony Santisi, MD
• Samantha Snyder, DO

Emergency Medical Services
Gerard Carroll, MD, Program Director

• *Paul Comber, MD
• *Stephanie Costa, MD

Emergency Medicine
Tara Cassidy-Smith, MD, Program Director

• Hannah Crowley, MD
• Rebecca Fenderson, MD
• Tara Ferrante, MD
• Edward Guo, MD
• Rahul Gupta, MD
• Erin Kern, MD
• *Tara Knox, MD
• Sean Leary, DO
• Haley Lombardo, MD
• *Eugene Marrone, MD
• Gregory McCormick, MD
• *Sarah Perelman, MD
• Julia Shamis, MD

Emergency Ultrasound
Joshua Rempell, MD, Program Director

• *Katherine Billings, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Farah Morgan, MD, Program Director

• *Suhrim Choe, MD
• *Juan Melendez-Rivera, MD
• *Daniel Whiteman, DO

Gastroenterology
Christopher Deitch, MD, Program Director

• *Ishita Dhawan, MD
• *Pilin Francis, DO
• *Mary Kathryn Roccato, MD
• *Michael Schwartz, MD

Gynecologic Oncology
Lauren Krill, MD, Program Director

• *Rebeca Kelly, MD

Hematology Oncology
Danielle Behrens, DO, Program Director

• *Farah Ashraf, DO
• *Christine Kurian, MD
• **Jinyu Lu, MD

Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Samuel Hardy, MD, Program Director

• *Grace Lee, MD

Infectious Diseases
Rosalie Pepe, MD, Program Director

• *Maria Baldino, DO
• *Danielle Zambrano, DO

Internal Medicine
Rachel Nash, MD, Program Director

• Joshua Agress, DO
• *Amine Al Soueidy, MD
• Ehson Aligholizadeh, MD
• Christopher Ambrogi, DO
• *Rita Auro, MD
• Abhishek Chouthai, MD
• *Ian Dale, DO
•  Akshay Desai, MD
• Peter Galiano, DO
• *Alexander Garcia, Jr., DO
• *Jenna Guma, DO
•  Margaret Heller, MD
•  Ricardo Jaime-Orozco, DO
• Avish Jain, DO
• Ashley Marmaro, DO
• Diana Martirosyan, MD
• Praneeja Matta, MD
•  Rachel Moshman, MD
• Ashley Porter, DO
• Kristian Quevada, MD
• Jessica Rais, MD
•  Muhammad Hassan Rehman, MD
• Alexander Schoifet, MD
• *Jachrise Sibblis, MD
•  Michelle Stefanelli, MD
• Keshia Toussaint, MD
• *Jennifer Varallo, DO
• Angela Zheng, MD

Interventional Cardiology
Elias Iliadis, MD, Program Director

• *Gregory Miller, DO
• *Alfred Samura, MD

Interventional Pulmonology
Ziad Boujaoude, MD, Program Director

• *Robert Wilcott, MD

Medical Education Fellowship
Sundip Patel, MD, Program Director

• *Brendan Tarzia, DO

Medical Physics
Michael Walsh, MMP, Program Director

• *Rachel Trevillian, MS

Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology
Naomi Lawrence, MD, Program Director

• *Tara Jennings, MD

Nephrology
Christopher McFadden, MD, Program Director

• *Gashu Ayehu, MD

Neurosurgery
Steven Yocom, DO, Program Director

• *Clint Badger, DO
• *Mazen Zaher, DO

Neurology
Joseph Campellone, MD, Program Director

• Ahmed Abdelnabi, MD
• Oladayo Osuntokun, MD
• *Robert Sharkus, III, DO
• *Richa Thakkar, DO

Interventional Neurology
Hamza A. Shaikh, MD, Program Director

• *Renato Oliveira, MD

Obstetrics/Gynecology
Yon Sook Kim, MD, Program Director

• *Hailey Hutcheson, MD
• *Kyle Le, MD
• *Blaire Nasstrom, DO, MPH
• *Danielle Schenker, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery
Tae Won Kim, MD, Program Director

• *Jigar Gandhi, MD
• *Rock Hwang, MD
• *Adel Mahjoub, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma
Rakesh Mashru, MD, Program Director

• *Austin Whiting, DO

Otolaryngology
Yekaterina Shapiro, MD, Program Director

• *Luke Stanisce, MD

Pain Medicine
Kingsuk Ganguly, MD, Program Director

• *Brian Malone, DO

Pediatric Dentistry
Ashley Lebak, DMD, Program Director

• Sara Fatima, DDS
• *Clark Hamilton, III, DDS
• Tailyn Medina-Suarez, DMD

Pediatrics
William Graessle, MD, Program Director

• Ashraf Abdelhemid, MD
• John Boos, Jr., MD
• Stephanie Foster, DO
• Rupa Garikipati, MD
• *Cherry Hanna, MD
• Jaime Lau, MD
• Riya Raju, MD
• *Alexandra Seabury, MD
• Helly Shah, MD

Plastic Surgery
John Bauer, MD, Program Director

• *Atlee Loughran, MD

Podiatric Surgery
David Millili, DPM, Program Director

• *Bianca Karmaker, DPM
• *Shivani Kotwal, DPM

Psychiatry
Gretchen Magnani, MD, Program Director

• Thamir Khader, MD
• Aysha Rehman, MD
• *Elena Safronova, MD

Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
Ramya Lotano, MD, Program Director

• *Nika Filatova, MD
• *Taylor Wiley, MD

Rheumatology
Hala Eid, MD, Program Director

• *Shiyu Wang, MD

Surgery
Michael Kwiatt, MD, Program Director

• *Robert Emery, MD
• *Rebecca Platoff, MD
• *Clara Zhu, MD
• *Brian Zilberman, MD

Surgical Critical Care
Salina Wydo, MD, Program Director

• *Jeffrey Baron, DO
• *Nishani Hewage, MD
• *Odessa Alelee Pulido, DO

Urology
Jeffrey Tomaszewski, MD, Program Director

• *Zachary Winnegrad, MD

Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery
Lioudmila Lipetskaia, MD, Program Director

• *Erica Eggers, MD

Vascular Surgery-Integrated
Philip Batista MD, Program Director

• *Mikael Fadoul, MD

Women’s Imaging
Robin Roth, MD, Program Director

• *Meredith Johnson, MD