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Match Day 2025: Yale Internal Medicine Welcomes Incoming Residents

March 21, 2025

The Department of Internal Medicine announces its newest incoming class of residents for Match Day 2025:

Traditional Residency Program

Internal Medicine

  • Ashkan Abdollahi, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
  • Zafer Akman, Istanbul Universitesi, Cerrahpasa Tip Fakultesi
  • Michelle Amankwah, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
  • Arya Aminorroaya, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
  • Nayiri Ayanian, University of Michigan Medical School
  • Emma Barry, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Jett Crowdis, Harvard Medical School
  • Samia Daghestani, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Yesh Datar, Boston University School of Medicine
  • Shivani Dayal, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
  • Valerie Etzrodt, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
  • Gracia Fahed, American University of Beirut
  • Kate Ferencsik, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
  • Bailey Frohlich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Lindsey Gorsch, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Elio Haroun, Universite Saint-Joseph
  • Olivia Hofheinz, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Miriam Katz, New York Medical College
  • Jesper Ke, University of Michigan Medical School
  • Naira Link Woite, Universidade de Sao Paulo
  • Hector Lora Rodriguez, Universidad Iberoamericana, Santo Domingo
  • Natalie Kingston, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • Kanika Malani, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Daja Martin, University of Mississippi School of Medicine
  • Maryam Mojarrad Sani, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
  • Cindy Khanh Nguyen, Yale School of Medicine
  • Ire Opayemi, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • Juliana Perez Pinzon, Universidad De Los Andes (Colombia)
  • CJ Puzo, Yale School of Medicine
  • Niroop Rajashekar, Yale School of Medicine
  • Marc-Anthony Rodriguez, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Kellen Round, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
  • Nurefsan Sariipek, Ankara Universitesi
  • David Tang, Georgetown University School of Medicine
  • Dan Thompson, Yale School of Medicine
  • Shreeya Thussu, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  • Catherine Trad, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Tiffany Vaughan, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Physician-Scientist

  • Yaa Abu, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  • Caitlyn Brashears, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • Isabel Goronzy, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
  • Nicolas Ledru, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • William Lee, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Akshay Patel, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
  • Dennis Schaefer-Babajew, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
  • Derek Wong, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Preliminary Medicine

  • Christina Bi, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
  • Hannah Kang, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
  • Kathyana Santiago Mangual, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
  • Madisen Swallow, Yale School of Medicine

Preliminary Neurology

  • Abena Ansah-Yeboah, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo
  • Abhijeet Barath, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur
  • Julia Bernal, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  • Santiago Clocchiatti-Tuozzo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Brittany Foret, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
  • Rafaela Farias Vidigal Nascimento, Fundacao Universitaria do ABC
  • Jillian Haberli, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • Dalynah Maldonado-McGrath, New York Medical College
  • Kate McNamara, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  • Shefalika Prasad, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
  • Joshua Taliaferro, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Preliminary Ophthalmology

  • Patrick Demkowicz, Yale School of Medicine
  • Julia Eisen, Yale School of Medicine
  • Malik Ladki, University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine
  • Elliott Vanderford, Yale School of Medicine
  • Amanda Zong, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Primary Care Residency Program

Primary Care Track

  • Aaron Ahn, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
  • Aiden Ahn, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Harish Alappan, Mercer University School of Medicine
  • Katerina Bello, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
  • Jeffrey Boateng, Jiangsu University
  • Lydia Brainard, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Leelakrishna Channa, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • Fion Chu, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Kasey Crockett, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Brian Fleischer, Yale School of Medicine
  • Semegne Hiruy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Sarah Levine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
  • Safiyah Samad, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Julia Schaffer, Yale School of Medicine
  • Kiran Sing-Smith, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • Leah Steinmetz, Tulane University School of Medicine

HIV Track

  • Aprotim Bhowmik, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
  • Bryce Killingsworth, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Combined Medical/Pediatrics

  • Victoria Heinrich, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Maximilian Kinne, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Sarah Lagan, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
  • Darius Mostaghimi, Yale School of Medicine

Yale-Waterbury Preliminary Residents

  • Akua Amoah, Kwame Nkrumah University College of Health Sciences
  • Dheeman Futela, Maulana Azad Medical College
  • Afarin Neishabouri, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
  • Cameron O'Connor, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
  • Sowmya Ravi, Tulane University School of Medicine
  • Mario Silva, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine

Yale-Waterbury Categorical Residents

  • Akua Akomeah, Kwame Nkrumah University College of Health Sciences
  • Priya Desai, St. George’s University School of Medicine
  • Ketevani Khetsuriani, David Tvildiani Medical University
  • Ahmad Kiwan, Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Sukhda Monga, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur
  • Dina Adel Eshak Nazir, David Tvildiani Medical University
  • Rahul Pottabathini, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad
  • Fnu Rajdeep Singh, Government Medical College, Amritsar
  • Gurjot Singh, Guru Govind Singh Medical College
  • Asia Tabatadze, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

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