SOM Spring Ceremonies
Join us Friday, May 8, for our School of Medicine commencement events: the Advanced Degree Recognition Ceremony at 10:30 a.m., and the M.D. Hooding Ceremony at 3 p.m.
| Name | Institute Name | Program Name |
|---|---|---|
| Yasmin Alamdeen Shahzada | Penn State Hershey Medical Center | General Surgery |
| OreOluwa Aluko | VCU Health System | Medicine - Pediatrics |
| Aesha Amin | University of Maryland Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Alexandra Armengol | VCU Health System | Anesthesiology |
| Shanmitha Arun | Santa Clara Valley Medical Center | Stanford Health Care | Preliminary Medicine | Neurology |
| Ryan Aud | Mary Washington Healthcare | Internal Medicine |
| Zainab Aziz | University of Virginia Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Ryan Babineau | Detroit Medical Center - Wayne State University | Emergency Medicine |
| Ambuja Banerjee | Tufts Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Sri Vibhaav Bankuru | VCU Health System | Preliminary Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Collin Bardwell | VCU Health System | Anesthesiology |
| Sydney Barksdale | ChristianaCare | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Emily Bassett | Carolinas Medical Center | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Aashish Batheja | Mary Washington Healthcare | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Transitional | Radiology-Diagnostic |
| Nicole Borders | University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Jennifer Bratton | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | Preliminary Medicine and Radiology-Diagnostic |
| Katherine Buck | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Sravani Buddhavarapu | Case Western/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Huy Cao | Rutgers - Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Emergency Medicine |
| Brendan Casola | University of Michigan Hospitals - Ann Arbor | Emergency Medicine |
| Nikhil Chandravel | VCU Health System | Emergency Medicine |
| Lily Chang | University of Miami/Jackson Health System | Medicine - Pediatrics |
| Aaron Cheah | CMSRU/Cooper University Hospital | Emergency Medicine |
| Jialin Chen | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Emilie Cheng | ISMMS Mount Sinai Hospital | Emergency Medicine |
| Alexis Cherry | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | Ophthalmology - Military |
| Madison Childress | University of Maryland Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Saikeerthana Chodavarapu | UPMC Medical Education | Internal Medicine |
| Jane Choi | Loma Linda University | Ophthalmology |
| Toria Chukwuemeka | Fort Belvoir | Family Medicine - Military |
| Van Chung | VCU Health System | Emergency Medicine |
| Alexa Coe | Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals | Internal Medicine |
| Skye Coffey | Albert Einstein Medical Center | Urology |
| Sarah Cole | VCU Health System | Surgery - Preliminary |
| Sarah Cook | Carolinas Medical Center | Emergency Medicine |
| Mikayla Cunney | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Dana Dabson | Indiana University School of Medicine | Pathology |
| Jessica Dahringer | Medical University of South Carolina | Internal Medicine |
| Megan Daniels | Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine | Surgery - Preliminary |
| Brett Davie | Mary Washington Healthcare | Internal Medicine |
| Emaan Dawood | SIU School of Medicine & Affiliated Hospitals | Otolaryngology |
| Melanie DePamphilis | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Internal Medicine |
| Sharanya Deshmukh | VCU Health System | Preliminary Medicine and Ophthalmology |
| Olaoluwa Dinakin | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Hayden Dux | University of Virginia Medical Center | Neurological Surgery |
| Christopher Evans | Maine Medical Center | Anesthesiology |
| Brooke Ford | VCU Health System | Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine |
| Raisa Foushee | Eastern Virginia Medical School - Old Dominion University | Family Medicine |
| Alexa Fugina | Florida State University College of Medicine | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Maya Ganeshan | Zucker School of Medicine - Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital | Psychiatry |
| Purvika Gautam | University of Maryland Mercy Medical Center | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Preliminary Medicine | Anesthesiology |
| Maria Gergoudis | Phoenix Childrens Hospital | Pediatrics |
| Mary Ellen Gill | UPMC Medical Education | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Mariah Greco | UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital | Pediatrics |
| Tania Gupta | University of Rochester Medical Center | Vascular Surgery |
| Taylor Hallet | Eastern Virginia Medical School - Old Dominion University | Family Medicine |
| Daniel Hamner | VCU Health System | Psychiatry |
| Raymond Hang | Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School | Medicine - Pediatrics |
| Caleb Hartman | University of Missouri-Kansas City | Medicine - Pediatrics |
| Farah Hasan | Temple University Hospital | Psychiatry |
| Rea Haugen | University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville | Internal Medicine |
| Andrea He | Jamaica Hospital Medical Center | Psychiatry |
| Matthew Headley | Riverside Regional Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Rachel Heinzman | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Cecelia Hembrough | Swedish Medical Center | Family Medicine |
| Tiffany Ho | Penn State Hershey Medical Center | Surgery - Preliminary |
| Haleigh Hopper | VCU Health System | Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Lindsay Irwin | ISMMS Mount Sinai Hospital | Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Child Psychiatry |
| Ronston Jackman | Eastern Virginia Medical School - Old Dominion University | Family Medicine |
| Omar Jafar | Loyola University Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Monica Jinsi | Boston Medical Center - Brighton | Surgery - Preliminary |
| Gurbani Jolly | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Drew Justeson | Cape Fear Valley Health | Psychiatry |
| Richard Kang | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso | Pathology |
| Loukas Kang | UC Riverside School of Medicine | NYP Hospital - Columbia & Cornell | Preliminary Medicine | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Meghana Kapa | Kaiser Permanente - Los Angeles | General Surgery |
| Megana Kasavaraju | HCA East Florida Division | Neurology |
| Bridget Kastelberg | VCU Health System | Urology |
| Pratiik Kaushik | Corewell Health/Michigan State University | Interventional Radiology |
| Claire Keller | Tripler Air Force Base | Family Medicine - Military |
| Shemariah Kentish | University of Tennessee Health Science Center - Memphis | General Surgery |
| Ellen Kim | Tufts Medical Center | Anesthesiology |
| Megan Kolbe | Emory University School of Medicine | General Surgery |
| Benjamin Krieger | University of Virginia Medical Center | Anesthesiology |
| Arsheen Kudchikar | Medical College of Georgia | Anesthesiology |
| Ankit Kumar | University of Maryland Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Darius Lacy | ChristianaCare | Medicine - Pediatrics |
| Allison Ladetto | Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital | Internal Medicine |
| Margaret Lefebvre | Duke University Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Aiden Lefebvre | University of North Carolina Hospitals | Internal Medicine |
| Chelsea Levi | UCLA Medical Center | Interventional Radiology |
| Leonard Liu | VCU Health System | Pathology/AP-CP |
| Leila Mabudian | VCU Health System | Preliminary Medicine and Ophthalmology |
| Maryam Mahdi | Inova Fairfax Hospital | Pediatrics |
| Hadee Makda | Eisenhower Medical Center | Family Medicine |
| Aaria Malhotra | University of North Carolina Hospitals | Psychiatry |
| Avni Malik | VCU Health System | Otolaryngology |
| Samantha Matthesen | Good Samaritan Hospital - Cincinnati | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Kaeden McClintock | Boston University Medical Center | Otolaryngology |
| Gabriyella McGee | VCU Health System | Preliminary Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Steven Meas | Queens University | Diagnostic Radiology |
| Falen Mehari | NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital | MedStar Georgetown University WHC | Preliminary Medicine | Dermatology |
| Tulsi Mehta | University of Kentucky | Ophthalmology |
| Guiliano Melki | VCU Health System | Emergency Medicine |
| Jacob Mikesell | Rutgers - Community Medical Center | Emergency Medicine |
| Darya Mirebrahimi | University of Vermont Medical Center | Neurology |
| Zachary Morris | VCU Health System | Emergency Medicine |
| Rithvik Nalamalapu | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Internal Medicine |
| Ryan Nasser | Yale-New Haven Hospital | Medicine - Primary |
| Angie Ocampo | UTHealth Houston | Internal Medicine |
| Vivian Ouyang | MedStar Georgetown University Hospital | General Surgery |
| Stephanie Pan | Emory University School of Medicine | Transitional and Ophthalmology |
| David Park | HCA Chippenham and Johnston-Willis Hospital | General Surgery |
| Nicki Patel | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania | Internal Medicine |
| Aaroh Patel | Northside Hospital Gwinnett | Emory University School of Medicine | Transitional | Radiology-Diagnostic |
| Sanyam Patel | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Tejal Patki | University of North Carolina Hospitals | Internal Medicine |
| Maria Peri | VCU Health System | General Surgery |
| Andrew Pidutti | VCU Health System | University of Rochester Medical Center | Preliminary Medicine | Radiology-Diagnostic |
| Allison Pierce | VCU Health System | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Kiana Rahimi | HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital | University of Chicago Medical Center | Transitional | Radiation Oncology |
| Harikrishnaa Ramaraju | Riverside Regional Medical Center | Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Transitional | Radiation Oncology |
| Surya Rangineni | Texas Institute for Graduate Medical Education and Research | Medicine-Primary/Laredo |
| Saiprasad Ravi | Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital | St Lukes Hospital Anderson | Preliminary Medicine | Interventional Radiology |
| Nazrawit Retta | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas | Neurology |
| Spencer Rice | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| Brandon Rinkavage | VCU Health System | Emergency Medicine |
| Cassandra Ritter | Riverside Regional Medical Center | Family Medicine |
| Daniel Rivkin | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Medicine - Primary |
| Ariel Rosa | Mary Washington Healthcare | University of North Carolina Hospitals | Transitional | Radiation Oncology |
| Brian Rothemich | ECU Health Medical Center | Family Medicine |
| Luke Sandoval | UPMC Mercy Hospital | Surgery - Preliminary |
| Manu Saravanan | Sutter Health | Internal Medicine |
| Robert Scott | Cook County Health and Hospital Systems | Emergency Medicine |
| Shaanit Sen | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Internal Medicine |
| Karishma Setia | MedStar Georgetown University Hospital | Vascular Surgery |
| Hannah Shadowen | Providence Health | Family Medicine |
| Goonja Shah | Kaiser Permanente - Oakland | Internal Medicine |
| Shreya Shah | Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School | Internal Medicine |
| Neha Shankar | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Family Medicine |
| Michael Shields | University of Texas Southwestern | Urology |
| Nikisha Singh | Inova Fairfax Hospital | Internal Medicine |
| Nickash Sivakumar | Mary Washington Healthcare | Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital | Transitional | Radiology-Diagnostic |
| Anne Skelton | University of Rochester Medical Center | Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Derek Smith | VCU Health System | Anesthesiology |
| Jingwei Song | Brooklyn Hospital Center | Emergency Medicine |
| Lauren Sterlin | Yale - New Haven Hospital | Otolaryngology |
| Shelby Stevens | University of Michigan Hospitals | Pediatrics |
| Brittany Stiefel | VCU Health System | Pediatrics |
| Victoria Strunk | VCU Health System | Psychiatry |
| Juliette Sweeney | Emory University School of Medicine | Pediatrics |
| Nathan Swift | Brooke Army Medical Center | Orthopedic Surgery - Military |
| Alexis Swift | VCU Health System | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| David Tawadross | Loyola University Medical Center | Pathology |
| Krishna Tejo | Franciscan Health | Family Medicine |
| Adonay Teklezghi | University of Illinois College of Medicine | Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine |
| Ryan Tran | Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium | Emergency Medicine |
| Fazeela Wadan | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Pediatrics |
| James Wall | Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital | Internal Medicine |
| Therese Weidenkopf | University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital | Neurological Surgery |
| Sarah Whitaker | VCU Health System | Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Augustus White | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Internal Medicine |
| William Whiteside | Riverside Regional Medical Center | VCU Health System | Transitional | Interventional Radiology |
| Ian Worstell | University of Southern California | Pediatrics |
| Edward Xie | VCU Health System | Internal Medicine |
| Anna Xystros | VCU Health System | Medicine - Pediatrics |
| Farheen Zaman | Thomas Jefferson University | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Nasim Zeighami | Kresge Eye Institute - Wayne State University | Ophthalmology |
| Yi Zhou | UPMC Medical Education | Psychiatry |