Department of Internal Medicine
Current Residents
Department of Internal Medicine
2018 – 2019
All Residents
Abubaker Abdalla M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Khartoum
- Hometown: Khartoum, Sudan
- Career Goals: Currently considering fellowship option in interventional medicine
- Hobbies: Watching sports (soccer) and movies, outdoor activities and willing to try anything new
Marines Acevedo Rodriguez M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Puerto Rico Medical Science Campus
- Hometown: Arecibo, Puerto Rico
- Career Goals: Considering Endocrinology but open to other opportunities
- Hobbies: Watch movies and tv series, watch sports, and explore new places
Pydi Akella M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Texas A&M University
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Career Goals: Critical Care Medicine
- Hobbies: Hiking, swimming, cooking, learning to backpack, meeting new people :)
Solaiman Algharbi M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Damascus University
- Hometown: Homs/Syria
- Career Goals: Hospitalist or Geriatrics
- Hobbies: Soccer, painting, searching for fun
Jaafar Al-Khafaji M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Baghdad
- Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq
- Career Goals: Cardiology Fellowship
- Hobbies: Fixing things, cooking and fishing
Primary Care Track
Mohammed Al-Khayyat M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Baghdad University, School of Medicine
- Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq
- Career Goals: Primary care/ aesthetic medicine/ geriatrics or palliative care
- Hobbies: Quality family time, playing soccer, fixing and upgrading cars, Iraqi BBQ, Kayaking and swimming.
Deepti Alluri M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Sri Ramachandra Medical College
- Hometown: Aurora, IL
- Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, road trips and traveling
Primary Care Track
Arshad Al-Mashhadani M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Baghdad, College of Medicine
- Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq
- Career Goals: Chronic disease management, Indigent / Vulnerable population.
- Hobbies: Computers programming, foreign language learning, spending time with family and friends, bowling, table tennis and watching movies
Vijay Aluru M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Andhra Medical College
- Hometown: Vizag, India
- Career Goals: To become a competent clinician
- Hobbies: Biking, hiking, sports, binge watching TV shows
Daniel Antwi-Amoabeng M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: American University of Antigua.
- Hometown: Toase, Ghana
- Career Goals: Cardiology vs Critical Care vs Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Watching documentaries, fishing, road trips, studying philosophy, and social justice activism
Munadel Awad M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Universidad Central del Caribe
- Hometown: Wayne, New Jersey
- Career Goals: To become an exceptional physician
- Hobbies: Watching soccer, playing FIFA, food
Shaifali Batra M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: St. George's University, Grenada
- Hometown: Delaware, Ohio
- Career Goals: Either Hospitalist or fellowship
- Hobbies: Spending time with family/friends, cooking, hiking, shopping and above all traveling
Preliminary
Margaret Beckwith M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: St. George’s University
- Hometown: Fredericksburg, VA
- Career Goals: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Hobbies: Adaptive ski, One World One Health, playing with all the puppies, soccer, environmental sustainability, regenerative medicine
Justin Bumgardner M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Earth, Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy
- Career Goals: Wilderness Medicine, Rural Medicine, Academic Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Alpine Mountaineering, cycling/running, Reno Chamber Orchestra, good food, drink, and company
Preliminary
Malcolm Carson M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Richmond, CA
- Career Goals: Sports Medicine
- Hobbies: (basketball, football, skiing, soccer), Movies (Action/Comedy/Mystery), Music (Hip Hop/R&B)
Primary Care Track
Deepthi Ciddi (PGY2)
- Medical School: Navodaya Medical College
- Hometown: Queens, NY. Originally from Hyderabad, India.
- Career Goals: Interest in Endocrinology / Preventative Medicine Fellowship.
- Hobbies: Cooking, Painting, Swimming, Watching movies.
Tania Dhawan M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: GW SMHS
- Career Goals: still deciding!
- Hobbies: spending time with family and friends, traveling, being outdoors, music, shows, movies
Kleitia Dida M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: International University of the Health Sciences
- Hometown: Prishtina, Kosovo
- Career Goals: Critical Care or Cardiology
- Hobbies: Sitting in front of a fire place enjoying good company or a good book
Rajkumar Doshi M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Medical College Baroda, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
- Hometown: Lunawada, Gujarat, India
- Career Goals: To become a caring, compassionate and competent Interventional Cardiologist
- Hobbies: Tennis, Badminton, Spending time with family and friends, outdoor activities, Eating new "vegetarian" food
Mohamed Elnaggar M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Tanta school of Medicine, Egypt
- Hometown: Tanta-Egypt
- Career Goals: to be a compassionate and exceptional physician.
- Hobbies: Traveling, working out, Video games, TV and movies
Enrique Fiallo Machado M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine
- Hometown: Weston, FL
- Hobbies: Going for runs and dominoes
Brent Ford M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: The University of Texas Medical Branch
- Hometown: Frisco, TX
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Video games, Hiking, Biking, TV/Netflix, Anything with Friends
Ricardo Franco M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Hometown: Monterrey, Mexico
- Career Goals: Possibly seek a fellowship in pulmonary critical care, participate Medical mission trips
- Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, anything outdoors, sports, watching movies, and cooking. #coolestpersonever
Habeeb Habeeb M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Duhok College of Medicine
- Hometown: Duhok/Kurdistan/Iraq
- Career Goals: Still deciding between hospitalist and fellowship
- Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, soccer and hiking
Rachael Harrison M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
- Hometown: Reno, Nevada
- Career Goals: Infectious Disease fellowship
- Hobbies: : I love spending time with family, going to the beach, eating good food, and traveling
Tarik Hussein M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Baghdad College of Medicine
- Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Soccer and badminton
Irtqa Ilyas D.O. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Midwestern University, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Hometown: Elk Grove, CA
- Career Goals: to be a competent physician
- Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, hiking and cooking
Primary Care Track
Arpana Jaiswal M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Mata Gujari Memorial Medical College, India
- Hometown: Allahabad, India
- Career Goals: Well rounded Internist
- Hobbies: Spending time with family, fitness, Yoga, Zumba, biking, traveling and vacationing, shopping, Broadways, Bollywood movies
Jagmohan Jandu M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Newark, CA
- Career Goals: To provide the best patient care possible and become an integral part of the community. Will consider a fellowship that I can apply to an outpatient primary care setting and also maintain some inpatient exposure.
- Hobbies: Golf, basketball, playing the Punjabi drum called the “dhol”, immersing myself in outdoor activities, and spending time with family and friends
Dhammi Jayathilaka M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- Hometown: Kandy, Sri Lanka
- Career Goals: Hospitalist or Primary care
- Hobbies: Watching movies/TV series, travelling and spending time with my family
Erik Jensen M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Reno
- Career Goals: Infectious Disease, hopefully.
- Hobbies: Ocean kayaking, cooking, being a nerd on the internet.
Deepak Kapoor M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Avalon University School of Medicine, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
- Hometown: Presently, Tracy, CA. Originally from Delhi, India
- Career Goals: Primary Care or Hospitalist. Will keep an open mind for fellowship opportunities.
- Hobbies: Great outdoors, spending time with family and friends, reading tech blogs, movies
Jasmine Kelly M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
- Hometown: Honolulu, HI
- Career Goals: to start a Primary Care Group Practice
- Hobbies: hiking, cooking, Netflixing, traveling
Primary Care Track
Anam Khan M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Fatima Jinnah Medical College
- Hometown: Sacramento, CA
- Career Goals: Become a competent physician and an integral part of my community by being more involved and caring.
- Hobbies: Horse riding, sleeping :), spending time with family and friends, and binge watching TV shows and movies.
Robert Kim M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Chicago Medical School
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Career Goals: Hospital medicine, to be a compassionate physician!
- Hobbies: Movies, TV, trying new restaurants, intermittent exercise
Hima Kondragunta M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: B.L.D.E.A.'s Shri B. M. Patil Medical College
- Hometown: Vijayawada, India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist or Primary care
- Hobbies: Reading mystery novels, watching thrillers, road trips, spending time with family
Sandhya Kota M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: S.V.S Medical college
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: Cardiology
- Hobbies: Cooking, spending time with my family
Rohee Krishan M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: St. George’s University
- Hometown: Green Valley, CA
- Career Goals: Considering a fellowship
- Hobbies: Spending time with my family and dogs, jigsaw puzzles, traveling
Preliminary
John Lilly M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Park City, UT
- Career Goals: I am going to Radiology residency. I am unsure of fellowship/ subspecialty at this time.
- Hobbies: Hobbies: Everything that Reno has to offer: great microbreweries, music, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, climbing, etc... also Netflix.
Vania Lin M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Hometown: Taichung, Taiwan
- Career Goals: To become the best physician I can be
- Hobbies: Enjoying music, reading books, watching movies, traveling, trying new foods
Eric Lu M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Fudan University
- Hometown: Saint Louis, Missouri
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Basketball, road trips, memes, long romantic walks on the beach
Sumaiya Mahboob M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College
- Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Career Goals: Hospitalist for now, open to explore options
- Hobbies: Finding new restaurants to try for new food, binge watching TV series, hiking, running, making personalized handmade gifts.. and oh, Harry Potter
Patrick McNerney D.O. (PGY2)
- Medical School: LECOM
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Skiing, Hiking, Interpretive dance, Extreme hopscotch, Beetle fighting
Zahara Meghji M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: International Medical and Technological University
- Hometown: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Career Goals: Fellowship in Cardiology
- Hobbies: Travelling, hiking, watching movies, and spending time with family and friends
Jennifer Moshman M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon
- Career Goals: Primary care and preventive health
- Hobbies: Hiking, going to concerts, reading books for pleasure (book clubs are my jam)
Manvi Nagam M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, India
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: Still exploring, though I have always been very interested in Gastroenterology
- Hobbies: Crafts & Recycling used articles, Board games, and recently started experimenting with cooking!
Sudha Nandala M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad, India
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: To provide best quality, patient-centered care in the settings I work in, inpatient/outpatient
- Hobbies: Listening to music, singing, spending time with family and friends
Sai Narala M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: American University of Caribbean
- Hometown: Reno but originally from India
- Career Goals: Cardiology or Hospitalist
- Hobbies: spending time with friends/family, Netflix and working out
Primary Care Track
Khazi Nayeemuddin M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Mysore Medical College
- Hometown: Bombay (Mumbai)-India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist with further options of fellowship
- Hobbies: I enjoy painting in my leisure time, cricket and soccer
Chioma Ogala M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Nigeria
- Hometown: Anambra, Nigeria
- Career Goals: Hospitalist then fellowship.
- Hobbies: Travelling / visiting new places, watching movies, shopping
Primary Care Track
Keerti Pakala M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Osmania medical college, Hyderabad, India
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: Primary care
- Hobbies: Spending quality time with family and friends, cooking, watching tennis, traveling and gardening
Pawel Parafianowicz M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Las Vegas
- Career Goals: academic medicine
- Hobbies: sleeping, traveling, cruising, ethnic cuisines, swimming, teaching
Paul Park M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Reno, Nevada
- Career Goals: Currently undecided but has Interests in functional and preventative medicine
- Hobbies: Cycling, hiking, skiing, and CrossFit.
Rajeshwar Parmar M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Toronto, Canada
- Career Goals: Hospitalist with a possible Hospice and Palliative Care fellowship
- Hobbies: Working out, playing/watching sports, watching movies, bragging about Canada
Swapna Patel M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences
- Hometown: Bellary, Karnataka, India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Painting, Cooking
Wut Yi Phoo M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Medicine 1, Yangon
- Hometown: Yangon, Myanmar
- Career Goals: Hospitalist and also considering Fellowship after the Residency
- Hobbies: Yoga, Meditation, Happy Hours With Friends & Family, Reading Psychological Thriller Novels.
Steven Pinto M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India
- Hometown: Bombay, India
- Career Goals: Fellowship in Infectious Diseases / Rheumatology / Endocrinology / Geriatrics or Hospitalist medicine / Primary Care
- Hobbies: Exploring my surroundings, hanging with friends, trying out new cuisine, cooking, reading, sleeping, playing really amateur guitar, fishing, long drives with music
Sailaja Pisipati M.D., F.R.C.S (PGY2)
- Medical School: Andhra Medical College
- Hometown: Fort Collins, CO
- Career Goals: Interventional medicine with academic interest
- Hobbies: Traveling, hiking, quality time with family and friends
Tyler Primavera D.O. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
- Hometown: Provo, UT
- Career Goals: Hospitalist, considering a fellowship in Pulm/Critical Care
- Hobbies: Soccer, dirt biking, mountain biking, skateboarding, snowboarding, taming sloths and crafting with glitter
Primary Care Track
Elena Proshkina M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Kharkiv National Medical University
- Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
- Career Goals: Considering fellowship in an outpatient specialty.
- Hobbies: Trying new food, music, and art.
Abhinaya Rao M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore
- Hometown: Udupi, India
- Career Goals: Primary care/hospitalist or endocrinology fellowship
- Hobbies: Hiking, DIY projects, reading books and binge watching shows on Netflix
Casey Rendon M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Career Goals: Still deciding
- Hobbies: Traveling, working out, swimming, snowboarding, TV, and movies
Mohit Rishi M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: D.Y. Patil Medical College
- Hometown: Chicago, IL
- Career Goals: Either cardiology, gastroenterology, or rheumatology
- Hobbies: Traveling, basketball, running, swimming and anything that gets my HR above 100 bpm
Sara Robertson M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Reno, Nevada
- Career Goals: I am thinking possibly hospital medicine at this time, only time will tell :-)
- Hobbies: Spending time with beautiful family and reading a good book!
Jose Roig M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Chicago, IL
- Career Goals: Underserved Medicine, gastroenterology
- Hobbies: Computers, Bicycling, Music
Anjleen Saund M.D. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Windsor University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Toronto, Canada
- Career Goals: Primary Care, Preventative Medicine
- Hobbies: Dancing, interior design & DIY projects, cooking, baking, travelling, spending quality time with friends & family
J. Scott M.D. (PGY2)
Mokshya Sharma M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Queensland
- Hometown: Elkridge, Maryland
- Career Goals: Undecided but being passionate about whatever field I choose
- Hobbies: Traveling, foodie, cooking and hanging out with friends and family
Joanne Soliman M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Hometown: San Diego, CA
- Hobbies: Reading
Mohamed Taha M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Khartoum
- Hometown: Al Jazeera, Sudan
- Career Goals: Hospitalist followed by fellowship. Still deciding between Gastroenterology or Cardiology.
- Hobbies: Traveling, soccer and going to the movies
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Michael Ting M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Texas Tech El Paso
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Hiking, biking, and walking my dogs
Primary Care Track
Mark Ulanja M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Ghana Medical School
- Hometown: Accra, Ghana
- Career Goals: Primary care practice, considering fellowship in Hematology and Oncology or Gastrointestinal
- Hobbies: Watching and playing soccer, watching Hockey (my recent hobby), watching movies.
Preliminary
Brittni Usera (PGY1)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Medford, Oregon
- Career Goals: Radiation Oncology
- Hobbies: Anything outdoors: hiking, camping, running, swimming, biking, skiing, snow shoeing, paddle boarding, kayaking, rafting, and extreme sledding to name a few. I love spending as much quality time with friends and family as I can, eating my husband's wonderful cooking, drinking wine, and taking long walks on the beach.
Spencer Van Dyck M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Carson City, NV
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Legos
Seshagiri Veerapaneni M.D. (PGY2)
- Medical School: Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist/Fellowship
- Hobbies: Watching TV shows, Spending time with family, Snorkeling
Chief Resident
Shashank Vemala M.D.
Charles Willyard D.O. (PGY1)
- Medical School: Touro University Nevada
- Hometown: Barstow, California
- Career Goals: Gastroenterology Fellowship
- Hobbies: Playing guitar, recording music, reading, hiking, running, and traveling.
Playing guitar, recording music, reading, hiking, running, and traveling.
Thi Thi Win M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Medicine 1, Yangon
- Hometown: Aungban, Shan, Myanmar
- Career Goals: Hospitalist/fellowship
- Hobbies: Reading, meditation, hiking and traveling
Andrew Yatteau (PGY1)
- Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA
- Career Goals: Pulmonary/Critical Care, Sleep Medicine
- Hobbies: Cooking, Guitar & Ukulele, Karaoke, Snowboarding, The Great Outdoors
Htwe Yin M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Institute of Medicine Mandalay, Myanmar
- Hometown: Shan, Myanmar
- Career Goals: To be a primary care physician
- Hobbies: Swimming, cooking, playing basketball and badminton, watching comedy films