Department of Internal Medicine
Current Residents
Department of Internal Medicine
2021 – 2022
All Residents
Magin Alexander M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Government Medical College, Kozhikode
- Hometown: Kerala, India
- Career Goals: Fellowship/Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Reading, Music, Astronomy
Sekani J. Allen MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison WI
- Hometown: Racine, WI
- Career Goals: Hematology/Oncology
- Hobbies: Music, Spoken Word Poetry, Cooking, Video Games, Movie/Game Nights, Drawing, Weight Lifting, Social Activism
Chief Resident
Munadel Awad MD
- Completed Residency Programs: Internal Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno NV
- Medical School: Universidad Central del Caribe
- Undergraduate College: Montclair State University, Montclaire NJ
- Undergraduate Degree: Biology
- Hometown: Wayne NJ
- Hobbies: Silverback Gorilla Wrangling, thinking of new hobbies, alchemy
Valery C. Batimba Bessi MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Meharry Medical College, Nashville TN
- Hometown: Yaounde, CMR / Huntsville, AL
- Career Goals: Hospital / Critical Care
- Hobbies: Plane spotting, Tennis, Traveling, Soccer (PSG fan)
Bryce Beutler M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: San Diego, CA
- Career Goals: Radiology
- Hobbies: Reading, Movies
Sri Harsha Boppana M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Dr. PSI Medical College
- Hometown: Mountain House, CA
- Career Goals: Primary Care/Hospitalist/Fellowship
- Hobbies: Bowling, Watching Movies, Board Games
Tyson Burningham MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis MN
- Hometown: Polson, MT
- Career Goals: Connect with, and care for, patients and families with compassion; Advance the health of Native populations
- Hobbies: Napping, hiking, polar dips
Gayathri Chalikonda MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown OH
- Hometown: Atlanta, GA
- Career Goals: To become a great physician
- Hobbies: Running, reading
Vincent Chuang M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: American University of the Caribbean
- Hometown: Pomona, CA
- Career Goals: Primary Care
- Hobbies: Jogging, Food Adventures, Cooking
Mihir G. Dave M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: M.P. Shah Government Medical College
- Hometown: Gujarat, India
- Career Goals: Primary Interest in Cardiology and Gastroenterology
- Hobbies: Outdoor activities, exploring new places, watching movies
Anita Dhulipalli M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Kasturba Medical College
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist or Endocrinology Fellowship
- Hobbies: Dancing, Board Games, Adventure Sports, Cooking
Jasmine Ghuman M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: M.G.M. Medical College, Aurangabad
- Hometown: Patiala
- Career Goals: To be a compassionate and skillful physician, learning and serving one day at a time
- Hobbies: Travelling, Music, Spending time with my family and dogs
Vadim Gladwill M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: American University of the Caribbean
- Hometown: Volgograd, Russia-Dayton, NV
- Career Goals: Hospitalist or Fellowship
- Hobbies: Hiking, working out, spending time with family and friends, sporting events and concerts, traveling and cooking.
Liron Gokovski MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City UT
- Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
- Career Goals: Intensive-Care/cardiology
- Hobbies: Alpinism, Paragliding, Backpacking, and Reading
Ahmed Hanfy M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Ain Shams University
- Hometown: Cairo, Egypt
- Career Goals: To become and exceptional caring physician
- Hobbies: Hiking, soccer, taking long road trips
Syed Hasan M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Khyber Medical College
- Hometown: Peshawar, Pakistan
- Career Goals: Want to be a compassionate Physician. Exploring different fellowship options.
- Hobbies: To be a compassionate Physician. Exploring different fellowship options.
Anna Hollen M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: UNR Med
- Hometown: Reno, NV
- Career Goals: Radiology
- Hobbies: Cooking, hiking, video games
Fahd Hussain MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX
- Hometown: Roscoe, IL
- Career Goals: Primary care vs hospital medicine vs fellowship TBD, involvement in global health; teaching medical students and residents
- Hobbies: Learning languages, playing basketball, running, swimming, eating delicious food
Ryan Johnson MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Vancouver, WA
- Career Goals: Anesthesiology
- Hobbies: Exploring Tahoe, skiing, snowboarding, recreational softball, basketball, foreign languages
Yo Sup Keum MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan TX
- Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
- Career Goals: still deciding
- Hobbies: skiing, hiking, traveling, weight training
Sultan Khan MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia MO
- Hometown: St. Louis, MO
- Career Goals: Still deciding
- Hobbies: Reading, watching soccer, and board games.
Rajeswar Kunchakuri M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Gandhi Medical College
- Hometown: Hyderabad
- Career Goals: Internist/Primary Care
- Hobbies: Swimming, Snorkeling, spending time with family and friends.
Nikita Lopez M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Hometown: Cochin, Kerala
- Career Goals: Fellowship in Endocrinology
- Hobbies: Listening to music, Bicycling
John Lung MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock TX
- Hometown: Wilmington, DE
- Career Goals: Undecided
- Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, exploring the great outdoors, reading nonfiction, cooking, traveling
Robert Luong MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO
- Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA
- Career Goals: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
- Hobbies: Electric guitar, Bodybuilding, Archery, Surfing
Konstantin Malley M.D., Ph.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
- Hometown: Fresno, CA
- Career Goals: Fellowship in Gastroenterology
- Hobbies: Hiking, Snowboarding, Tennis, Cycling, Travel
Ishan Naik MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland OH
- Hometown: Riverside, CA
- Career Goals: Hematology / Oncology
- Hobbies: Gardening, Martial Arts, Astronomy, Meditation, Vegetarian Cuisine
Sylvia Nicholis MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine, West Indies, Grenada
- Hometown: Bayside, NY
- Career Goals: Undecided, possibly lifestyle medicine
- Hobbies: hiking, tennis, cooking,
Kavitha Nutakki M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Siddhartha Medical College
- Hometown: Gudivada, AP, India
- Career Goals: Competent and compassionate physician providing quality of care for my patient.
- Hobbies: Spending time with my family and friends, trying out new restaurants, cooking.
Shawn Pakravan MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Chicago Medical School, North Chicago IL
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Career Goals: Undecided
- Hobbies: Shopping, cooking, traveling, yoga, working out
Juan L. Palacios M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa
- Hometown: Jahuara, Sinaloa, Mexico
- Career Goals: Hospital Medicine/Primary Care
- Hobbies: Running, Road cycling, Backpacking, Hiking, spending time with my family
Chief Resident
Michael Philippone DO
- Completed Residency Programs: Internal Medicine, Unity Health, Searcy AR
- Medical School: Touro University, Vallejo CA
- Undergraduate College: Ithaca College, Ithaca NY
- Undergraduate Degree: Computer Science
- Research Interests: Pulmonary/Critical Care, Mechanical Ventilation, Sepsis, Fluid Rescuscitation
- Hometown: Rochester NY
- Career Goals: Pulmonary/Critical Care
- Hobbies: Cycling, Beer Snobbery, Podcasts (RadioLab, EMCrit, IBCC, Curbsiders), Hiking
Lucy Potter MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Career Goals: Hospitalist/Transplant Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Home renovations, playing video games, playing with my cat
Terrence Prasad M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Midwestern University, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
- Career Goals: 50% Hospitalist, 50% Specialty TBD
- Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking, Golfing, Video Games, Football – Especially College USC Trojans!
Pooja Reddy M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Katuri Medical College, India
- Hometown: Andhra Pradesh, India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist/Primary Care Physician
- Hobbies: Watching TV shows, spending time with family, Reading Novels and Traveling
Nick Rose M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University Of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
- Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
- Career Goals: To be a compassionate Radiologist
- Hobbies: Big game hunting, Disciple of the church of gains and long walks on the beach
Haritha Sri Sai Gaddipati M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences
- Hometown: Hyderbad, India
- Career Goals: Hospitalist, Endocrinology Fellowship
- Hobbies: Dancing, Hiking, travelling, watching Movies
Ramamahesh Seeni MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: George Washington University, Washington DC
- Hometown: Milpitas, CA
- Career Goals: Hospitalist, Hospital Administrator
- Hobbies: Basketball, Golf, Soccer, DC and Marvel comics/TV shows
Mohammad Sheikh M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: St. George’s University
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Career Goals: Cardiac Critical Care
- Hobbies: Spending time with my wife and kids
Deepak Soor M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: St. George’s University
- Hometown: Sacramento, CA
- Career Goals: Want to provide best care possible to my patients by building strong physician-patient relationship
- Hobbies: I love to travel, playing cricket and volleyball, also like to spend time with family and friends
Sachin Sreenivasan MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso TX
- Hometown: Amarillo, TX
- Career Goals: Fellowship, undecided specialty
- Hobbies: Basketball, Football, Hiking, Trying New Restaurants
Sruthi Sundaram MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati OH
- Hometown: Stow, OH
- Career Goals: global health, hospital medicine, academic medicine, teaching
- Hobbies: Hiking, singing, producing music
Kashmala Syed M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Frontier Medical College
- Hometown: Pakistan
- Career Goals: Primary Care Physician
- Hobbies: Swimming, Hiking
Moutaz Taha M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Gezira, Sudan
- Hometown: Khartoum, Sudan
- Career Goals: Pul/Critical Care vs. Cardiology
- Hobbies: Real Football (Soccer), Vollyball
Mark Joseph Torres M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: University of Washington
- Hometown: Manila, Philippines
- Career Goals: Hospitalist
- Hobbies: Reading
Ngoc Khuyen Tran MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Sint Maarten
- Hometown: Memphis TN
- Career Goals: Primary Care, Addiction Medicine
- Hobbies: Spending time in the sun meandering through the nooks and crannies of a city; Plants
Adam Tsen MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock TX
- Hometown: Seguin, Texas
- Career Goals: Considering a fellowship
- Hobbies: Meme master, video games, Pokemon master, nap enthusiast, eating food, playing with ALL dogs, and hanging with friends
Jacqueline Valadez D.O. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
- Career Goals: Undecided
- Hobbies: Cooking, Travel, Yoga
Naresh Kumar Veerabattini M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- Career Goals: Pulmonary/Critical Care
- Hobbies: Cricket, Soccer, Badminton, Hiking, Chess, Movies
George Velasco MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Sint Maarten
- Hometown: Long Beach, CA
- Career Goals: Underserved Populations, Medical Education, Ringside Medicine
- Hobbies: Boxing, Punk Rock, Ribeye
Adriana Walsh M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine
- Hometown: Chandler, AZ
- Career Goals: Hospitalist Medicine
- Hobbies: Aerobics, Dancing, Traveling, Learning new languages, Qigong, Bonding with family and my dog.
George Wennerberg MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
- Hometown: Hagerstown, MD
- Career Goals: Unsure, but open to anything. Considering a fellowship.
- Hobbies: Road biking, running, swimming, hiking, chess, reading history books, watching movies, and spending time with my wife.
Sakshi Yadav M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research
- Hometown: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Career Goals: Inclined towards Gastroenterology
- Hobbies: Cooking, Reading, Swimming, Organizing, DIY Projects
Omer F. Yavuz M.D. (PGY3)
- Medical School: Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine
- Hometown: Houston, TX
- Career Goals: Gastroenterology
- Hobbies: Electric-Acoustic and Bass player. Basketball, web development
Richard Xiran Yu MD (PGY2)
- Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis IN
- Hometown: Honolulu, HI
- Career Goals: Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
- Hobbies: Hiking, US National Parks, tennis, video games, skiing, and food!
