Welcome New Staff, Faculty, Fellows, Postgrads (August 2022)

The Department of Internal Medicine would like to officially welcome the following new staff, faculty, fellows, and postgrads who started during July 2022:

Staff

• Toni Boulay (General Medicine)
• Kiana McDavid (General Medicine)
• Hannah Melchinger (Infectious Diseases)
• Jason Neville (Administration)
• Molly Willeford (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Si Zhou (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Faculty

• Leila Alizadeh, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Samuel Burton, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Harjinder Chowdhary, MBBS, MD (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Sarah Goldstein, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Tara Herbert, MS, PA-C (Physician Associate Program)
• Wei Jiang, PhD (Digestive Diseases)
• Gyanprakash Ketwaroo, MD, MSc (Digestive Diseases)
• Akhil Khosla, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Pui Lee, PhD (Infectious Diseases)
• August Lindmark, MD (General Medicine)
• Andrea Roberts, MD (General Medicine)
• Marc Samsky, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Evgeny Shkolnik, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Nikhil Sikand, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Louise Wang, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Nate Wood, MD (General Medicine)

Fellows

• Hisham Almomen, MRCP (Digestive Diseases)
• Suveen Angraal, MBBS (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Hailey Baker, MD, MS (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Peter Barelli, MD (General Medicine)
• Simone Blaser, MD (Infectious Diseases)
• Colin Brien, MD (Geriatrics)
• Thiru Chinnadurai, MD, MRCP (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Nicolas Chong Lugon, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Ella Christoph (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Sunny Chung (Digestive Diseases)
• Santiago Clocchiatti- Tuozzo, MD (Geriatrics)
• Dhara Dave, MD, MBChB (Nephrology)
• Anne Dowton, MD (General Medicine)
• Ghenekaro Esin, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Mario Felix, MD (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Shifa Gandhi, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Makenzie Gazura, MD (Nephrology)
• Imran Ghare, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Kyle Gobeil, DO, MSC (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Josephine Granner, PhD (General Medicine)
• Stephanie Hart, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Erica Heiman, MD (General Medicine)
• Nora Hernandez Garcilazo, MD (Nephrology)
• Andrew Hong, MD (Occupational Medicine)
• Christine Hsueh, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Nadeen Hussain, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Marwah Ibrahem, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Nadir Ijaz, MD, FAAP (General Medicine)
• William Jackson, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Dhruv Jani, MD (Geriatrics)
• Crystal Jobson, MD (Nephrology)
• Lawrence Kogan, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Kullatham Kongpakpaisarn, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Robert Lam, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Brandon Lee, MD/PhD (Infectious Diseases)
• Matthew Lempel, MD (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Jane Liao, MD (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Amanda Lindo, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Jeet Lund, DO (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Francisco Machiavello Roman, MD (Infectious Diseases)
• Oyunbileg Magvanjav, MD/PhD (Endocrinology & Metabolism)
• Carlos Matute-Martinez, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Abigail McDonald, MD (Occupational Medicine)
• Puja Mehta, DO (Nephrology)
• Kenechukwu Mezue, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Deanna Nardella, MD (General Medicine)
• Duc Nguyen, PhD (Infectious Diseases)
• Abdulelah Nuqali, MBBS (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Adaora Okoli, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases)
• Mohammed Osman, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Dalia Owda, MD (General Medicine)
• Lucero Paredes, MD (General Medicine)
• Shan Parikh, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Poghni Peri-Okonny, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Jeremy Puthumana, MD (Digestive Diseases)
• Ravneet Randhawa, MD (Geriatrics)
• Madelyn Renzetti, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Darve Robinson, MD, MS (General Medicine)
• Avraham Rosenberg (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Victor Roy, MD, PhD (General Medicine)
• Amer Sayed, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Leah Schecter, MD (Geriatrics)
• Michelle Shankar, MD (General Medicine)
• Shruti Shankar, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Tiantian Shi, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Jayakumar Sreenivasan, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Narat Srivali, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Elizabeth Tarras, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Camila Trejo-Paredes, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Nazanin Vaghari Mehr, MD (Nephrology)
• Alexander Walker, PhD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Katelyn Wong, MD (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Cate Xie, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Postgraduate & Postdoctoral Associates

• Selma Abouneameh (Infectious Diseases)
• Kaleigh Albert (General Medicine)
• Melissa Borker (Infectious Diseases)
• Avi Cohen (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Tomás Correa Gaviria (Infectious Diseases)
• Vlada Dubovik (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Lucy Duran Camacho (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Kanika Garg (Nephrology)
• Luzan JadKarim (Infectious Diseases)
• Hahram Kim (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Adan Lepe (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Afarin Neishabouri (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• William Odell (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Yulu Pan (Geriatrics)
• Hailey Reisert (Infectious Diseases)
• Mary Staunton (Nephrology)
• Xueqi Wang (Geriatrics)
• Kisung You (Digestive Diseases)

Welcome to the Department of Internal Medicine and Yale School of Medicine!