The Yale Department of Psychiatry on March 15 announced its 2024 Match Class for the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program.
The 20 new residents join the department from 15 medical schools. They hail from hometowns within 11 different states and five countries. Collectively they speak 12 languages. Ten have attained additional degrees, including master’s degrees of sciences, public health, business administration, and doctoral degrees.
Beyond these accomplishments, the incoming residents bring a broad range of hobbies, passions, and life experiences which include athletic pursuits (varsity swimming, circus fitness, competitive figure skating, scuba diving); innovative work within podcast production; entrepreneurship and business development; teaching and mentorship; enthusiasm for anime, crochet, building Lego, latte art, and cooking; and artistic talents within art, music, and dance including playing Setar, playing piano, and dancing ballet folklorico.
The new residents are:
Megan Aguilera, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Shante Barnes, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Sanam Bhatia, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Kapil Chauhan, MD, Howard University College of Medicine
Rayne Dhana, MD, MBA, Morehouse School of Medicine
Samuel Dienel, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, (Neuroscience Research Training Program)
Eleni Friligkou, MD, MSc, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Neuroscience Research Training Program)
Clara Guo, MD, MBA, Yale School of Medicine
Rachel Hennein, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine (Solnit Integrated Training Program
Noa Katz Shroitman, MD, Sackler School of Medicine
Harun Khan, MBBS, MPH, Imperial College School of Medicine
Victoria Kozar, MD, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Ariyaneh Nikbin, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Robert Palmer, MD, Yale School of Medicine (PGY-2)
Yasmin Rawlins, MD, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (PGY-2)
Alysha Rose, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Yasna Rostam Abadi, MD, MPH, Tehran School of Medicine Sciences
Joshua Tanner, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Hui Yang, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Neuroscience Research Training Program)
Eric Zheng, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine (Neuroscience Research Training Program)