Welcome New Faculty, Fellows, and Staff (August 2025)

The Department of Internal Medicine welcomes the following new staff, faculty, and fellows who joined the team in July 2025.

• Cerella Craig (Endocrinology & Metabolism)

• Christopher El Mouhayyar (Nephrology)
• Jennifer Grom (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Jing Hughes (Endocrinology & Metabolism)
• Jeong Hun Jo (Endocrinology & Metabolism)
• Afarin Neishabouri (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Rafael Ricci de Azevedo (Digestive Diseases)
• Rayhan Saiani (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Mitsuaki Sawano (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Sowmya Sharma (Digestive Diseases)
• Jae Il Shin (Digestive Diseases)
• Xinxin (Katie) Zhu (Cardiovascular Medicine)

• Karim Abdel Jalil (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Asrar Ahmad (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Qusai Al Itter (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Mohammed Ali (Nephrology)
• Alexander Ambrosini (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Maamie Asamoah-Mensah (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Delores Bani (General Internal Medicine)
• Agastya Belur (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Diego Cabrera (Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology)
• Pablo Cantero-Schaffer (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Benjamin Chipkin (Digestive Diseases)
• Mandana Chitsazan (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Kendall Creed (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Natalie deQuillfeldt (General Internal Medicine)
• Helene DiGregorio (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Sotirios Doukas (Digestive Diseases)
• Ali Ershadi (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Elmira Esmaeilzadeh (Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology)
• Emily Fishman (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• John Fomeche (General Internal Medicine)
• Danni Fu (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Kelly Garcia (Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology)
• Blessen George (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Jheison Giraldo (Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology)
• Benjamin Goodman (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Hannah Goodrich (Digestive Diseases)
• Eleonore Grant (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Alyssa Grossen (Digestive Diseases)
• Paola Gudino (Nephrology)
• Elizabeth Hernandez-Chowdhari (Geriatrics)
• Jim Ho (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Tiffany Hu (Geriatrics)
• Nour Ismail (Infectious Diseases)
• Amit Jatana (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Yeraz Khachatoorian (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Christopher Kiang (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• So Jeong Lee (Infectious Diseases)
• Sophia Li (Infectious Diseases)
• Erica Marnet (Nephrology)
• Andrew Martinez (Infectious Diseases)
• Mariko Maxwell (Digestive Diseases)
• Martin Ogrodzinski (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Kasopefoluwa Oguntuyo (Digestive Diseases)
• Osama Okasha (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Fernando Onuchic (Nephology)
• Laura Onuchic (Nephrology)
• Madison Peregoy (Digestive Diseases)
• Jamie Ponmattam (Occupational Medicine)
• Christopher Radcliffe (Infectious Diseases)
• Akshaya Ramaswami (Nephrology)
• Andrea Ramos Vicente (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Riki Ranat (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Tejasav Sehrawat (Digestive Diseases)
• Jody Sharninghausen (Geriatrics)
• Anant Shukla (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Ravi Thakker (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Nikhil Thope (Occupational Medicine)
• Parth Trivedi (Digestive Diseases)
• Nicole Turturro (General Internal Medicine)
• Dimitrios Varrias (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Victor Vaz (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Khaing Wei (Nephrology)
• Mary White (Digestive Diseases)
• Albert Wu (Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology)

• Bo Kang (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Kristen Ramsey (Infectious Diseases)
• Xin Yang (Endocrinology & Metabolism)

• Rachel Bloom (Geriatrics)
• Caroline Richburg (General Internal Medicine)
• Jung Yoen Son (General Internal Medicine)
• Eric Sun (General Internal Medicine)
• Rachel Sweeney (General Internal Medicine)
• Shannon Townsend (Endocrinology & Metabolism)

• Alanna Butcher (Nephrology)
• Soyoung Cho (Nephrology)
• Alejandra Hagewood (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Cassandra Michel (General Internal Medicine)
• Zara Ranglin (Infectious Diseases)
• Omkara Rao (Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine)
• Abigail Reed (Nephrology)
• Sophia Ruser (Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology)
• Gloria Shen (Infectious Diseases)
• Therese Ziaks (General Internal Medicine)

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