Welcome New Postdocs, Postgrads, Fellows, Faculty & Staff! (August 2023)

The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome the following new staff, faculty, clinical fellows, postdoctoral associates, postdoctoral fellows, postgraduate associates, and postgraduate fellows who joined the team in July 2023:

Staff

• Nicole Bouranis (Geriatrics)
• Nalani Walker (General Medicine)

Faculty

• Queenie Ann Abad (General Medicine)
  
• Lyu Azbel (Infectious Diseases)
• Gabriel Barsotti (Nephrology)
• Cara Borelli (General Medicine)
• Ruth Dominguez (General Medicine)
• Edoardo Giannini (Digestive Diseases)
• Erica Heiman (General Medicine)
• Sang Taek Kim (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Benjamin Mba (General Medicine)
• Kathleen McAvoy (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Shelby Rosario (General Medicine)
• Marc Wiesehoefer (Medical Oncology)
• Shu Xing (Digestive Diseases)

Clinical Fellows

• Zachary Adirim (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Ofure Akhiwu (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Saieda Alleyne (Nephrology)
• Saad Alshihri (Nephrology)
• Laura Aponte Becerra (Nephrology)
  
• Matthew Ballenberger (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Kaitlyn Bennett (Palliative Care)
• Luisa Bernacet Rivera (Endocrinology & Metabolism)
• Alina Bischin (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Alexandra Boye-Doe (Hematology)
• William Bracamonte (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Sruti Brahmandam (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Greg Breuer (Hematology)
• Vesna Buntak (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Vruksha Cabral (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Andy Chen (General Medicine)
• Tayroot Chengsupanimit (Infectious Diseases)
• Arun Chutani (Nephrology)
• Timothy D'Amico (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Daniela Raffaela Galluzzo (Neuro Oncology)
• Emily Gao (Geriatrics)
• Theodore Getz (Hematology)
• Kimberly Glerum (Geriatrics)
• Daniela Goyes (Digestive Diseases)
• Blerta Green (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Christopher Gromisch (Digestive Diseases)
• Sami Hamdan (General Medicine)
• Salem Hernandez (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Gordon Hill (General Medicine)
• Isaac Ikwu (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Ysabel Ilagan-Ying (Digestive Diseases)
• Devora Isseroff (Hematology)
• Ruchira Khosavanna (Infectious Diseases)
• Maria Koshy (Infectious Diseases)
• Swathi Krishnan (Digestive Diseases)
• Luke Legakis (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Etienne Leveille (Hematology)
• Louis Levine (Digestive Diseases)
• Adrian Llama (Nephrology)
• Tyler Luu (Infectious Diseases)
• Krishnasai Madathanapalli (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Sharde McLeish (General Medicine)
• Joanna Moore (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Melissa Mosley (Palliative Care)
• Tony Nguyen (General Medicine)
• Yunan Nie (Hematology)
• Sean Pennetti (Neuro Oncology)
• Jacob Peterson (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Long Qian (Nephrology)
• Samender Randhawa (Geriatrics)
• Nisreen Rumman (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Andrew Segoshi (General Medicine)
• Rajal Sharma (Hematology)
• Shreyak Sharma (Digestive Diseases)
• Cristian Taborda (Hematology)
• Mary Thomas (Palliative Care)
• David Turco (Nephrology)
• Hyo-bin Um (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Xiao Wang (Hematology)
• Aldon Whitehead (Infectious Diseases)
• Margaret Xu (Geriatrics)
• Zachary Yochum (Hematology)
• Elena Zidan (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Chloe Zimmerman (Palliative Care)

Postdoctoral Associates

• Karam Al Jumaily (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Jiawei Dai (Medical Oncology)
• Nitzan Hasson (Medical Oncology)
• Mohammad Amir Mishan (Hematology)
• Liwen Ren (Hematology)
• Valentina Restrepo (Hematology)
• Noam Savion Gaiger (Medical Oncology)
• Farah Yasmin (Nephrology)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Doreen Agboh (General Medicine)
• Alissa Chen (General Medicine)
• Ashley Demory (General Medicine)
• Stefanie Gillson (General Medicine)
• Meredith Gwin (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Anand Habib (General Medicine)
• Hannah Maul-Newby (Hematology)

Postgraduate Associates

• Sabina Anderson (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Salma Abosabie (Hematology)
• Ainsley Baker (Digestive Diseases)
• Julian Barrantes (Medical Oncology)
• Eden Bramson (Hematology)
• Keith Calloway (Infectious Diseases)
• Brady Dolan (Infectious Diseases)
• Niki Francis (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Varsha Irvathraya (Hematology)
• Melani JURIĆ(Medical Oncology)
• Zubin Kenkare (Nephrology)
• Fallyn Kirlin (Digestive Diseases)
• Corrine Liu (General Medicine)
• Christian Loucks (Hematology)
• Emma McKinney (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• Tyson Meka (Infectious Diseases)
• Vivien Moritz (Medical Oncology)
• Stylianos Mysirlidis (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
• David Oliveros Gomez (Infectious Diseases)
• Matthew Pacheco (Hematology)
• Kyra Shelton (Nephrology)
• Amro Tambal (Hematology)
• Vivien Wambugu (General Medicine)

Postgraduate Fellows

• Domitilla Baccon (Hematology)
• Emma Busarello (Hematology)
• Minji Cho (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Yufang Ding (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Ignacio Garzón (Research Affairs)
• Makenzie Gazura (Nephrology)
• Yupei Zhang (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
• Yuan Zhao (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)