Class of 2021
Dr. Margaret Furatdo is now starting her new position at Bristol County Medical Center, RI.
Class of 2021
Dr. Jesslin Abraham is a PGY-2 Internal Medicine resident at Kern Medical-UCLA. He recently presented “A Case of Syphilitic Aortitis Presenting as Severe Subacute Aortic Regurgitation” at the American College of Cardiology Conference in April 2024. He will be starting his fellowship Hypertension at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Class of 2016
Dr. Nandakumar Menon is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology and serves as the Associate Program Director in the Nuclear Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He began his role in July 2023. Additionally, he is actively involved in advocacy and research efforts with the American College of Nuclear Medicine and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
Class of 2014
Dr. Parikh specializes in peripheral arterial disease and limb salvage, with a special interest in complex vascular pathologies. He completed his vascular surgery fellowship at Tufts Medical Center and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, MA, after his general surgery residency at Staten Island University Hospital in New York. He is currently an independently contracted vascular surgeon in Virginia, serving as a Vascular Surgery Attending Physician and the Medical Director of the Vascular Laboratory at Maryview Medical Center, Bon Secours Health System.
Class of 2024
Dr. Sophia Bellegarde previously worked as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist in Laboratory Services at Downstate and held positions at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYP Methodist Med-Tech, and NYHHC’s Coney Island/South Brooklyn. She will begin a residency in pathology at Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in July.
Class of 2016
Dr. Thomas Kerestes will be completing his Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and will be moving to Salisbury, Maryland, where he has joined a practice, Peninsula Plastic Surgery.
Class of 2017
Dr. Ryan Raffel assumed new role as ObGyn Residency Program Director at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ.
Class of 2017
Dr. Christopher Repetsky, has joined the medical advisory board for the Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Foundation of America and holds a faculty appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine.
Class of 2016
Dr. Ali Kimyaghalam completed his fellowship at Staten Island University Hospital in New York and his residency at Western Reserve Health Education in Ohio. He has recently started his position in Vascular Surgery in Trumbull, Ohio.
Swaiman Singh, MD
Class of 2015
Dr. Swaiman Singh is now Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Tara Knisely, MD
Class of 2022
Dr. Tara Knisely assumes role of President of Emergency Medicine Residents Association of Michigan.
Philip Stone, MD
Class of 2022
Dr. Philip Stone assumes role of Treasurer of Emergency Medicine Residents Association of Michigan.
Alberto Marcelin, MD
Class of 2011
Dr. Marcelin is currently Assistant Dean of College of Medicine at University of Nebraska.
Jasmine Marcelin, MD
Class of 2011
Dr. Marcelin is an Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and Associate Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at University of Nebraska.
Dhaval Pau, MD
Class of 2014
Dr. Pau is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah. He has been serving as a commissioned officer in the US Army at the rank of Major since February 2023.
Mandeep Chatha, MD
Class of 2020
Dr. Chatha has completed her residency in Family Medicine at Tuscaloosa College of Community Health Sciences Program and has returned to Canada to start her practice.
Kevin Brown, MD
Class of 2016
Dr. Brown has matched into Surgery at the Mayo clinic. He attained fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery / Bariatric Surgery at Yale, New Haven and is now joining as Assistant Professor of Robotic and Bariatric surgery at Loyola University, Chicago.
Gautham K. Upadhya, MD, MPH
Class of 2014
Dr. Upadhya is now a member of the Cardiovascular Department at the Richmond Health Network. He completed his Internal medicine residency program at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn where he also served his final year as Chief Resident. Dr. Upadhya completed his Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center rotating through Richmond University Medical Center’s Cardiovascular Department.
Thara Nazerath, MD
Class of 2016
Dr. Nazerath has completed her residency in Psychiatry and is now with the California Correctional Health Care Services, Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, CA.
Kevin Haas, MD
Class of 2009
Dr. Haas is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is also involved with human and animal studies related to the early diagnosis of lung cancer and pulmonary nodules.
Nathalie Van der Rijst, MD
Class of 2017
Dr. Van der Rijst is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ.
Swaiman Singh, MD
Class of 2015
Dr. Singh has been selflessly serving his home village in India during the pandemic. He returned this year to continue his fellowship, and has been accepted to Mayo Clinic, Rochester as a 3rd year fellow in Cardiology.
Dr. Singh has been offered a position to be an advanced fellow in their heart failure and transplant team. He is also clinical instructor for medicine at Mayo Clinic.
Parija Sharedalal, MD
Class of 2016
Dr. Sharedalal recently completed her cardiology fellowship and is now an interventional cardiology attending at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset.
Anjan Marella, MD
Class of 2015
Dr. Marella is now Department Chair of Saratoga Hospital with a university affiliation with Albany Medical College.
Nuwan Gunawardhana, MD
Class of 2017
Dr. Gunawardhana is now Assistant Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Hospital Epidemiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Tani Malhotra, MD
Class of 2013
Dr. Malhotra is now double certified in Maternal-Fetal Medicine Subspeciality by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Kirill Alekseyev, MD
Class of 2014
Dr. Alekseyev has recently become certified in Brain Injury Medicine by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is now Medical Director of PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Dover in Delaware.
Robert Macek, MD
Class of 2015
Dr. Macek has recently become the Program Director for the Family Medicine Residency at University at Buffalo. He is also Family Medicine Chief of Service for Kaleida Health organization.
Raghda Bchech, MD
Class of 2018
Bayhealth recently announced the addition of Raghda Bchech, MD, to Bayhealth Family Medicine, Dover. She joins a talented team that includes family medicine physicians.
Melanie Nukala, MD
Class of 2012
Dr. Nukala is now Chair of Vascular Surgery at Advent Health North Pinellas in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Zachary Fallon, MD
Class of 2016
Dr. Fallon joined Advanced Bone & Joint in 2022. He is a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, who completed a North American Spine Society accredited fellowship in interventional spine and musculoskeletal medicine.
Mayank Gonga, MD
Class of 2017
Dr. Gogan is now a Cardiac Attending and General Anesthesiologist at Yuma General Medical Center in Yuma, Arizona.
Jason Nehmad, MD
Class of 2010
Dr. Nehmad had been promoted to VP/Chief Medical Officer of Southern Ocean Medical Center (Hackensack Medical System).
Eugene Perepada, MD
Class of 2011
Dr. Perepada is moving to Assistant Director of ER at Richmond University Medical Center in New York.
W. Tyler Whitmire, MD
Class of 2018
New York Health (NYHealth) welcomes W. Tyler Whitmire, MD. NYHealth, the premier practice of primary and specialty care, is proud to announce the addition of W. Tyler Whitmire, MD.
Nicklaus Bradley, MD
Class of 2013
Dr. Bradley is Chief of Staff for Harbor Beach Community Hospital System, as well as a physician in the extended care unit.
Harish Devineni, MD
Class of 2014
Dr. Devineni, Assistant Professor, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston answered some frequently asked questions.
Frantz E. Felix, MD
Class of 2009
Dr. Frantz E. Felix, FAAFP has been included in Marquis Who’s Who.
Khushwant Kaur, MD
Class of 2018
The Parkview Physicians Group and the Family Medicine team in South Whitley has welcomed a new physician to the office.
Laurianne Haynes, MD
Class of 2017
Family medicine physician Dr. Laurianne Haynes is the newest addition to the Bay health Primary Care Smyrna team
Regina Krel, MD
Class of 2010
Dr. Regina Krel comes to Hackensack University Medical Center after previously directing headache care in a neurological group practice in Boston
Harithsa S. Asuri, MD
Class of 2016
Dr. Asuri was recognized by Continental Who’s Who for his work in the medical field and in acknowledgment of his work at BrightView Health.