As the conclusion of their time at WMed draws closer, several resident physicians at the medical school will depart Kalamazoo this summer to continue their training in highly competitive fellowship programs. Take a look at where our graduating residents will be headed for fellowship training:
Emergency Medicine
- Rebecca Kusko, MD, MS – Medical Toxicology Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
- Alex VanWoerkom, DO – EMS Fellowship, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI
General Surgery
- Raisa Gao, DO – Colorectal Surgery Fellowship, Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA
- Neal Ferrin, DO – Advanced GI-MIS/Bariatric and Foregut Surgery Fellowship, Akron, OH
- Samuel Coster, DO – Vascular Surgery Fellowship, Midwest Aortic and Vascular Institute, Kansas City, MO
Internal Medicine
- Flavio Costa, MD – Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, Corewell Health, Grand Rapids, MI
- Katy Gerber, DO – Nephrology Fellowship, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
- Rohit Mekala, MBBS – Cardiology Fellowship, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
- Samir Mirza, MBBS – Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, Carilion Clinic/Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA
- Akshaya Ramaswami, MD – Nephrology/Critical Care Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Ibrahim Zahid, MD – Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Medicine-Pediatrics
- Naia McMillan-Castanares, MD – Sleep Medicine Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Dhruv Srinivasachar, MD – Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Orthopaedic Surgery
- Jordan Boivin, MD – Sports Medicine Fellowship, Houston Methodist, Houston Texas
- Michael Rahl, MD – Foot and Ankle Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT
- Kelsey Sheets, MD – Orthopaedic Spine Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Pediatrics
- A’sem Abu-Qamar, MD – Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship, Orlando Health, Orlando, FL
- Sara Farran, MBBS – Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
- Khaled Hamed Allah, MD – Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
- Daniella James, MD – Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Queens, NY
- Mohammad Tayliakh, MD – Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- Laura Van der Vynckt, MD – Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Psychiatry
- Joseph Keller, MD – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Monica Lee, MD – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
- Syeda Shah, MD – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
- Shamanthika Shelkay, MD – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA