Residents
With 60 residents (20 per class), we are a large but tight-knit family. While the majority of us hail from the Northeast, we also attract amazing applicants from other regions of the country and Canada, which of course makes us even nicer, eh?
We are an incredibly inclusive group with broad diversity of races, ethnicities and sexual orientations. We not only work well with each other, but we have fun and support one another through the tough times of residency. We work hard, but we also play hard!
Chief Residents
Kevin Molyneux, MD
Undergraduate: Loyola University Maryland
Med School: Thomas Jefferson University
Interests: Obsessing over Philly sports, playing the piano and basketball, aimlessly wandering the city listening to Spotify, social EM, Latino immigrant health
Michelle Safferman, MD
Undergraduate: University of Maryland
Med School: Cooper Medical School
Interests: Running, lacrosse, exploring new cities, conquering baking/cooking challenges, climbing, chocolate chip cookies, national parks
Jasleen Singh, MD
Undergraduate: University of Virginia
Med School: Eastern Virginia University
Interests: Baking, traveling, 80s music, watching The Office on repeat, everyone at this residency besides Kunal, carrot cake
Samuel Sondheim, MD
Undergraduate: University of Maryland
Med School: Quinnipiac University
Graduate School: Quinnipiac School of Business
Interests: Go Yankees (Bronx native!!), country music, especially concerts; eating, hanging with my wife and daughter, EMS
PGY-3 Residents
Kunal Garg, MD
Undergraduate: Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Med School: Weill Cornell Medicine
Interests: Playing/watching/reading about sports, board games, jackbox games, FIFA/Madden/COD Zombies, Flappy Bird, guitar, sleeping, people from California who went to Tulane, crosswords, consistently winning giant prizes at Dave and Buster’s
John Hauber, MD
Undergraduate: Penn State University
Med School: Temple University
Interests: sports, traveling, hiking, reading, trying new things, Pittsburgh, practicing German, aerospace medicine, ultrasound
Saad Kamal, MD
Undergraduate: New York Institute of Technology
Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: Biking and exploring NYC, backpacking through Europe, crying about the NY Knicks, hiking (finished Everest Base Camp trek after Match!)
Dhvani Kothari, MD
Undergraduate: Case Western Reserve University
Med School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
Interests: dancing, cooking quick instant pot recipes, exploring food festivals, netflix, lauv
David Lam, MD
Undergraduate: Rutgers University
Med School: Drexel University
Interests: fitness/nutrition, traveling, going to the beach/pool, cooking, basketball, movies, old school hip hop, my pet rabbits
Stephan Lestin, MD
Undergraduate: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Med School: New York Medical College
Interests: Professional Netflix binge watcher, all things related to brunch and happy hour, quirky pop up museums, hip-hop music, anime, GoT, Thai food, traveling, food festivals, community activism and mentorship, diversity and inclusion, health care disparities, and medical education
Rishi Malik, MD, MS
Undergraduate: University of Western Ontario, Canada
Graduate School: Queens University, Canada
Med School: Stony Brook University
Interests: Woodworking, eating, playing sports, happy hours, dogs
Jace Morganstein, MD
Undergraduate: University of Michigan
Med School: Cooper Medical School
Interests: Traveling, concert going, college sports (Go Blue), bar exploring, spaghetti with ketchup on it (it’s good ok???), taking advantage of living in this amazing city.
Aaron Mueller, MD
Undergraduate: University of Southern California
Med School: Tulane University
Interests: Re-watching The Office, fitness/nutrition but also all-you-can-eat sushi, doing anything outside/rec sports, complaining about the GOT ending, everyone at this residency besides Kunal, N64 Mariokart/Supersmash, long walks on the beach, world peace.
Caroline Rago, MD, MS
Undergraduate: Lehigh University
Med School: SUNY Downstate
Graduate School: Masters in Healthcare Systems Engineering, Lehigh University
Interests: Traveling, cheesy rom coms, cheesy bread, my dogs, anything Christmas, the beach, concerts, the Yankees, happy hour
Dustin Sahraie, MD
Undergraduate: NYU
Med School: Stony Brook University
Interests: Hiking, exploring the city, cooking, trying new food, jazz, playing the saxophone, banjo (no, I’m not that good), crime podcasts, POCUS, critical care medicine.
Ryan Schlobach, MD
Undergraduate: University of Virginia
Med School: Eastern Virginia University
Interests: Traveling, happy hour, rooftop bars, the beach, running, hiking, the Yankees, THE 2019 NCAA Basketball National Champions: Virginia Cavaliers (go Hoos!)
Erik Sherman, MD
Undergraduate: NYU
Med School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Interests: Cooking, craft beer, old movies, hiking, fishing, indie music, the NY Times crossword, EMS & medical education. Diehard Giants/Yankees/Devils fan.
Brian Sumner, MD
Undergraduate: University of Maryland
Med School: George Washington University
Interests: Being a tourist in my own backyard, playing basketball and tossing a frisbee, baking sourdough bread, EMS systems and critical care medicine.
Daryl Tiong, MD
Undergraduate: University of Waterloo
Med School: Wayne State University
Interests: Writing music, pyrography, cooking new recipes, boardgames, deal hunting, photography, St. Luke's elevators, traveling, rock climbing
Zilin Zhou, MD
Undergraduate: Rutgers New Brunswick
Med School: Cooper Medical School
Interests: toxicology, event medicine, cooking, eating, EDM, board games, the 76ers, and traveling
PGY-2 Residents
Andrew Branstetter, MD
Undergraduate: Ohio State University
Med School: Ohio State University
Interests: Tennis, cooking (...eating), traveling, watching Survivor, board games, wandering around NYC pretending not to be lost, watching Michigan lose
Chris DeMatteo, MD
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Med School: UCLA
Interests: Traveling, cooking, baseball, kombucha, aerospace medicine, and wellness
Eddie Dranoff, MD
Undergraduate: Washington University in St. Louis
Med School: NYU
Interests: Sports (Yankees, Giants, Knicks), binge watching tv shows on Netflix, board games, exploring NYC, and traveling.
Nicole Eiden, MD
Undergraduate: NYU
Med School: New York Medical College
Interests: Traveling, the beach, dogs, tacos, horror movies, family and friends, Magnolia Bakery bread pudding, hiking, trying to keep my house plants alive
Ilana Faleck, MD
Undergraduate: Hunter College
Med School: New York Medical College
Interests: reading, cooking, baking, swimming, family and friends, good coffee
Arthur Fu, MD
Undergraduate: Boston University
Med School: Boston University
Interests: Dogs, cats, and animals in general. Would love to backpack in more countries. Shopping in H-mart. Netflix, and more Netflix. Board games. Mahjong (Taiwanese style). POCUS and medical education.
Evan Gui, MD
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Med School: Rutgers RWJ
Interests: Soccer, traveling, anything outdoors, the Office, dogs, tacos
Aneury Hernandez, MD, MS
Undergraduate: University of Michigan
Med School: Stony Brook University
Graduate School: Masters in Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University
Interests: Pretty much anything pre-pandemic, The Knicks, cheap pizza you can fold, podcasts on the train, video games or anime when there's time and Parks and Rec
Maheen Javaid, MD
Undergraduate: Rutgers University
Med School: Rutgers RWJ
Interests: cake decorating, traveling, cooking, cats, hiking, coffee, discovering new music
Khushmit Kaur, MD
Undergraduate: Columbia University
Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: Running by scenic rivers, coffee shops, taking pictures of sunsets, cooking, reading memoirs
Audrey Kelly, MD
Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame
Med School: NYU
Interests: Distance running, eating for distance running, horror movies, true crime, my cat Jones, bullying Grant
John Kim, MD
Undergraduate: Dartmouth University
Med School: SUNY Downstate
Interests: All things basketball, EDM, Korean TV, wine and paint nights, making the perfect meme for every situation
Junwoo Kim, MD
Undergraduate: NYU
Med School: Stony Brook University
Interests: Critical care, ultrasound, administration, medical education, personal finance, fishkeeping, aquascaping, general fitness, developing culinary skills, discovering restaurants, exploring the city, making bad jokes
Grant Libra, MD
Undergraduate: Truman State University
Med School: University of Kansas
Interests: the perfect .gif response, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, wakeboarding, cable management, wumbology, esports, skiing, raging against the machine, NYC trash collection, fighting bullies, avoiding the barbershop
Liam Rawson, MD
Undergraduate: Florida State University
Med School: University of Florida
Interests: Surfing, ultimate frisbee, running, any and all pickup sports, the Jacksonville Jaguars, being "Florida Man," beating my co-residents in Mariokart/Super Smash Bros, petting animals that give me allergies, exploring the city with falafel in hand.
Maggie Scimeca, MD
Undergraduate: University of Chicago
Med School: New York Medical College
Interests: Rock climbing, running, hiking (especially in the Adirondack Mountains), cooking and eating everything
Wes Spiro, MD
Undergraduate: University of Pennsylvania
Med School: Tufts University
Interests: Taco nights, instapot cooking, obscure Harry Potter references, drag bars, dachshunds, traveling with the hubby, hanging at Sheep Meadow with my awesome SLR class!
Young Suh, MD, MS
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Med School: University of Massachusetts
Graduate School: Harvard University
Interests: Yoga, cycling, scuba, historical fiction novels, sunsets, produce shopping, potluck dinners, social medicine, and disease and injury prevention.
Ryan Thompson, MD
Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University
Med School: NYU
Interests: Carpentry, nature walks, Chelsea Piers ice hockey, baseball, reading about new tech/engineering, gardening, biking around NYC
Dennis Wang, MD, MPH
Undergraduate: Yale University
Med School: Yale University
Graduate School: Masters in Public Health, Yale University
Interests: Disaster medicine, immigrant health, infectious disease, hiking, road trips, documentaries, breeding axolotls, fancying pigeons
PGY-1 Residents
Rez Atras, MD
Undergraduate: University of Alabama
Med School: University of Alabama
Interests: Goofing around, getting lost in Wikipedia, laying down, comedy, sharing obscure trivia with my co-residents against their will, CrossFit, drawing, eating, exploring, general mischief, wait what were we talking about again
Ilana Bandler, MD
Undergraduate: Binghamton University
Med School: SUNY Upstate
Interests: My dogs or anyone else's, everything true crime related, board games, YouTube deep dives, soccer, the beach, traveling, TV, painting, spending time with my friends and family, EMS
Nicholas Becker, MD
Undergraduate: Washington University in St. Louis
Med School: Washington University in St. Louis
Interests: Water polo, fitness, Dn'D (or any ttrpg), reading Sci fi/Fantasy, trying new foods, metal concerts and discovering new music, med ed
Kira Brayan, MD
Undergraduate: University of West Georgia
Med School: NYU
Interests: charcuterie boards, cooking/ baking, creating whiskey sour converts, board games, beach days, taking too many photos of my cat sleeping, LGBTQ health, health disparities
Jake Canavan, MD
Undergraduate: SUNY Geneseo
Med School: University of Buffalo
Interests: the Buffalo Bills, pick up basketball, trivia, pointless fact checking, hip hop, analyzing The Sopranos, cooking new things, hiking, lifting, reading about history and still playing Minecraft
Oscar Carrillo, MD
Undergraduate: Brown University
Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: playing fútbol, running, chess, playing the piano, whiskey, doggies, hip-hop, salsa, and napping
Daniel Choo, MD
Undergraduate: Brown University
Med School: University of Virginia
Interests: Dance (open-style choreography), kbbq, carbs in all its beautiful, majestic forms, fried chicken, anime/manga, working out, beers/happy hours, existential crises’, navigating the thin line between self-loathing and dark humor, aging to be like Uncle Iroh in the future
Ed Diaz, MD
Undergraduate: UNC Chapel Hill
Med School: UNC Chapel Hill
Interests: Curating the perfect meme collection, cycling (not very fast), any and all video games, all UNC sports (go Tarheels!), craft beer, trying every hard seltzer, hiking, weight lifting, snowboarding, not running.
Gabbi Kamalani, MD
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Med School: Tufts University
Interests: The beach, going to concerts, farmers markets, video games, anime, sleep, happy hour, and painting!
Adam Lieber, MD
Undergraduate: Columbia University
Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: Playing jazz piano, the NBA (go Nets), political podcasts, dreaming of competing on Jeopardy, bird watching in Central Park, discovering the best pizza in NYC, and nature hikes
Jay Mayur, MD
Undergraduate: Vassar College
Med School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Interests: Everything basketball (playing pickup, watching NBA, fanduel), chess/board games, tennis, rowing, watching TV (mystery shows, superhero shows, Love Island UK), 2000s hip hop music, pathophysiology
Evan McMurray, MD
Undergraduate: College of William and Mary
Med School: Wake Forest School of Medicine
Interests: competitive swimming, weight training, traveling, cooking bland meals, listening to podcasts, learning Vietnamese and Spanish, satisfying my sweet tooth, Android phones
Jeena Moss, MD
Undergraduate: George Washington University
Med School: Cooper Medical School
Interests: Group fitness, anything dance related, tennis, board games, hiking in National Parks, homemade Indian food, hyping up Long Island, podcasts and audiobooks, meditation, being at the beach, and crafting the perfect charcuterie board!
Yunfai Ng, MD
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Med School: University of Central Florida
Interests: Ballin' on a budget, witty humor, plotting my next vacation, Boba, third-wheeling every couple in this residency, a cold beer after a long hike, finding places to sit, cheap Chinatown eats, anything hot (sauce, wings, pot, Cheetos)
Kerry O'Sullivan, MD
Undergraduate: Florida State University
Med School: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Interests: International travel, travel planning, hiking, trying new food and restaurants, Netflix, the ocean, social EM, exploring brunch/happy hour spots, sailing, kickball, FSU football, soccer, sleep!
Hannah Perez Chavez, MD
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Med School: Morehouse School of Medicine
Interests: lifting weights, finding the nearest beach, roasting my friends, watching futbol and the NBA, spontaneous travel, reggaeton, basically anything Hispanic
Alejandra Rodriguez, MD
Undergraduate: Texas A&M University - College Station
Med School: UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine
Graduate School: MPH @ UT Health School of Public Health
Interests: EMS, weight-lifting, sushi, re-watching Friends, my dog, all things Disney, reggaetón, escape rooms (~30 so far)
Carly Rosen, MD
Undergraduate: Tulane University
Med School: University of Maryland - Baltimore
Interests: dogs, Peloton, traveling, shopping, live music, hiking, snowboarding, picnics in Central Park
Puja Singh, MD
Undergraduate: University of the Sciences BS/MD Program
Med School: Cooper Medical School
Interests: anything fashion related (may or may not have a main fridge for my skincare products), singing, dancing, Netflix, anything Bollywood related, FOOD, FeminEM, socialEM!
Connor Welsh, MD
Undergraduate: Johns Hopkins University
Med School: Michigan State University
Interests: Regretting being a Detroit sports fan, cooking, budget travel, running even less than Ed, science fiction, bullet chess, POCUS