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Program Leadership

Rachel “Osbo” Osborn, MD

Program Director

Med School: Rush Medical College

Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics)

Chief Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital (Pediatrics)

Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Hometown: Split my time between Pueblo, CO and Portland, OR

Neighborhood: East Rock

Paul Aronson, MD, MHS

Deputy Program Director

Med School: New York University School of Medicine

Undergrad: Duke University

Grad School: Yale School of Medicine

Residency: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Chief Residency: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Specialty: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Fellowship: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Hometown: Guilford, CT

Neighborhood: Guilford, CT (yes, I moved back home….well, 5 minutes away)

Erin Nozetz, MD

Associate Program Director

Med School: State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Chief Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Specialty: General Pediatrics/Lead Toxicity

Hometown: Montreal, Canada

Neighborhood: Madison, CT

Adam “Berky” Berkwitt, MD

Associate Program Director

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Chief Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Hometown: West Hartford, CT

Neighborhood: East Rock/New Haven

Gary Soffer, MD

Associate Program Director

Med School: Tel Aviv University – American Medical Program

Residency: Childrens Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Specialty: Pediatric Allergy/Immunology and Integrative Medicine

Hometown: New York

Neighborhood: Stamford, CT

Jessica Ashley, MD, MPH

Chief Resident

Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hometown: Atlanta, GA/New York, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Max Tarica, MD

Chief Resident

Med School: Medical College of Georgia

Hometown: Alpharetta, GA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Shirley Zhao, MD

Chief Resident

Med School: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Elizabeth Lopez

Residency Program Coordinator

Hometown: Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

Neighborhood: Woodbridge, CT

Department Leadership

PGY-1s

Dana Almedallah, MBBS

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Hometown: Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Neighborhood: Downtown

Laelia Benoit, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Psychology/SOLNIT

Med School: Paris-Sorbonne University

Hometown: France

Gabriel Betancur Velez, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Medellin, Colombia & Woodbridge, Connecticut

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Beselot Birhanu, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hometown: Bronx, New York

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Hailey Burden, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Hometown: Abilene, Texas

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Karen Joanie Campoverde Reyes, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Hometown: Guayaquil, Ecuador

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Idalis Cardona Ortiz, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences

Hometown: Quebradillas, Puerto Rico

Neighborhood: Hamden 🙂

Emma Close, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Undergrad: Swarthmore College

Hometown: Hollis, New Hampshire

Teresa Elmore, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Undergrad: University of Virginia

Hometown: Gainesville, VA

Sopuruchukwu Ezeonu, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College (Jefferson)

Hometown: Piscataway, NJ

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Kiersten Flodman, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Hometown: Rowley, MA

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

William Tyler Frantz, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine

Undergrad: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hometown: Marion, Massachusetts

Stephanie Gidicsin, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Hometown: Cheshire, CT

Neighborhood: Downtown

Alexander Johnson, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Hometown: Long Beach, CA

Snimarjot Kaur, MBBS

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital

Hometown: Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Neighborhood: Downtown

Elena Kleinhenz, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: SUNY Upstate

Hometown: Delmar, NY

Zachary Kravetz, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Florida Atlantic University

Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Brooke Lichak, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Penn State

Hometown: Allentown, PA

Neighborhood: Wooster Square (shout out to the Woomen of Wooster)

Krishanth Manokaran, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Boston University School of Medicine

Hometown: Toronto

Neighborhood: Downtown

Vincent Mirabella, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Psychology/SOLNIT

Med School: Rutgers

Saparja Nag, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: UConn

Hometown: Cheshire, CT

Neighborhood: Hamden, CT

Muhammed Ors, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Hometown: Red Bank, NJ

Neighborhood: East Rock in New Haven

Niranjana Ramani, MBBS

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute

Hometown: Chennai, India

Beatriz Ruiz, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine

Undergrad: University of Puerto Rico

Hometown: Vega Alta, Puerto Rico

Cristina Soto, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine

Undergrad: Universidad de Puerto Rico Rio

Hometown: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jack Tang, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Undergrad: University of Alberta

Hometown: Calgary, Alberta

Haley Urbach, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Boston University School of Medicine

Hometown: Poway, CA

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Rachel Williams, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Hometown: Clarks Summit, PA

Neighborhood: East Rock

PGY-2s

Carnie Acier, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Hometown: Miami, FL

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Alexa Allotta, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine

Hometown: Staten Island, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown

Jacob Arnold, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Hometown: Doylestown, PA

Neighborhood: East Rock

Allison Bradley, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University

Hometown: Mansfield, MA

Neighborhood: Downtown

Eliaz Brumer, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences

Vanessa Cedarbaum, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hometown: Flemington, NJ

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Benjamin Dylik, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Drexel University College of Medicine

Hometown: Hamburg, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown/The Hill

Erica Heiden, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine

Hometown: Wellesley, MA

Neighborhood: East Rock/Prospect Hill

Tiffany Ho, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hometown: Bensalem, PA

Neighborhood: Downtown

Sarah Householder, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Columbia University

Monique Huertas, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine

Hometown: Bayamón, PR

Neighborhood: Downtown

Joshua Hyman, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Rishi Jaswaney, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center

Hometown: Raleigh, NC

Neighborhood: East Rock

Lucille Kohlenberg, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Elm Grove, WI

Neighborhood: East Rock

Emily Krasnow, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hometown: Wyckoff, NJ

Neighborhood: Downtown

Elianny Lantigua Guichardo, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud

Hometown: Dominican Republic

Christopher Myers, II, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Hometown: Essex, CT

Alex O’Donovan, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Hometown: Somerville, MA

Neighborhood: Westville

Luisa Ortiz, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Hometown: White Plains, NY

Neighborhood: New Haven

Angela Osei-Bonsu, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology School of Medical Sciences

Hometown: Nsuta/Mampong, Ghana

Paul Park, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hometown: Old Tappan, NJ

Neighborhood: Branford, CT

Jonathan Popham, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Maryland School of Medicine

Hometown: Fairfax, VA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Katie Prochownik, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Mohammed Sayeem, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh /Cheshire, CT

Naa Sey, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Howard University College of Medicine

Hometown: Kumasi, Ghana/Warrenton, VA

Julia Sherman, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine

Hometown: Newton, MA

Neighborhood: Downtown

Almasa Talovic, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: State University of New York Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine

PGY-3s

Becky Adu, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hometown: New Jersey

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Ife Aridegbe, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hometown: Avenel, NJ

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Alex Ashinoff, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Boston University School of Medicine

Hometown: New Rochelle, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Demiana Azmy, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Albany Medical College

Hometown: Madison, CT

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Lauren Baron, MD, MPH&TM

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Howard University College of Medicine

Hometown: Marietta, GA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Sean Bickerton, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Topsfield, MA

Neighborhood: Hamden, CT

Amy Blasini, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: University of Michigan Medical School

Nashid Chaudhury, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

June Criscione, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Albany, NY

Neighborhood: East Rock

Faith Crittenden, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Grad School: Yale School of Public Health

Hometown: Windsor, CT

Neighborhood: West Haven, CT

Anna Delamerced, MD, MSc.

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Neighborhood: East Rock

Andrea Devaris, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine

Hometown: San Germán, PR

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Britt Dioneda, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine

Hometown: St. Louis, MO

Neighborhood: Westville

Alex Green, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Wayne State University School of Medicine

Sofia Halperin-Goldstein, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine

Hometown: Lexington, MA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Isabella Joslin, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania

Hometown: Cambridge, MA

Neighborhood: East Rock

Desiree Leverette, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Meharry Medical College

Luba Margai, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine

Hometown: Vestal, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Nathan Maris, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: University of Washington School of Medicine

Hometown: Seattle, WA

Neighborhood: East Rock

Mehr Mathew, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Hometown: Edgewater, NJ

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Ruchit Nagar, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Harvard Medical School

Krissy Obiakor, MD, MS

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rush Medical College of Rush University

Hometown: Shorewood/Milwaukee, WI (S.O. MIDWEST!!)

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Vanessa Perez, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: The Bronx, NY

Neighborhood: Branford, CT

Kia Stroughton, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Hometown: The Bronx, NY

Neighborhood: Hamden, CT

PGY-4s

McKenna Campbell-Potter, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: University of Minnesota Medical School

Hometown: Eden Prairie, MN

Neighborhood: Whitneyville area of Hamden!

Jake Keaney, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Hingham, MA

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Galen Nailor, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Meharry Medical College

Hometown: Houston, TX

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Natalle Yu, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: New York Medical College

Hometown: Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia

Neighborhood: Downtown

Program Leadership

Rachel “Osbo” Osborn, MD

Program Director

Paul Aronson, MD, MHS

Deputy Program Director

Erin Nozetz, MD

Associate Program Director

Adam “Berky” Berkwitt, MD

Associate Program Director

Gary Soffer, MD

Associate Program Director

Jessica Ashley, MD, MPH

Chief Resident

Max Tarica, MD

Chief Resident

Shirley Zhao, MD

Chief Resident

Elizabeth Lopez

Residency Program Coordinator

Department Leadership

Clifford Bogue, MD

Pnina Weiss, MD

Marietta Vazquez, MD

Karina Amaya, BA

PGY-1s

Dana Almedallah, MBBS

Laelia Benoit, MD, PhD

Gabriel Betancur Velez, MD

Beselot Birhanu, MD

Hailey Burden, MD

Karen Joanie Campoverde Reyes, MD

Idalis Cardona Ortiz, MD

Emma Close, MD

Teresa Elmore, MD

Sopuruchukwu Ezeonu, MD

Kiersten Flodman, MD

William Tyler Frantz, MD, PhD

Stephanie Gidicsin, MD

Alexander Johnson, MD

Snimarjot Kaur, MBBS

Elena Kleinhenz, MD

Zachary Kravetz, MD

Brooke Lichak, MD

Krishanth Manokaran, MD

Vincent Mirabella, MD

Saparja Nag, MD

Muhammed Ors, MD

Niranjana Ramani, MBBS

Beatriz Ruiz, MD

Cristina Soto, MD

Jack Tang, MD

Haley Urbach, MD

Rachel Williams, MD

PGY-2s

Carnie Acier, MD

Alexa Allotta, MD

Jacob Arnold, MD

Allison Bradley, MD

Eliaz Brumer, MD

Vanessa Cedarbaum, MD

Benjamin Dylik, MD

Erica Heiden, MD

Tiffany Ho, MD

Sarah Householder, MD

Monique Huertas, MD

Joshua Hyman, MD

Rishi Jaswaney, MD

Lucille Kohlenberg, MD

Emily Krasnow, MD

Elianny Lantigua Guichardo, MD

Christopher Myers, II, MD

Alex O’Donovan, MD

Luisa Ortiz, MD

Angela Osei-Bonsu, MD

Paul Park, MD

Jonathan Popham, MD

Katie Prochownik, MD

Mohammed Sayeem, MD

Naa Sey, MD

Julia Sherman, MD