People

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

Aaron Bennett, MD

Chief Resident

Med School: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Chief Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Joseph “Joe” Canarie, MD

Chief Resident

Med School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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

Chief Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Specialty: Arizona State University

David McMahon, MD

Chief Resident

Med School: University of Michigan Medical School

Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Chief Residency: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

Angely Matinez, BA

Residency Program Coordinator

Undergrad: Providence College

Grad School: University of Connecticut School of Business (MBA Candidate)

Hometown: Licey al Medio, RD/the Bronx, NY/New London, CT

Neighborhood: Hamden

Heather Riggio

Residency & Fellowship Coordinator

Undergrad: Arizona State University (BA Candidate)

Hometown: Cromwell, CT

Neighborhood: I believe I live in “ The Vill” or Newhallville in New Haven

Department Leadership

PGY-1s

Sarah Abdallah, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Psychology/SOLNIT

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI

Neighborhood: East Rock

Jessica Ashley, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hometown: Atlanta, GA/New York, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Nicholas Barresi, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Chatham, NJ

Neighborhood: Fair Haven Heights (New Haven)

Brendan Barry, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Hometown: North Hampton, NH

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Elizabeth Cai, MD, MBA

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Grad School: Rutgers Business School

Hometown: White Plains, NY

Neighborhood: I think I’m on the cusp between the Hill & Downtown

McKenna Campbell-Potter, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: University of Minnesota Medical School

Hometown: Eden Prairie, MN

Neighborhood: Whitneyville area of Hamden!

Megan Feick, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Hometown: Newark, DE

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Jodi Forward, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine

Hometown: Sherborn, MA

Neighborhood: Hamden, CT

Rohaum Hamidi, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: California Northstate University College of Medicine

Hometown: San Diego, CA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Clea Harris, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sackler School of Medicine New York State/American Program of Tel Aviv University

Hometown: Woodbridge, CT

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Michael He, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Texas Tech El Paso – Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Hometown: Beaumont, TX

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Jake Keaney, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Hingham, MA

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Jennifer Lawson, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: New Milford, CT

Neighborhood: East Rock

Alexandra Lesenskyj, DO

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine

Hometown: Robbinsville, NJ

Neighborhood: North Haven, CT

Lauren McAllister, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine – Maine Track

Hometown: Bethel, ME

Neighborhood: Westville

Galen Nailor, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Meharry Medical College

Hometown: Houston, TX

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Eesha Natarajan, MBBS

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: B. J. Medical College, Pune

Hometown: Pune, India

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Matthew O’Brien, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

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

Hometown: Wilton, CT

Neighborhood: Westville

Nishant Pandya, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Grad School: Thomas Jefferson School of Population Health

Hometown: Allentown, PA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Madalyn Petrillo, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Hometown: Haddonfield, NJ

Neighborhood: East Rock

Erin Rainosek, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano School of Medicine

Grad School: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano School of Medicine

Hometown: Bastrop, Texas

Neighborhood: Downtown

Samuel Sondalle, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Child Psychology/SOLNIT

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Grad School: Yale University

Devika Sparks, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Wallingford, CT

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Max Tarica, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Medical College of Georgia

Hometown: Alpharetta, GA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Elizabeth Tepler, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Hometown: Harrison, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Natalle Yu, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: New York Medical College

Hometown: Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia

Neighborhood: Downtown

Angela Zeigler, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Virginia School of Medicine

Grad School: University of Virginia

Hometown: Clemson, SC

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Shirley Zhao, MD

Year: PGY-1

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

PGY-2s

Sofia Athanasopoulou, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Athens Medical School

Hometown: Athens, Greece

Neighborhood: East Rock

Henna Boolchandani, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Hometown: Guilderland, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Nirali Butala, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Hometown: Roslyn Heights, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Channelle Carr, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Howard University College of Medicine

Hometown: Palm Bay, FL

Neighborhood: Westville

Elana Cook, MD, MS

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Grad School: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Hometown: New York, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Ashley Demory, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: George Washington University School of Medicine

Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Shereen Elmaghrabi, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: New York University School of Medicine

Hometown: Staten Island, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Kathleen Felisca, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: New York Medical College

Hometown: Queens, NY

Neighborhood: Westville

Hannah Fuson, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Hometown: Granville, OH

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Eric Gershon, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Hometown: Hauppauge, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Windy Grant, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Chelsea Hartman, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

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

Hometown: Buffalo, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Henly Hewan, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Neighborhood: Fair Haven

Haiyan Huang, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Boston University School of Medicine

Hometown: Singapore

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Esat Imal, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Child Neurology

Med School: Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical School

Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey

Neighborhood: Springfield, MA

Christina Johns, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Mattapoisett, MA

Neighborhood: East Rock

Jessica Malcolm, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Grad School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Worcester, MA

Neighborhood: New Haven

Shannon O’Connor, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Duke University School of Medicine

Grad School: Duke University School of Medicine

Hometown: Billings, MT

Neighborhood: Westville

Daniel Prior, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Fairfield, CT

Neighborhood: East Rock

Kaitlin Quallen, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Wake Forest School of Medicine

Hometown: Farmington, CT

Neighborhood: East Rock

Kristin Reese, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

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

Hometown: Holmes, NY

Neighborhood: East Rock

Shelby Rosario, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: New York Medical College

John Sullivan, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Massachusetts Medical School

Hometown: Paxton, MA

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Katelyn Wong, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Orange, CT

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Lyubina Yankova, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Glastonbury, CT

Neighborhood: East Rock

Chloe Zimmerman, MD

Year: PGY-2

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

PGY-3s

Rebecca Beagan, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Hometown: Medford, NJ

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Alex Blanchette, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Glastonbury, CT`

Neighborhood: Hamden, CT

Spencer Church, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

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

Hometown: Branford, CT

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Katelyn Cusmano, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Ledyard, CT

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Eunice DeFilippo, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Hometown: Jersey City, NY

Neighborhood: Trumbull, CT

Julie Henderson, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Hometown: Cazenovia, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Meredith Hinds, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School

Hometown: Houston, TX

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Rachel Johnson, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Hometown: Cheshire, CT

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Irene Kho, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: SUNY Downstate Medical School

Hometown: Queens, NY

Neighborhood: New Haven

Andrew Loza, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Grad School: Washington University in St. Louis

Tomas Manghi, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Neighborhood: East Rock

Molly Markowitz, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont

Hometown: Belfast, ME

Neighborhood: Rocky Hill, CT

Joshua Pulinat, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: New York Medical College

Hometown: Queens, NY

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Amanda Quijano, MD, PhD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Yale School of Medicine

Grad School: Yale School of Medicine

Alexis Rudd, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Tulane University School of Medicine

Hometown: Miami, FL

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Monisha Sachdev, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Duke University School of Medicine

Hometown: North Haven

Neighborhood: East Rock

Apeksha Saxena, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Baylor College of Medicine

Hometown: Monroe Township, NJ

Neighborhood: Wooster Square

Ashley Scholhamer, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Easton/Fairfield, CT

Neighborhood: Fairfield, CT

Michael Sider, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

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

Emma Taylor-Salmon, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Drexel University College of Medicine

Hometown: Duxbury, MA

Neighborhood: Hamden, CT

Simona Tsipan, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA

Neighborhood: Spring Glen

Meghan Wilson, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Grad School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Hometown: Cheshire, CT

Neighborhood: Cheshire, CT

Chelsea Young, MD

Year: PGY-3

Program: Categorical Pediatrics

Med School: Penn State College of Medicine

Hometown: Sandy Hook, CT

Neighborhood: Cheshire, CT

PGY-4s

Ginger Holton, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Hometown: Murfreesboro, TN

Neighborhood: Guilford

Carl Malm, MD, MPH

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Harvard Medical School

Grad School: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Hometown: Osu, Accra, Ghana

Neighborhood: Downtown New Haven

Kathryn Nagel, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Benjamin Perea, MD

Year: PGY-4

Program: Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Med School: Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University

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

Aaron Bennett, MD

Chief Resident

Joseph “Joe” Canarie, MD

Chief Resident

David McMahon, MD

Chief Resident

Angely Matinez, BA

Residency Program Coordinator

Heather Riggio

Residency & Fellowship Coordinator

Department Leadership

Clifford Bogue, MD

Pnina Weiss, MD

Marietta Vazquez, MD

Marion Miller, MBA

PGY-1s

Sarah Abdallah, MD

Jessica Ashley, MD, MPH

Nicholas Barresi, MD

Brendan Barry, MD

Elizabeth Cai, MD, MBA

McKenna Campbell-Potter, MD

Megan Feick, MD

Jodi Forward, MD

Rohaum Hamidi, MD

Clea Harris, MD

Michael He, MD

Jake Keaney, MD

Jennifer Lawson, MD

Alexandra Lesenskyj, DO

Lauren McAllister, MD

Galen Nailor, MD

Eesha Natarajan, MBBS

Matthew O’Brien, MD

Nishant Pandya, MD, MPH

Madalyn Petrillo, MD

Erin Rainosek, MD, MPH

Samuel Sondalle, MD, PhD

Devika Sparks, MD

Max Tarica, MD

Elizabeth Tepler, MD

Natalle Yu, MD

Angela Zeigler, MD, PhD

Shirley Zhao, MD

PGY-2s

Sofia Athanasopoulou, MD

Henna Boolchandani, MD

Nirali Butala, MD

Channelle Carr, MD

Elana Cook, MD, MS

Ashley Demory, MD

Shereen Elmaghrabi, MD

Kathleen Felisca, MD

Hannah Fuson, MD

Eric Gershon, MD

Windy Grant, MD

Chelsea Hartman, MD

Henly Hewan, MD

Haiyan Huang, MD

Esat Imal, MD

Christina Johns, MD

Jessica Malcolm, MD, MPH

Shannon O’Connor, MD, PhD

Daniel Prior, MD

Kaitlin Quallen, MD

Kristin Reese, MD

Shelby Rosario, MD

John Sullivan, MD

Katelyn Wong, MD

Lyubina Yankova, MD

Chloe Zimmerman, MD