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Match 2024

Congratulations and welcome to all trainees who matched to McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University programs in 2024. We are delighted to welcome 241 amazing and accomplished recruits to the Northwestern family. Of the newly matched residents, 41 percent hail from top 25 medical schools and 24 percent are from groups traditionally underrepresented in medicine. See the list of our incoming residents below, organized by program.

 Anesthesiology

  • Ryuji Arimoto, MD, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Nestor Bedoya, MD, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
  • MaryJo Bekash, MD, University of Miami Leonard N. Miller School of Medicine
  • Jacob Braaten, MD , University of Minnesota Medical School 
  • Erin Ellis, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Jacob Feiertag, MD, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
  • Brian Florenzo, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
  • Morgan Greenwood, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine
  • Tyler Hall, MD, MBA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • David Hollis, MD, MBA, Tufts University School of Medicine 
  • Felissa Hong, MD, Univeristy of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health 
  • Grant Hurt, MD, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
  • Oluwagbemisola Ibikunle, MD, Harvard Medical School
  • Venkatraman Kothandaraman, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
  • Yasuko Mano, MD, MPH, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
  • Deema Martini, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 
  • Sarah McDonough, MD, MPH, Tulane University School of Medicine
  • Val Molloy, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 
  • Uchehi Nna, MD, MBA, University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
  • Adetomiwa Owoseni, MD, Harvard School of Medicine
  • Vanessa Ramirez-Allen, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
  • Francesca Shilati, MD, MBA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Tyler Yoshida, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Morgan Zugelder, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

 Dermatology

  • Clayton Burruss, MD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • Christian Cerda-Smith, MD, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine
  • Odera Ekeh, MD, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
  • Simon Gunter, MD, MBA, Harvard Medical School
  • Paolo Vignali, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 

 Emergency Medicine

  • Amy Barzgari, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine - Rockford
  • Charles Feinberg, MD, University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
  • Austin Fellows, MD, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
  • Noah Ford, MD, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
  • Gabriel Forest, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Kurt Frick, MD, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
  • Kendra Jeans, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
  • Meghana Partha, MD, University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson
  • Ashley Segobiano, MD, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
  • Samuel Slusky, MD, MPH, McGover Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Melissa Smith, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Aanchal Thadani, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
  • John Thibault, MD, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
  • Arno Uvin, MD, Boston University School of Medicine
  • Kali Weiss, MD, Univeristy of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine  

 Family Medicine

Delnor

  • Rachel Carlson, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford
  • Andrew Gonzales, MD, Northwestern Univeristy Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Michael Kranz, MD, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU
  • Jacqueline Madden, MD. Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center
  • Reise Malone, MD, South Illinois University School of Medicine
  • Anthony Pace, DO, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Rajavi Patel, MD, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
  • Rachel Reed, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine  

Lake Forest

  • Juan Aguirre Villalobos, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health 
  • Oscar Castro, MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine 
  • Jeriann Collymore, MD, MPH, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  • Aubrey Haughn, MD, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine 
  • Kipp Morgan, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Eduardo Orozco-Rodriguez, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria 
  • Angelica Sanchez, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine 
  • Laurine Tiema-Benson, MD, Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin Univeristy of Medicine & Science

 Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine

  • Mariam Ardehali, MD, Duke University School of Medicine 
  • Fatemeh Behnia, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
  • Ikeoluwapo Bolakale-Rufai, MBBS, University of Ibadan
  • Hector Cajigas, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
  • Alexie Carletti, MD, MPH, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
  • Victoria Cates, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Keerthana Chakka, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
  • Sean Halloran, MD, MBA, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
  • Keertana Jain, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Anthony Kalousdian, MD, America University of Bierut
  • Anthony Kang, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Prasanth Kotha, MD, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Daniel Leary, MD, Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center 
  • Mary Lipa, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 
  • Yupeng Liu, MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • Cherie Lo, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Caleb Middlebrook, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine 
  • Benjamin Moy, MD, University of Michigan Medical School
  • Cedrick Mutebi, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine
  • Zachary Neronha, MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • Ameer Odeh, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  • Chiagoziem Ogbonna, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine 
  • Seong Park, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Leena Penumalee, MD, University of Chicago Division of The Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Nepheli Raptis, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  • Malavika Satheesh, BS, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
  • Samuel Schellengberg, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • John Sollee, MD, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Jacob Stout, MD, Duke University School of Medicine
  • Kalya Thompson, MD, MBA, Duke University School of Medicine
  • Samer Yassin, MD, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
  • Nathan Yee, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Veronica Zheng, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

Internal Medicine - Dermatology

  • Amar Desai, BS, MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Internal Medicine - Physician-Scientist Training Program

  • Natasha Edman, MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Samuel Krabbenhoft, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsion School of Medicine and Public Health 
  • Mina Shirazi, MD, PhD, Chariete-Universitatsmedizin Berlin
  • Roger Smith, MD, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Jesus Zamora-Pineda, MD, PhD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

 Neurological Surgery

  • Edgar Petosyan, MD, First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov
  • Sharbel Romanos, MD, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 
  • Daniel Zhang, MD, Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center 

 Neurology

Neurology

  • Derrick Barnagian, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 
  • Cassandra Helfer, MD, Baylor College of Medicine 
  • Pallavi Krishna Rao, MD, Baylor College of Medicine 
  • Nydia Kung, MD, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Tarini Mitra, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Tirstan Ponzo, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 
  • Emma Radley, MD, Rush Medical College of Rush Universtiy Medical Center
  • Rolf Veragen Metman, MD, Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center 
  • Sean Woodward, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Patricia Zulueta, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 

Child Neurology

  • Robyn DeAbrue, MD, Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
  • Samarth Doshi, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
  • Cindy Ho, MD, Ohio State University College of Medicine
  • Caitlin Wessel, MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine
  • Leen Younis, MD, University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine

 Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • Nicole Diaz, MD, Duke University School of Medicine 
  • Matthew Grande, MD, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine 
  • Leslie McCauley, MD, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Sophia McFarlane, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medline 
  • Khloe Pastore, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
  • Nivedita Potapragada, MD, MBA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Jenna Powers, MD, Emory University School of Medicine 
  • Anna Roselle, MD, Harvard Medical School
  • Natalie Sadlak, MD, Harvard Medical School
  • Allie Valenzuela, MD, MPH, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Lena Volpe, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Madeleine Walsh, MD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine 

 Ophthalmology

  • Kyle Chan, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Michael Drakopoulos, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Gina Johnson, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • David Swain, MD, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine 

 Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Christine DeFilippo, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine 
  • Cody Goedderz, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Alexander Nueville, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • John Peabody, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Dominic Ridofi, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 
  • Willa Sasso, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine 

 Otolaryngology

  • Desmond Garner, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Jorge Gutierrez, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 
  • Paavali Hannikainen, MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
  • Ashley Young, MD, MBA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

 Pathology

Pathology

  • Jeanne Cardenas, MD, MBA, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 
  • Hugo Carrillo Ng, MD, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
  • Stansislav Fridland, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Emmanuel Garcia, MD, University of Santo Tomas
  • Eric Nayman, MD, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine 
  • Frank Rojas Alvarez, MD, Universidad de Carabobo, Aragua
  • Gianfranco Eddu Umeres Francia, MD, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) Escuela de Medicina

 Pediatrics

  • Jasmene Abernathy, MD, Meharry Medical College 
  • Rishika Bheem, MD, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Angie Chen-Patterson, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Natalie Conboy, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Catherine Cunnigham, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 
  • Oscar Dominguez, MD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
  • Colin Dunne, MD, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine 
  • Virginia Evans, MD, Eastern Virginia Medical School 
  • Meredith Fischer, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 
  • Sonya Flaten, MD, Creighton University School of Medicine
  • Alyssa Freeman, MD, University of Nebraska College of Medicine 
  • Sara Furukawa, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine 
  • Ryann Garcia, MBBCh, Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine 
  • Chad Hanaoka, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Jeffrey Hansen, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 
  • Frances Ho, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Ashley Ikwuagwu, MD, McGovern Medical School of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Tyler Kalinich, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine - Peoria
  • Aliyah Keval, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Lindsay Levine, MD, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Victoria Lord, MD, MPH, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennysylvania
  • Anna Lyons, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Rylie Mainville, MD, Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Amanda Mazzoli, MD, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine 
  • Emily Merrick, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Annastasia Morgan, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine 
  • Ryan Parnell, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
  • Shayli Patel, MD, Emory University School of Medicine 
  • Arohi Saxena, MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • Elanie Sobel, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • John Sonnier, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine
  • Qsanet Tekie, MD, Emory University School of Medicine 
  • Khadijah Tiamiyu, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Teresa Trinka, MD, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Miranda Westrick, MD, The University of Toledo College of Medicine
  • Zoe Wong, MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 

 Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

  • Abigail Bennett, MD, University of Utach School of Medicine 
  • Marissa Brock, MD, Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
  • Sydney Farrington, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine 
  • Meena Jain, MD, South Illinois University School of Medicine
  • Hyunah Jang, MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School 
  • Jonathan Labampa, DO, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University 
  • Madeline Pashos, MD, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine 
  • Avani Patel, MD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 
  • Alexis Philippe, MD, University of Missouri-Columbis School of Medicine 
  • Natalya Ponomareva, MD, University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio
  • Dip Rana, MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School 
  • Kristen Santiago, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School 

 Psychiatry

Psychiatry

  • Ryan Ambroz, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine 
  • Courtney Amegashie, MD, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 
  • Colin Hammock, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Ali Kalam, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 
  • Michael Park, MD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Piscataway
  • Roman Pelayo, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Brandon Rafidi, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Melinda Wang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Lauren Yoo, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Psychiatry - Research Track

  • Kasra Manoocheri, MD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine 

 Radiation Oncology

  • Andrew Liu, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Jared Sullivan, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Abdul Zakkar, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine

 Radiology

Interventional Radiology - Integrated

  • Ernest Barrral, MD, Duke University School of Medicine 
  • Sarah Nwia, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine

Diagnostic Radiology

  • Shaun Johnson, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
  • Avin Khera, MD, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 
  • Jared Lassner, MD, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Sohpia Liu, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Ulysses Marquez-Valenzuela, MD, Harvard Medical School
  • Muhamad Serhal, MD, Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences 
  • Christina Shehata, MD, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Sara Stewart, MD, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  • Claire Weinstein, MD. Univeristy of Cincinnati College of Medicine 
  • Michelle Wiese, ND, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

 Surgery

General Surgery

  • Abdul Ahad Azimuddin, MD, MBA, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
  • Samuele Cannas, MD, Universita di Pisa
  • Ashley Durant, MD, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
  • Michael Erwin, MD, MBA, Univeristy of Alabama School of Medicine 
  • Sasha Suarez Ferreira, MD Universidad Autonoma de Centro America
  • Erik Wu, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Preliminary Surgery

  • Kaaya Puttagunta, MD, University of Michigan Medical School
  • Rachel Schusteff, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine 

Plastic Surgery - Integrated

  • Emily Chwa, MD, MPH, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
  • Shannon Garvey, MD, Boston University School of Medicine
  • William Tian, MD, Duke University School of Medicine 

Thoracic Surgery - Integrated

  • Anirudha Chandrabhatla, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
  • Yunda Wang, MD, Boston University School of Medicine 

Vascular Surgery - Integrated

  • Sharon Shim, MD, Central Michigan University College of Medicine 

 Urology

  • Jonathan Aguiar, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Frank Glover, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Alison Schulz, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University
  • Jonathan Zakrajsek, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine 

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