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CREDIT: NIH CLINICAL CENTER
The 2025 NIH Graduate Medical Education graduates: On June 6, the Clinical Center hosted the second annual graduation ceremony celebrating the latest crop of clinicians. The ceremony was held in Masur Auditorium with a packed room full of graduates, mentors, family members, and colleagues.
Congratulations to the 2025 NIH Graduate Medical Education Graduates
Allergy and Immunology Fellowship
Danielle Flood, MD, PhD
Derek MacMath, MD
Isabel C. Vallecillo-Viejo, MD, PhD
Chen Wang, MD
Anatomic Pathology Residency
Dilara Akbulut, MD (graduation speaker)
Niharika Shah, MD
Mayank Patel, MD
Clinical Neuroimaging Fellowship
Zeynep Demir, MD
Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship
Adriana Graciela Grau Chaves, MD
Vivek Nanda Venkatesh, MD
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Muhtadi Alnababteh, MD
Roxana Amirahmadi, MD
Ashley Park, MD
Mary Richert, MD
Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Fellowship—NHLBI/UMD
Mansi Chaturvedi, MBBS
Endocrine, Diabetes, and Metabolism Fellowship
Elias Miguel Chuki Naguanagua, MD, MHSc
Sakshi Jhawar, MD
Sanjay Jumani, MD
Yetunde Bernice Omotosho, MD, MHSc
Epilepsy Fellowship
Yonatan Moshe Serlin, MD
Yung-Tian Gau, MD, PhD
Hematopathology Fellowship
Abdallah Flaifel, MD
Nadia Nasir, MD
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Alexandria Hoy, MD
Austin Ritter, DO
Infectious Disease Fellowship
Bickey Haw-Yu Chang, MD
Ian Cameron Drobish, MD
Shanan Immel, MD, MPH
Infectious Disease—Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship
Rachel Lee, DO
Liver Diseases Fellowship
Harish Gopalakrishna, MD
Gian Rodriguez-Franco, MD
Maria Mironova, MD, MHSc
Medical Biochemical Genetics Fellowship
Amna Azhar Othman Othman, MBBCh
Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency
Seyma Eroglu, MD
Fatima Al-Saygh, MD
Medical Retina Fellowship
Marco H. Ji, MD
Mehdi Emamverdi, MD
MedStar Georgetown—NIH Neurology Residency
Huanwen Chen, MD
Movement Disorders Fellowship
Ann Ly, MD
NCI Immunotherapy Fellowship
Dara Bracken-Clarke, MD
Julie Ma, MD
Elisabetta Xue, MD
Neurological Surgery Fellowship
Aysha Al-Sahlawi, MBBS, MSc
Neurological Surgery Residency
David T. Asuzu, MD, PhD, MPH
Clinical Fellow Graduates NIDCR Dental Public Health Research Fellowship—Clinical Research Track
Leah Leinbach, DMD, MPH
NIDCR Dental Public Health Research Fellowship
Ishita Singh, BDS, MPH
NIH/CNH Combined Pediatrics–Medical Genetics Residency
Cristal Hernandez Hernandez, MD
NIH/WHC Combined Maternal–Fetal Medicine—Medical Genetics Fellowship
Lylach Haizler-Cohen, MD
NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship—Hematology and Oncology
Joy Awosika, MD
Disha Dalela, MD
Tatyana Gavrilova, MD
Raissa Kentsa, MD
Andre Kydd, MD, PhD
Jose Mercado-Matos, MD, PhD
Roshani Patel, MD
NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship—Medical Oncology
Etan Aber, MD, PhD
Peter Egwom, MD
Christine Gruessner, MD
Ian Goldlust, MD, PhD
Margaret Pruitt, MD, PhD
NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship—Medical Oncology and Cancer Prevention
Elizabeth R. Francis, MD, MPH
NIH/UMD Gastroenterology Fellowship
Disha Sharma, MBBS
Gracia Viana-Rodriguez, MD
Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology Fellowship
Kirsten Das, MD
Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship
Sanjay Jumani, MD
Pediatric Hematology Oncology Fellowship
Josiah Ballantine, MD
Marti Goldenberg, DO
Sarah Peters, MD
Rebecca Whitmire, MD
Megan Zinsky, MD
Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Fellowship
Navid Djassemi, MD
Psychiatry Clinical Fellowship
Morkeh Blay-Tofey, MD, MBA
Jenny Jean, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship
Jennifer Jung Hee Chae-Kim, MD
Ariel Jordan Dunn, MD
Peter Garrett Lindner, MD
Rheumatology Fellowship
Dale M. Kobrin, MD
Christopher M. Tidwell, MD
Benjamin A. Turturice, MD, PhD
Urologic Oncology Fellowship
Charles Hesswani, MD
Christopher Koller, MD
Daniel Nethala, MD
Vascular Neurology Fellowship
Ali Eltatawy, MD
Congratulations to all the graduates!
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