More than 70 resident physicians听and fellows were honored in June for completing their residency and fellowship training at 成人头条 University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed).
Several programs celebrated their graduates in private ceremonies. The graduates have spent between one and five years training in Southwest Michigan.听
WMed boasts 10 residency programs in the specialties of Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry. There also are five one-year fellowships for Emergency Medical Services, Forensic Pathology, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Simulation, and Sports Medicine.
Of the 82 residents and fellows celebrated this year, 10 will remain and work in the Kalamazoo area. Meanwhile, an additional five residents will work in other cities in Michigan. Others will work throughout the nation, while many will go on to fellowship training.
Here鈥檚 a complete list of this year鈥檚 resident and fellow graduates, as well as faculty who received awards:
Emergency Medicine
- Jacob William Bennick, DO
- Michael Ryan Brancato, MD
- Joshua Clay Brown, DO
- Nicholas James Christensen, DO
- Courtney Vaile Collins, MD
- Maura Louise Holm, DO
- Daniel Peter Horne, DO
- Rebecca Elizabeth Kusko, MD
- Raymond Johnson Kwong, DO (Chief)
- Zachary William Paquin, MD (Chief)
- Miranda Rose Riegel, DO
- Derek Richard Schumacher, DO
- Kathleen Kris Lee Styer, DO (Chief)
- McKenzie Stenehjem Titus, MD
- Alex John VanWoerkom, DO
Emergency Medical Services Fellowship
- Kimberly Sue-Ann Avery, DO
- Steven Michael Joyce, DO
Family Medicine-Battle Creek
- Akeem Adekunle Bello, MD (Chief)
- Meran Mahir, MD
- Elvis Osei Mensah, MD
- Doris Adaeze Muresan, MD
- Joel Aree Muresan, MD (Chief)
- Robert David Welch, MD
Family Medicine-Kalamazoo
- Ayomide Florence Awodeji, MD
- Jaspreet Singh Bharaj, MD
- Amarpal Kaur Dhaliwal, MD
- Cynthia Megan Lai, MD (Chief)
- Woo Jin Lee, MD (Chief)
- Murtaza Rizvi, MD
Forensic Pathology Fellowship
- Nicolas Alexander Kostelecky, MD
General Surgery
- Nitin Chowdary Chilukuri, MD (Chief)
- Samuel John Coster, DO (Chief)
- Neal Daniel Ferrin, DO (Chief)
- Raisa Ruihan Gao-Gibbons, DO (Chief)
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
- Alexandra Nicole Burns, DO
Internal Medicine
- Francisco Flavio Costa Filho, MD
- Alan Michel Furlan, MD
- Kathryn Eileen Garber, DO (Chief)
- Sana Habib, MD
- Jaspreet Kaur, MD
- Sai Rohit Reddy Mekala, MD
- Ahmed Samir Mirza, MD (Chief)
- Dikshita Poudel, MD
- Akshaya Ramaswami, MD
- Cameron Thomas Schaecher, MD
- Nicholas Charles Smith, DO
- Tobey Thomas, DO
- Ibrahim Zahid, MD (Chief)
Medicine-Pediatrics
- Naia Adriana McMillan-Castanares, MD (Chief)
- Amy Melissa Mullikin, MD (Chief)
- Dhruv Narayan Srinivasachar, MD
- Aladdin Basheer Sufyan, MD
- Evan Everett Tillett, DO
Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Stephanie Anne Ambach, DO (Chief)
- Asma Daoudi, MD
- Isabelle Michaela Perez Nievera, MD
- Melanie Bernarda Rivera, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery
- Jordan Taylor Boivin, MD (Chief)
- Michael Donald Rahl, MD (Chief)
- Kelsey Alyssa Sheets, MD (Chief)
Pediatrics
- A鈥橲em Khaled Abdullah Abu-Qamar, MD
- Khaled Mohammad Yousef Hamed Allah, MD
- Sara Ibrahim Farran, MD
- Daniella Cheryl ann Antonia James, MD (Chief)
- Anmoljot Sidhu, MD
- Mohammad Yahia Ragheb Tayliakh, MD (Chief)
- Tiffany BaoNgoc Chau Truong, MD (Chief)
- Laura Beatrice Mary Van der Vynckt, MD
- Sophia Tonnu Yen, MD
- Omar Akram Mohamed Elmahdy Mohamed Taha Youssef, MD
Psychiatry
- Joseph Jordan Keller, MD
- Monica Lee, MD
- Levi Francis Mazza, MD
- Aiswarya Lakshmi Nandakumar, MD
- Thomas Roberts, DO
- Syeda Amina Shah, MD
- Shamanthika Jagadish Shelkay, MD
- Vidur Kumar Solanki, DO
Sports Medicine Fellowship
- David Robert Zettler, DO
2025 Teaching Awards
Emergency Medicine
- Joshua Brown, DO
- James Hull, DO
- Jacob Lenning, MD
Family and Community Medicine
- Andrew Luciano, MD
- Steven Pollens, MD
- Ian Thomas, MD
General Surgery
- Brian Dishinger, MD
- Katherine Kelley, MD
- Gitonga Munene, MD
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Internal Medicine
- Nathan Demchuk, DO
- Thomas Flynn, MD
- Theotonius Gomes, DO
- James Hull, DO
- Matthew Kelly, MD
- Andrew Milbrandt, DO
Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Sara Deatsman, MD
- Amber Nash-Guilford, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery
- Thomas G. Ryan, MD
Pediatrics
- Juanita Moses, MD
- Megan Sikkema, DO
Psychiatry
- Jamil Khondker, MD
- Randall Kirk, DO
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