2021 graduation in the books! This past week we had the chance to celebrate our residents, staff, and faculty!
Our graduating PGY-3 residents:
Sankavi Aravagiri
Samantha Gelman
Eric Khau
Geethu Nair
Sabhyata Sharma
Joseph Chang
George Hanna
Megan Modenos
Nasim Poorjafar
Roger Sur
Satvir Dhillon
Sean Hunt
Bahman Moghadam
Dietrich Schlueter
Waylee Tan
Our graduating preliminary interns:
Ahmed Abdelhalim
Donald Chan
Lin Hwang
Andrew Lin
Arianna McGehee
Saif Azam
Anthony Chen
Cassie Jia
Derrick Lock
Christopher Wong
Big Shout Outs to our Residents of the Year:
Resident of the Year
Andre Johnson
PGY3 Resident of the Year
Bahman Moghadam
PGY2 Resident of the Year
Muhammad Madkour
Categorical Intern of the Year
Omar Shahin
Preliminary Intern of the Year
Saif Azam
We would also like to acknowledge our wonderful faculty, medical students, and staff:
Teachers of the Year
Selfless Service Award: Kumar Venkat
Humanitarian Award: Allison Woodall
Outpatient Education Award: Leah Hopkins
Inpatient Education Award: Ahmad Alazzeh
Procedural Education Award: Vinay Yagnik
Innovation Award: Lucas Friedman
Leadership Award: Zeron Ghazarian
Passion Award: Dalia Dawoud
Mentorship Award: Mimi Biswas
Overall Award: Eric H. Choi
Medical Students of the Year
MS3: Morcel Hamidy
MS4: Iqra Iqbal
Outstanding Support
Case Management Award: Mark Mckimmey
Research Award: Hyunju Heineke
Nurse of the Year Award: Cameron Emery
We also recognized Irma Lazo for her support over the past year; and Denise Hayes for her assistance in navigating our response to COVID.
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