Meet our Residents
2018-2019 Chief Residents
Hello and welcome!
Our names are Brandon, Isabel, Jimmy and Vanessa and we are proud to serve as the Emory Emergency Medicine Chief Residents for the 2018-2019 year. Thank you for taking the time to stop by our website and we hope it can serve a nice introduction to our residency. There are so many wonderful things about the Emory EM residency program that it’s impossible to list them all but please allow us to highlight just a few:
- Our people and our diversity - we are a diverse residency with residents and faculty members for all walks of life. We know that our diversity is a strength and we truly value it.
- Our patients - We are proud and honored to the be the emergency medicine physicians for a large and vulnerable population.
- Our clinical sites - our training takes place at county, academic and community hospitals. Our “home base” is Grady Memorial Hospital - a historical county hospital that is a level 1 trauma center and the stroke referral center in the Southeast. We also work at Emory University Main Hospital which is a quaternary referral site, Emory Midtown which is a community site and also the two Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Hospitals for our pediatric rotations. A combination of all of these sites and the faculty that comes with them prepares for all different clinical settings.
- Academics - We have a strong research program that spans cutting edge sepsis and stroke research, to violence prevention and gun violence research to social determinants of health research of health.
- Atlanta - sunny, walkable, excellent food and drink, great hiking, and AMAZING BBQ.
Thanks for reading! Please reach out to anyone of us if you have any questions.
EmoryproudGradymade,
Brandon, Isabel, Jimmy and Vanessa
- You may direct correspondence to any Emory University Emergency Medicine resident through the Emergency Medicine chief residents at emcr@listserv.cc.emory.edu.
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Recruited from all over the world, Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine residents train alongside high-functioning residents in other specialties to foster both personal and professional collegiality. This approach prepares residents for careers in a field where the interface with all specialties is of great importance. Each year, residents have progressively increased responsibility in the Emergency Departments.
Residents graduate with the ability to practice independently in any demanding Emergency Department in the country. Approximately 30 percent of our graduates stay in academics and have an excellent track record of obtaining the faculty position or fellowship of their choice. The majority of our residents enter community-based practices and are recruited nationally. As the only training program in Atlanta proper, Emory University Emergency Medicine residents have the advantage in the local market.
Residency Classes
Class of 2014
Class of 2015
Class of 2016
Abdullah Almehbash: King Saud University Saudi Arabia
Pearl Ann Arnovitz: Emory University
Abdullah Bakhsh: Umm Al Qura Univ. Saudi Arabia
Sri "Rahul" Balusu: Emory University
Constantin "Stan" Chikando: Morehouse
Shamie Das: Wright State University Boonshaft
Elizabeth "Liz" Davlantes: Washington Univ.
Eric Deutsch: Emory University
Brandi Gunn: Emory University
Jason Holmes: Penn State
Adam Kalwersky: University of Maryland
Monica Khan: Rush
Harajeshwar Kohli: Virginia Commonwealth
Kevin Little: Emory University
Sepedeh "Nadia" Nabavi: Medical College of Georgia
Harjot Singh: Texas Tech Univ.
Claire Abramoff: Ohio State
Tatiana Vladimirovna: Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Brad Wallace: Morehouse
Zachary Wetendorf: Univeristy of South Florida
David Zhou: University of Florida
Class of 2017
Maryam Arshad: King Edward University
Breanne "Bree" Bailey- Jacobs: Trinity College
Christopher Bodle: Indiana Univeristy
Yalina Disla: Mount Sinai
Ian Dodson: Tulane University
Akshay Ganju: Washington University
Eric Hamm: Univ of Arizona
Marita Harris-Naddell: Morehouse
Renee Johnson: Univeristy of North Carolina
Shikha Kapil: Medical College of Georgia
Joshua Kuhn: Medical College of Georgia
Olivia Minkhorst: Emory University
Akinyi Ragwar: Univeristy of North Carolina
Jose Rosa: Univeristy of Southern California
Dan Rutz: Emory University
Terry Singhpricha: Duke University
June Tibaleka: Duke University
Tamara Washington: Howard University
Jeremy Whitley: Emory University
Class of 2018
Class of 2018
| Resident | Medical School |
|---|---|
| Rawan Alosaimi, MD |
King Saud University, Riyadh College of Medicine |
| Betty Dean, MD |
St. George's University School of Medicine |
| Karen Bowers, MD |
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine |
| Megan Boissonneault, MD |
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University |
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Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine |
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| Latanya Gobin, MD |
Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Waleed Hussein, MD |
King Khalid University College of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Toni Jackson, MD |
University of Florida College of Medicine |
| Kristen Liska, MD |
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| Layne Madden, MD |
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine |
| William Malcolm, MD |
University of Michigan Medical School |
| Sar Medoff, MD |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Cristina Mullins, MD |
Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Kahra Nix, MD |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine |
| Joshua Reynolds, MD |
Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Emma Sizemore, MD |
Emory University School of Medicine |
| Jasmin Tanaja, MD |
Poznan University of Medical Sciences Center |
| Sawlar Vu, MD |
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine |
| Kristy Whyte, MD |
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine |
| Darin Williams, MD |
Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Lauren Wingo, MD |
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine |
Class of 2019
Class of 2019
| Resident | Medical School |
|---|---|
| Aarian Afshari, MD |
Florida State University College of Medicine |
| Walla Alfaraj, MD | University of Dammam College of Medicine |
| Joshua Armentrout, MD | Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Jullian Beau, MD | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University |
| Caelyn Bellerose, MD | SUNY Upstate Medical University College of Medicine |
| Tonya Bolton, DO | Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Vanessa Cousins, MD | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Alexander Eskandri, MD | University of Central Florida College of Medicine |
| Brandon Giberson, DO | University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Kelli Hunter, MD | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Najlaa Jaleesah, MD | Umm Al-Qura University Faculty of Medicine |
| Jacquelyn LaRussa, MD | Louisiana Statue University School of Medicine |
| Lorenzo Leon, MD | Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Rachel Libby, MD | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Isabel Malone, MD | Stritch School of Medicine Loyola University of Chicago |
| Aaron Rasmussen, MD | University of South Alabama College of Medicine |
| Martine Ridore, MD | University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Jonathan Swanson, MD | Medical College of Georgia |
| Jonathan Thomas, MD | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
| James Wong, MD | SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine |
| Michael Zdradzinski, MD | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
Class of 2020
| Resident | Medical School |
|---|---|
| Angelica Barnes, MD |
Emory University School of Medicine |
| Kenneth Disbrow, MD | Rutgers New Jersey Medical School |
| Emeka Egbebike, MD | University of Miami School of Medicine |
| Erasmo Espino, DO | Campell University School of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Jordi Fonts, MD | Rush Medical College |
| Tyler Giberson, MD | Geisel School of Medicine at Darmouth |
| Jennifer Goines, MD | Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Peyton Jones, MD | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Qasim Kazmi, MD | Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine |
| Ramu Kharel, MD | University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas |
| Sean Kolowich, MD | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Tammy Lin, MD | Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University |
| Michele Melamed, DO | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Lindsay Ordower, MD | George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Rachel Patzer, MD | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Joi Phillips, MD | Eastern Virgina Medical School |
| Amanda Ross, MD | Rush Medical College |
| Darius Watts, MD | Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Olivia Zoph, MD | University of Arizona College of Medicine at Phoenix |
Class of 2021
Ahmad Bakhribah: King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia
Benjamin Banapoor: Univeristy of Florida
Jordan Beau: Florida Atlantic University
Camille Beecher: Loyola
Eric Beyer: Florida State University
Ryan Brown: University of Florida
Timothy Cartwright: Mercer University
Cristine Flores: Brown
Abdulatif Gari: Umm Al-Qura Univeristy Saudi Arabia
Mina Ghobrial: Dartmouth
Tucker Hartley: Emory
Thomas Jauch: Rutgers
Nichole Lang: Univ of Massachusetts
Jordan Leumas: Louisiana State University
Donald Mayberry: Temple
Brian McCalister: Loyola
Kishen Patel: Emory
Sheri AnnPeckham-Kaltiso: Emory
Taylor Stavely: Univ of Tennessee
Nicholas Sterling: Penn State
Aadil Vora: Nova