SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Residency Program
Alumni - Wnere are our graduates now?
2017-2018
- Jerzy Hubert, MD: Psychosomatic Fellowship
New York University, NY - Jacob Leivent, MD: Psychiatric Attending
Oakland, CA - Tessa Murante, DO: Psychiatric Attending (2018), Geriatric Fellowship (7/2019)
Cornell University Medical Center, NY - Mohammadmehdi Omidvari, MD: Psychosomatic Fellowship
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY - Tarah Scanlon, MD, DO: Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY - Leah Steinberg, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center/Kings County Hospital, NY - Aninditha Vengassery, MD: Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Gaurav Vishnoi, MBBS: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Northwell/Long Island Jewish Hospital, NY - Pratik Bahekar, MBBS: Psychiatric Residency/Research
Yale University, CT - Deborah Edelman, DO: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center/Kings County Hospital, NY - Vasiliki Karagiorga, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY - Stacy-Ann Phillip, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical School, NY - Michael Politis, DO: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Stanford University School of Medicine, CA - John Wilson, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
LSU School of Medicine, LA
2016-2017
- Lila Aboueid, DO: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, PA - Maninder S. Bhutani, MBBS: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Jeffrey Chang, MD: Psychiatric Attending
Manhattan VA/ Private practice - Arashinder Dhaliwal, MBBS: JChild & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Marla Hidalgo, DO: Psychiatric Attending
New York Health & Hospitals - Bellevue/NYU - Jeremy Klopman, MD: Psychiatric Attending
ACT Team-Bronx/Brooklyn/ Private Practice - Sheldon Noble, MD:
Break/No confirmed position on graduation - Furqan Nusair, MD: Forensic Psychiatry
NYU School of Medicine - Veronica Murphy, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital - Kirandeep Sandhu, MD: Psychiatric Attending
California - Srinath Gopinath, MBBS: Psychiatric Attending/Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, CT
2015-2016
- Ahmad Arain, MBBS: Psychosomatic Medicine
University of Texas-Southwestern - Ammar El Sara, MBChB: Psychosomatic Medicine
SUNY Stony Brook, NY - Arman Fesharaki-Zadah, MD: Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine, CT - Tzvi Furer, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
NYU Medical Center, NY - Srinath Gopinath, MBBS: PGY5 - Executive Chief (Research)
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Max Lichtenstein, MD: Psychosomatic Medicine
Mount Sinai Health System, NYC - Raj Loungani, MD: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) - Omar Mirza, DO: Psychosomatic Medicine
Mount Sinai Health System, NYC - Rafik Sidaros, MBChB: Forensic Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine, CT - Anupriya Razdan, MBBS: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
John Hopkins Medical Center, MD
2014-2015
- Subhash Chandra, MD: Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, PA - Aryeh Dienstag, MD: Psychosomatic Fellowship
Mount Sinai Health System, NYC - Sarah Fajgenabum, MD: Psychosomatic Fellowship
Bronx Lebanon Medical Center, NY - Rishi Gautam, MBBS: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
NYU Medical Center, NY - Anupriya Gogne, MBBS: Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
NYU Medical Center, NY - Ryan Hashem, MD
- Jyothsna Karlapalem, MBBS: Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
Mount Sinai Health System, NYC - Anup Mani, DO: Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Kashmira Rustomji, MD: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Yale School of Medicine, CT - Natasha Wallace, MD: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Roxanne McMorris, MD: Child and Adolescent psychiatry fellowship
Baylor College of Medicine, TX
2013-2014
- Kendra Campbell, MD: Public Psychiatry Fellowship
University of Columbia, NY - Mudassar Iqbal, MD: PHP Attending Psychiatrist
Kings County Hospital Center, NY - Diana Kurlyandchik, MD: Forensic psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Upstate medical center, Syracuse, NY - Tamar Lavy, MD: Attending Psychiatrist
Bronx Lebanon psychiatric hospital - Daniel Roman, MD: Attending psychiatrist
Bronx Lebanon psychiatric hospital - Cyrus Matthew, MD: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
NYU Medical Center, NY - Kiyoko Ogoke, MD: Attending psychiatrist
Ryker's Island, NY - Sasha Rai, MBBS, MD: Forensic fellowship
University of Colorado, CO - Helen Ryu, MD: Geriatric fellowship
Long Island Jewish hospital, NY - Mohamed Sherif, MD: Research fellowship
Yale School of Medicine, CT - Audra Yadack, MD: Geriatric fellowship
Brown School of medicine, Rhode Island - Tanya Menard, MD: Child and Adolescent psychiatry fellowship
Long Island Jewish hospital, NY - Varun Sharma, MBBS, MD: Child and Adolescent psychiatry fellowship University of Pennsylvania, PA
2012-2013
- Lama Bazzi, MD: Forensic Fellowship
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH - Hassan Fathy, MD: Inpatient Attending Psychiatrist
Kings County Hospital Center, NY - Elena Garcia Aracena, MD: Public Psychiatry Fellowship
Yale School of Medicine, CT - Ifeanyi Izediuno, MB, BS: Attending Psychiatrist
St. Louis University School of Medicine, MO - Constanza Martinez Pinanez, MD: Consultation & Liaison Fellowship
Cleveland Clinic, OH - Michael Reinhardt, MD: Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY
2011-2012
- Lada Alexeenko, MD: Addiction Fellowship
Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC - Carolina Jimenez Madiedo, MD: Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MS - Richard Kinyamu, MD: Inpatient Attending Psychiatrist
Kings County Hospital Center, NY - Suprit Parida, MB, BS: Addiction Fellowship
Yale School of Medicine, CT - Sharath Puttichanda MB,BS: Attending Psychiatrist
Butler Psychiatric Hospital, Brown University, RI - Sherif Ragab, MBBCh: Inpatient Attending Psychiatrist
Kings County Hospital Center, NY - Renata Sanders, MD:
Private Practice, New York - Jamuna Theventhiran, MD: Outpatient Attending Psychiatrist
New Hampshire Regional Hospital, Portsmouth, NH - Deval Zevari, MB, BS: Inpatient Attending Psychiatrist
Kings County Hospital Center, NY
2010-2011
- Chadi Abdallah, MD: Neuroimaging Research Fellow,
Yale School of Medicine
Psychopharmacology Fellow of Medicine,
Yale School of Medicine - Prakash Chandra, MD: Child & Adolescent Fellowship
University of Kansas, KS - Fayaz Ibrahim, MD: Attending Psychiatrist Kaweah Delta Visalia,
Traditions Behavioral Health, Fresno, CA - Dunyue Lu, MD, PhD: Attending Psychiatrist McLaren Behavioral Health Services,
McLaren Regional Medical Center, Detroit, MI - Morteza Rahmani, MD: Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Beth Israel Medical Center, NY - Hamed Rezaishiraz, MD, PhD: Attending Psychiatrist Doctors Behavioral Health Center,
Doctors Medical Center, CA - Dimple Sodhi, MD: Child & Adolescent Fellowship
Zucker Hillside Hospital of the North Shore/Long Island Health System, NY - Hina Tasleem, MD: Community Psychiatry Fellowship
Columbia University, New York - Chanille Young, MD, PhD: Attending Psychiatrist
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, NY
2009-2010
- Nurun Begum, MB, BS: Geriatric Psychiatrist
Dover, DE - Daniel Epelbaum, MD: Neuropsychiatrist
St. Mary's Hospital, CT
Outpatient Attending,
Yale University Medical Center - Sukriti Mittal, MB, BS: Adult Psychiatrist
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, NY - Josephine Mokonogho, MD: Adult Psychiatrist
Crozer Keystone Health System, PA
Psycho-Oncology/Psychosomatic Fellowship,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Center, NY - Richa Pathak, MB, BS: Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist
Kaiser Permente, Santa Clara Homestead, CA
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship,
Zucker Hillside Hospital of the North Shore/Long Island Health System, NY - Anand Sukumaran, MB, BS: Attending Psychiatrist Mental Health & Counseling,
Yale Health, CT
Addiction Fellowship,
Yale University Medical Center - Lina Villegas, MD: Attending Psychiatrist
Maimonides Medical Center
NY Public Psychiatry Fellowship,
Columbia University, 2011
2008-2009
- John Abulu, MD: Child and Adolescent Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Aparna Dole, MD: Adult Psychiatrist Cleveland Clinic, FL Psychosomatic Fellowship,
Cleveland Clinic, 2010 - Kah (Clarence) Goh: Child and Adolescent Fellowship
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY - Carolina Klein, MD: Forensic Psychiatrist
Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, DC
Forensic Fellowship,
Georgetown University Hospital
Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy Training,
New York Psychoanalytic Institute Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis - Navin Natarajan, MD: Geriatric Psychiatrist
Hutchinson Area Health Care, MN
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship,
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital - Pria Persaud: Child and Adolescent Fellowship
Stony Brook School of Medicine, NY
2007-2008
- Dinara Amanbekova, MD: Attending, Adolescent Inpatient Service
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship,
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Azziza Bankole, MD: Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist
Carilion Center for Healthy Aging, VA Carilion Clinic Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine - Roanoke, VA
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems - Shilpa Diwan, MD: Geriatric Psychiatrist
The Summit Center for Mental Health, Joliet, IL
Geriatric Fellowship,
Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL - Juan Gallego, MD: Attending Psychiatrist
Zucker Hillside Hospital NY Research Fellowship (Schizophrenia) - Icelini Garcia-Sosa, MD: Attending Psychiatrist
Kings County Hospital Center, NY
Research Fellowship (Mood Disorders),
Yale University Medical Center - Cecile Matip, MD, MPH: Child Psychiatrist Child and Family Services,
Oswego Hospital, NY
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship,
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque - Nikhil Palekar, MD: Attending Psychiatrist
Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NY - Rajvee Vora, MD: Director of Ambulatory Care Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Nassau University Medical Center, NY