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Our Graduates

2024 Residency Training Graduates

Class of 2024	Plan	Program/Place
Acosta, Bella	Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship	University of Colorado
Aydin, Sezai Ustun	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Rutgers RWJMS
Diaz Garcia, Memphis	Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship	NYU
Hennen, Mary-Anne	Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Patell, Saatchi	Outpatient Psychiatry	Kaiser Permanente
Rosenheck, Eve	PES	Per diem, NJMS
Shekar, Nikith	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Rutgers RWJMS
Shah, Kishan	Outpatient Psychiatry and Associate Program Director	Jersey Shores University Medical Center

2023 Residency Training Graduates


Andrea Guerrero Cignarella Chief Resident	Mehmet Kucker, MD	Prerana Suresh Kurtkoti Chief Resident MBBS


Donya Nazery, DO	Karl Steier, DO	Philip Wong, MD

Graduate Class 2023	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Andrea Guerrero Cignarella	Addiction fellowship	Yale University
Prerana Suresh Kurtkoti	Outpatient Psychiatry	Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center
Donya Nazery	Outpatient Psychiatry	Kaiser Permanente
Karl Steier	Inpatient Psychiatry	Overlook Medical Center/Atlantic Health System
Philip Wong	Emergency Psychiatry	South Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health
Ana Claudia Zacarkim	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Cambridge Health Alliance
Utku Kucuker	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	New York University Langone Health

2022 Residency Training Graduates


Muhammad Aadil, MD	Zahra Basseda, MD	Diego Garces Grosse, MD


Faisal Kagadkar, MD	Aitzaz Munir, MD	Geoffrey Talis, MD


Chun Tong, MD	Heather Wurtz, MD

Graduate Class 2022	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Chun M. Tong	Addiction fellowship	Mt. Sinai West
Muhammad Aadil	Addiction fellowship	Yale University
Zahra Basseda	Outpatient Psychiatry	NY and NJ
Geoffrey Talis	Outpatient Psychiatry	NY and NJ
Aitzaz Munir	Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship	New York University Langone Health
Diego Garces Gosse	CL Psychiatry Fellowship	New York University Langone Health
Faisal Kagadkar	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Colorado University
Heather Wurtz	Outpatient Psychiatry	NY and NJ

2021 Adult Residency Training Graduates


James Sherer, MD Chief Resident	Rober Aziz, MD Chief Resident	Samar Alimirzaei, MD	Mohammad Ali, MD


Lukmon Babajide, MD	Lancer Naghdechi, DO MS

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2020	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Aziz, Rober	Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship	New York University
Babajide, Lukmanafis	Transgender Psychiatry Fellowship	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Naghdechi, Lancer	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell LIJ
Sherer, James	Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship	New York University
Samar Ali Mirzaei	Outpatient Psychiatry	NY and NJ
Mohammad Ali	Outpatient Psychiatry	Locum Tenems-NJ and NY

2020 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Robert Rymowicz, DO Chief Resident	Ketan Hirapara, MD Chief Resident	Banu Karadag, MD	Usman Ahmad, MD MBA


Gezel Saheli, MD	Rafael Coira, MD JD	Mayowa Olusunmade, MD MPH

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2020	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Rymowicz, Robert	Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship	UCLA
Hirapara, Ketan	Pain Medicine Fellowship	Allegheny Health Network
Karadag, Banu	Inpatient Faculty	New Jersey
Ahmad, Usman	Outpatient Faculty	New Jersey
Saheli, Gezel	Tele Psychiatry	California
Coira, Rafael	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	New York Medical College
Olusunmade, Mayowa	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

2019 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Senthil Vel Rajan Rajaram Manoharan, MBBS, MD Chief Resident	Xiaojing Shi, MD	Zain Khalid, MD Chief Resident	Zeshawn Ali, DO


Bishara Bhasi, MD	Sebastian Cisneros-Trujillo, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2019	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Khalid, Zain	Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship	Brown University
Vel Rajan Rajaram Manoharan, Senthil	Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship	University of Pennsylvania
Ali, Zeshawn	Inpatient Faculty	New Jersey
Shi, Xiaojing	Outpatient Faculty	Ohio
Cisneros-Trujillo, Sebastian	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Columbia University Medical Center
Bhasi, Bishara	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	John Hopkins Hospital

2018 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Noah Melikian, MD	Kalliopi Nissirios, MD	Veeraraghavan Iyer, MD	Allen Dsouza, MD


Shivanshu Shrivastava, MD	Bimla Rai, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2018	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Afzal, Saba	Outpatient Faculty	New Jersey
Been-Carrasco, Danilo	Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship	Yale School Of Medicine
Berliner, Alexandra	Inpatient Faculty	Northwell Health, New York
Khairalla, Hanan	Locum Tenems	New Jersey and Massachusetts
Melikian, Noah	Outpatient Psychiatry	New Jersey
Nissiorios, Kalliopi	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Columbia University Medical Center
Iyer, Veeraraghavan	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital
Dsouza, Allen	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Rai, Bimla	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	John Hopkins Hospital
Shrivastava, Shivanshu	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	University of Miami Medical center

2017 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Afiah Ahsan, MD (Chief Resident)	Ritesh Amin, MD	Nahil Chohan, MD (Chief Resident)	Farha Motiwala, MD


Samir Qasim, MD	Shariq Haque, MD	Zeynep Ozinci, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2017	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Ahsan, Afiah	Tele Psychiatry	Virginia
Amin, Ritesh	Faculty	EOVA, New Jersey
Chohan, Nahil	Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship	Montefiore Medical Center
Motiwala, Farha	Psychosomatics Fellowship	Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital
Qasim, Samir	Outpatient Psychiatry	Pennsylvania
Haque, Shariq	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Ozinci, Zeynep	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	Long Island Jewish Medical Center

2016 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Michelle Benitez, MD (Chief)	Noah Villegas, MD (Chief)	Tshering Bhutia, MD	Wajid Hussain, MD


Nayla Hariz, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2016	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Tshering Bhutia	Inpatient Psychiatrist	Employed, California
Benitez, Michelle	Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship	University of Miami
Hariz, Nayla	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship	SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Villegas, Noah	Psychosomatic Medicine	Beth Israel Mount Sinai Hospital
Hussain, Wajid	Inpatient Psychiatry	Employed, New Jersey

2015 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Atika Zubera, MD (Chief)	Susana Sanchez, MD (Chief)	Noel Baker, MD	Sonal Batra, MD


Shaojie Han, MD	Humaira Shoaib, MD	Tamkeen Khurshid, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2015	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Baker, Noel	Locum Tenems	New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania
Batra, Sonal	Addiction Psychiatry	University of Pennsylvania
Khurshid, Tamkeen	Geriatrics Psychiatry	Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Shaoib, Humaira	Psychosomatic Medicine	Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Han, Shaojie	Addiction Psychiatry	Montefiore Medical Center
Sanchez, Susana	Psychosomatic Medicine	New York University School of Medicine
Zubera, Atika	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School
Ankur Patel	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Pennsylvania State University
Samina Mirza	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Meredith Brandon	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School

2014 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Nicole Gunchi, MD	Mehreen Raza, MD	Katerina Fineti, MD	Samina Raja, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2014	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Chandra, Shanel	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	University of Syracuse
Fineti, Katerina	Addiction Psychiatry	Boston University
Guanci, Nicole	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Columbia University
Khizar, Anbreen	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	SUNY Downstate
Raja, Samina	Geriatrics Psychiatry	Duke University
Raza, Mahreen	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School

2013 Adult Residency Training Graduates


Lashire Diegue, MD	Saima Latif, MD	Gurpreet Sandhu, MD	Christopher Montes, MD

Maria del Pilar Trelles, MD	Rakesh Goyal, MD	Daniel Almeida, MD

Where did they go?

Graduate Class 2013	Fellowship or Profession	Program
Almeida, Daniel	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Diegue, Lashire	Private practice	New Jersey
Goyal, Rakesh	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Institute of Living Hartford Hospital
Latiff, Saima	Geriatrics Psychiatry	Beth Israel Medical Center
Maria-Trelles, Pilar	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Montes, Chris	Inpatient	Faculty, EOVA
Sandu, Gupreet	Private Practice	Virginia
Mudassir, Tariq	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Tufts University