October 16, 2018

Congratulations: Resident teaching award winners announced, determined by medical student ratings from core clerkships

The Wayne State University School of Medicine has announced teaching awards for residents at each of its clinical campuses, which include the Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, St. John Medical Center, Detroit VA Hospital and William Beaumont-Dearborn.

The residents are teaching students during their core clerkships in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Emergency Medicine.

The residents were selected by the third-year students of the Class of 2019, in the 2017-18 academic year, based on their teaching ratings. Resident teaching is evaluated by each student for each clinical rotation. These awards were given directly from these ratings.

The awards are given annually by the School of Medicine to recognize outstanding teaching that occurs every day in its clinical campuses and outpatient centers. Residents can be identified by the lapel pins they were awarded.

Psychiatry

Detroit Medical Center: Karen Oteyza, Haley Getzen, Lauren-Alyssa Wake, Alexandru Cojanu, Francesco Iacobelli, Justin Gray, Gina Rana and Ashika Bains.

Henry Ford: Pooja Subramanian, Aimee Dereczyk, Shehryar Khan, Ibrahim Sablaban, Ganj Beebani, Anjali Thakrar, Mansi Chawa and Vahid Pasovic.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Detroit Medical Center: Alex Matthews, George Contos, Rebecca Kelly, Ellery Greenberg, Shashank Srivastava, Brittany Van Houten, Maria Maldonado, Amanda Pham, Mary Kownack and Joseph Roofeh.

Henry Ford: Alionye Usifoh, Haleema Saeed, Amneet Sran, Monica Kole, Denise Sousa, Tra Pham and Vini Chopra.

William Beaumont Hospital - Dearborn: Caela Hesano and Abigail Brooks.

Internal Medicine

Detroit Medical Center: Manpreet Singh, Manmohan Singh, Pranav Shah, Wael Saasouh, Mohammad Rauf, Gopi Krishna Polasa, Anirudh Penumetcha, Sheetal Patel, Hala Nas, Arunkumar Muthusamy, Ammara Mushtaq, Syed Mohsin, Shahram Maroof, Hannah Kwak, Mowyad Omer Elamin Khalid, Jasleen Kaur, Leslie Kao, Gipsa Joseph, Quanri Jin, Hammadi Khaled Janom, Yahya Amer Ibrahim, Michael Hill, Samran Haider, Gita Gupta, Tricia Griffiths, Firas El-Baba, Khalid Ebrahim, Navin Durairajan, John Dawdy, Catherine Compton, Tiffany Chang, Ryan Benjamin, Hatim Ali, Nabil Al-Kourainy, Shivani Agrawal, Ahmad Abu-Heija, Haider Aldiwani, Antonio Smith, Erik Soule, Anita Choudhary, Mustafa Ajam, Kathryn Rice, Abdelaziz Mohamed, Kalyna Jakibchuk, Sidra Ilyas, Babyan Chaker, Jonathan Arcobello, Tushar Mishra, Shankar Kundumadam, Abraham Arhin, Sahrish Ilyas, Adel Adnan Elmoghrabi, Marvin Kajy, Ahmed Yeddi, Vijendra Singh, Deya Mohamad Obaidat, Lea Monday, Amjad Kanj, Carli Denholm, Heather Abraham, Lamar Johnson, Ghazala Imran and Ghaith Ghazala.
Henry Ford: Sam Tirgari, George Samuel, Omar Sadiq, Fortune Ojeanor, Tania Kohal, Karishma Khullar, Mahmoud Isseh, Remi Hamel, Naureen Farook, Nicholas Coriasso, Charles Siedlecki, Danielle Heidemann, Abigail Entz, Maryam Alimirah, Beatrice Knisely, Travis Kimple, Kamal Khorfan, Namita Joseph, Farshid Bozorgnia, Mohamed Altattan, Katherine Huang, Angie Adhami, Vidhya Nair, Samantha Noll, Omar Khan, Jeffreyh Dueweke, Mansur Pathan, Elsheikh Abdelrahim, Ali Saeed and Hussayn Alrayes.

St. John: Matthew Wilkins, Fawad Shahid, William Dillon and Mehmet Alpas.

William Beaumont Hospital - Dearborn: Chadambaram Valliappan, Karoon Smbatt, Tassia Samona, Monica Ray, Naba Qureshi, Mayssara Al-jubori and Adnan Malik.

Pediatrics

Children's Hospital of Michigan: Diana Torpoco, Adekunbi Adelakun, Agaja Olabode, Cindy Agu, Eman Al-Antary, Marla Aldana-Sierra, Noor Al-Husayni, Rima Aljundi, Erin Andrews, Abraham Arhin, Heather Axelrod, Hilary Beauchamp, Andrea Bedway, Hanz Blatt, Kayla Bryant, Afra Can, Emily Casterline, Kai-Wei Chang, Tiffany Chang, Sarah Chaudhry, Tamara Cooks, Razan Dafalla, Pooja Dave, RaShonda Dennis, Komal Desai, Maureen DeWitt, Maria Deza Leon, Sarah Dionne, Firas El-Baba, Yinan Fu, Maria Gallardo, Yuqing Gao, Liliya Gerasymchuk, Tuhina Govil-Dalela, Kelley Groves, Vignesh Gunasekaran, Gita Gupta, Avanti Gupte, Daniel Hanba, Jonathan Heckman, Julie Hrabovsky, Jenny Huang, Batool Hussain, Elizabeth Johnson, Lamar Johnson, Anila Kanna, Gabrielle Karpinsky, Pallavi Karunakaran, Shagun Kaur, Britaini Kessler, Marshal Khant, Julia Kleinhenz, Veronica Korthals, Mansi Kothari, Kathleen Kroger, Hanna Kwak, Judith Lau, Jamie Lee, Shannon Leikert, Christine McGivney, Tayaba Miah, Ariff Moolla, Valeria Moore, Thomas Murphy, Hieu Nguyen, Jennifer Nimtz, Donald Okoye, Jessica Palmieri, Andrea Parks, Saumya Pathak, Prabhumallikarjun Patil, Jane Philip, Daniel Pomerantz, Varsha Raghavan, Kathryn Rice, Gena Schubert, Kuntal Sen, Adam Singer, Ramit Singla, Swetha Sriram, Sean Sullivan, Carl Tabb II, Mohamed Taki, Drishti Tolani, Duygu Uzun, Courtney Watza, Katherine Wentworth, Bryan Willis, Patrick Wloszcynski, Tess Woehrlen, Marlissa Wolf, Michael Woodall and Tabatha Wydryck.

Surgery

William Beaumont Hospital - Dearborn: Bethany Mensink, Lucky Vang, Dianne Seo, Pial Hossain, Caleb Birchler, Giang Quach, Tom Russo, Shawn Moulder and Ben Selle.

Detroit Medical Center: Moiz Dawood, Lindsay Reilly, Neil Patel, Mia Miller, Jonathan Martin, Naresh Sundaresan, Dean Kristl and Michael Perry.

Henry Ford: Jana Sacco, Efstathios Karamanos, Justin Chamberlain, Joel Stracke, Warren Swegal, Adhnan Mohamed, Yasaman Kavousi, Ilya Rakitin, Ihab Saab, Sanjay Mohanty, Naveen Kachroo, Hatem Abdallah, Sriram Eleswarapu, Jenna Watson, Andrew Worden, Mackenzie Goodwin, Hassan Ahmad, Cletus Stanton, Lara Massie, Anne Wyman and Megan Coughlin.

St. John: Victoria Simmons, Jennifer Ford, Omar El-Shazly, Sejul Chaudhary, Mark Sarazin, Tatiana Fedorova, Jared Davis, Gavin Ambrosi, Ryan Chupp and Amanda Kupstas.

Emergency Medicine

Detroit Receiving Hospital: Amber Cibrario, Sarah Gleason, Robert Wahl, Joshua McKamie, Lauren Kava, Andrew Loftus and Sean Farley.
Sinai-Grace: Ashley DaPra, Lauren Gandolfo and Reid Smith.

St. John: Scott Evans, Shawn Munafo, Nicholas Leonowicz, Elizabeth Shaheen, Andrew Frye, Kevin Chang, David Nguyen, Jared Ross, Elizabeth Peacock.

Henry Ford: Mansoor Siddiqui, Diana Dean, Cynthia Chen, Huzefa Mogri, Aileen Newmyer, Sophia Binz, Randi Connor-Schuler, Danial Hrabec and Stefan Craciun.

Neurology

Detroit Medical Center: Zainab Aalawi, Varun Chauhan, Aaron Desai, Deepmala Nandanwar, Shabnam Pakneshan, Hamidreza Saber and Taofik Nasrat.

Henry Ford: Owais Alsrouji, Mirjon Bishja, Travis Hamilton, Mohammed Kananeh, Aarushi Suneja and Salman Zahoor.

Family Medicine

William Beaumont Hospital - Dearborn: Shadia Yeihey, Mariam Saleh, Sagal Mohamud, Daniel Angell, Aaron Simpson and Young Park.

St. John: Jeanette Wilson.

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