Meet Our 2024 Graduates!

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) graduating classes of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, General Surgery, and Transitional Year residents have achieved so much. Many have been accepted into competitive fellowship programs, and several have been hired on with NGMC to begin their careers to serve the community they have come to love.

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Our Alumni


General Surgery Residency Program, Inaugural Graduating Class

Dr. Maurice Asouzu
Longstreet Clinic

Dr. Elaine Lelli
Plastic and Reconstructive Fellowship at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Dr. Harper Niver
Breast Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Nicole Redenius
North Alabama Medical Center

Dr. Michael Stolz
Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship at Hackensack University Medical Center


Transitional Year Residency Program, Inaugural Graduating Class

Crystal Ayazo, MD
Primary Care Track, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, GA

Angelo Changas, DO
General Surgery, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, GA

Daniel Davis, MD
Tucson, Arizona, Health Education Services, TN

Woodly Dominique, DO
Internal Medicine, Valley Health System, NV

FNU Kalpana, MD
Internal Medicine, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, GA

Miles McCabe, DO
Emergency Medicine, HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani GME, Brandon, FL

Ebere Obasi, MD
Family Medicine, Memorial Health Univ Med Ctr, GA

Han Park, DO
Emergency Medicine, Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion SOM

Pavan Patel, DO
Radiology-Memorial Health-Univ Med Ctr-GA

O’Connell Penrose, MD
Family Medicine, HCA Healthcare LGH-Montgomery/VCOM, VA

Patrick Speck, MD
Baylor Coll Med, Houston, TX

Mukhamed Sulaimanov, MD
Baptist Memorial Health, Memphis, TN


Internal Medicine Residency Program

Zainab Abbasi, MD
Hospitalist Brown University Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI

Tanya Aggarwal, MD
Endocrinology Fellowship University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Hossny Alaws, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

Sheena Bhushan, MD
Hepatology Fellowship Liver Institute Northwest, Seattle, WA

Ibrar Anjum, MD
PRN Hospitalist NGMC, Gainesville, GA

Aditya Ghosh, MD
Senior Associate Consultant of Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Abdullah Ismail, MD
Hospitalist

Swathi Kanakamedala, DO
Hematology & Oncology Fellowship University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Michael Klein, MD
Hospitalist Banner Health Baywood Medical Center, Mesa, AZ

Akshay Kumar, MD
Hospitalist Piedmont Augusta Hospital, GA

Nina Le, DO
Hospitalist University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Nicole McGuire, MD
Hospitalist

Ange A. Mele, MD
Hospitalist Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA

Aleksandros Mihilli, MD
Nocturnist/Hospitalist Yale New Haven, CT

Pratikkumar Patel, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Olivia Peralta, MD
Hospitalist Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA

Alexander Santos, DO
Infectious Disease Fellowship PRISMA Health – Upstate, Greenville, SC

Chail Shah, MD
Neuro Critical Care Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Stephanny Reyes, MD
Endocrinology Fellowship University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT

Ruben Ruiz Vega, MD
Hematology & Oncology Fellowship University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Anais Yakana, MD, MPH
CHIEF


Family Medicine Residency Program

Dr. Sarika Chowdhry
Preventative Medicine Pandya Medical Center – Braselton, GA

Dr. Kerese Downer
Diabetes, Obesity Medicine, Community Medicine, Pediatrics Northeast Georgia Physicians Group – Bethlehem, GA

Dr. Mutiat Enikanolaiye
Preventative Medicine, Patient Education, SDoH Piedmont Physicians of Monroe – Monroe, GA

Dr. Adeyemi Gbogboade
Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Outpatient – Decatur, GA

Dr. Norine Germain
Obesity Medicine, Preventative Medicine, Pediatrics Kaiser Permanente – Douglasville, GA

Dr. James Hong
Preventative Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Medicine Northeast Georgia Physicians Group – Buford

Dr. Traci Jenkins
Academic Medicine, Community Outreach Primary Care – Atlanta, GA

Dr. Nicole Jimerson
Obesity Medicine, Lipid Management Aylo Health – Jackson, GA

Dr. Andrew Joseph
Obesity Medicine, Integrative Medicine
Northwest Allied Physicians Primary Care – Oro Valley, AZ

Dr. Jasbir Kaur
Preventative Medicine, Chronic Disease Management, Weight Loss, OMT Piedmont Physicians Group – Atlanta, GA

Dr. Maria Munoz – Bramhall
Obesity Medicine, Preventative Medicine, Community Medicine, Diabetes Family Medicine GME

Dr. Sohail Vaghari
General Medicine


Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program

Mariam Anwar, MD
Northside Hospital

Mary Keith, MD
Faculty
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at NGMC

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