Alumni

Alumni of Rutgers-Princeton MD/PhD program are physician-scientist in academia, hold leadership roles in the biopharmaceutical industry, and serve their communities as pracicing physicians. Click on a graduating year for each graduate's current role

Brian Czerniecki, MD, PhD: Professor and Chair of Breast Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Tampa, FL)

Kelly McMasters, MD, PhD: Ben A. Reid, Sr., M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery; Director, Multidisciplinary Melanoma Clinic, University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)

Thomas Giordano, MD, PhD:  Henry Clay Bryant Professor of Pathology, Endocrine Pathology; Director, Division of Molecular and Genomic Pathology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

 

Arthur Vasen, MD, PhD:  Hand & Upper Extremity Orthopaedic Surgeon, Seaview Orthopaedics (Ocean, NJ)

Jeanine D’Armiento, MD, PhD: Associate Professor of Medicine in Anesthesiology; Director of the Center for Molecular Pulmonary Disease in Anesthesiology and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Director, Center for LAM and Rare Lung Disease, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY)

Sharon Pan, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine), Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY)

Richard Leone, MD, PhD: Associate Medical Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, PeaceHealth (Bellingham, WA); Director of Thoracic Oncology, PeaceHealth (Bellingham, WA); Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Kadlec and Skagit Regional Health (Mount Vernon, WA)

Michael Farrell, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Hematology and Oncology, Connecticut Oncology Group, Middlesex Hospital (Middletown, CT)

 

Shawn Field, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Family Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center (Hazlet, NJ)

 

Godwin Okoye, MD, PhD: Ophthalmologic Surgeon, The LASIK Vision Institute and St. Jude Medical Center and Aesthetic Care (Brandon, FL)

Ronny Drapkin, MD, PhD: Director, Gynecologic Cancer Research, Basser Center for BRCA; Director, Ovarian Cancer Center; Franklin Payne Associate Professor of Pathology in Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Miriam Lefkowitz, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Internal Medicine, RWJBarnabas Health (North Brunswick, NJ)

 

Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD: Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina (Raleigh, NC)

 

Evan Wolf, MD, PhD: Attending Ophthalmologist and President, Wolf Eye Center (Wasilla, AK)

Nicholas DiProspero, MD, PhD: Senior Director, Clinical Leader, Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease Therapeutic Area, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Raritan, NJ)

 

Kevin Ryan, MD, PhD: Neurologist

Paul Haluska, MD, PhD: Vice President and Head, Clinical Search and Collaborations, Bristol-Myers Squibb (Princeton, NJ)

 

Emilio Mazza, MD, PhD: Vice Chairperson, Department of Medicine, Virtua Memorial Hospital of Burlington County; Chief, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Virtua North; Medical Director, Intensive Care Unit, Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly; Staff Pulmonologist/Intensivist, Virtua Garden State Pulmonary Associates (Mount Holly, NJ)

 

Gina Northington, MD, PhD: Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Chief of Clinical Service, OB/GYN, Emory University Hospital (Atlanta, GA)

 

Brian Pollack, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Pathology/Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA)

James Creeden, MD, PhD: Vice President and Global Medical Director, Foundation Medicine (Cambridge, MA)

 

Troy Edwards, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Urology, Orlando Health Medical Group Urology (Ocoee, FL)

 

Jennifer Hamilton, MD, PhD: Associate Professor, Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine; Director of the Family Medicine Clerkship, Drexel University College of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Howard Levene, MD, PhD: Surgeon, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Health System (Boca Raton, FL)

 

Hany Michail, MD, PhD: Chief Medical Officer, iVIEW Therapeutics (Doylestown, PA)

Neal Moskowitz, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Rheumatology, Temple Health; Partner, Arthritis Group (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Tanya Zaremba Fischer, MD, PhD: Vice President, CNS and Complement Clinical Development, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA)

Janivette Alsina, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School – Baystate (Springfield, MA)

 

Irina Burd, MD, PhD: Director, Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine; Professor of Gynecology & Obstetrics and Neurology; Director of Research, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore, MD)

 

John Schiltz, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Community Physician Network (Kokomo and Frankfort, IN)

Soumit Basu, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Hematology and Oncology, Christ Hospital (Cincinnati, OH)

 

Joshue Nitsche, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, NC)

 

Zeeshaan Rasheed, MD, PhD: Global Clinical Lead, Late Phase R&D, Immuno-oncology, Astra-Zeneca (Gaitersburg, MD)

 

Elizabeth Robinson Benjamin, MD, PhD: Associate Professor of Surgery, Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine; Trauma Medical Director, Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, GA)

 

Hilary Vernon, MD, PhD: Associate Professor, Departments of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Paul Lizzul, MD, PhD: Chief Medical Officer, AnaptysBio (San Diego, CA)

 

Arvin Yang, MD, PhD: Chief Medical Officer, Mersana Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA)

Parima Daroui, MD, PhD: Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine (Orange, CA)

 

Bijal Parikh, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology; Medical Director, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory; Associate Medical Director, Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratory; Associate Medical Director, HLA Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)

Stacey Trooskin, MD, PhD: Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Penn Infectious Diseases Perelman, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Tanishia Williams, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Children’s Specialized Hospital, RWJBarnabas Health (Hamilton, NJ)

Denise Livingston, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, Jersey Short University Medical Center (Neptune, NJ)

Thomas Coyne, MD, PhD: Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, District 21 (Fort Myers, FL)

 

Emmanuel Gabriel, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)

 

Akiva Marcus, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Center of the Palm Beaches and JFK Medical Center – North Campus; Co-founder, Chief Medical Officer, and Director, Amniochor, Inc.  (West Palm Beach, FL)

 

Ian Rossman, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Pediatric Neurology, Neurodevelopmental Science Center, Akron Children’s Hospital (Akron, OH)

 

Abhishek Singh, MD, PhD: Medical Director, Heart Success Program, Atlantic Health System (Morristown, NJ)

Marcelo Rocha, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology; Director, NIH StrokeNET Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

 

Natasha Telesford, MD, PhD: Hospitalist and Independent Consultant, Defined Health and Wellness, LLC (Jersey City, NJ)

Jean-Paul Abboud, MD, PhD: Oculofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Oculofacial Arts (San Diego, CA)

 

Issa Bagayogo, MD, PhD: Psychiatrist and Founder, The Olive Space Psychiatry (Athens, GA)

 

Bonnie Hall, MD, PhD: Physician Director, Bonnie Huang Hall Family Medicine; UCSF Assistant Clinical Professor, Natividad Medical Center and County of Monterey (Fremont, CA)

 

Matthew Treiser, MD, PhD: Chief of Microsurgery and Extremity Reconstruction, Miami Cancer Institute (Coral Gables, FL)

Kevin Anton, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Radiology; Director, Global Health Elective, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Brian Barlow, MD, PhD: Attending Physician, Emergency & Trauma Services, Bassett Healthcare Network (Cooperstown, NY)

 

Chris Langhammer, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Maryland Orthopaedic Associates (Baltimore, MD)

 

Sean Liu, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor in Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Hospital Medicine); Assistant Professor in Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY)

 

Peter Mazari, MD, PhD: Assistant Medical Examiner, New Jersey Southern Regional Medical Examiner’s Officer (Woodbine, NJ)

 

Nilay Sethi, MD, PhD: Instructor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Physician, Medical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA)

 

Jean Suh McGee, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA)

Shannon Agner, MD, PhD: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)

 

Erin Hailey, MD, PhD: Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Attending, Palliative Care Service, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD: Adult and Pediatric Retina Specialist, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)

Timothy Arlow, MD, PhD: Attending Physician in Ophthalmology, Conemaugh Health System (Johnstown, PA)

 

Desmond Brown, MD, PhD: Surgeon and Intramural Scientist, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD)

 

Eric Chen, MD, PhD: Resident, Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston University Medical Center (Boston, MA)

 

Hilary Grosso Jasutkar, MD, PhD: Fellow, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York, NY)

 

Jay Oza, MD, PhD: Fellow, Hematology and Oncology, New York-Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York, NY)

Christiaan Robert de Vries, MD, PhD: Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)

 

Clifton Fulmer, MD, PhD: Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathologist, Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)

 

Xiaonan Richard Sun, MD, PhD: Resident, Neurosurgery, North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, NY)

Kathleen Capaccione, MD, PhD: Resident, Radiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York, NY)

 

Rebekah Gensure, MD, PhD: Fellow, Vitreoretinal Surgery, Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, OR)

 

Gerard Limerick, MD, PhD: Fellow, Interventional Pain, Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore, MD)

 

Adrianna Martin, MD, PhD: Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease, Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)

 

Chris Massa, MD, PhD: Fellow, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York-Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York, NY)

 

Charles Miller, MD, PhD: Fellow, Vitreoretinal Surgery, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Jenny Stundon, MD, PhD: Fellow, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Dakim Gaines, MD, PhD: Resident, Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN)

 

Jinesh Gheeya, MD, PhD: Fellow, Hematology and Oncology, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

 

Alice Min, MD, PhD: Fellow, Infectious Disease, The Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY)

 

Mazell Winikor, MD, PhD: Resident, Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania ( Philadelphia, PA)

Theresa Barrett, MD, PhD: Resident, Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

 

Jose James, MD, PhD: Resident, Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester, MN)

 

Heather McGowan, MD, PhD: Resident, Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (New York, NY)

 

Katharine Morgan, MD, PhD: Resident, Pathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, NJ)

Samuel Kogan, MD, PhD: Resident, Plastic Surgery, Wake Forest Medical Center (Winston-Salem, NC)

 

Matthew Kraushar, MD, PhD: Post-doctoral fellow, Structural Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin, Germany)

 

Stephanie Oh, MD, PhD: Resident, Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine (New York, NY)

 

Daniel Sharp, MD, PhD: Resident, Pediatrics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)

 

Jeremy Tang, MD, PhD: Resident, Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, NJ)

Sana Ahmad, MD, PhD: Resident, Internal Medicine Lenox Hill Hospital New York NY

 

Ben Deverett, MD, PhD: Resident, Anesthesiology, Stanford School of Medicine (Palo Alto, CA)

 

Jonathan Ghergurovich, MD, PhD: Resident, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia PA)

 

Alex Goglia, MD, PhD: Resident, Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)

 

Krupa Jani, MD, PhD: Resident, Radiation Oncology, Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT)

 

Margaret MacGibney, MD, PhD: Resident, Dematology, Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT)

 

Thomas Pisano, MD, PhD: Resident, Neurology, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Smrithi Prem, MD, PhD: Resident, Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Eli Cadoff, MD, PhD: Resident, Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Ila NimgaonkarMD, PhD: Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine

Adrienne Viola, MD, PhD: Resident, Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

Lev Barinov, MD, PhD: Internship, Memorial Sloan Kettering; Residency, Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Anna Giarratana, MD, PhD: Transitional - Northwell Health

Jacob Jaslove, MD, PhD: Resident, Internal Medicine - NYU  Langone Health

Allison Murawski, MD, PhD: Rising Intern, Internal Medicine, Duke University

Emann Rabie, MD, PhD: Resident, IR - Penn

Vincent Mirabella, MD, PhD: Clinical Fellow, Adult/Child Pysc, Yale School of Medicine