Former Residents

Our graduates move on to a number of different careers or subspecialty training tracks, including fellowship training; academic careers with teaching, research, clinical, and administrative roles; private sector clinical and administrative careers; and private practice including solo, group, and telepsychiatry practice.  Many of our residents come to UVA with the intent of either fast-tracking into the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship after their PGY3 year, or continuing training in the Geriatric or Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship after their PGY4 year.

Below is a sampling of our recent residents’ post-residency paths.

Class of 2019

• Yusuf Azim, MD – Private Practice in Northern Virginia
• Andrea Bennett, MD – Locum Tenens in New Jersey
• Adam Colbert, MD – Private Practice in Tuscon, Arizona
• Joseph Ipacs, MD – State Hospital Inpatient work in New Jersey
• Colleen Leitner, MD – UVA Child and Adolescent
• Lauren Mahoney, MD – Fellowship in Consult Liaison Psychiatry at VCU
• Xavier Ramos, MD – Veterans Administration Outpatient work in Austin, Texas
• Lauren Solometo, DO – Outpatient and Partial Hospitalization in the Philadelphia area.
• Matthew Vanden Hoek, MD – Admissions at Western State Hospital
• Thomas Ball, MD – to UVA Child
• Kayla Choo Chong – to UVA Child
• Gabriela Marranzini – Child and Adolescent Fellowship at Stanford
• Winifred Wolfe, MD – Child and Adolescent at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Class of 2018

• John Azer, MD – Attending the Austen Riggs Psychodynamic Fellowship in Massachusetts
• Eliza Buelt, MD – Joined the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale
• Gabriela Pachano, MD – UVA Faculty Member
• Alexander Munja, MD – Joined the staff at Western State Hospital
• Joshua Smith, MD – Joined the Massachusetts General Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.
• Marie Lyse Turk, MD – Attending the Boston University Consult Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
• Michele Willis, MD – Attending the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Colorado
• Quincy Zhong, MD – Remaining at UVA as our very first Addiction Medicine Fellow

Class of 2017

• Derek Blevins, MD – Columbia University / NYSPI clinical and research Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
• Erin Dooley, MD – Yale University Public Psychiatry Fellowship
• Danielle Ivanova, DO – Inpatient & C&L psychiatry, teaching hospital, Detroit, Michigan
• Surbhi Khanna, MBBS – Medical University of South Carolina Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
• Lauren Moore, MD – Inpatient psychiatry
• Maria Moreno, MD – Inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, Charleston, South Carolina
• Luke Romanow, MD – University of Virginia Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
• Robert Johnson, MD – University of Virginia
• Abhishek Nitturkar, MD – George Washington University
• Souraya Torbey, MD – Johns Hopkins University

Class of 2016

• Andrew Alkis, MD – George Washington University Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship
• Joseph Otonichar, DO – New York University Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
• Kelli Messina, MD – Inpatient psychiatry, Western State Hospital, Staunton, Virginia
• Nishant Parikh, MD – Inpatient psychiatry, Richmond, Virginia
• Jennifer Gomberg, DO – University of Michigan Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Fast-Track in 2015

• Tina Thakrar, MD – University of Virginia
• Toral Desai, MD – University of Virginia
• Michael Heck, DO – University of Virginia
• Amanjot Kaur, MBBS – University of Virginia
• Matthew McEachern, MD – University of Virginia

Class of 2015

• Caridad Ponce Martinez, MD – Yale University Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
• William Oetgen, MD – Telepsychiatry
• Mandril Taylor, MD – Yale University Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
• Saria El Haddad, MD – Boston University Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
• Alan Hamby, MD – Inpatient & outpatient psychiatry, Sentara Behavioral Health, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Fast-Track in 2014

• Andreanne Gingras, MD – University of Virginia
• Megan McPhee, MD – University of Virginia
• Josepha Iluonakhamhe, MD – Harvard University
• Damon DeLeon, MD – Brown University