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The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education holds graduation for 67 resident and physicians and fellows
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education acknowledged the first graduating class from the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program on Saturday. Members of the class include, from left, Drs. Aliy Mirza Ahmed, Kevin Nguyen, Bradley Bierman, Kenneth Gentilezza, program director; Abhinav Arora, and Alan Trung Lam.
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education celebrated 67 resident and fellow physician graduates during its 47th annual commencement on Saturday, June 20, at Hilton Scranton and Conference Center.
The commencement ceremony honored 42 graduates in The Wright Center’s Internal Medicine Residency, 13 in the National Family Medicine Residency, five in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency programs and three each in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and Geriatrics Fellowship programs, and one in the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program.
The Class of 2026 joins more than 1,100 resident and fellow physicians who have completed their residency and fellowship programs since The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education began educating and training physicians in 1976.
Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, addresses the Class of 2026 on Saturday, June 20, at Hilton Scranton and Conference Center.
“For the past 50 years, The Wright Center and its extraordinarily talented and dedicated governing board members, faculty, physicians, learners, care teams, support staff, and community partners have demonstrated our belief that the environments where physicians train and serve determines their future,” Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, said during the ceremony.
“Our physician-training mission began with a visionary investment: a $1 million Federal Bureau of Health Manpower grant awarded in 1976 to demonstrate that community-immersed graduate medical education could strengthen the physician and interprofessional workforce and the health of entire communities.”
Graduation speakers also included Dr. Jumee Barooah, senior vice president of education and designated institutional official at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. She noted that Saturday’s ceremony was a celebration of another milestone: The Wright Center’s Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program’s first graduating class since its launch in 2022.
“To all of tonight’s graduates: congratulations,” she said. “This moment belongs to you. It also belongs to the families, friends, mentors, faculty members, colleagues, and loved ones who stood beside you through every overnight shift, every exam, every difficult conversation, and every moment of doubt and growth along the way.”
Founded in 1976, The Wright Centers for Community Health, Graduate Medical Education, and Patient & Community Engagement is a physician-led, community-owned nonprofit and a cornerstone of health care in the region.
Today, The Wright Center is one of the largest U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums in the nation. The organization employs more than 677 professionals and trains nearly 200 resident and fellow physicians, as well as more than 200 interprofessional health care learners each year.
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’s residency and fellowship programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Class of 2026:
आंतरिक चिकित्सा
Tushar Abhinav, M.D.; Hafiza Huda Akhtar, M.D.; Mehreen Amin, M.D.; Madan Basnet, M.D.; Srikar Bathi, M.D.; Seyma Bayram, M.D., Simran Bhimani, M.D.; Miguel Armando Castellon, M.D.; Maimona Chaudhary, M.D.; Asim Choudhary, M.D.; Ifunanya Racheal Ekechukwu, M.D.; Keerthy Gopalakrishnan, M.D.; Bhavika Gottipati, M.D.; Waleed Iftikhar, M.D.; Hira Khalid Kareem, M.D.; Natasha Khalid, M.D.; Santosh Khanal, M.D.; Sunny Kumar, M.D.; Ghazanfar Latif, M.D.; Talha Liaqat, M.D.; Fatima Kausar Nawaz, M.D.; Tejas Nikumbh, M.D.; Ketaki Pande, M.D.; Paula Miguelle Pantig-Hicban, M.D.; Dhruv Patel, M.D.; Shivangi Harshadbhai Patel, M.D.; Shreyas Patil, M.D.; Enrico Thomas Pelicci, M.D.; Armando D. Pichs Diez, M.D.; Sandra Khalil Rabat, D.O.; Hamza Saber, M.D.; Sharon Maria Santhosh, M.D.; Wajeeha Shahid, M.D.; Ethan Michael Phillip Shamis, M.D.; Preetika Sharma, M.D.; Aadhyaa Ravianshi Shenoy, M.D.; Kavitha Singaravel, M.D.; Xingzuo Wang, M.D.; Nivesh Yadav, M.D.; Kirelos Nasser Younan Kirelos, M.D.; Zara Younas, M.D.; and Rana Inam Ullah Zafar, M.D.
राष्ट्रीय परिवार चिकित्सा
Hoeffer Chi Kit Mok, D.O.; Alexander Silva, D.O.; William Eaton Smith, D.O.; Cody Boltz, D.O.; Daniel Woojin Jang, D.O.; Conner Saul Hendryx, D.O.; V. Chrysta Sahakian, D.O.; Victoria Bao Quynh Nguyen, D.O.; Claudine C. Nwadiozor, D.O.; Stephen Kyle Phelps, D.O.; Kenneth Charles Terry II, D.O.; Taylor Andrew Sutton, D.O.; and Jonathan Yi, D.O.
भौतिक चिकित्सा एवं पुनर्वास
Aliy Mirza Ahmed, D.O.; Abhinav Arora, D.O.; Bradley Carl Bierman, D.O.; Alan Trung Lam, D.O., and Kevin Nguyen, D.O.
जेरिएट्रिक्स फ़ेलोशिप
Padman Kumari, M.D.; Murk, M.D.; and Abdul Rafay Soomro, M.D.
Cardiovascular Fellowship
Khyati Khattar, M.D.; Muhammad Sabih Saleem, M.D.; and Dipen Vallabhdas Zalavadia, M.D.
गैस्ट्रोएंटरोलॉजी
हनी एस्केरस, एमडी
