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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Our Fellows

First Year Fellows

Tanya Aggarwal, MBBS

Residency: Northeast Georgia Medical Center; Gainesville, GA

Dr. Tanya Aggarwal
Jaskaran Batra, MD

Residency: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Monroeville, PA

Dr. Jaskaran Batra
Vijaya Perugu, MBBS

Residency: Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center; Bronx, NY

Dr. Vijaya Perugu
Akshaya Ramachandran, MBBS

Residency: Ascension Saint Francis Hospital; Evanston, IL

Dr. Akshaya Ramachandran

Second Year Fellows

Gunjan Arora, MBBS

Medical School: Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, Pune, India
Residency: Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL

Dr. Gunjan Arora
Sarah Azad, MBBS

Medical School: Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India
Residency: Rutgers Health/Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ

Sarah Azad, MBBS
Benjamin Rafla, MD

Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine, Granada
Residency: Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Benjamin Rafla, MD

Past fellows

Our fellows have gone on to successful academic and private practice careers in locations across the country and the world.

2024

Sulman Hashmi, MBBS – Faculty, UNMC

Jake Johnson, MD – Sanford Health; Sioux Falls, SD

Sawan Rupani, MBBS – MetroHealth/Case Western; Cleveland, OH

2023

  • Dana Awad, MBBS – Faculty, UNMC
  • Jonathan Heckart, DO – Private Practice, Austin, TX
  • Srujana Pachigolla, MBBS – Private Practice, Austin, TX

2022

  • Ilia Bernstein, BMBS –West Virginia University/Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, W. Virginia

  • Clifton Davis, MD – Faculty, UNMC

  • Sandeep Kunwar, MBBS – Good Shepherd Health Care System, Hermiston, OR

2021

  • Noor Addasi, MD - CHI Health Clinic, Omaha
  • Diego Alcaraz, MD - Geisinger Health, Pennsylvania
  • Emily Silverman, MD - Barnabas Health Medical Group- United Medical, New Jersey

2020

  • Madeline Jones-Ryan, DO - Private practice, Nebraska
  • Preethi Polavarapu, MBBS - Faculty, UNMC
  • Sapna Raghunathan, MBBS - Private practice, Pennsylvania

2019

  • Ameena Madan Paramasivan, MBBS – Private practice, New Mexico
  • Archana Purushothaman, MBBS – Private practice, India
  • Thiyagarajan Thangavelu, MBBS – Private practice, India

2018

  • Kaitlin Brau, MD – Private practice, Nebraska
  • Meghan Rush, MD – Private practice, Colorado
  • Kajalben Buddhdev, MBBS – Private practice, Arizona

2017

  • Padmaja Akkireddy, MBBS – Faculty, UNMC
  • Meredith Ross, MD – Private practice, Montana

 

2016

  • Rohit Kedia, DO – Private practice, California
  • Supriya Kulkarni, MBBS – Private practice, Connecticut
  • Anery Patel, MBBS – Private practice, Rhode Island

2015

  • Namita Gupta, MBBS – Private practice, Missouri
  • Christian Mangrum, DO – Private practice, Oklahoma

2014

  • Leslie Eiland, MD – Faculty, UNMC
  • Sana Hasan, DO – Faculty, Cleveland Clinic
  • Chayya Makhija, MBBS – Private practice, California

2013

  • Jay Patel, MBBS – Private practice, Ohio
  • Ossama Al-Taher, MD – in memoriam

2012

  • Umasankari Sundram, MBBS – Private practice, Nebraska

2011

  • Brian Boerner, MD – Faculty, UNMC
  • Kara Meinke Baehr, MD – Private practice, Nebraska

2010

  • Lindsey Rentschler, MD – Private practice, Colorado
  • Shannon Wakeley, MD – Private practice, Nebraska