
1st-Year Fellows

Aseel Alsouqi, MD
Education:
MD – University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine
Residency:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Brittaney-Belle Gordon, MD
Education:
BA – Princeton University
MD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Residency:
New York University, Langone

Rosaleen Petroccione, DO
Education:
BS – Cornell University
MD – Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency:
University of Rochester

Khako Shaverdashvili, MD,PhD
Education:
MD – Tbilisi State Medical University
PhD – Case Western Reserve University
Residency:
Albert Einstein Medical Center

Andrew Swartz, MD
Education:
BA – Clemson University
MD – University of South Carolina SOM
Residency:
UPMC

Masood Pasha Syed, MD
Education:
MD – M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, India
Residency:
Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester
2nd-Year Fellows

Manisha Bhattacharya, MD
Education:
BA – Cornell University
MD – Duke University School of Medicine
MBA – Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Residency:
Duke University School of Medicine

Emily Geramita, MD, PhD
BA – Wesleyan University
MD – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
PhD – University of Pittsburgh
Residency:
UPMC

Joseph Franz, MD
BS – The Pennsylvania State University
MD – George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Residency:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ronan Hsieh, MD
MD – National Taiwan University College of Medicine
Residency:
Albert Einstein Medical Center

Lauren Mendelson, DO
BA – University of Pennsylvania
MD – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine -New York
Residency:
University of Massachusetts

Anastasia Tsagianni, MD
MD – University of Athens School of Health Sciences
Residency:
UPMC
3rd-Year Fellows

Steven Borson, MD
Education:
BS – Washington University in St Louis
MD – Temple Universitiy School of Medicine
Residency:
Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine

Kristine Gade, MD
Education:
BS – University of Virginia
MD – University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Residency:
University of Virginia, School of Medicine

Max Jameson Lee, MD, PhD
Education:
BS – University of Florida
Post-Bac – National Institute of Health Rocky Mountain Labs (Montana)
PhD – University of Virginia
MD – Medical College of Virginia
Residency:
Virginia Commonwealth University

Lilit Karapetyan, MD
Education:
MD – Yerevan State Medical University
Master – University of Michigan
Residency:
Michigan State University/Sparrow Hospital

Rachel Rosenblum, MD
Education:
BSc – McGill University
MD – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Residency:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Saba Shaikh, MD
Education:
BS -University of Texas at Dallas
MD – Baylor College of Medicine
Residency:
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
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