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Sleep Medicine Fellowship

Fellows

Current Fellows

Ian Halim, MD, PhD
Dr. Ian Halim earned his PhD in Greek & Latin Literature and his MD, both from Columbia University in New York City. He undertook his residency in psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where he particularly enjoyed developing his skills as a psychotherapist, as well as his sleep medicine and addictions electives. In his final year, he was the co-chief resident for consultation-liaison psychiatry. Earlier, as a PhD student, his dissertation examined Aristotle’s theory for how luck and other resources outside our control impact our ability to live a full life – a topic very relevant to psychotherapy. He enjoys writing about how medicine relates to everything from ethics to botany – aiming to make science accessible to the widest possible audience. While applying to sleep fellowship, he published an essay explaining about how low oxygen impacts breathing during sleep. He’s excited to immerse himself in sleep medicine during his fellowship year. When he isn’t writing or working, he enjoys lifting weights, going to art museums, and walking.
Sulimar Morales, MD
Dr. Sulimar Morales, from Puerto Rico, graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras with a degree in General Sciences. Later she studied medicine at UMHS St. Kitts and graduated in 2015. Being from the island of Puerto Rico, she returned home and finished Internal medicine at Hospital de La Concepcion in San German, Puerto Rico, where she also had the chief resident position. After finishing her specialty in Internal medicine, she completed a year as a research fellow at VA Caribbean Healthcare system in the Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) fellowship program, where she was able to publish about the disparities of Lung Cancer Screening in the community-based practice in Puerto Rico. After completing research fellow, she completed her subspecialty in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the VA Caribbean Healthcare System in San Juan PR, where she also had the chief fellow position. She is currently Board certified in Internal Medicine and PCCM. Dr. Morales has a particular interest in how to advance sleep medicine in the inpatient setting with the goal to be able to improve the diagnosis and outcome in these patients with sleep disorders and their comorbidities. Outside work, she enjoys exploring new places around the island, food, drawing, playing piano, and spending time with her family, friends, and her Shihtzu, Maranta.

Fellows’ Perspective

Alumni

2023

Ilean Lamboy , MD

PCCM and Sleep Specialist Faculty Member at Hospital Damas in Puerto Rico / Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Ponce Health Sciences University

Aaron Palmquist, MD

Sleep Medicine Faculty, UPMC

2022

Megan Chan, MD

Clinical Instructor, Boston University

Malvika Sharma, MD

Physician with the VA Boston Healthcare System and Assistant Professor in Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

2021

Megan Acho, MD

Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ahmad Arslan, MD

Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at University of South Florida

2020

Mauro Alberto Mendez Baylon, MD

Internal Medicine Residency, Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, New York

Jennifer Newitt, MD

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Indiana School of Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

2019

Samira Bahagry, MD

Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Hospital and Sleep Medicine, VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA 

Asad Khan, MD

Internal Medicine, Rush University
Post-training: Hospital and Sleep Medicine, Private Practice, Pittsburgh, PA

2018

Amy Schell, MD           

Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Sleep Surgery, University Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

2017

Julia Barton, MD

Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Staff Physician, Baptist Memorial Medical Group, Memphis, TN

Isabella Soreca, MD

Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Sleep Medicine, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA

2016

Ailia Ali, MD

Internal Medicine, West Virginia University
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Post-training: Staff Physician, Western Maryland Health System, Cumberland, MD

2015

Naveed Hasan, MD

Internal Medicine, SUNY Upstate
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
Post-training: Staff Physician, Union Pulmonology, Elkton, MD

2014

Ehab Dayyat, MD

Pediatrics, University of Louisville
Child Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Robert Stansbury, MD

Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, West Virginia University
Post-training: Associate Professor, West Virginia University

2013

Christian Castillo, MD

Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University
Post-training: Staff Physician, Santa Rosa Medical Center, Santa Rosa, CA

John Coleman, MD

Internal Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Assistant Professor, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

2012

Deepa Burman, MD

Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Caris Fitzgerald, MD

Psychiatry, University of Arkansas
Post-training: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas

2011

Naishadh Brahmbhatt, MD

Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University
Pulmonary Medicine, Southern Illinois University
Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Staff Physician, PCS Solutions LLC, Sycamore, IL

Simin Khavandgar, MD

Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Thomas Rice, MD

Internal Medicine, Temple University
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Staff Physician, Pulmonary Partners – UPMC, Cranberry, PA

2010

Ryan Soose, MD

Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh
Post-training: Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

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