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Medicine-Pediatrics Graduates & Immediate Post-Residency Positions:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Class of 2025<\/h3>\n

Safiyya Adam, MD<\/strong>: Medicine-Pediatrics Hospitalist at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nRyanne Buckley, MD: <\/strong>Hematology\/Oncology Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nMaggie Fennell, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics PGY-5 Chief Resident
\nEzra Lichtman, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Primary Care & Hospitalist at Indian Health Service in Chinle, AZ
\nChris Okorieocha, MD:<\/strong> Adult Hospitalist Medicine at Duke Regional Hospital & Pediatric Urgent Care at Duke in Durham, NC
\nPranati Panuganti, MD:<\/strong> Preventive Medicine Residency; Adult Cardiology Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

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Class of 2024<\/h3>\n
Gretter Benitez, MD:<\/strong> Adult Hospitalist at Jackson North Hospital at North Shore, FL<\/div>\n
Emma Bick, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief Resident<\/div>\n
Heather Frank, MD:<\/strong> Combined Pediatric\/Adult Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nShanice Glasco, MD:<\/strong> Adult Cardiology Fellowship at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX
\nArianna Michaels, MD<\/strong>: Adult Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nSarah Stafford, MD:<\/strong> Adult Cardiology Fellowship at Vanderbilt
\nSebastian Werner, MD<\/strong>: Medicine-Pediatrics Hospitalist at WakeMed<\/div>\n

Class of 2023<\/h3>\n
John Barber, MD:<\/strong> Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Beth Israel in Boston and NGO in Uganda<\/div>\n
Katie Butler, MD:<\/strong> Pediatrics Hospitalist Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nErin Dunneback, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief Resident
\nKiersten Sapp, MD<\/strong>: Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nAndrew Short, MD:<\/strong> Combined Internal medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist at Munson Healthcare in Traverse City, Michigan<\/div>\n
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Class of 2022<\/h3>\n

Khadijhah Bhatti, MD:<\/strong> Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.\u00a0
\nAsantewaa Boateng, MD: <\/strong>Outpatient Medicine in Middlesex, NC
\nMegan Hoppens, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief Resident
\nDale Iglesia, MD<\/strong>: Adult Endocrinology Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nColin O’Leary, MD:<\/strong> Hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.\u00a0
\nMelissa Wooten, MD<\/strong>: Medicine Hospitalist at WakeMed<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Class of 2021<\/h3>\n

Torie Bender, MD:<\/strong> Hospitalist at Colorado
\nDiya Jost, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Hospitalist at Wake Med
\nKevin Kohler, MD:<\/strong> Primary Care at Indian Health Services in Yuma, AZ
\nPatrick O’Shea, MD<\/strong>: Health Sciences Leadership Pathway at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nHillary Spangler, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief
\nSarah Todd, MD<\/strong>: Pediatric Chief Resident<\/div>\n

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Class of 2020<\/h3>\n

Scott Butler, MD:<\/strong> Peds Hospitalist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital
\nCourtney Detwiler, MD:<\/strong> Nocturnist at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nErin Finn, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief
\nMatt Waters, MD<\/strong>: Primary Care at North Chatham Pediatrics and Internal Medicine<\/p>\n

Class of 2019<\/h3>\n

Alex Despotes, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief
\nJess Guidici, MD:<\/strong> Hospital Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nSteven Hochman, MD:<\/strong> General Pediatrics at Pasadena Public Health
\nHannah Hochman Segal, MD<\/strong>: Underserved Primary Care in East Hollywood
\nEllen Maher, MD:<\/strong> Granville Primary Care in Oxford, NC
\nElizabeth Sibrack, MD<\/strong>: Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Class of 2018<\/h3>\n

Krishna Aluri, MD:<\/strong> Medcine-Pediatrics Primary Care at Duke University
\nAndrew Campbell, MD<\/strong>: Medicine-Pediatrics Hospitalist at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nHannah Coletti, MD<\/strong>: Medicine-Pediatrics Chief
\nVince Gonzalez, MD<\/strong>: Pediatrics Cardiology at Texas Children’s
\nSonya Patel-Nguyen, MD<\/strong>: Med-Peds Hospitalist at Duke University
\nEvan Zeitler, MD:<\/strong> Adult Nephrology at UNC-Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

Class of 2017<\/h3>\n

Mark Chandler, MD<\/strong>: Pediatric Chief Resident
\nEmily Ciccone, MD:<\/strong> Adult Infectious Disease Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nKenton Dover, MD<\/strong>: Pulmonary\/Critical Care at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nSophia Paraschos, MD:<\/strong> Palliative Care Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill
\nLeslie Thomas, MD:<\/strong> Hospitalist, Brain Tumor Center at Duke University
\nAlyssa Tilly, MD:<\/strong> Medicine-Pediatrics Chief<\/p>\n

Class of 2016<\/h3>\n

April Edwards, MD<\/strong>: Medicine-Pediatrics Chief Resident; UNC Pediatrics and Med-Peds, PICU Fellowship; UCSF
\nKaty Kaufman, MD:<\/strong> Rheumatology Fellowship; Duke University
\nCarol Logan, MD<\/strong>: Family Medicine Faculty; Western Rockingham Family Medicine
\nRachel Osborne, MD<\/strong>: Primary Care Faculty in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics; Baylor Scott and White
\nDave Peritz, MD:<\/strong> Cardiology Fellowship; University of Utah
\nSally Wood, MD<\/strong>: Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Faculty; North Chatham Pediatrics and Internal Medicine<\/p>\n

Class of 2015<\/h3>\n

Melissa Cabellon, MD<\/strong>: Village Pediatrics, Southern Village
\nKatie Jacobson, MD<\/strong>: Fairview Health Services, Eden Prairie Clinic, Outpatient Med-Peds
\nAllison Leung, MD:<\/strong> UCLA Brentwood, Med-Peds Clinic
\nCo-May Pasdar-Shirazi, MD:<\/strong> Regent Family and Pediatrics, Wharton, TX
\nJerry Saunders, MD<\/strong>: Novant Medical Group, Med-Peds Clinic<\/p>\n

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