The residents of the Maimonides Medical Center Residency Program are what make our program special. Our trainees come from all over the world with varied experience and knowledge that they bring to our program.
Britney Chukwuka
Hometown: Silverdale, Washington
Medical School: St. George’s University
Interests: Medical Education, Clinical Teaching, Patient Advocacy
Fun Fact: Middle child of seven siblings. Welcomed her first child during chief residency. Studied fine arts in Italy, and is a licensed cosmetologist.
Tejaswi Venigalla
Hometown: Guntur, India
Medical School: Jiamusi Medical College
Interests: Clinical Research, POCUS, Medical Teaching and Hematology & Oncology
Fun Fact: Speaks Hindi, Telugu and Chinese. Loves to travel and making Biryani for family and friends.
Alana Zanetti Yabur
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Medical School: Universidad Central de Venezuela
Interests: Medical Education, Hospital Operations, Gastroenterology and Advance Endoscopy
Fun Fact: Speaks Spanish and Italian. Has been practicing Yoga for 18 years. Loves hosting dinner for loved ones.
Shehanaz Shajahan
Hometown: Kerala, India
Medical School: K.S. Hedge Medical Academy
Interest: Clinical Teaching, POCUS, Critical Care and Infectious Diseases
Fun Fact: Was raised in Dubai. Loves baking and will hopefully open a pastry shop some day!
Class of 2024
Adedoyin Olawoye, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Armando Seitllari, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Sudarshan Gautam, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2023
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2024
Manroop Gill, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2024
Ereeny Fanous, Jefferson Health – Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Jane Eapen, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY
Joshua Shapiro, SUNY Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2023:
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2023:
Alana Zanetti Yabur (Hepatology) North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2022:
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2023:
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2024
Aftab Vadsaria, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, NJ
Arichanah Pulenthiran, New York, NY
Kamlesh Kumar, Hartford hospital, Hartford, CT
Mukhammad “Bob” Sultanov, Beth Israel Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
Myoe Oo, UPMC Williamsport, Williamsport, PA
Thi Ha Zaw, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, Cleveland, OH
Class of 2023
Shehanaz Shajahan, Montefiore Medical Center – Weiler Center, Bronx, NY
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2023
Class of 2022
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2024
Mayukh Dey, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Queens, NY
Sime Maharaj, NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2024
Veena Vignarajah, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, Queens, NY
Class of 2021
Class of 2017
Class of 2024
Jude Tabba, HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, Aventura, FL
Pola Boazak, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY
Class of 2023:
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
Class of 2024
Joseph Mehrabi, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Omair Khan, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2018
Class of 2024
Kimberly Soultan, ID Critical Care, SUNY Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2023
Britney Clemen, Quality Improvement Fellowship, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2021
Class of 2020
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Class of 2017
The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Maimonides Medical Center provides a unique educational experience, combining the outstanding clinical exposure of a major urban hospital with an emphasis on academic medicine. Our location, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York at the intersection of Borough Park and Sunset Park, and our designation as a safety net hospital, draw one of the most diverse patient populations in the US. Through exposure to both inpatient and outpatient medicine on the medical floors, the critical care and coronary care units, and the outpatient clinics, our residents become well-versed in all aspects of internal medicine, fully prepared to enter any practice setting or fellowship upon graduation.
The Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We offer a total of 107 positions in two approved training programs:
Residency Program Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Hometown: Sangrur, Punjab in India
Medical School: Government Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Chair of Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center
Director, Infectious Diseases Division
Professor of Clinical Medicine at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Hometown: Flushing, N.Y.
Medical School: SUNY Downstate
Residency, Fellowship: Maimonides Medical Center
Hometown: Roslyn, New York
Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine
Residency: New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Hometown: Delhi, India
Medical School: Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Baksar Wala, India
Residency: SUNY Downstate Medical School
Fellowship: Endocrinology at SUNY Downstate Medical School
Hometown: Staten Island, NY
Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
Residency: NYU Langone Health
Fellowship: Geriatrics at Mt. Sinai Hospital
Hometown: Dumont, New York
Medical School: NYU School of Medicine
Residency: Bellevue Hospital – NYU School of Medicine
Hometown: Moscow, Russia
Medical School: Russian State Medical Pirogov University in Moscow, Russia
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center
Hometown: Amritsar, Punjab
Medical School: Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center
Fellowship: Pulmonary and Critical Care at Maimonides Medical Center
Hometown: Yangon, Myanmar
Medical School: University of Medicine 1, Yangon
Residency: Long Island College Hospital
Fellowship: Infectious Disease at Maimonides Medical Center
The internal medicine curriculum at Maimonides fulfills the requirements of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RCC-IM) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Program is a three-year ACGME accredited program based around a 4+1 block system comprising 4 weeks of inpatient and subspecialty elective rotations alternating with 1 week of primary care ambulatory medicine. Our comprehensive curriculum is focused on engaging residents as adult learners with the aim of producing competent, curious and compassionate internists. The curriculum offers broad and balanced experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings, which prepare the graduate for a career in general internal medicine or further training in any of the medical subspecialties.
By the end of the three-year program, graduating residents leave as expert practitioners in the care and treatment of major acute and chronic diseases.
Preliminary Medicine
Our one-year Preliminary Medicine Program provides interns with a comprehensive exposure to internal medicine, providing them with a strong foundation for their future advanced training. Preliminary interns work side-by-side with their Categorical intern colleagues, managing patients both on the medical floors and the intensive care unit. These experiences are interspersed throughout the year with a generous number of elective weeks, allowing the Preliminary intern to customize their educational program to what will best suit their future endeavors. Our Preliminary interns emerge from their year at Maimonides adept in the management of patients with a wide range of complex internal medicine diagnoses, ready to take on their advanced program training.
The Residency Program incorporates training in many areas, including:
Comprehensive Inpatient and Outpatient Experiences
We offer a 4+1 schedule, which separates inpatient and outpatient experiences, enhancing the education in both settings.
Inpatient rotations include the general medical floors, medical and coronary care units (ICU/CCU) and specialty divisions. Under the supervision of the full-time faculty, residents participate in daily rounds on each unit. Responsibilities include:
Our Medicine wards are comprised of four large geographically based general medicine teams, each supervised by three attending physicians. This system ensures that our trainees receive an excellent educational experience while providing the highest level of patient safety and care. We also have a night medicine rotation under the supervision of in-house faculty physicians. There, the overnight residents and interns practice the art of the initial assessment and management of newly presenting patients while helping with the ongoing care of established patients.
The inpatient rotation is enriched by the following academic activities:
The outpatient curriculum offers ambulatory care experiences in the primary care clinic, private office practice settings, and specialty clinics. Categorical Medicine residents spend a week every fifth week at their longitudinal continuity clinic, assigned to one of three primary care sites. Residents act as primary providers for a panel of patients, with oversight by our outpatient faculty.
Additionally, the outpatient week has structured protected time, including:
All of the above experiences provide residents with an understanding of the full range of care and support services available to patients. Our program prepares residents for the complexities of healthcare delivery in today’s world, while attending to their well-being.
The Humanism Project
The Humanism Project focuses on developing communication skills, recognizing unconscious bias, and understanding medical ethics. This innovative project helps residents navigate the unique but interdependent needs of patients, colleagues, families, and themselves, by developing self-awareness and a sensitivity to interpersonal dynamics and complex topics that are not always addressed by a formal curriculum. Its goal is to develop physicians who are patient-centric, professional, empathetic, and emotionally fulfilled in their medical careers. These sessions combine standardized patient scenarios, small group discussions, experiential learning, reflection sessions, and trips to the community.
All residents in the Department of Medicine at Maimonides are required to pursue scholarly endeavors, including quality improvement and clinical research. We have dedicated research associates, divisional research liaisons and statisticians available to guide residents through study design, IRB approval and research funding.
Our Director of Resident Research, Dr. Yu Shia Lin, and our Chief Residents personally help residents to identify and select appropriate research topics aligned with their career plans and specialty interests. The research leadership is also available to mentor and review residents’ research projects, abstracts and manuscripts prior to conference presentations and journal submission for publication. We also have an in-house biostatistician available for consultation on any project at any stage of development, as well as to assist with data analysis.
The department has an academic curriculum and faculty members dedicated to help residents conduct quality improvement and patient safety projects. Residents and attending physicians are also encouraged to take an active role in our monthly quality improvement meetings, where patient quality and safety issues are discussed among an interdisciplinary team. Additionally, Maimonides organizes an interdepartmental Resident Quality Council, which enables residents to take an active role in the hospital-wide quality initiatives.
Maimonides strongly supports resident’s research endeavors. Our residents present at many national and regional scientific meetings, having won national awards for both clinical and basic science research over the last several years.
Department of Medicine, Research Administration
Dr. Edward Chapnick | Chair of Medicine
Dr. Navjot Somal | Program Director
Dr. Yu Shia Lin | Director of Research
Dr. Alana Zanetti-Yabur | Chief Resident, Research
Dr. Tejaswi Venigalla | Chief Resident, Research
Aditi Parulkar | Research Volunteer
Asiya Batool | Research Volunteer
Aye Honey Aung | Research Volunteer
Cherry Maung Maung Aye | Research Volunteer
Hashim Khan | Research Volunteer
Kantash Kumar | Research Volunteer
Khin Htet Htet Soe | Research Volunteer
Khin Wathan | Research Volunteer
Laiz Darwich | Research Volunteer
Maha Tariq | Research Volunteer
May Thet Hmu Tun | Research Volunteer
May Zin | Research Volunteer
Patrick DeSanto | Research Volunteer
Tin Mee Mee Aung | Research Volunteer
Divisional Research Liaisons
Dr. Benjamin Weindorf | General Internal Medicine
Dr. Ira Mayer | Gastroenterology
Dr. Jennifer Breznay | Geriatrics
Dr. Yiqing Xu | Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Yu Shia Lin | Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jocelyne Karam | Metabolism & Endocrinology
Dr. Sheldon Greenberg | Nephrology
Dr. Chernyak | Neurology
Dr. Egan | Palliative Care
Dr. William Pascal | Pulmonary & Critical Care
Dr. Schiff | Rheumatology & Immunology
At Maimonides, we provide a superb internal medical education. Our highly engaged faculty provide expert guidance to the residents in caring for an incredibly broad-based population here in the heart of the amazing borough of Brooklyn, New York. Over their three years of training, residents manage a rich and diverse array of patients with remarkably wide-ranging underlying pathologies.
Maimonides Medical Center
Founded in 1911, Maimonides has been a cornerstone of the Brooklyn community and is the largest hospital in Brooklyn. Over the last century, we have become a world-class care center and a vital part of New York City. Maimonides Medical Center is the top five largest independent teaching hospitals in the country.
From the first heart transplant in the U.S. to the first hospital-based Clinical Simulation Center in the Northeast, we are on the cutting edge of innovation. For several years, Maimonides has been rated among the ‘Top 10 Hospitals’ in the Nation for Clinical Excellence according to data published by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Maimonides Medical Center
Maimonides is unique because it is located within the heart of the bustling borough of Brooklyn, New York. This leads to an amazingly diverse patient population with a wide array of pathology. Maimonides offers a unique opportunity for training in a high-acuity and busy tertiary care center which also serves as a safety-net community hospital. Residents leave this program able to manage any medical challenge that comes their way.
New York City is one of the most vibrant and exciting cities in the world. While completing residency in New York, you will have access to theater, music, endless restaurants, sporting events, and much more. Whatever your interests, you will be able to find things to do throughout the boroughs of New York. Brooklyn itself is full of rich history and unique neighborhoods everywhere you look. It boasts quirky cafes, hip brunch spots, beautiful parks, excellent schools, and a strong sense of community.
All applications are accepted only through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and are then reviewed by our Selection Committee. The Department of Medicine offers all of its residency positions through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
The review of your application and the scheduling of interviews requires a completed ERAS application, including the following components:
Maimonides Medical Center complies with federal and city laws and orders prohibiting discrimination in employment. Such discrimination includes race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, handicap, marital status or sexual orientation.
Program Requirements
Interview Day
In adherence with national standards, all interview days will be held virtually this season. The interview session typically includes presentations from the Program Director and the Chief Residents as well as a greeting from the Chair of Medicine. Each candidate will interview with a faculty member and with a current resident, as well as with a Chief Resident or Associate Program Director. Applicants will also have allocated time to meet briefly with the Program Director. Finally, there will be an interactive group session with our current residents, so that candidates can learn more about our residents’ experiences at Maimonides.
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