Spring 2022: Jackson Memorial

by Emily Brauer, MD, FACEP | Apr 30, 2022

Greetings from Miami! After another successful interview season, we are thrilled to welcome our stellar new intern class of 2025 to our Jackson family. Our new class will join us from all over the country, and we congratulate them on their success and medical school graduation. We can’t wait to meet you and have you join us in Miami!

The PGY-2 class recently attended AAEM in Baltimore and thoroughly enjoyed the live conference experience and time with their colleagues. Our residents continue their commitment and involvement to social EM, expanding our reach to our local community. Drs. Joshua Goldstein and Naomi Newton continue to tackle South Florida’s opioid epidemic and presented their social EM “Naloxone out of the ED and Into the Community” initiative at the Community Health Leadership Conference at University of Miami. You can read about their work in this edition of EMpulse on page 38. Accolades are also in order for Dr. Juhi Varshney on her Case Presentation Competition (CPC) at the CORD conference in San Diego. We would like to commend them for their tireless dedication, hard work and success.

We are excited to welcome back prior graduates of Jackson and congratulate them on the completion of their fellowships. Our graduating class is bound for greatness, accepting positions all over the country. Several PGY-3s have accepted fellowships in SIM and critical care, and we are excited that several graduates have taken positions within the Jackson system. We are very much looking forward to a live graduation celebration as our seniors take their next steps in their careers. We are so proud of our class of 2022 and wish them luck on their future endeavors! ■

Where the Class of 2022 is Going Next:

Andrea Alvarado, MD
Critical Care Fellowship, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Robert Barry, MD
Loma Linda Univ. Medical Center
Loma Linda, CA

Anna Culhane, MD
Simulation Fellowship, Rush Univ.
Chicago, IL

Carlos Garcia Rodriguez, MD
Critical Care Fellowship, UT San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Sebastian Gil, MD
SCP Health
Florida

Sarah Jabre, MD
Attending
Out of the country

Warren Linnerooth, MD
McLeod Health
Florence, SC

Jeniffer Okungbowa-Ikponmwosa, MD
GSEP
San Antonio, TX

Oswald Perkins, MD
Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Miami, FL

Phillip Plevek, MD
Holy Cross
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Miguel Ribe, MD
Jackson South
Miami, FL

Max Rippe, MD
Simulation Fellowship, MedStar Washington Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Cameron Shoraka, MD
Attending
Texas

Melissa Velasquez, MD
Jackson North
Miami, FL

Joseph Zakaria, MD
Undecided

Congratulations to the Incoming Class of 2025:

Tatiana Barriga, MD
Loyola Univ. Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Kimberly Bercy, DO
Nova Southeastern Univ. College of Medicine

Sandra Cabrera, MD
Univ. of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Brittany Castellanos, MD
Wake Forest School of Medicine

Adrienne Clermont, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Shawn Covello, MD
New York Medical College

Ariel Fuentes, MD
Ohio State Univ. College of Medicine

Bradley Gershkowitz, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin

Andre Girgis, MD
Michigan State Univ. College of Human Medicine

Mary Lee, MD
Tufts Univ. School of Medicine

Debra Linfield, MD
Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine

Colleen McFarland, MD
FSU College of Medicine

Yaseen Saleh, MD
Univ. of Illinois College of Medicine

Elizabeth Smith, MD
Univ. of Louisville School of Medicine

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