Meet the Residents

Sabreen Abdullah, DO
From: Mount Vernon, NY
Med School: Touro College and University System (Harlem Campus)
Undergrad: University of Bridgeport
Post Bac: Touro College and University System (Harlem Campus)
Interests: Cooking, Powerlifting, Movies
TY: Burke Rehab, White Plains NY (PM&R)

Jonathan Gardy Alabre, MD  
From: Dix Hills, New York   
Medical School: City University of New York School of Medicine   
Undergraduate: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education   
Interest and Hobbies: Going to EDM concerts and festivals, Listening to Reggaeton and Caribbean Music, Watching Love Island and Anime, Taking film photographs, Being an uncle to my newborn nephew, Spending time with family and friends, Hiking / Exploring Nature, Indoor rock climbing    
Foreign Languages: Haitian Creole, Spanish   
Future Goals: I’m planning on matching into Anesthesiology or Medicine after my Transitional Year. Long term, I would like to participate in medical humanitarian work globally.

Baraa Aljebawi, MD
From: Fishers, Indiana
Medical School: American University of Antigua
Undergraduate: Ball State University
Interests & Hobbies: Basketball and sports in general, Working out, Video Games, traveling, hiking.
Foreign Languages: Arabic

Michelle Perez Roman, MD
From: Ponce, Puerto Rico
Medical School: Ponce Health Sciences University
Undergraduate: University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
Interests and Hobbies: Going to the beach, listening to music, coffee lover
Languages: English/Spanish
Post Transitional Year Training: Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center

Our Alumni

The Class of 2022

• Maria Istafanos, MD, Anesthesiology, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, Paterson NJ  
  
• Diane Moya, MD, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at NUMC, East Meadow, NY  
  
• Otasowie Odiase, MD, Radiation Oncology, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Hollywood, CA
  
• Edward Ramos, MD, Anesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
  

The Class of 2021

• Taufif Mubarak, MD, Massachusetts Baystate Health’s anesthesiology residency
  
• Jose Valles Feliciano, MD, Rutgers NJMS Radiology
  
• Cheyenne Kidder, MD, Massachusetts Baystate Health’s anesthesiology residency
  
• Luis Colon-Flores, MD, NYU Winthrop Diagnostic Radiology
  

The Class of 2020

• Rachel Chan, DO,  joined the Anesthesiology Residency at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, New jersey
• Sarwan Gurpreet, DO,  joined the Physical Medicine &  Rehabilitation Residency at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, NY
• Matthew Meier , DO, is an Navy physician in Japan
• Malcolm Forbes, MD, joined Mount Sinai South Nassau Family Medicine Residency Program in Oceanside, NY
  

The Class of 2019

• Brian Daniel Ballard, DO, is returning to his native The Great Lakes State, Michigan, to begin his internal medicine residency.
• Katlin Davitt, DO, will begin her OB/GYN residency in West Islip at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
• Christine Lurie, DO, is joining the OBGYN residency at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center
• Jonathan Solaimanzadeh, DO, was accepted into South’s first internal medicine class as a first-year
• Michael Villongco, DO will also continue here having joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  South Nassau Program Family Medicine
  

The Class of 2018

• Indranil Bhattacharya, DO: South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Oceanside, NY.
• Joshian Estevez, DO: South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Oceanside, NY.
• Andrea LaRosa, DO: Bayonne Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Bayonne, NJ.
• David Portnoy, DO: Jamaica Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Jamaica, NY.
• Anju Punchamannil, DO: Applying for her NYS medical license and exploring a wide range of career options
  

The Class of 2017

• David Ayad, DO: Staten Island University Hospital’s Internal Medicine Residency Program, Staten Island, NY
• Eliran Bracha, DO: Bay State Medical Center’s Anesthesiology Residency Program, Springfield, MA.
• Zachary Herrmann, DO: John Peter Smith Hospital’s Psychiatry Residency Program, Fort Worth, TX.
• Wildys Rosario, DO: New York City’s Health & Hospital’s Coney Island Hospital’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY.
• Lite Wu, DO, MPH: Nassau University Medical Center’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program, East Meadow, NY.
  

The Class of 2016

• Daniel Giangrasso, DO: New York University’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program, New York, NY.
• Catelyn Halusic, DO: South Nassau Communities Hospital’s OBGYN Residency Program, Oceanside, NY.
• Scott Parrotta, DO: South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Oceanside, NY.
• Donatella Pavel, DO: Norwalk Hospital’s Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program, Norwalk, CT.
• Leah Sutton, DO: Newark Beth Israel’s Medical Center’s OBGYN Residency Program, Newark, NJ.
  

The Class of 2015

• Grace Greer, DO: South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Oceanside, NY.
• Mary Ann Joseph, DO: South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Oceanside, NY.
• Amy Parikh, DO: Westchester Medical Center’s Psychiatry Residency Program, Valhalla, NY.
• Tomasz Podobinski, DO: University of Texas’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program, Houston, TX.
• Kelly Tuveson, DO: Pediatric Residency in New Jersey
• Charles Wenzel, DO: Private practice in Colorado
  

The Class of 2014

• Samantha Benjamin, DO: The Sinai Hospital of Baltimore’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program, Baltimore, MD.
• Ray Lee, DO: Psychiatry Residency.
• Letora Washington, DO: Saint John’s Episcopal Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Far Rockaway, NY.
• Akash Patel, DO: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Harlem Residency in Family Medicine Program, New York, NY.
• Dipesh Patel, DO: Arnot Ogden Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Elmira, NY.
• Zarna Shah, DO: Nassau University Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program, East Meadow, NY.