Recent Graduates | Psychiatry Residency Program | MedStar Health
Recent graduates

We are committed to doing the utmost to help our residents achieve their career goals beyond residency. So far, our residents have 100% board pass rates and have gone on to have outstanding careers. We are very proud of them. Below is a list of where the most recent Georgetown graduates have gone upon leaving our program.

2025 Graduates

  • Hajer Ben Cheikh, MD: Outpatient Psychiatry in New Jersey
  • Felicia Dillard, MD: Private Practice at McLean Counseling Center
  • Samaneh Keshavarz, MD: Bethesda Women's Mental Health
  • Ashley Leto, MD: Inpatient Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Tamara Movsesova, MD: Outpatient private practice
  • Sam Salmassi, MD: Private Practice in Northern Virginia
  • Ben Taylor, MD: Washington Interventional Psychiatry
  • Amy Chen, MD: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Children's National Hospital in DC
  • 2024 Graduates

    • Madeline Amberge, MD, Psychiatrist at The Retreat by Shephard Pratt and continuing her training in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
    • Alexander Capuco, MD Psychiatrist at Georgetown University's Counseling and Psychiatric Services Center

    • Jungeun Choi, MD, Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    • Daniel Eddins, MD, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

    • Jonathan Extein, MD, Child & Adolescent Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Psychiatry

    • Joshua Palmer, MD, Child & Adolescent Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Psychiatry

    • Daniel Powell, MD, Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    • Neil Rustgi, MD, Psychiatrist in Private Practice in Chevy Chase, MD

  • 2023 Graduates

    • Barsegh Barseghian, MD,  Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of California San Diego

    • Laure Experton, MD,  Outpatient Psychiatrist and Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

    • Christian Moser, MD,  Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellowship at the American Psychiatric Association

    • Zach Selke, MD,  Clinical Psychiatrist, Eastern Shore Hospital Center

    • Hiroe Hu, DO,  Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health

    • Sruthi Poduval, MD,  Child Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Washington

    • John Stewart, MD,  Child Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles

  • 2022 Graduates

    • Anam Ahmed, MD, Geriatric Fellowship at Mt. Sinai Medical Center
    • Nina Axiotakis, DO, Transferred to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Jeremy Chaikind, MD, Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at Innova Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia
    • Ashley Chorath, MD, Transferred to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
    • Thomas Cochran, MD, Faculty at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center Department of Psychiatry
    • Drew Cumming, MD, Transferred to NIMH for his PGY4 to focus on research
    • Martekuor Dodoo, MD,  Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Samantha Matuella, MD,  Faculty at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry
    • Daniel Pustay, MD,   Faculty at West Virginia University Hospital Department of Psychiatry
    • Kirsten Salmela, MD, Transferred to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at The University of Washington Medical Center
  • 2021 Graduates

    • Samuel Allen, MBBS, Medical Director, McClendon Center, Washington, D.C.
    • Joyce Nguyen, MD, Private Practice in Baltimore, Maryland
    • Noorulain Jhandiya, DO, Women’s Unit Psychiatrist, Rikers Island Jail, New York Health+Hospitals
    • Kimberly Clawson, MD, Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry
    • Sidra Qadir, MBBS, Inpatient Psychiatry at Eastern State Hospital, Williamsburg, Virginia
    • Julie Baldinger, DO, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Virginia
    • Michael Champ, MD, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Vermont
  • 2020 Graduates

    • Yasmin Banaei, MD, Private Practice in Washington, D.C.
    • Sabina Bera, MD, Psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center
    • Ragini Bhushan, MD, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of San Francisco
    • Megan Bowers, MD,  Child & Adolescent Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Psychiatry
    • Daniel Maass, MD, Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Onyeka Nwobi, MD, Research Fellowship at National Institutes of Health
    • Greg Ross, MD, Psychiatrist at Washington, D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • 2019 Graduates

    • Kelsey Blanchard, MD, Psychiatrist at Washington, D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center
    • Lisa Do, DO, Psychiatrist at Washington, D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center
    • Heather El-Amamy, Forensics Fellow at New York University
    • Rohini Mehta, MD, Psychiatrist at Augusta, GA Veterans Affairs Medical Center
    • Ismatt Niazi, MD, Child and Adolescent Fellow at UCLA
    • Meggie Chochol, MD, Child and Adolescent Fellow at the Mayo Clinic
  • 2018 Graduates

    • Shaheja Bandealy, MD, MPH, MGUH Faculty at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Psychiatry department
    • Caitlin Elsenbeck, MD
    • Brandon Greenfield, MD, MA, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at University of Iowa
    • Soyoung Lee, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    • Jim Monestime, MD, Psychiatrist at Veterans Affairs Medical Center
    • Samuel Schiavone, DO, Psychiatrist at Walter Reed Medical Center
    • Matthew Weingard, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Duke University
    • Jacob Swartz, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Ryan Vesny, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Children's National Medical Center
  • 2017 Graduates

    • Nauf Azad, DO, Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MedStar Georgetown University
    • Sarah Kleinfeld, MD, Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry, Yale University
    • Jacob Laskey, MD, Attending Psychiatrist at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, WA
    • Joanna Lim, MD, Attending Psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
    • Elizabeth Silber, MD, Attending Psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente in Burke, VA
    • Leah Walker, MD, Private Practice in Women’s Mental Health
    • Bryce Wininger, MD, Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • 2016 Graduates

    • Anthony Belotto, MD, Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MedStar Georgetown University
    • Aquanette Brown, MD, MBA, Attending Psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
    • Matthew Hopkins, MD, Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Nicholas Morris, MD, Attending INOVA
    • Nima Sheth, MD, Attending Partial Hospitalization Program MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
  • 2015 Graduates

    • Scott Gershan, MD, Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry NYU
    • Rivka Ben Dor, MD, NIMH Clinical Fellowship

    • Leela Magavi, MD,* Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins

    • Diana Mata, DO, Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    • Gabriele Morosoff, MD,* Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    • Harita Raja, MD, Private Practice in Women's Health Psychiatry

  • 2014 Graduates

    • Marie Rose Alam, MD — Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry, University of Maryland
    • Milangel Concepcion, MD, MPH* — Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, GWU/Children’s National Health System

    • Jonathan Dela Luna, SJ, MD — Attending Psychiatrist, Partial Hospitalization Program, St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island

    • Deepali Gangahar, MD — Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry, University of Maryland

    • Patrice J Holmes, MD* — Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Yale University

    • Timberly Humbert, MD — Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine, Harvard University-Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    • Sonal Jagasia, MD, MPH — Attending Psychiatrist, Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland; Attending Psychiatrist, Outpatient Programs, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    • James Edward Wicht, MD, JD — Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine, Georgetown University/NIMH/Washington Hospital Center; Attending Psychiatrist at Washington Hospital Center

  • 2013 Graduates

    • Kathrine Adams, DO, Group Practice, St Petersburg, Florida
    • Nevin Arora, MD, Fellow in Sleep Medicine, Stanford University
    • Ted Liao, MD, Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine, New York University; Associate Training Director Residency Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Carlina Mejia, MD, Group Practice, St. Petersburg, Florida
    • Nathan Pilgrim, DO, Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry, Georgetown University
    • Gundeep Sekhon, MD, Fellow in Geriatric Psychiatry, Stanford University
    • Supriya Sharma, DO*, Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • 2012 Graduates

    • Gamze Camsari, MD*, Resident in Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic
    • Ashley Hillard, MD, Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine, Georgetown University/NIMH/Washington Hospital Center
    • Arkady Korotinsky, MD, Fellow in Sleep Medicine, University of Maryland
    • Pramit Rastogi, MD, Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University
    • Michael Twist, DO, Group Practice, Virginia Beach, Virginia
    • M. Carolina Zerrate, MD*, Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia & Cornell Universities
  • 2011 Graduates

    • Caroline Ahlers, MD, Private Practice, Falls Church, Virginia
    • Cory Alfers, DO, Group Practice, Arlington, Virginia
    • Lisa Calusic, MD, Attending Psychiatrist, Inpatient Services, Inova Fairfax Hospital; Private Practice, Falls Church, Virginia
    • Jennifer Desi, MD, Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine, Georgetown University/NIMH/Washington Hospital Center
    • David I. Driver, MD*, Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMH/GWU/Children's National Health System
    • Sai Ramanujam, MD, Private Practice, Altoona, Pennsylvania

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