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Graduates—The MedStar Health—Georgetown / Washington Hospital Center Residency Program in Ophthalmology

We are so proud of our residents!

By the time our residents interview for fellowships or private practice positions, they are prepared to impress future instructors, mentors, and colleagues with an excellent fund of knowledge, excellent comprehensive and subspecialty clinical and surgical experience, and an excellent portfolio of accomplishments in research, customer satisfaction, process improvement, humanitarianism, and program and national examinations. Our residents’ Written and Oral Board Exam pass rate is well above the national average, and they have succeeded in matching into top fellowships or joining their preferred practices all over the country.


Where did they go?

 

Year Name Fellowship Private Practice
2026 Amira Abbas Surgical Retina - Retina Specialists of Alabama  
Thomas Dunn   Scarsdale, NY
Sonia McNamara Pediatric Ophthalmology – Childrens National Hosp. DC  
Kiah McSwain Glaucoma - Duke  
Shefali Sood Medical Retina - Stanford  
Caroline Tipton   Wyomissing, PA
2025 Mazin Elsarrag Glaucoma – U Texas Southwestern - Dallas  
Anthony Fiacco   Burlington, NC
Sara Khan Surgical Retina – U Texas Southwestern, Dallas  
Felix Kung   Vienna, VA
David McGuigan   Fredericksburg, VA
Abhishek Naidu Medical Retina – Cole Eye Institute – Cleveland Clinic  
2024 Philip Conkling Retina - Albany Medical College  
Jack Creagmile Glaucoma – UC Irvine  
William “Bren” Davis   Wills Eye Hospital
Thomas Lamson Global Ophthalmology – Wills Eye Hospital  
Obadah Moushmoush Retina – Cook County Chicago  
Narmien Murdock Oculoplastics – Wills Eye Hospital  
2023 Natalia Diaz Torres   Williamsburg, VA
Russel Dinh Retina - Vanderbilt University  
Kristin Suzich Godwin Retina - Wake Forest University  
Marielle Mahan Oculoplastics-OHSU/Casey Eye Institute Portland  
Sanam Tiffany Shahrooz Ant. Seg./Refractive Surgery - Masket Foundation in BH, CA  
Justin Shortell Glaucoma - Wills Eye Hospital  
2022 Frank Abella Ayala Neuro-ophthalmology - USC Roski Eye Institute  
Julio Albarracin Cornea - Emory  
Michael Izzo Glaucoma - Wills Eye Hospital  
Davina Kirschenbaum Cornea - Moran Eye Center  
Georgina Medina Glaucoma - Emory  
Karine Shebaclo Oculoplastics - Wills Eye Hospital  
2021 Kelsey Durbin   Columbus, OH
Brice Hwang   Albuquerque, NM
Joseph Mekhail Cornea - UC Irvine  
Hector Rojas Martinez   Clinton, MD
George Skopis Retina - Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary  
Leah Umfrey Glaucoma - New York Eye & Ear Infirmary  

 

Additional information

For more information, contact:

Penelope Helfgott
Executive Director
Washington National Eye Center, Inc.
Administrative Program Director
MGUH/MWHC Ophthalmology Residency Program

202-877-5329

penelope.a.helfgott@medstar.net

 

 

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