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Gastroenterology – Current & Past Fellows

  • PGY-4

    Daniel Kats, MD
    Medical School: Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
    Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital
    Clinical Interests: GI Bleeding, Medical Education, Colorectal Cancer, Advanced Endoscopy
    Social Interests: Golf, Running, Traveling, Pickleball, College Basketball

    Shahroz Fatima, MD
    Medical School: Washington University in St. Louis
    Residency: NYU Langone Health
    Clinical and Research Interests: Women’s Health and GI, Bariatrics and Weight Management, Gender Disparity in Academic Medicine, General GI
    Social Interests: Zumba/dance exercise, hiking, cooking, baking, spending quality time with family and friends, trying new cuisines

    Nicholas Scalzo
    Medical School: New York Medical College
    Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital
    Clinical and Research Interests: IBD, Motility, General GI
    Social Interests: Movies, Traveling, Spending time with family and friends, Watching Chelsea F.C. and the Seattle Seahawks!

  • PGY-5

    Savan Kothadia
    Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University
    Residency: Brown University
    Clinical and Research Interests: General Gastroenterology, Biliary pathology, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Disparities
    Social Interests: Plants/Gardening, Hiking, Watersports, Trying new restaurants

    Emily L. Romanoff
    Medical School: Duke University SOM
    Residency: Duke University
    Clinical and Research Interests: Women’s gastrointestinal health, Inflammatory bowel disease, Motility, Trauma-informed care, Gender equality in healthcare
    Social Interests: Hiking, Baking, Mixology, Trying new foods, Pelotoning, Hanging out with my pets, Visiting my friends

    Martin Ventoso
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School
    Residency: New York Presbyterian/Columbia University
    Clinical and Research Interests: General GI, Endoscopy and quality improvement
    Social Interests: Love to travel both domestically and abroad in search of new experiences, breweries and wineries, sporting events, spending time with my family and friends

  • PGY-6

    Yousef Elfanagely, MD
    Medical School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
    Residency: Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital
    Clinical and Research Interests: General gastroenterology, Medical Education
    Social Interests: Spending time with friends and family, thrifting, going to the beach

    John Paul Nsubuga MD
    Medical School: The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
    Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
    Clinical and Research Interests: Health Care Disparities, Colorectal cancer screening, General gastroenterology.
    Social Interests: Playing Basketball, Soccer, Traveling, Exploring new restaurants, Watching the Premier League, and NFL football.

    William Park, MD
    Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
    Residency: Boston Medical Center
    Clinical and Research Interests: Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Education
    Social Interests: Soccer, running, trying new recipes, traveling

    Nathan Sairam MD
    Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
    Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Clinical and Research Interests: Quality improvement, medical education, general gastroenterology, colorectal cancer screening, NAFLD
    Social Interests: Spending time in the kitchen, discovering new restaurants, getting outdoors with my dog

  • Past Fellows – Where did they go?

    2024
    A. Guo MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Mt. Sinai, NY, NY)
    K. Farrakhan MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Stony Brook, NY)
    L. Channen: Clinical Practice, Boston, MA

    2023
    B. Roussel MD: Clinical Practice, Voluntary Faculty, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    K. Ferreira MD: Clinical Practice, Bethesda, MD.
    E. Argueta MD: Clinical Practice, Irvine, CA

    2022
    Jaehoon Cho, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Columbia, NY, NY)
    Amber Charoen MD: Faculty at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD)
    May Min, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    Waihung Chung, MD PhD: Clinical Practice, Fall River, MA.

    2021
    Chung Sang Tse, MD: IBD Fellowship (UCSD, CA).
    Ronan Farrell, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    Jason Pan, MD: Transplant Hepatology Fellowship (U. Michigan)

    2020
    Sehrish Jamot, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Dartmouth, NH).
    Katherine Fan, MD: Clinical Practice, Tacoma, WA

    2019
    Shannon Simmons, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    Manida Wungjiranirun, MD: Transplant Hepatology Fellowship (UCSF, CA).
    Mena Bakhit, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, PA).

    2018
    Yesenia Greff, MD: GI Program Director, UMASS at Baystate, Springfield, MA
    Olelanru Jimoh, MD: Clinical Practice, Charlotte, NC
    Alex Browne, MD: Clinical Practice, Oakhurst, NJ

    2017
    Eric Mao, MD: IBD Fellowship (UCSF, CA)
    Sean Fine, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    Michal Ganz, MD: Clinical Practice, Amherst, MA

    2016
    David Rahni, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Dartmouth, NH)
    Nancy Kang, MD: Clinical Practice, Hartford, CT
    Alexis Pappas, MD: Clinical Practice, Taunton, MA

    2015
    Jason Ferreira, MD: Advanced endoscopy fellowship (Dartmouth). Clinical Practice, Voluntary Faculty, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    Pranith Perera, MD: Advanced endoscopy fellowship (U. Michigan). Clinical Practice, Voluntary Faculty, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
    Charles Wang, MD: Clinical Practice, Sacramento, CA

    2014
    Sarah Hyder, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Dartmouth). GI Faculty, UMASS
    Judy Nee, MD: GI Faculty, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
    Milton Ochieng, MD: Clinical Practice, St. Louis, MI

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The Department of Medicine at Alpert Medical School is comprised of eleven distinct Divisions. These Divisions, working in conjunction with the community doctors who comprise our Primary Care offerings, provide patients with an outstanding level of care both within the Brown affiliated hospitals and throughout several community-based clinical locations. In addition to patient services, several of our Divisions offer exceptional programs for Residents and Fellows within their designated areas of expertise.

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