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Residents

UMKC Internal Medicine residency graduates take many different career paths after graduation.
Here is a list, organized by year of graduation, and their current careers.


2007

Stella S. Abhyankar, M.D. - Hospitalist – Saint Luke’s Hospital Health System

Leticia Marie Alaniz, M.D. (Med/Peds) - Private Practice, Fort Lenard Wood, MO

Aiad Alsakaf, M.D. - Private Practice – Port Charlotte, Florida

Revathi N. Bhat, M.D. - Geriatrics Fellowship - UMKC

Iris A. Comes, M.D. - Geriatrics Fellowship - UMKC

Dominique Michelle Crain, M.D. - Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship - UMKC

Sarvenaz  Danesh, M.D. - Hospitalist – Saint Luke’s Hospital Health System

A. Sasan Gholami, MD.  - Infectious Diseases Fellowship - UMKC

Mark Mutuota Gitau, M.D. - Hematology/Oncology Fellowship - UMKC

ason Mark Huddleston, D.O. - Private Practice, Internal Medicine – American Fork, Utah

Paul Johnson, D.O. (Med/Peds) - Hospitalist – TMC-Lakewood, Kansas City, MO

Jennifer M. Riekhof McBride, M.D. (Med/Peds) - Chief Resident – UMKC  School of Medicine

Jayasree Pillarisetti, M.D, - Geriatrics Fellowship - UMKC

Pradeep M. Ramesh, M.D. - Private Practice – Waterloo, Iowa

Breann Kelley Smith, M.D. - HIMS – Eastern Jackson County Hospitalist

Mohammad Taha, M.D. - Hospitalist – Kansas University Medical Center

Stephanie Lynn Thomas, M.D. - Chief Resident – UMKC School of Medicine

Osama Abdul Aziz Yousef, M.D. - Gastroenterology Fellowship - UMKC

2006

Jeremy Affolter, M.D. (Med/Peds) – Pediatric Critical Care, Dallas, TX

Basem Awadh, M.D. – Rhematology Fellowship, KUMC

Dan Barnes, M.D. (Med/Peds) – Private Practice, Nevada, MO

Surya Chetlapalli, M.D. – Internal Medicine, San Diego, CA

Tarek Darwish, M.D. – Internal Medicine, Hospitalist Truman Medical Center

Jill Dawson, M.D. – UMKC Docent Teaching Faculty

Carol Freiberger, D.O. (Med/Peds) – Private Practice, Baltimore, MD

Sara Gardner, M.D. (Med/Peds) – Teaching Faculty, Saint Luke’s Hospital, KC

Krishna Gurram, M.D. – Clinical Research

Amber Henry, M.D. – Chief Resident, UMKC

Kelley Howell, M.D. – Teaching Staff – Saint Luke’s Hospital, KC

Benahilli Iboaya, D.O. – Nephrology Fellowship, Jackson, MS

Hazem Kakaji, M.D. – Internal Medicine Private Practice, IL

Tarek Kteleh, M.D. – Rheumatology Fellowship, Washington University, St. Louis

J. Brian Ladesich, M.D. – Sleep Medicine Fellowship, UMKC, Pulm/CC Fellowship, UMKC 2007

Nathan Laney, M.D. – Chief Resident, UMKC  Endocrinology Fellowship, UNMC 2007

Kathryn Twenter, D.O. – Geriatrics Fellowship, KUMC

Tareq Zaza, M.D. – Pulmonary/CC Fellowship, MU

2005

Kenna Adiga, DO  Chief Resident – UMKC

Shelley Alexander, DO  Geriatrics Fellowship – UMKC, Teaching Faculty, UMKC 2006

Mohammad Al-Hamed, MD   Pulm/Critical Care Fellowship – Univ. of AK, Little Rock

Hakim Ali, MD  Pulm/Critical Care Fellowship – Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Mary Buss, MD  Geriatrics Fellowship – UMKC

Rebecca Edwards, MD   Chief Resident – UMKC

Angela Garner, MD   UMKC Docent/Faculty

Nisreen Haideri, MD   Hematology/Oncology Fellowship – UMKC

Darin Haug, DO (Med/Peds)  Private Practice – Marshall, MO

John C. Ireland, DO  Pulm/Critical Care Fellowship – UMKC

Taiyeb Khumri, MD  Preventative Cardiology – Saint Luke’s Hosp., Cardiology – UMKC 2006

Heather Kort, DO  Private Practice – Kansas City

Alexandra Laya, MD  Gastroenterology Fellowship, UMKC

Michael McGinnis, MD (Med/Peds)  Pulmonary Hospitalist – Children’s Mercy Hosp. KC, MO

Harpreet Patheja, MD   Private Practice - Florida

Thomas Pham, MD (Med/Peds)  Staff – Children’s Mercy Hospital & Truman Medical Center

William Rees, MD   UMKC Docent/Faculty

Slawomir Walewicz, MD  UMKC Docent/Faculty

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