Internal Medicine Residency Recent Graduates and Fellowships

Residents holding I matched signs

The most recent three year ABIM pass rate for first time takers of the ABIM is 96%.

We are proud of our reputation with fellowship programs and our track record of placing residents. Nearly all Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital residents in the last decade who have seriously sought a fellowship program have been successful.

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For more information on the Internal Medicine Residency Program, please contact Kim Geller.

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Recent Graduates and Fellowships

2024

Ricardo Espinoza, M.D.
Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
Harbor-UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Shannon Goodall, M.D.
Fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

William Hahn, M.D.
Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Janet Luu, D.O.
Fellowship in Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA

Kimia Mashouf, M.D.
Hospitalist, Heme/BMT Service
University of California San Francisco, CA

John Noh, M.D.
Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Kaiser Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Karthik Seetharaman, D.O.
Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Trevor Stoltzfus, D.O.
Primary Care Physician, Sutter Health
Santa Barbara, CA

Connor Triggs, D.O.
Hospitalist, Sansum Sutter
Santa Barbara, CA

Eddy Yu, M.D.
Fellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Lehigh Valley Health Network, Pennsylvania

2023

Doug Fedder, MD
Hospitalist, San Ramon Medical Center
San Ramon, CA

Natalie Gordon, MD
Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Community Care
Pflugerville, TX

Yana Gristan, MD
Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Cottage Health
Santa Barbara, CA

Mary Henary, MD
Hospitalist, Cedars Sinai
Los Angeles, CA

Koorush Kabiri, DO
Oncology Hospitalist, Stanford University
Santa Barbara, CA

Arielle Kanner, DO
Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Cottage Health
Santa Barbara, CA

Sri Mandava, MD
Fellowship in Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami Beach, FL

Neelima Mohan, MD
Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente
South San Fransisco, CA

Prithvi Pande, MD
Locums Hospitalist & Part-time Academic Hospitalist
California and Oregon

Lucas Pfeifer, DO
Fellowship in Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock
Lebanon, NH

2022

Katherine Arn, MD
Fellowship in Infectious Disease
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Roxana Ardebili, MD
Internal Medicine, Primary Care
Sansum Clinic, Santa Barbara, CA

Andrew Bishop, DO
Fellowship in Infectious Disease
Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Gretel D’Souza, MD
Fellowship in Rheumatology
UCLA Olive View Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Sarah Ettinger, MD
Fellowship in Infectious Disease
UCI Medical Center, Orange County, CA

Pejman Kordbacheh, MD
Hospitalist, Kaiser Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Amy McKenney, DO
Hospitalist, UCLA Healthcare
Los Angeles, CA

Elizabeth Pandian, MD
Hospitalist, UCLA Healthcare
Los Angeles, CA

Philip Wan, DO
Hospitalist, Alameda Health System
San Leandro, CA

2021

Bashir Allahdadi, MD
Hospitalist, Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara, CA

Summer Baird, MD
Hospitalist, Sequoia Hospital
Redwood City, CA

Aroma Dulku, MD
Hospitalist, Kaiser Permanente
Vacaville, CA

Thuthiri Lwin, MD
Fellowship in Rheumatology
UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Cassie Maciel, MD
Hospitalist, Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara, CA

Taylor McConnaughy, MD
Fellowship in Rheumatology
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Rachel Subramanian, MD
Hospitalist, Beaver Medical Group
Redlands, CA

Maryam Tavanaei, MD
Fellowship in Nephrology
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Iman Arafa, MD
Hospitalist, Kaiser Perm.
Los Angeles, CA

Sean McGuinness, MD
Hospitalist, Sansum Clinic
Santa Barbara, CA

Hoang Nguyen, MD
Cardiology - Fellowship
Baylor Scott & White, Austin, TX

Daya Raman, MD
Hospitalist, Cedars Sinai
Los Angeles, CA

Atheer Razzouk, MD
Hospitalist, UCLA
Santa Barbara, CA

Rebecca Salvo, DO
Gastroenterology - Fellowship
Valley Hospital Med. Center, Las Vegas, NV

Benita Tjoe, MD
Women’s Preventative Cardiology – Fellowship
Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles

David Tseng, DO
Hospitalist, Alameda Medical Center
Oakland, CA

2019

Natalie Achamallah, MD
Pulmonary/Critical Care - Fellowship
Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles

Nathan Collins, MD
Anesthesiology - Residency
VCU, Richmond, VA

Chelsea Dean, MD
Internal Medicine and HIV Medicine, Primary Care
Santa Barbara County Health Care Center

Camille Hunter, MD
Geriatrics Medicine - Fellowship
UCLA, Los Angeles

Lindsay Katona, DO
Hospitalist, Sansum Clinic
Santa Barbara, CA

Clayton Naddell, MD
Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Private Practice
Simi Valley, CA

Sergio Rubio, MD
Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Private Practice
Santa Barbara, CA

Andrea Zambrano, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
Univ. of Washington

2018

Emily Chen, DO
Private Practice
Elk Grove, CA

Alex Hardwick, MD
Cardiology - Fellowship
Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco

Daisy Lankarani, MD
Gastroenterology - Fellowship
Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas

Alice Lin, DO
Hospitalist, Kaiser Perm.
Sacramento, CA

Samantha Mathews, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
Dartmouth University

Yuri Matusov, MD
Pulmonary/Critical Care - Fellowship
Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles

Cameron Selent, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
Medical Univ. of South Carolina

Negin Sobhani, MD
Hospitalist, Sutter Medical Center
Sacramento, CA

2017

Erin Dizon, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
USC, Los Angeles

Susie Fong, MD
Sleep Medicine - Fellowship
UCLA, Los Angeles

Michelle Pham, MD
Hospitalist
Seattle, WA

Kyle Powers, MD
Palliative Care - Fellowship
National Institute of Health

Anita Rai, MD
Group Practice
Sansum Clinic, Santa Barbara, CA

Brenda Ruvalcaba, MD
Hospitalist
UC Davis, CA

Priyanka Saharan, MD
Hospitalist
Oakland, CA

Eric Tam, MD
Pulmonary/Critical Care - Fellowship
Univ. of Texas, San Antonio

2016

Kacie Brumley, MD
Hospitalist
San Diego, CA

Connor Johnson, MD
Hospitalist, Marian Hospital
Santa Maria, CA

Erin Kenney, DO
Rheumatology - Fellowship
Scripps Hospital, San Diego, CA

Eunice Kwon, DO
Hospitalist, Good Samaritan
Los Angeles, CA

Satbir Singh, MD
Endocrinology - Fellowship
University of Utah

Bryant Wilson, MD
Sports Medicine - Fellowship
University of Southern Florida 

2015

Melissa Barger, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
Keck/USC University
Los Angeles, CA

Emily Colgate, MD
HIV - Fellowship
University of Massachusetts
Worcester, MA

Sawyer Haig, DO
Primary Care
Santa Barbara, CA

Anil Jagtiani, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.

Jeremy Lash, MD
Hospitalist
Santa Barbara, CA

Kateryna Markova, MD
Endocrinology - Fellowship
University of Utah
SLC, Utah

Paul Ozuzun, MD
Nephrology - Fellowship
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

2014

Dena El Sayed, MD
Infectious Disease - Fellowship
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Karina Garcia, MD
Primary Care
Santa Barbara, CA

Erick Imbertson, MD
Gastroenterology - Fellowship
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, CA

Mauli Patel, MD
Hospitalist
Woodland Hills, CA

Sylvia Rivera, MD
Endocrinology - Fellowship
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Shant Shirvanian, MD
Pulmonary/Critical Care - Fellowship
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Souji Sodavarapu, MD
Primary Care
Stockton, CA

2013

Scott Ahl, MD
Endocrinology - Fellowship
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Jasneet Dhillon, MD
Primary Care
Aptos, CA

Hubert Lee, MD
Hospitalist
Woodland Hills, CA

Mike Loya, DO
Primary Care
Solvang, CA

Manish Mehta, MD
Hyperbaric Medicine - Fellowship
UC San Diego
San Diego, CA

Alex Morf, MD
Primary Care
Santa Barbara, CA

Amanda Scott, MD
Primary Care
Santa Ynez, CA

2012

Michael Alyesh, MD
Primary Care
Beverly Hills, CA

Allison Beaunier, DO
Primary Care
Lakewood, CO

Brittany Demco, MD
Primary Care
Boston, MA

Matti Jansen, MD
Primary Care
Santa Barbara, CA

William Knapp, DO
Primary Care
Concord, CA

Rashid Paband, MD
Primary Care
La Mesa, CA

Ashley Thorsell, MD
Endocrinology - Fellowship
Scripps Hospital
San Diego, CA

Recent Prelims

2023

Jamie Clarke, MD
Diagnostic Radiology
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Matthew Daly, MD
Anesthesia
UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA

Rafael Tomas Jimenez, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charleston, MA

Maya Tarasenko, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

2022

Ben York, MD
Tufts SOM
Radiology
USC

Megan Quan, MD
St. Louis University
Diagnostic Radiology
UCLA

Elliott Lebby, MD
CA Univ of Science
Radiology
Harbor UCLA

Bianca Kang, MD
Creighton University
Dermatology

Nick Berry, MD
Mayo Clinic SOM
Dermatology
Hackensack Med Center

2021

Matthew Sasaki, MD
Univ of Central Florida
Neurology
Stanford

Gabe Li, MD
Duke University
Diagnostic & Intervention Radiology
University of WA

Robert Thiel, MD
St. Louis University
Dermatology
VA Tech

Shannon Kody, MD
NY Medical College
Research

Jaimie Hearn, MD
Univ of Arizona
PMR
University of WA

2020

Lindsay Sklover, MD
Lewis Katz SOM
Dermatology
Cook County Chicago

Jerry Jiang, MD
University of CA
Interventional Radiology
OHSU

Christopher Hyde, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Diagnostic Radiology
UCSF

TL Huynh-Tran, MD
University of CA
Neurology
UCLA

Andrew Barbour, MD
Duke University
Radiation Oncology
University of Seattle