Current Residents

PGY- 1 Residents

Nakisa Sadeghi, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Med School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Hometown: Alexandria, VA

Nishi Shah, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: North Carolina State University
Med School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Hometown: Charlotte, NC

PGY-2 Residents

Adewunmi Adelaja, MD, PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Ohio State University
Med School: the University of California, Los Angeles
Hometown: Canal Winchester, Ohio, and Los Angeles, CA

Dermatology Interests: Procedural dermatology, artificial intelligence, immunotherapy research, medical education.

Michael Chang, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Princeton University
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Princeton, NJ

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, surgical and procedural dermatology, skin of color, clinical research. 

JaBreia James, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Kennesaw State
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta
Hometown: Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; Somerset, NJ

Dermatology Interests: Skin of Color, Skin and Scalp Disorders, Medical Journalism, and Health Policy, and Inpatient Consults. 

Sharon Kam, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Stanford University
Med School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Hometown: San Mateo, CA; Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dermatology Interests: Inpatient dermatology, complex medical dermatology, medical education, patient education, bioethics, multicultural care.

Bina Kassamali, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Pennsylvania
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Sacramento, California and Baltimore, Maryland

Dermatology Interests: Medical education, health policy, health equity, and clinical research.

Michelle Lee, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Harvard College
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Dermatology Interests: Health equity, medical anthropology/medical humanities, skin of color, global and community health, teledermatology. 

Frederick Morgan, MD MS

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: UNC-Chapel Hill
Med School: Case Western
Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, medical education, clinical research.

Jordan Said, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Hobbs, NM

Dermatology Interests: Oncodermatology, inpatient dermatology, medical education, rheum-derm.

Meron Teklu, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: Rice University
Med School: Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
Hometown: Rosharon, TX

Dermatology Interests: Medical dermatology, onco-dermatology, rheum-derm, hair loss. equity.

Annie Toulmin, MD PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Virginia
Med School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Born in London, UK; Moved to McLean, VA

Dermatology Interests: Infectious diseases dermatology, inpatient dermatology, complex medical dermatology, global health, translational/basic research, and mechanism-based therapies.

PGY-3 Residents

Sepideh Ashrafzadeh, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Michigan
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Stevensville, MI

Dermatology Interests: Medical dermatology, cutaneous oncology, procedural dermatology, health policy, community health. 

Sara Behbahani, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Southern California
Med School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois / Scottsdale, Arizona

Dermatology Interests: cutaneous oncology, skin toxicities of cancer-related therapy, and inpatient dermatology.

Olivia Davies, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Hometown: Waukesha, WI

Dermatology Interests: Inpatient dermatology (ID-Derm), surgical dermatology (excisions/laser therapy), medical education and innovation, and health policy (community outreach/global health).

Lisa Guo, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: Duke University
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Solon, OH

Dermatology Interests: Rheum-derm, complex medical dermatology, medical education.

Victoria Simonne Humphrey, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Miami
Med School: University of Pittsburgh
Hometown: Cleveland, OH

Dermatology Interests: Ethnic skin and hair; Medical dermatology; Procedural dermatology; Healthcare media and journalism; Business and innovation; Mentorship; Community outreach.

Anusha Kumar, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Stanford University
Med School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Hometown: Moline, IL

Dermatology Interests: Medical dermatology, rheum-derm, inpatient dermatology, medical education, and clinical research.

Danna Moustafa, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Yale University
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Newport Coast, CA

Dermatology Interests: Pediatric dermatology, general dermatology, skin of color, and medical education.

Mack Su, MD PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Yale University
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Shanghai, St. Louis

Dermatology Interests: Medical dermatology, cutaneous oncology, basic and translational research.

Nelson Chika Ugwu, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Truman State University
Med School: Yale University School of Medicine
Hometown: Kaduna, Nigeria

Dermatology Interests: Medical dermatology, Surgical dermatology, Skin of color, Cutaneous oncology and Health equity.

Joseph Michael Yardman-Frank, MD MPH

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of New Mexico
Med School: Univ of New Mexico School of Medicine
Hometown: Santa Fe, NM

Dermatology Interests: Dermatology-related community/public health, dermatoepidemiology, improving access to dermatological care for under-served communities.

PGY-4 Residents

Nnenna Ezeh, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Southern California
Med School: University of Wisconsin
Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI

Dermatology Interests: Rheum-derm, hidradenitis suppurativa, ethnic skin and hair, health equity and policy.

Madeline DeWane, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Kenyon College, BA; Johns Hopkins, BSN
Med School: Univ of Connecticut School of Medicine
Hometown: Charleston, IL

Dermatology Interests: Inpatient dermatology, complex medical dermatology, healthcare innovation, and medical education.

Balaji Jothishankar, MD MBA

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Med School: University of Chicago
Hometown: Iowa City, IA

Dermatology Interests: General dermatology, surgical dermatology, undergraduate medical education, diversity and inclusion, and business and innovation.

Gun Ho Lee, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Stanford University
Med School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Hometown: Cupertino, CA

Dermatology Interests: allergic contact dermatitis, health media, medical dermatology, and procedural dermatology.

Young Lim, MD PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Yale University
Med School: Yale University School of Medicine
Hometown: Aurora, CO

Dermatology Interests: Genodermatoses, vascular anomalies, dermatopathology, and stem cell therapy.

Michael Shaughnessey, MD

Undergrad: Duke University
Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Hometown: Hingham, MA

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, melanoma, dermatologic surgery.

Sean Singer, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Boston College
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Walpole, MA

Dermatology Interests: Dermatology interests: medical dermatology, oncodermatology and cutaneous toxicities, sexual and gender minority health and gender-affirming dermatology.

Jacqueline Stevens, MD PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Virginia
Med School: University of Virginia
Hometown: Burlington, VT

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, melanoma and pigmented lesions, dermatologic surgery.

Connie Zhong, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Harvard University
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT

Dermatology Interests: Oncodermatology, medical education, and complex medical dermatology.

PGY-5 Resident

Rebecca Gaffney, MD

Med-Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Delaware
Med School: Rutgers Medical School
Hometown: Newton, MA

Dermatology Interests: Rheum-derm, in-patient consults, medical education.