Current Residents

PGY-1 Residents

Joshua Hauser, MD

Med Derm Resident Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley Medical School: University of California, San Francisco Hometown: Albany, NY

Dermatology Interests: HIV and ID dermatology, inpatient dermatology, drug and device regulation, health policy

Ian Nykaza, MD

Med Derm Resident Undergrad: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Medical School: Weill Cornell Medicine Hometown: Johnsburg, IL

Dermatology Interests: Oncodermatology/supportive oncodermatology, complex medical dermatology, inpatient dermatology, clinical and translational research, medical education.

PGY-2 Residents

Emmanuella Asabor, MD, PHD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Harvard College, Graduate Degree: University of Cambridge Medical School: Yale School of Medicine, Hometown: Staten Island, NY

Dermatology Interests: Pigmentary disorders, hair disorders, inflammatory skin disease, health innovation, and dermatologic care delivery.

Joseph Ebriani, MD

Medicine Derm Resident Undergrad: University of Chicago Medical School: Stanford Hometown: Irvine, CA

Dermatology Interests: Health equity, digital health and innovation, skin and hair disorders, procedural dermatology, and medical education.

Emily Gordon, MD, MS

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Harvard University Graduate: Columbia University
Med School: Columbia University
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA; NYC, NY, Park City, UT

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, complex medical dermatology, procedural dermatology, hair loss, medical education

Joseph Holland, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Louisville Graduate: University of Louisville
Med School: University of Louisville School of Medicine
Hometown: Louisville, KY; Muncie, Indiana

Dermatology Interests: Surgical dermatology, wound care/healing, general dermatology, dermatopathology.

Lauren LaMonica, MD, MBA, MPH

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Yale Graduate: Yale School of Public Health, University of Michigan School of Business Medical School: Univ of Michigan Medicine Hometown(s): Peabody, MA

Dermatology interests: Surgical and procedural dermatology, global health dermatology, dermatoepidemiology, managed care and access to biologics, health policy

Lynn Midani, MD, BS

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: University of New Mexico Medical School, Degree: University of New Mexico Hometown: Albuquerque, NM

Dermatology Interests: Global health dermatology, refugee health, forensic, general, and complex medical dermatology, health equity, and medical education.

Mykayla Sandler, MD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Harvard College Medical School: Harvard Medical School Hometown: Wayland, MA

Dermatology Interests: Pediatric dermatology, allergic contact dermatitis and patch testing, medical education, healthcare innovation

Medha Sharma, MD, MBA

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Penn Graduate: Penn Medical School: Penn Hometown(s): Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, procedural dermatology, oncodermatology, immunotherapies for autoimmune diseases, biotech/clinical trials, healthcare innovation, global health.

Kaushik Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MPH

Med Derm Resident Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh Graduate: George Washington University Medical School: Harvard Medical School Hometown: Ashburn, Virginia

Dermatology Interests: Complex medical dermatology, cutaneous oncology inpatient dermatology, health policy, AI and digital health, and healthcare delivery.

Eric Xia, MD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: BU Medical School, Degree: BU Med Hometown(s): Beijing, China; Madison, CT.

Dermatology Interests: cutaneous oncology, health equity, medical education, and healthcare innovation.

PGY-3 Residents

Rishi Goel, MD, MS/M.Sc.

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: University of Michigan Graduate Degree: University of Oxford Medical School: University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Dermatology Interests: Cutaneous oncology, rheum‐derm, immunotherapy, basic and translational research. 

Justin Jia, MD, M.S

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: University of Chicago Medical School: Stanford Hometown: Irvine, CA

Dermatology Interest: Health equity, complex medical dermatology, nail and hair disorders, pigmentary disorders, skin of color, medical education.

Trisha Kaundinya, MD, MPH

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: Northwestern University
Med School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hometown: Bridgewater, NJ

Dermatology Interests:Complex medical dermatology, oncodermatology, health policy, and health services research.

Michael Martinez, MD

Med Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Illinois at Chicago
Med School: NYU
Hometown: Chicago, IL 

Dermatology Interests: Connective tissue disease, inpatient dermatology, healthcare innovation, and health policy.

Chinemelum Obijiofor, MD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Rice University Medical School: NYU Hometown(s): Houston, TX; New York, NY

Dermatology Interests: Complex medical dermatology, global health dermatology, serving patients with skin of color, and mentorship for underrepresented groups interested in pursuing a career in dermatology.

Rachel Reardon, MD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Denison University Medical School: Harvard Medical School Hometown(s): Boston, MA; Midland, MI

Dermatology Interests: Medical and pediatric dermatology, community health/outreach, medical education, mentorship

 

Oscar Reyes Gaido, MD, PHD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Johns Hopkins University Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Hometown: Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Dermatology Interests: Medical dermatology, chronic inflammation, bench drug discovery research, and translational entrepreneurship

 

Alexis Strahan, MD, M.S.N.

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Mississippi State University Graduate Degree: Vanderbilt University Medical School: Mercer University, School of Medicine Hometown(s): Memphis, Tennessee

Dermatology Interests: Infectious diseases, HIV‐associated skin conditions, medical dermatology, health equity, global health, street medicine

Sara Vazquez, MD, PhD

Advanced Derm Resident UndergradHarvard College Medical School: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Hometown(s): Kilchberg, Zurich; Somerville, MA; Walworth, WI

Dermatology Interests: Pediatric dermatology, procedural dermatology, autoimmunity & immunotherapy, basic & translational research.

Gustavo Velasquez, MD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: University of South Florida Medical School: Harvard Medical School Hometown(s): Fellsmere, Hobe Sound, and Vero Beach, Florida

Dermatology Interests: Drug hypersensitivity reactions, genodermatoses, medical education

PGY-4 Residents

Maria Asdourian, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Boston College
Med School: Harvard Medical School
Hometown: Burlington, Massachusetts

Dermatology Interests: Complex medical dermatology, oncodermatology, general dermatology, clinical research.

Stefano Daniele, MD, PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Georgetown University
Med School: Yale School of Medicine
Hometown: Longmeadow, MA 

Dermatology Interests: Medical Dermatology, Neuro-Dermatology, Basic and Translational Research, Mechanism-Based Therapies. 

Lara Drake, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Cornell University
Medical School: Tufts University Hometown: Berkeley, CA

Dermatology Interests: Procedural dermatology, skin and scalp disorders, healthcare innovation, medical education, and clinical research.

Antonio Ji Xu, MD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Oxford
Med School: University of Oxford
Hometown: Madrid, Spain

Medical dermatology, clinical research, artificial intelligence, healthcare innovation.

Catherina Pan, MD

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

Rheumatology-dermatology, complex medical dermatology, healthcare innovation, artificial intelligence.

Nakisa B. Sadeghi, MD MPH

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

Dermatology Interests: Complex medical dermatology, inpatient dermatology, public health/health policy, health humanities, medical education. 

Nishi Shah, MD

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

Dermatology Interests: Complex medical dermatology, medical education, onco-dermatology, social determinants of health, and equity research.

Chirag Vasavda, MD, PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: Duke University
Med School: Johns Hopkins
Hometown: Fremont, CA

Dermatology Interests: Dermatology-rheumatology, complex medical dermatology, cutaneous neuroscience, somatosensation.

David Wu, MD, PhD

Advanced Derm Resident
Undergrad: University of Virginia
Med School: University of California San Francisco
Hometown: New York City / DC

Dermatology Interests: General dermatology, complex medical dermatology, basic/translational research, ML/AI and computational methods, and medical education.

Zinan Zhang, MD, PhD

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

Dermatology Interests: Onco-dermatology, cutaneous oncology, genodermatoses, pediatric dermatology, and basic science and translational research.

PGY-5 Residents

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, Feinberg School of Medicine
Hometown: Rosharon, TX

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