Current Residents

PGY-1 Residents

Joseph Ebriani, MD

Med Derm Resident Undergrad: UCLA, UCSD Medical School: UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine Hometown: Encino, California

Kaushik Venkatesh, MPH, MD

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

PGY-2 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 Interests: Health equity, digital health and innovation, skin and hair disorders, procedural dermatology, and 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

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad: Mississippi State University Medical School: Mercer University, School of Medicine Hometown(s): Savannah, Georgia

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

Sara Vazquez, MD, PhD

Advanced Derm Resident Undergrad, Major: Harvard 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-3 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 School of Medicine 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

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-4 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. 

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.

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.

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.

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-5 Resident

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.

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.

Lisa Guo, MD

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

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