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William J. Polvino
was appointed chief
executive officer at Bridge Medicines, a pioneer-
ing drug discovery company focused on
advancing promising early technologies from
concept to clinic, in New York.
2 0 0 1
Robert Kamieniecki
practices diagnostic
radiology at Imaging Consultants of Essex, in
Livingston and Belleville.
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Elizabeth Chan
, cardiologist, practices at the
Polyclinic Madison Center in Seattle.
Anthony Festa
is an orthopedic surgeon at
the New Jersey Orthopaedic Institute. He is also
an associate clinical professor of orthopedic
surgery at the Seton Hall University School of
Health and Medical Sciences, where he serves
as the assistant director of the orthopedic
surgery residency program, assistant director of
the sports medicine division, and director of the
Shoulder and Elbow Service.
Rasean Hodge
practices at the Premiere
Chronic Pain Care located in downtown Atlanta.
Anthony Mackaronis
, obstetrician and
gynecologist, was welcomed into the International
Association of HealthCare Professionals with his
upcoming publication in The Leading Physicians of
the World
. He practices at Delaware County
Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Pa.
David Wild
is a cardiologist at Cardiovascular
Specialists of North Jersey, in Teaneck.
2 0 0 3
Sarah Rosen
practices at Garden State
Obstetrical & Gynecological Associates in
Voorhees. She lives in Cherry Hill with her
husband and two children.
2 0 0 4
Matthew Grossman
is an attending
physician at the Clifton-based Gastroenterology
Associates of New Jersey.
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Melissa Burgos
, a family physician at
Hunterdon Family Medicine at Phillips-Barber in
Lambertville, is the president of the Down
Syndrome Association of Central New Jersey,
whose mission is to "provide support to fami-
lies from the time they receive the diagnosis
and throughout their lifetimes."
Payam Torrei
practices neuroradiology and
diagnostic radiology at the University Radiology
Group in East Brunswick.
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James Chang
practices pain management and
physical medicine and rehabilitation in Jersey City.
2 0 0 7
Ajay Hira
practices diagnostic radiology at the
University Radiology Group in East Brunswick.
2 0 0 8
Aaron Bellows
is a gastroenterologist at
Princeton Gastroenterology Associates.
Joseph Nezgoda
was elected vice president of
advocacy at the Florida Society of Ophthalmology.
He is a retina specialist at the Florida Eye Micro-
surgical Institute.
2 0 1 2
Gianna Casini
, who is board certified in
anesthesiology, is practicing pain medicine at
Parkview Hospital. She lives in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
with her husband and two children.
David Gendelberg
completed an orthopedic
surgery residency at Penn State Health Milton S.
Hershey Medical Center. In August, he started a
one-year fellowship in spinal surgery at
Harborview Medical Center, in Seattle.
Victoria Lent
joined Helen Hayes Hospital, a
physical rehabilitation facility in West
Haverstraw, N.Y., as director of spinal cord
injury rehabilitation.
Harrison Linder
, anesthesiologist, joined the
Center for Interventional Pain Medicine
at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.
2 0 1 3
Caitlin Schonewolf
is a radiation oncology
resident at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.
Erica Tabakin
was elected and served as
chief resident of emergency medicine in the
University of Pennsylvania Residency Program
during the 2016­2017 fiscal year. She was
subsequently hired as an assistant professor to
join the Penn faculty.
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Swati Antala
completed a residency in
pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and was
chosen to stay on as a chief resident.
Kandy Bahadur
is a chief resident of
pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital.
Timothy Michael Dempsey
began a
pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in July.
Tina Goodwin
is a chief resident of
pediatrics at Children's Hospital of the King's
Daughters in Norfolk, Va.
Michelle Udine
is a chief resident of pedi-
atrics at the University of Alabama­Birmingham
School of Medicine.
Brian Wexler
was elected and will serve as
chief resident of emergency medicine in the
University of Pennsylvania Residency Program
during the 2017­2018 fiscal year.
2 0 1 5 &
2 0 1 6
Pooja Kakar
(2016) and
Lokesh Shah
(2015) were
married this year.
Ralph Parker Fader IV
, a second-year
psychiatry resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in
New York, married Mark Gregory Barber on
May 28 in New York.
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Joseph Choi
(2017) and
Jihae Sophia
Park
(2016) were married on June 10 in New
Jersey. Dr. Park is a urology resident at the Uni-
versity of Rochester, and Dr. Choi is a resident in
orthopedic surgery at Seton Hall University.
Alyda Stabile
(Class of 2016),
Heather
Giles
(Class of 2016),
Peter Dellatore
(Class
of 2017), and
Steven Calamita
(Class of
2017) were part of the wedding party.
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