>The scene on the medical campus, when Match Day envelopes landed.

Match in Time

As the 101 members of the SOM’s graduating class opened their envelopes this past March 16, it was only moments before the deafening silence gave way to shrieks. In a ceremony marked by several black-clad med students posing as “secret service agents”—sporting ear wires and headphones to gather intelligence—the Class of ’06 learned it was being distributed to residencies across the land. Their specialty preferences mostly mirrored those of the nation, with emerging physicians increasingly opting away from the fields that risk undefined hours. As usual, internal medicine dominated, but pediatrics also came in strong, with 10 slots. Ob/gyns, meanwhile, continue to shrink at Hopkins, with just one grad taking the leap into that specialty.

> Returning from an elective in Honduras, Tien Peng, Megan Tschudy and Neela Dasgupta await the news via cell phone at the San Pedro Sula airport.

ANESTHESIOLOGY

Chinwe Ajuba-Iwuji
Johns Hopkins
Brian Cauley
Med Prelim: St Mary’s Medical Ctr, Calif.
Mass General
Yasser Dahab
Johns Hopkins
Christopher Faustin
Med Prelim: Johns Hopkins/Sinai
Johns Hopkins
Elaina Lin
Med Prelim: Johns Hopkins/Sinai
Johns Hopkins
Rosanne Sheinberg
Med Prelim: Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins

DERMATOLOGY
Anthony Cukras
Med Prelim: Brigham
Brigham & Women’s
Mass General
Jordan Cummins
Med Prelim: Johns Hopkins/Sinai
Mass General
Mark Eid
Med Prelim: Mt Sinai/Cabrini, N.Y.
Hershey Med Ctr/Penn State
Jessica Ghaferi
Transitional: St Joseph Mercy, Ann Arbor
Henry Ford, Detroit
Julia Tzu
Med Prelim: Johns Hopkins/Sinai
Jackson Memorial

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Vardan Amirbekian
Transitional: N.Y. Hosp/Queens
Brigham & Women’s
Stephen Chang
Transitional: York Hosp, Pa.
Colum Presby, N.Y.
Daniel Durand
Med-Prelim: Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins
Mark Ebert
Transitional: York Hosp, Pa.
Johns Hopkins
James Kang
Transitional: York Hosp, Pa.
Beth Israel Deaconess, Mass.
Abhishek Srinivas
Transitional: Harbor Hospital
Einstein/Montefiore, N.Y.
Jason Tsai
Transitional: Flushing Hospital, N.Y.
New England Med Ctr, Mass.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Emilie Calvello
Johns Hopkins
Eric Elliott
Palmetto Health Richland, S.C.
Mark Foran
Brigham & Women’s
Amit Rahman
Drexel Hahnemann, Pa.
Tonya Walker
NYP Hosp, Cornell

FAMILY PRACTICE
Lara Devgan
UCLA
Robert Stenger
Oregon Health & Science Univ

GENERAL SURGERY
Daniel Chu
Boston U
Katherine Emery
Johns Hopkins
Dawn Emick
Duke
Paul Hwang
Walter Reed Army Med Ctr
Hyunsuk Suh
Boston U

INTERNAL MEDICINE
Mosi Bennet
Johns Hopkins
Priscilla Brastianos
Johns Hopkins
Dipayan Chaudhuri
UCSF
Soo Choi
UCLA
Neela Dasgupta
Duke
Neal Dickert
Johns Hopkins
Kerry Dierberg
Mass General
Lydia Gedmintas
Colum Presby, N.Y.
Michael Grunwald
Johns Hopkins
Christine Haggerty
Johns Hopkins
James Harkness
Brigham & Women’s
Rani Hasan
Penn
Naomi Ko
Brigham & Women’s
Janice Leung
Johns Hopkins
Shin Lin
Mayo, Minn.
Elizabeth Lo
Brown
Nestoras Mathioudakis
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Laurel Murrow
Emory
Parin Parikh
Colum Presby, N.Y.
Tien Peng
Colum Presby, N.Y.
Eleanor Pitt
Vanderbilt
Lora Reineck
U Michigan Hosps, Ann Arbor
John Schneider
Mass General
Shabina Siddique
Johns Hopkins
Vanessa Harris Walker
Johns Hopkins Bayview

MEDICINE
Catherine Lee
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Robert Luo
Brigham & Women’s

NEUROSURGERY
Alia Hdeib
Case Western, Cleveland
Case Western
Shaan Raza
Johns Hopkins
Pablo Recinos
Johns Hopkins
Urvashi Upadhyay
Brigham & Women’s
Harvard/Brigham

NEUROLOGY
Daniel Burdick
Beth Israel Deaconness Children’s, Boston
Schonze Del Pozo
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Johns Hopkins
Sarah Lee
Johns Hopkins
UCLA
Liana Rosenthal
Johns Hopkins Bayview

OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY
Justin Lappen
Northwestern McGaw, Ill.

OPHTHALMOLOGY
Vicki Chan
U Md.-Mercy
UCLA
Amir Kashani
Johns Hopkins
USC
Nahyoung Lee
Kaiser Permanente LA, Calif.
USC
Ilya Leyngold
U MD-Mercy
Johns Hopkins, GBMC

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Rishi Bhatnagar
George Washington
Sommer Hammoud
Hosp for Special Surg, N.Y C.
Rowena McBeath
Barnes-Jewish Hosp, Mo.
Joshua Schkrohowsky
U of Pittsburgh Medical Education Program

OTOLARYNGOLOGY
John Clinger
U Iowa Hosp/Clin, Iowa City
Chad Glazer
Johns Hopkins
Zayna Nahas
Johns Hopkins
Valeria Potigailo
U Washington Affil Hosps

PATHOLOGY
Shiyama Mudali
Johns Hopkins

PEDIATRICS
Matthews Birnholz
Northwestern McGaw, Ill.
Alissa Brown
U of Pittsburgh
Jana Cerullo
Johns Hopkins
Ryan Coller
UCLA
Lisa Guardabascio
TJU/Dupont Childrens, Pa.
Anjali Jain
UCLA
Laura Landgraf
Johns Hopkins
Cynthia Oberto
Mass General
Katherine Stabenow
Johns Hopkins
Megan Tschudy
Johns Hopkins
Patty Vernon
UCSD

PLASTIC SURGERY
Donald Buck
Northwestern McGaw, Ill.
Michael Lin
UC Irvine
Theresa Wang
Penn

PSYCHIATRY
David Grelotti
Mass General
Amy Huberman
Penn
Benjamin Silverman
Mass General
Elizabeth Tuffiash
Mt Sinai, N.Y.
Johns Hopkins

RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Christopher Loiselle
Greenwich Hospital, Conn.
U Washington Affil Hosps

SURGERY
Marcus Bookland
Johns Hopkins

UROLOGY
Ashley Ross
Johns Hopkins