Current Residents

Vanee Balasubramaniam, M.D.

Hometown: Born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Germany, and have lived last 12 years in Toronto, Canada.

Medical School: St. George's University

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in both Tamil and English and understand German. I love traveling, cooking and doing outdoor activities (kayaking, hiking, snorkeling, badminton, etc.).

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Still learning about this one.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The first thing I noticed about the program was how everyone was friendly and willing to teach. I chose this residency for the various tracks it offers.

One Word To Describe Me: Adventurous: I am always up for new experiences, love to explore places and things never experienced before.

Jennifer Cialone, M.D.

Hometown: Columbus, OH

Medical School: University of Rochester

Hobbies/Other Training: Reading (LOVE Harry Potter and Hunger Games), baking, running, biking, cooking.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Go to festivals in the summer (lilac fest, jazz fest, park ave fest) and just savoring the outdoors!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The residents are fun, down to earth, and kind. The attendings and fellows are such fantastic teachers and super approachable.

One Word To Describe Me: Friendly/Social - I love meeting and getting to know new people.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Clinical research in Batten Disease, a rare neurodegenerative disorder of childhood.

Lynnie Correll, M.D., Ph.D.

Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah (and Woodbridge, CT and Ithaca NY)

Medical School: University of Utah

Hobbies/Other Training: Wilderness Medicine enthusiast/instructor, rock climber, trail runner, fly fisher-woman, enthusiastic (but unaccomplished) baker, stepmom.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Trail running! You would never guess the diversity and volume of trails here!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The people. By far. I've never heard the words "how can i help with things" more often than I do here with my fellow interns and residents.

One Word To Describe Me:

One word is too hard…. I can do it in 2: Little but Feisty!

Special Projects I Am Working On: Research on the heritable predisposition of childhood leukemias.

Rachel Diamond, M.D.

Hometown: Newton, MA

Medical School: Sackler

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Hebrew, squash enthusiast

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Run along the river!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: So incredibly friendly and helpful.

One Word To Describe Me: Playful. I am truly a child at heart.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Does building a TV stand count? :)

Carol Fries, M.D.

Hometown: Westernville, NY

Medical School: SUNY Upstate

Hobbies/Other Training: I have a long list of hobbies and am always up for new activities. I love anything involving the outdoors (especially snowboarding!), which makes Rochester the perfect place for me to live!

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: I've enjoyed exploring the Rochester area and getting to know my fellow interns.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone I've met since moving to Rochester has been so welcoming and friendly. The entire University seems genuinely committed to providing compassionate and exceptional patient care, and the faculty is truly dedicated to enhancing our pediatric education as much as possible. In the short time I have been here, my favortie thing is definitely my fellow residents! I am so excited to have the opportunity to work with such a great group of people.

One Word To Describe Me: Enthusiastic! I aspire to make the best of every situation, and I tend to pour my heart and soul into everything I set my mind to (education, family, friendships, hobbies). Sometimes this can be overwhelming, but I embrace a busy schedule!

Kavi Gnanasekaran, M.D

Hometown: Concord, NC

Medical School: St. George's University

Hobbies/Other Training: Running, watching cooking shows, and Harry Potter.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Eating out, shopping, exploring the parks.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: How friendly everyone in the residency program is--truly making the members of the program feel like a part of the family.

One Word To Describe Me: Convivial, because I am friendly, sociable, and fun-loving :)

Justin Goldstein, M.D.

Hometown: Stoughton, MA

Medical School: Sackler

Hobbies/Other Training: I am a triathlete and skier. I love to travel the world and experience new cultures. I also love to read (non-medical!) when I have the time.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Going on a bike ride or run with my wife.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: How friendly everyone is and their eagerness to teach and learn together.

One Word To Describe Me: Curious. I am always excited to try new things, discover new places, and learn something new each day.

Karla Haag, M.D.

Hometown: Erie, PA

Medical School: University of Rochester

Hobbies/Other Training: Skiing, hiking, and all things outdoors. I am also a recent graduate of puppy training school and excel at decorating for and celebrating all holidays.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Exploring the many parks with my puppy Jovie!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: How friendly and welcoming everyone is.

One Word To Describe Me: ERIEsistible

Ethan Helm, M.D.

Hometown: Mabelvale, Arkansas

Medical School: University of Arkansas

Hobbies/Other Training: Cancer survivor, plan to do full time Christian medical missions following residency, have spent time in India, Guyana, Guatemala, Kenya, adn Lesotho, love soccer.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Spending time with my wife.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Definintely the CARE/Global Health Track

One Word To Describe Me: Ridiculous. My wife tells me frequently "you are ridiculous" mostly because I am absurdly silly. It is for this reason that I am doing pediatrics. When I looked at my medical skill set, the only skill I could identify was making funny faces!

Special Projects I Am Working On: Maintaining and growing in my faith.

Karol Hyjek, M.D.

Hometown: Whitby, Ontario, Canada (near Toronto)

Medical School: Jagiellonian University

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Polish. Competitive swimmer for 12 years. Car and sports fanatic. Wakeboarding/water skiing enthusiast.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Groceries at Wegman's, Eats at Good Luck, Drinks at Salina's, Desserts at Pittsford's farm dairy.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The organization of conferences and morning reports. The versatility and diversity, particularly being able to work at Strong Memorial Hospital and Rochester General Hospital. The support of residents, staff and faculty.

One Word To Describe Me: Harmonious

Naazneen Iqbal, M.D.

Hometown: Pittsford, NY

Medical School: Stony Brook University

Hobbies/Other Training: Attempting to cook new things, trying my hand at photography, and getting into a really bood book!

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Spending time outdoors in the parks around Rochester, going to the public market for my cooking endeavors, and treating myself to Wegman's patisserie.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone is very friendly and the program prioritzes our education. I like how, as interns, we are given a lot of autonomy, with the seniors and attendings stepping in if they need to, in a way that encourages us. Also, I love how our intern class takes advantage of the free time and we get to hang out at fun places around Rochester!

One Word To Describe Me: Creative

Diana Miller, M.D.

Hometown: Holmdel, NJ

Medical School: UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson

Hobbies/Other Training: Opera singing (sang professionally for NJ State Repert Opera Company)

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Stroll along the canal in Pittsford with my husband and baby daughter and get crepes!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: They are genuinely the nicest and most intrinsically motivated group of people I have ever worked with. I love how much our program values resident autonomy.

One Word To Describe Me: Bleeding-heart! If you counted the number of times I say "awwww!" in conversation or on rounds, you would grow to hate it.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Raising my beautiful baby girl, Dora.

Katie Mowers, M.D.

Hometown: Muskegon, Michigan

Medical School: Michigan State U

Hobbies/Other Training: Traveling, photography, interior design, and playing volleyball.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Walking along the Genesee Riverway Trail.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Collegial but down-to-earth environment.

One Word To Describe Me: Adventurous. I am always looking for the next country to explore, cliff to jump off, or food to taste!

Special Projects I Am Working On: Currently involved in multiple cardiology research projects.

Supriya Nair, M.D.

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Medical School: Loyola Stritch

Hobbies/Other Training: Indian dancing, photography, playing tabla (Indian drums) and mandolin.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Reading outside in one of the parks, eating at the amazing local restaurants.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone is super helpful and always there for you!

One Word To Describe Me: Sarcastic. I am a laid back person and find that sarcasm is a humorous way of giving an optimistic perspective to a difficult situation.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Research on a case study regarding the impact of current and future health care policy changes that prevent illegal immigrants from having access to medical care, and its impact on local resources.

Heather Reyes, M.D., M.E.

Hometown: Allentown, PA

Medical School: Temple University

Hobbies/Other Training: Theatrical scenic design, piano.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Exploring! There is so much to do in a new city.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: How willing everyone is to help each other out.

One Word To Describe Me: Cheerful. I am a happy person, and like to share that part of myself with the people I care about.

Melissa Tsuboyama, M.D.

Hometown: New Rochelle, NY

Medical School: University of Rochester

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Spanish, enjoy traveling (have been to Peru, Japan, China, Thailand, and Canada!) and trying new types of food.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester:

Taking walks/hikes around the different parks (Letchworth, Highland, etc.), going apple/blueberry/pumpkin picking in the fall, going to the Public Market on Saturday mornings, going to the "dollar theater" (on most nights it actually costs $2.25, but still!)

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: How friendly and supportive everyone is.

One Word To Describe Me: Genuine

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am working with an adult neurologist on analyzing EEG data collected on Parkinson's patients during their initial programming session for deep brain stimulation.

Hometown: Boston, MA

Medical School: University of Michigan

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Farsi, Conversant in Spanish, Proficient in French, Varsity Lightweight Men's Coxswain--4 years at MIT. Hobbies: Zumba, Salsa/Bachata dancing, aerial arts and indoor rock climbing, soccer, tennis, fine dining (at places like Lento), travel

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Getting cupcakes at Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe to share with my friends! Otherwise, you might find me at Tango Cafe on Friday night, dancing some Bachata.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: CARE track!

One Word To Describe Me: Intense---I have very strong feelings about most things and I am passionate about almost everything I am involved in.

Special Projects I Am Working On: CARE track project.

Sahar Aminipour, M.D., M.A.

Hometown: Lockport, NY

Medical School: University of Buffalo

Hobbies/Other Training: Rock climbing, hiking, camping, painting.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Activites on the Finger Lakes (ie. wine-tasting, boating, fishing, hiking, etc.), canoeing at Bay Creek, mountain biking at Dryer Park, hiking and trail running at Mendon Ponds, rock climbing at the Niagara Glen, camping in the Adirondacks or New Paltz. Enjoying nights with friends for dinner, favorite places include: Goodluck, Lucca's, Chocolate and Vines, and anywhere on Park Ave.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: My co-residents are great to work with. I have formed really close bonds with the residents in my class and the senior residents are always supportive.

One Word To Describe Me: Passionate. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I love life both inside and outside the hospital.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Working on a research project with Dr. Pryhuber (neonatology).

Hometown: Rochester, NY

Medical School: St. George's University

Hobbies/Other Training: Studied technical theatre in undergrad, worked at Glimmerglass Opera as stagehand, third degree blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Hiking in the parks, walking along the canal, trying new restaurants, listening to live music.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Great people to work with and great friendships.

One Word To Describe Me: Funtastical

Special Projects I Am Working On: CARE track project

Megan Callanan, M.D.

Hometown: Ithaca, NY

Medical School: SUNY Downstate

Hobbies/Other Training: AmeriCorps NCCC

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Hanging out with my son and husband in any of the beautiful parks around Rochester.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: I like the variety of diseases and illness that we see at Strong. The patient load keeps you busy without being too overwhelmed (usually...), which makes residency a great learning experience.

One Word To Describe Me: Optimistic. I find that if you expect the best out of people, you are more likely to get it!

Special Projects I Am Working On: Spending as much quality time with my family as possible.

Amy Catalfamo, M.D.

Hometown: Troy, Michigan

Medical School: Michigan State

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, running, snowboarding.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Trying new restaurants.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone is very approachable.

One Word To Describe Me: Easy-going/flexible. I don't get upset easily over sudden small changes and can adjust to my enviornment quickly.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Heme-onc research: Influential factors of time to cancer diagnosis in children and impact of these factors on survival and prognosis.

Jing Chen, M.D.

Hometown: Buffalo, NY

Medical School: University of New England

Hobbies/Other Training: Photography, hiking, being with friends and family.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Wine tasting on the Finger Lakes, hiking/walking on many nearby trails, exploring the area.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: We all get along great, more than just co-workers, we are friends and like a family both inside and outside of work.

One Word To Describe Me: Huggable!

Special Projects I Am Working On: CARE track project

Jacylyn Cianciosi, D.O.

Hometown: Seattle, WA (born in Bangalore, India)

Medical School: University of Washington, Seattle

Hobbies/Other Training: My biggest love is dancing of all sorts, but I dabble in other things. Love the outdoors and water. Currently I do MMA; started after moving to Rochester, hoping to get close to my black belt by the end of residency.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Eating and drinking out. There are quite a few fun places to expore in town for good food and drinks.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Good people. I've found a great support system within the residents and have made some great friends here.

One Word To Describe Me: Explorative (I might have made this word up...). I am usually up for any adventure and a good time; I am all for exploring new places, things and experiences, especially if I can do so with friends and family.

Teja Dyamenahalli, M.D., M.P.H.

Hometown: Staten Island, NY

Medical School: Ross University

Hobbies/Other Training: I enjoy swimming, running (including races and marathons!), cycling and traveling. I love reading, cooking, spending time with my family, my husband Peter, and my lovable 150-lb American Bulldog, Toby. Fluent in Italian, Ciao!

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Exploring the outdoors! There are so many beautiful and amazing landscapes to discover at our very fingertips here in Rochester. Finding new bike trails and taking in some fresh air!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: We have some incredible residents here...enthusiastic, hard-working people. I've met some amazing and supportive friends and colleagues here that I look forward to lifetime friendships with. We work hard, we learn A LOT but we still have FUN!

One Word To Describe Me: Animated! My husband jokes all the time about my apparent variety of facial expressions and hand motions when talking on a day-to-day basis. My friends would probably describe me as happy and enthusiastic but I think "animated" sums me up!

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am beginning new research on cancer metabolism of pediatric osteosarcomas this year with hopes of laying some groundwork for new developments on the way to cure for cancer - unbelievably exciting!

Danielle Flanigan, M.D.

Hometown: Long Island, NY

Medical School: NY College of Osteopathic Med

Hobbies/Other Training: Singing, playing viola, musical theatre, cooking, writing.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Going to festivals; walking along the Erie Canal while enjoying an ice cream.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The residents are a very supportive group of people who are fun, energetic and well-rounded.

One Word To Describe Me: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Jessica MacCormac, D.O.

Hometown: Traverse City, MI

Medical School: Michigan State

Hobbies/Other Training: Cooking (I am a crock pot fanatic!), running, watching college football

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Kayaking (especially in the Irondequoit Bay area).

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The people are fantastic. Also, the annual Halloween Party and Parade for the admitted kids--everyone dresses up and there's tons of candy!

Special Projects I Am Working On: Working on project in benign hematology

Kristy Pahl, M.D.

Hometown: Melbourne, FL

Medical School: LECOM

Hobbies/Other Training: Oil/acrylic painting.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Wine tours and exploring new restaurants.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Making new friends

One Word To Describe Me: Curious

Special Projects I Am Working On: Global health track project.

Jennifer Prince, D.O.

Hometown: Poland, NY

Medical School: VCOM

Hobbies/Other Training: Sewing, gardening, hanging out with family.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Boating, playing with my two dogs.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone works in a callborative way and has fun doing it.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Clinical NICU research.

Danielle Renodin-Mead, M.D.

Hometown: Alpine, UT

Medical School: Touro University

Hobbies/Other Training: Time with my family

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Going to the Strong Children's Museum of Play

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The people in the program.

One Word To Describe Me: Conservative

Jon Slothower, D.O.

Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT

Medical School: Dartmouth

Hobbies/Other Training: Artist, ex-bus driver and tour guide in Alaska, rock climber, married with two (3 and 1 year old) with another on the way.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Great restaurants, lots of great state parks nearby, family bike rides along the Erie Canal to Pittsford.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Diversity of patients and pathology. Also, the Child Advocacy Program.

One Word To Describe Me: Copasetic

Special Projects I Am Working On: Planning on doing the Global Heath and Child Advocacy Tracks.

James Thomas, M.D.

Susana Arriagada-Alvarado, M.D.

Hometown: Valparaiso, Chile

Medical School: Universidad de Chile

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Spanish, enjoy sports, spinning, mountain biking, painting, completed fellowship training in Neonatology

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Spending time with friends, going out to eat, biking at various parks

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone here is so friendly and accomodating; they are truly dedicated to excellent care of children and superior training of residents.

One Word To Describe Me: Upbeat

Special Projects I Am Working On: Implementation of a bundle of potentially better practices to improve pulmonary outcomes in the NICU. I am also in the CARE track and working on a community advocacy project.

Tania Caballero, M.D.

Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Medical School: St. George's

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Spanish, AmeriCorps volunteer in HIV prevention in Washington, DC, percussionist in a band

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Biking or running on the Erie Canal trail behind my apartment.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Awesome fellows and faculty attendings who are invested in making residency the best experience for each individual resident.

One Word To Describe Me: Groovy (especially after a good jam session).

Special Projects I Am Working On: Community project teaching immigrant parents how to take care of their children when they get sick. Also, quality assurance project assessing bullying in adolescent clinic patients.

Walaa Elfar, M.D.

Hometown: Cairo, Egypt

Medical School: Cario University

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Arabic and all its dialects, love to cook Arabic food.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Go for walks (we have beautiful weather), go to the lake, take my son out to eat or to playdates, go for long rides with my husband and talk, listen to books on tape.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: They function as a family and are united as a team, always smiling and going out of their way to help each other.

One Word To Describe Me: Team Player! (okay, so that's two words)

Special Projects I Am Working On: Working on improving the sports medicine evaluation skills among physicians in training.

Emilie Ellicott, D.O.

Hometown: Buffalo, NY

Medical School: Lake Erie

Hobbies/Other Training: Gardening and cooking.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Going to festivals and the beach.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Very accommodating and flexible.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Focusing on my family for the time being.

Reed Evers, M.D.

Hometown: Cushing, OK

Medical School: University of Oklahoma

Hobbies/Other Training: Guitar, piano, movie buff, music fan.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Attending summer festivals, especially Corn Hill Arts festival.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: My class of senior residents--best class ever!

One Word To Describe Me: Bewhiskered

Tom Fountaine, M.D.

Hometown: Hollidayburg, PA

Medical School: Pennsylvania State

Hobbies/Other Training: NIH/NCI Research Fellowship Program.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Golfing!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: In the last few years, our program has put a priority on developing resident autonomy, improving our leadership skills, and facilitating our professional growth. As a result, our residents are uniquely equipped to function independently, successfully, and become leaders in our fields of interest. Our program leadership and faculty are truly dedicated to the training of the resident house staff.

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am currently investigating the differential genel expression of human acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines in the post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant environment using an in vitro cytokine mileu as a model

Eric Heinert, D.O.

Hometown: South Ripley, NY

Medical School: Chicago College of Osteopathic Med

Hobbies/Other Training: Completed Rochester Half Marathon, running, skiing, boating, cooking, traveling, and music.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Running along East Ave/Park Ave witth my wife (Sara), going to the Public Market on Saturdays, and napping!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone is exremely friendly and approachable to answer all questions and to teach.

One Word To Describe Me: Energetic!

Special Projects I Am Working On: NICU orientation QA/QI project: Developing videos/handouts to introduce the basics of NICU terminology and rounding

Karen James, M.D.

Hometown: Canton, MA

Medical School: Tufts University

Hobbies/Other Training: Cooking extraordinaire, ice cream afficianado, reading.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Going out to eat at Tavern 58 @ Gibbs.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Everyone helps each other out.

One Word To Describe Me: Dependable

Special Projects I Am Working On: Joint ultrasound in children with JIA.

Swati Murthy, M.D.

Hometown: Jamesville, NY

Medical School: SUNY Upstate

Hobbies/Other Training: Jogging, playing tennis and kickball, reading the NY Times wedding section, watching television, wearing warm socks, eating chocolate desserts, cheering for Syracuse University basketball.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Shopping at the Pittsford Wegmans

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: My co-residents!

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am planning on going into Neonatology. I am in the Primary Care track at English Road Pediatrics right now. I am also working on a QA/QI project with a couple of other residents, trying to improve some of our progress note templates in eRecord.

Elizabeth Nocera, D.O.

Hometown: Lancaster, NY (near Buffalo)

Medical School: Lake Erie College

Hobbies/Other Training: Gin Rummy or any card game, action movies, COFFEE!

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Go out to eat!

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: I love my classmates.

One Word To Describe Me: Enthusiastic

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am working on QA/QI project aiming to improve resident autonomy with a few faculty members and co-residents.

Galina Radunsky, D.O.

Hometown: Minsk, Belarus

Medical School: Chicago College of Osteopathic Med

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Russian, spent two summers working in Glacier Parks in Alaska and Montana.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Cross-country skiing and running in Mendon Ponds Park.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Friendly, team players.

One Word To Describe Me: "Carpe Diem!"

Everyone please seize the day!

Special Projects I Am Working On: CARE Health Literacy at School #22 with co-worker Tania Caballero.

Nathan Rodgers, M.D., M.H.A.

Hometown: Houston, Texas, Y'all

Medical School: Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara

Hobbies/Other Training: Fluent in Spanish, I love to travel and cook, I enjoy an eclectic variety of music.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Being outdoors no matter what time of year it is.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: How genuinely invested we are in each other.

One Word To Describe Me: Adaptable; I've lived in Mexico, Houston, Westchester County and Rochester all within the last 4 years.

Special Projects I Am Working On: Two projects: One is a clinical trial in the NICU looking at the effect of glycerin suppositories on length of phottherapy in premature infants with hypervilirubinemia. The other is completing the data analysis and manuscript for a project that studied the clinical indications for discontinuing phototherapy in premature infants with hyperbilirubinemia.

Ann Sweeney, M.D.

Hometown: Athens, GA

Medical School: University of Utah

Hobbies/Other Training: Running, mountain biking, skiing.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Spending time outdoors.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: My class is awesome. And the residency office staff is wonderful!

One Word To Describe Me: Happy

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am working on a study comparing the most common and painful proctological pathologies affecting mainly young individuals.

Justin Tretter, M.D.

Hometown: Oakfield, NY

Medical School: St. George's University

Hobbies/Other Training: Hanging out with my girls.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Ditto! And playing basketball.

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: Great education.

One Word To Describe Me: Tall

Special Projects I Am Working On: Pediatic Syncope. Initial study is a retrospective analysis of pediatric referral population for syncope, comparing those caused by a cardiac etiology to those caused by non-cardiac etiologies. The second study will be validating a screening algorithm for deciding who should be referred to cardiology for syncope.

Sarah Welsh, M.D.

Hometown: Pembroke, MA

Medical School: University of Rochester

Hobbies/Other Training: Former high school teacher and non-profit fundraiser. Mom of two feisty and frequently dirty boys.

Favorite Thing To Do in Rochester: Walks in the parks with my family (especially the arboretum).

Favorite Thing About Your Residency Program: The teamwork and camaraderie.

One Word To Describe Me: Exuberant

Special Projects I Am Working On: I am working on two QA/QI projects: One with NICU orientation and one with leadership training.