Recent Graduates

Class of 2026

2026

• Kaila Druetto, D.O. – Joined Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care faculty at Highland Hospital, University of Rochester
• Laura Johnson, M.D.
• Bippenjit Sing, M.D. – Joined Pediatric Palliative Care faculty at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY
• Cayla Villa, M.D. – Joined Neuropalliative faculty at Brown Health Medical, The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I.

2025

• David Berke, M.D. – Joined faculty in Surgical Wound Care/Palliative Care, Spartanburg Regional Health Care Center, SC
• Crystal Whitney, M.D. – Joined faculty in Trauma Surgery/Palliative Care, SUNY Upstate, NY
• Jordan Patterson, M.D. – Joined Faculty in Palliative Care at Wake Forest, NC
• Claudia Aghaie-Butler, M.D. – Joined faculty in Palliative Care, Rochester Regional Health

2024

• Jennifer Saigal, M.D. – Joined our faculty in  Neurology/Palliative Care, University of Rochester
• Richard Rambuss, M.D. - Joined hospitalist faculty at Highland Hospital, University of Rochester
• Tala Altaji, M.D. - Pursuing Master of Health Professions Education (MEHP), Johns Hopkins
• James Liebow, M.D. - Joined Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care, Rochester Regional Health

2023

• Denzil Harris, M.D. – Joined our faculty in the Palliative Care Division, University of Rochester
• Andrew Huang, M.D. – Joined the Neurology Department at University of Rochester
• Mary Helen Schwartz, M.D. – Joined the Pediatric Hospitalist Division at Albany Medical Center
• Eddie Shanley, D.O. – Joined the Highland Hospital Palliative Care faculty, University of Rochester

2022

• Maureen McRae, M.D. – Joined the Highland Hospital Palliative Care faculty, University of Rochester
• John Seymour, M.D. – Hospitalist and Post-Acute Care Physician, Cleveland Clinic, Vero Beach, FL
• Shalom Schlagman, M.D. – Joined our faculty in the Palliative Care Division, University of Rochester

2021

• Anna Kenney, D.O. – Joined our faculty in the Palliative Care Division, University of Rochester
• Ronald Maggiore, M.D. – Hospice Physician, Grace Hospice and Palliative Care, Fitchburg, WI
• Neha Sanyal, M.D. – Primary Care Physician, One Medical, San Francisco, CA

2020

• Gabriela (Gabi) Palacio, M.D. – Palliative Care department, SUNY Upstate Medical, Syracuse, NY
• Paul Vermilion, M.D. – Joined our faculty in the Palliative Care Division, University of Rochester
• Brandon Wilcoxson, M.D. – Highland Hospital in Palliative Medicine

2019

• Katie Harmoney, D.O. – Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Missouri Women and Children's Hospital
• Lauren Nicholls, M.D. – Primary Care for Adults/Children, Geisinger Medical Center
• Jim Perle, M.D. – Establishing a New Palliative Care Department at Guthrie Clinic Corning Hospital

2018

• Amy An, M.D. – Senior Instructor in Medicine in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, Joined Our Team as Our Palliative Care Departmental Research Fellow
• Nicole Gise (Kosier) – Highland Hospital in Palliative Medicine
• John Wax, M.D. – University of Vermont College of Medicine - Palliative Care Physician

Earlier Years