Internal Medicine
An Update on Recent Graduates
The career paths of our recent graduates vividly illustrate that our residents are well-prepared for Hospital Medicine, Primary Care or subspecialty training. Many residents have remained with Mountainside Medical Center as hospitalists, primary care providers and specialists. Due to the completion of the brand new medical office building across the street from the hospital, there are plenty of opportunities for many graduates to grow their practices serving the community they served as residents.
Class of 2020
Chirag Bambhroliya – Hospitalist, Geisinger Health System
Ashraf Elamin – Hospitalist, Arizona
Qamar Khan – Hospitalist, HMH Ocean Medical Center
Ummi Khan – Hospitalist, HMH Ocean Medical Center
Mohammad Khubaib – Hospitalist, Holy Name Medical Center
George Mbolu Jr. – Pulmonary/Critical Care, SUNY-Downstate
Sarah Stuart – Hospitalist, HMH Ocean Medical Center
Class of 2021
Lance Alquran – Critical Care Fellowship, Mount Sinai, NYC
Noor-ul-aain Bhatti – Hospitalist, Baylor College of Medicine
Divya Cheruku – Hospitalist, Summit Medical Group, NJ
Jay Desai – Hospitalist, Orlando, FL
Rania Fadlalla – Primary Care, Summit Medical Group, NJ
Rita Iyer – Geriatrics Fellowship, NYU Winthrop
Alexandre Shehata – Primary Care, Mountainside Medical Group
Erica Rosenbaum – Hospitalist, HMH Pascack Valley
Paul Wojcieszek – Locums Tenens
Class of 2022
Jeanette Marte, MD – Primary Care, Summit Medical Group, NJ
Aquino Williams, MD – Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, Gunderson, WI
Stacy Galgocy, MD – Hospitalist, Bergen Medical, NJ
Christina Huynh, MD – Primary Care, Kaiser Permanente, CA
Hussein Mhanna, MD, DO – Pulmonary/CC, St. Joseph’s University Hospital, NJ
Shaiv Patel, MD – GI Research Fellowship, Kansas University Medical Center
Yosleisy Valdes Hernandez, MD – Hospitalist, Summit Medical Group, NJ

Fellowship Placements
2015
Riffat Jaffrin
Nephrology
SUNY-Stonybrook
2015
Irfan Qadri
Nephrology
University of Florida
2016
Neil Shah
Hem/Onc
Georgetown
2016
Abdul Rahman
Pulm/CC
SUNY-Syracuse
2016
Karyna Neyra
Inf. Diseases
Cleveland Clinic
2016
Nikta Kasinathan
Pulm/CC
RWJ, NJ
2017
Priya Mehta
Nephrology
RWJ, NJ
2017
Michael Itidiare
GI
Rowan University
2017
Pratima Dibba
Women’s GI
Nutrition
GI
Brown University
Memorial Sloan Kettering
New York Methodist
2017
Sunya Ashraf
Pulm/CC
SUNY-Stonybrook
2018
Lukman Hassan
Pulm/CC
SUNY-Stonybrook
2019
Rajiv Mallipudi
Academic
Hospitalist
Yale, Bridgeport CT
2020
George Mbolu, Jr
Pulm/CC
SUNY-Downstate
2021
Lance Alquran
Critical Care
Mount Sinai
2021
Rita Iyer
Geriatrics
NYU Winthrop
2022
Paul Wojcieszek
Critical Care
Geisinger Health System, PA
2022
Hussein Mhanna
Pulm/CC
St. Joseph's Hospital, NJ
2022
Aquino Williams
Hem/Onc
Gunderson Health System, WI