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The house staff graduation dinner and end of Academic year celebration was held on June 9 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC.

Our departing residents were:

  • Dr. Danisha Allen
    • Dr. Allen will be doing a fellowship in Cytopathology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • Dr. Gregory Beaulieu
    • Dr. Beaulieu will be doing a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine/Blood Bank at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
  • Dr. Samer Nassif
    • Dr. Nassif will be doing a fellowship in Surgical Pathology at George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC
  • Dr. Jason Schallheim
    • Dr. Schallheim will be doing a fellowship in Hematopathology at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
  • Dr. Oliver Szeto
    • Dr. Szeto will be doing a fellowship in Cytopatology at the New York University (NYU), New York, NY

Our departing fellows were:

  • Dr. Fatemeh Khedmati (Cytopathology Fellow)
    • Dr. Khedmati will be an attending pathologist at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital, Fair Oaks, VA
  • Dr. Sejal Patel (Surgical Pathology Fellow)
    • Dr. Patel will be an attending pathologist at the Community Mercy Health Partners, Fairfield, OH

The winners of this year awards were:

  • Dr. Oliver Szeto: Resident of the Year Award
  • Dr. Jyoti Kapil: The Herschel Sidransky Memorial Award
  • Dr. Jay Zeck : The Frank Miller Award