LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY

Graduation of the Class of 2020

Rehmat Awan, MD

Michael Belmont, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Rush Health Systems,

Meridian, MS

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Spending time with my clinic peeps

(Sunny and Nora, and then Matt, Tyani

and Kent during free clinic time). Also

running solo codes at nights :).

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital,

Lake Forest, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Culinary adventures with co-residents, karaoke,

countless hours of team bonding, the instances I was

able to sit down in patient rooms and talk without

worrying about the time.

Lucas Chan, MD

Laya Charara, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Palos Hospital, Palos

Heights, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency: One fall BMTU day, treating a very, very sick

patient in the Unit with Destry as my co-senior.

I recall having to urgently place a dialysis line at

approximately 615 am shortly after sign out.

Both Destry and I were in the room working

together to place the line quickly. Destry

attempted the line without success and I

aggressively told him to step aside to "expedite

the process" and I promptly accessed the

carotid. Destry politely looked on as I held

pressure for 45 minutes. During this moment,

we were both terrified, but looking back, it was

hilarious and a quintessential Laya-Destry ICU-

esque moment.

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident

MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

My co-residents

Angelo Ciliberti, MD

Landon Crouch, MD

Future Plans:

Rheumatology Fellowship at Loyola

University Medical Center

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Spending time with Firm A.

Future Plans:

Med-Peds Primary Care at University of

Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little

Rock, AR

Favorite Memory of Residency:

The Med-Peds FareWelcome and

Transition dinners. I really enjoyed

getting together with the entire Med-Peds

program during which we would reflect

on prior rotations, upcoming challenges,

and life in general.

Tyler Cunningham, MD

Travis Desa, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist with Apogee Physicians in

Southeastern Wisconsin

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Watching Dr. Gawne's facial expressions

in the audience as he solved my autopsy

conference case in real time and

discussing the case with multiple

attendings afterwards.

Future Plans:

Cardiology Fellowship at Baylor

University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Intern retreat

Navkiran Dhillon, MD

Destry Elms, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist in Wisconsin

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Firm A social events

Future Plans:

Hematology / Oncology Fellowship at

Loyola University Medical Center

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Co-interning & co-senioring with my

work wife, the incomparable Dr. Laya

Charara, & our mini-vacation to a lake

house in Indiana with Colby, Nathalie,

Jackie, Kyle & Emily!

Karam Gardezi, MD

Swapna Gudipati, MD

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident

At Carle Hospital, Urbana, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency: MICU nights as second year. Nick was intern. An 85 year old with foot

osteomyelitis crashed on the floor. Ended up with MAP in the 30s for a

while, I put in emergent central line while he was obtunded. Nick got ready

to set up for an A line when his mental status suddenly recovered (but

delirious). He started trying to hit Nick yelling, "I don't want any needles you

SOB!" Each time Nick would try to hold his arm he would get cussed out

and grabbed. Nick was at a loss. I was bringing him supplies and while seeing

that I lost it and started rolling around on the floor outside his room in the

SICU. The nurses thought I was having a seizure and checked to see if I was

ok. Then we finally got a hold of his only family (elder brother "Ted") to see

if he consented but Ted was pretty senile. Every time we explained about his

BP he was like, "whaaaaaaaaa? His blood pressure is high? Well get it down

then!". In the background we could hear his wife screaming, "noooooo Ted

they are saying he has LOW blood pressure!". He kept on going on tangents

so we ended up having to do the lines emergently anyway.

Future Plans:

Cardiology Fellowship at Beaumont Hospital

-Royal Oak, Royal Oak, MI

Favorite Memory of Residency:

There are too many to name! I would say

intern year when I went trick or treating

throughout the hospital on Halloween

during Loyola MICU rotation while my

seniors, Mark Tancredi and Matt Sugimoto,

ran the MICU. They didn't seem to notice I

had disappeared for some time.

Jeremiah Haines, DO

Anshu Hemrajani, MD

Future Plans:

Cardiology Fellowship at Medical

College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Favorite Memory of Residency:

PGY-2 retreat with the team building

exercises. Thanks Eddie Kaniv and

Dave Park for being the “big guys” with

me when it came to balancing the

group. And to Tyler Cunningham for

strapping wood to his shoes to get us

across the lava river.

Future Plans:

Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at

Loyola University Medical Center

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Team Naps, Night Float Brunch,

Singing Shallow on Night Float, any

ICU experience with Emily Starks

Edward Kanive, DO

Blaine Knox, MD

Future Plans:

Hematology/Oncology Fellowship

at Loyola University Medical Center

Favorite Memory of Residency:

When Destry took my, and about

10 others', shirts off on the dance

floor at intern retreat to Mambo Number 5 while Dr. Greenhalgh

laughingly danced with us.

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Indiana University

Health Arnett Hospital,

Lafayette, IN

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Words of wisdom every clinic

morning with the Hines AM

crew.

Daniel Linden, DO

Michael Lou, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Northwest Community

Hospital, Arlington Heights, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

The Italian beef contest with Maria and

Dr. Stiff!

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Palos Medical Group,

Orland Park, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Celebrating my wedding in Las Vegas

with my amazing resident friends

Michelle Lundholm, MD

Jessica Marot, MD

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident

of Research with plans for

Endocrinology Fellowship

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Bridget's Firm E Christmas parties

and Bachelor viewing parties

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Northwestern Memorial

Hospital, Chicago, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency: Patient care. At Loyola, we are so fortunate to

have the opportunity to care for a variety of

complex, high-acuity patients of diverse

backgrounds. The most memorable cases are

those which present challenging diagnostic and

management dilemmas. Even more

memorable though, were those times when

I was able to connect with my patients on a

personal level and to share in their

happiness when we achieved favorable

outcomes. I will also cherish all the

friendships I have made over the past three

years among my co-residents, medical

students, and attendings.

Nathaniel "Shmug" Meadow, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at University of Chicago

Favorite Memory of Residency: I had this patient on gen med, old guy who was in a slow process of dying.

Headed towards sub- acute rehab type of thing, all acute things resolved

pretty quickly. We'd talk to his kids from time to time, and they'd

alternate visiting/staying with him at his home (needed 24 hour care), but

he also still had his wife who was always with him in the hospital. She was

a quirky woman who was a Round Killing Talker, often with some repeats

of the stories she already told. So I would tend to cut her off in the

morning and tell her I'd come back on the afternoon to chat.

So I'm back in the afternoon and she pulls me into the hallway (I thought

pretty unnecessary as the patient wasn't processing much) and starts

strolling the halls with me. We walk to the main area on 3 then turn

around and go back to the end of the hall. She's been talking the whole

time, and then she gets to why she's walking with me. She wants to tell me

one of her favorite poems, and so she did:

I walked a mile with pleasure. We chatted all the way. But never did I learn a thing for all she had to say.

I walked a mile with sorrow. Never a word said she. But oh the things I learned from her that mile she walked with me.

I found that poem pertinent and powerful. I wrote it down right then while

walking with her. It applies so deeply for hospitalized people, who often

sit in silence due to illness, weakness, fear. And their family is often right

beside them, joining them in that silence, but still sharing the experience

and learning about their loved one. I've tried to keep it in mind for my

own experiences. It was a poem I thought about a lot while hanging in the

hospital with my dad, and I read it aloud at his funeral.

We are fortunate to work in a field that has impact on others and where life

changing events occur. They're not always the acute traumas, they can be

occur over a period of time. On reflection, even those illnesses whose

course takes years to play out, feel like a singular event, an era of one's life

that changes you.

Stefanie Milner, MD

Stephen Morris, MD

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident of

Quality and Safety.

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Firm C Whirlyball

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident – Hines

Inpatient

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Making my fellow residents cringe with my

numerous puns

Poornima Oruganti, MD

Nkiru Osude, MD

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident

of Quality and Safety with plans for

Gastroenterology and subsequent

Hepatology fellowships

Favorite Memory of Residency:

The GME White Sox game in 2019 -

it got rained out, but we (Blaine, Nick,

Shmug + SO's) still had so much fun

hanging out at the stadium and relaxing

on a Sunday afternoon

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident -

Loyola Inpatient, followed by

Cardiology Fellowship

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Dinners with the Parks! Climbing up

Mount Hines on Hines Gen Med

Nights with Pavan and Adam- we did

100 flights in one night! All the

traveling and concert going I was

able to do pre-pandemic! Favorite

Concert- Kanye's Sunday

Service Choir.

Favorite Musical- Hamilton

x5!

David Park, MD

Benjamin Schmidt, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Northwestern Medicine

Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Last Day of Residency, looking back on

all the memories

Future Plans:

Gastroenterology Fellowship at

Saint Louis University Hospital,

St. Louis, MO

Favorite Memory of Residency:

My Friday afternoon clinic was

cancelled after an epic snow storm and

then I convinced Bridget and my wife

Katie to go sledding instead

Nabeela Shakir, MD

Emily Starks, MD

Future Plans:

Endocrinology Fellowship at University

of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center,

Oklahoma City, OK

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Firm D throwing me the sweetest

surprise baby shower!

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Northwestern Medicine

Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Firm D events, ICU with Anshu,

singing "A Star Is Born" soundtrack on

night float, dinners at Maya Del Sol

Matthew Steinberger, MD

Michael Stevens, MD

Future Plans:

Hospitalist at Holland Hospital,

Holland, MI

Favorite Memory of Residency:

All the times running by Marty's

apartment, looking to see if he's

home. Hepatology with Jordan

Taylor. Ping pong tournaments

on Hines Gen Med. That time

Dr. Simpson used my appearance

to demonstrate how residents

should not look following the

MICU rotation. The list goes on.

Future Plans:

Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship

at the University of Michigan

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Learning how to place lines from my

senior residents

Elizabeth Stranges, MD

Aneeq Waqar, MD

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident

MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Sleeping bear dunes with Firm C

friends.

Future Plans:

Cardiovascular Fellowship at

The University of Wisconsin,

Madison, WI

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Doing the "Boiling Water Challenge"

with the entire CCU team during a

Polar Vortex. (-50 Fahrenheit!!!)

Collette Kalal, MD

Nathan Yung, MD

Future Plans:

Internal Medicine Chief Resident -

Loyola Ambulatory with plans for

Hospitalist and/or Primary Care

following

Favorite Memory of Residency:

Getting ready for night float playing

"High Hopes" in the 6th floor work

room, sharing my first prenatal

ultrasound with the entire CCU, and

Med-Peds movie nights at Dr.

Derhammer's.

Future Plans:

Fellowship in Clinical Informatics at

University of San Diego, San Diego,

California

Favorite Memory of Residency:

My wife surprised me for my 30th

birthday while I was on nights to bring

me some hot food from Chinatown.