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EDUCATION Annual Letter 2019 | 15
Our 2019 graduating class
Our residency program remains among the best This year our residency program added 6 new
residency programs in the United States with residents. Our first year residents, Victoria
our 24 residents. Our outstanding program is Billero, MD, Julia Cuevas-Escandon, MD, PhD,
directed by Dr. George Elgart with recently- Joanna Dong, MD, Naiem Issa, MD PhD, Lauren
named Associate Program Director Dr. Brian Strazzulla, MD, and Sebastian Verne, MD. They
Morrison. Credit goes to our entire faculty, full- are transitioning to dermatology training well and
time, part-time and voluntary for the teaching we expect them to contribute to our Department
they provide. We have 45 specialty and research greatly during residency and to the specialty
fellows and students working in pediatric after graduating. With our residents challenging
dermatology, cutaneous oncology, wound healing, themselves and others to excel every day, the
dermatopathology, and clinical research level of scholarly discourse in our conferences
continues to be exceptional. Our 3rd year class
We are extremely proud of our current residents, is led by our chief residents Megan Cronin, MD.,
graduating residents and all of our alumni. This Fabrizio Galimberti, MD., PhD., and Jeffrey
past June, nine residents graduated and joined McBride, MD., PhD joined by Andrew Dorizas,
the ranks of over 343 alumni. The graduating MD., Joshua Fox, MD., Marina Li, MD., Olivera
class was led by our two chief residents Audrey Stojadinovic, MD., and Mina Zarei, MD. Our
Beirne, MD. and Suchismita Paul, MD. They were second year class includes Michael Abrouk,
joined by Laura Huang, MD., Shailee Patel, MD, MD., Fleta Bray, MD., Chloe Goldman, MD.,
Alexandra Price, MD, Laura Scott, MD, and Rivka Karyn Haitz, MD., Alexander Herbst, MD., Ingrid
Stone, MD. PhD. Dr. Mahfood Alqatari graduated Herskovitz, MD., Eric Maranda, MD., Miranda
from our ACGME Dermatopathology Fellowship Rosenberg, MD., and John Zade, MD. All current
program. All of the graduates are already missed residents are outlined in the chart below or to
and we know they will stay connected to the learn more about our current residents, please
Department. We look forward to having some of visit our website (http://dermatology.med.miami.
our outstanding current residents join our faculty edu/education/current-residents).
as we continue to grow our Department.
