Match Day is an exciting day in the careers of young physicians, and it represents the culmination of their hard work over four or more years of medical school training. We look forward to welcoming our new residents to the Emory family and supporting them to become the next generation of healthcare leaders. Over the course of their training, they will be exposed to a comprehensive, innovative medical curriculum that reflects the Emory University School of Medicine’s tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care. Congratulations to our incoming residents!
Click the program name below to read more about their match results.
- J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program
- Transitional Year Program
- Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program
- Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program
J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program
Welcome to the 2025–2026 J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency program interns! This rising class of 53 interns will join us to begin their residencies this July. This incoming class includes:
- 44 categorical internal medicine track
- Eight primary care track
- One internal medicine/research track
This year, we received more than 4,100 applications for 470 interview spots to recruit a class of highly talented trainees. Our incoming class represents 37 medical schools from 19 states nationwide and Washington, D.C, with five international candidates and nine candidates from Emory University School of Medicine.
See below for the full match list:
Categorical Track
- Amulya Agrawal, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
- Latifah Ahmad, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
- Nebil Ahmed, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Carver Arant, Mercer University School of Medicine
- Nandini Avula, University of Minnesota Medical School
- Anushua Bhattacharya, Emory University School of Medicine
- Davis Bobbitt, Mercer University School of Medicine
- Mary Camacho, Emory University School of Medicine
- Farhan Chowdry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Margaret Conrad, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
- Evan Czulada, Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Matthew Dean, University of Alabama School of Medicine
- Serena Maria Dib, Universite Saint-Joseph
- Kirsten Dodson, East Tennessee State University James H Quillen College of Medicine
- Destine Ede, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Lina Gu, University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine
- Elsa Hebbo, American University of Beirut
- Daniel Kim, Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Hyun Bin Kim, Emory University School of Medicine
- Maria Krakovski, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- Wisam Mekary, American University of Beirut
- Bereket Molla, Addis Ababa University
- Nicolas Moore, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
- Nikita Mullick, Boston University School of Medicine
- Naveena Murugan, West Virginia University School of Medicine Charleston Division
- Shailee Parekh, Creighton University School of Medicine-Omaha
- Vivek Prasad, Emory University School of Medicine
- Charles Lewis Pruett, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ahmad Rathor, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Sarah Reuter, Emory University School of Medicine
- Elizabeth Roth, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Omar Saad, Emory University School of Medicine
- Eric Santana, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Puja Sasankan, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Charles Shi, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
- Kyujin Sohn, Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Nishita Sunkara, Boston University School of Medicine
- Sahitya Talachutla, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Ian Tamargo, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jasmine Thakkar, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
- Vikram Varadarajan, Emory University School of Medicine
- Peter Wahba, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
- Jarah Whitehead, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Hadi Younes, Universite Saint-Joseph
Primary Care Track
- Sakshi Dureja, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
- Terrence Harris, Drexel University College of Medicine
- Austin Huang, Baylor College of Medicine
- Karine Kasti, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
- Hannah Kim, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Danelle Levinson, Duke University School of Medicine
- Danielle Reid, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine
- Shwetha Shetty, Florida State University College of Medicine
Research Track
- Michael Sportiello, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
*Names in blue indicate Emory Medical Students.*
Transitional Year Program
Welcome to the 2025–2026 Transitional Year (TY) Program interns. The incoming class of 31 candidates includes:
- One Transitional Anesthesia Track
- Six Transitional Dermatology Track
- Nine Transitional Neurology Track
- One Transitional Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Track
- Eight Transitional Radiology Track
- Six Ophthalmology Track
This year, we have four international candidates and five candidates from Emory University School of Medicine.
See below for the full match list:
Transitional Anesthesia Track
- Nita Chai, Emory University School of Medicine
Transitional Dermatology Track
- Sarah Brooks, University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine
- John Christiansen, Mercer University School of Medicine
- Turkan Banu Karatas, Emory University School of Medicine
- Rayad Shams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Victoria Shi, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
- Vedaja Surapaneni, Emory University School of Medicine
Transitional Neurology Track
- Lauren Cancio, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
- Laila Hasnain, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- Diamond King, Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Simon Miller, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Timothy Moore, Mercer University School of Medicine
- Anna Claire Osei-Akoto, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jared Smith, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Esme Trahair, Duke University School of Medicine
- Andrea Zhang, University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine
Transitional Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Track
- Mahtab Darvish, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Transitional Radiology Track
- Khalil Abdulrauf, University of Leeds
- Dana Alkhulaifat, University of Jordan
- Pradipta Debnath, University of Nottingham
- Miguel Devonish, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Sneha Mittal, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
- Michael Okafor, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Yvonne Su, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Tae Youn Kim, Tufts University School of Medicine
Transitional Ophthalmology Track
- K’Mani Blyden, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
- Riley Duke, University of Alabama School of Medicine
- Harrison Huang, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- Alison Martin, Emory University School of Medicine
- Michel Shahid, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia
- Natalie Sullivan, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
*Names in blue indicate Emory Medical Students.*
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program
We are thrilled to introduce the inaugural class of residents for our Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency program interns! In this inaugural year, we received more than 350 applications for four residency spots to recruit a class of highly talented trainees.
2025–2026 Residency Program interns:
- Paetyn Cage, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
- Julia Chase, Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Ryann Dahle, Meharry Medical College
- Anastasiya Yakovlyeva, Indiana University School of Medicine
- **PGY2: Myriam Shehata, Transfer from University of Southern California Medical Center Med/Peds Program
Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program
Welcome to our two Internal Medicine/Psychiatry residency program interns!
Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Track
- Sebastian Acevedo, Rutgers University
- Isabella Kelly, University of Mississippi
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