Graduates | College of Medicine

Class of 2023

Katherine Burns, DO	Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem, NC
Precious Idogun, MD	Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Oakland Univ. William Beaumont School of Med. Royal Oak, Michigan
Bobby Malik, DO	Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship HCA Florida Blake Hospital/USF Morsani COM Bradenton, FL
Ian Nora, MD	Hospitalist First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System Sarasota, FL
Dillan Patel, MD	Hospitalist First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System Sarasota, FL
John Sia, MD	Infectious Diseases Fellowship University of South Florida Morsani COM/ Tampa General Hospital Tampa, FL
Blake Studer, MD	Hospitalist First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System Sarasota, FL
Heather Vermilyea, DO	Primary Care Advent Health Well 65+ Tampa, FL
Richard Walo, DO	Hospitalist Wake Forest – Atrium Baptist Health System Winston-Salem, NC
Zachary Whiteside, DO	Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani at Bayonet Point Hospital Hudson, FL
Stephanie Williams, MD	Hospitalist First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System Sarasota, FL
Ricardo Villasmil, MD (Chief Resident)	Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Orlando Health Orlando, FL

Class of 2022

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CRISTINA ACOSTA-DIAZ, MD	First Physician’s Group Hospitalist Medicine, Sarasota, FL
JULAINE BRAHAM, MD	Dedicated Senior Medical Center / Chen Med Outpatient Primary Care, St. Petersburg, FL
KAFAYAT BUSARI, MD	Stony Brook NY Gastroenterology Fellowship, Stony Brook, NY
RANESE JEFFERY, MD	Locum Tenens Hospitalist Medicine
ZACHARY KIRKLAND, DO	First Physician’s Group Hospitalist Medicine, Sarasota, FL
NATALIA LATTANZIO, MD	First Physician’s Group Hospitalist Medicine, Sarasota, FL
DEREK PIERCE, MD	First Physician’s Group Hospitalist Medicine, Sarasota, FL
ELIER RODRIGUEZ, MD	Dedicated Senior Medical Center/ Chen Med Outpatient Primary Care, St. Petersburg, FL
LISETTE RODRIGUEZ, MD	University of Virginia Endocrinology Fellowship, Charlottesville, VA
JOHN RUTKOWSKI, MD	FSU College of Medicine Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Sarasota, FL
YESHANEW TEKLIE, MD	University of Southern California Hematology /Oncology Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
RICARDO VILLASMIL, MD	FSU College of Medicine Internal Medicine Chief Resident at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, FL
MINDY WARD, DO	Intercoastal Medical Group Outpatient Primary Care, Sarasota, FL
QASSEM ABDELAL, MD (Chief Resident)	University of Florida Jacksonville Pulmonary / Critical Care Fellowship, Jacksonville, FL

Class of 2021

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QASSEM K. ABDELAL, MD	Chief Medical Resident Internal Medicine Residency Program Florida State University, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
STEPHEN D. BELL, MD	Rheumatology Fellowship Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; plan to return to the sunshine state for a career in community rheumatology
VICTORIA CAMPDESUNER, DO	Hematology Oncology Fellowship Kettering Health Network, Kettering, OH
JORGE I. CONTE, MD	Cardiology Fellowship Memorial Health Care System, Hollywood, FL
KEVIN A. DAWKINS, JR., DO	Hospitalist, First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, FL
JUSTIN P. GEORGE, MD	Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship University of South Florida, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
JESSICA HENDRICK KASSOVER, DO	Internal Medicine Primary Care, Intercoastal Medical Group, Lakewood Ranch, FL
CHRISTIAN LORENZO, MD	Cardiology Fellowship, Orlando Health, Orlando, FL
SEAN L. PACHOLEC, DO	Hospitalist University of North Carolina Health Care Raleigh, NC
NIRAJ R. PATEL, MD	Hospitalist First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, FL
KAYLA MARINI RAPP, DO	Primary Care First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Venice, FL
YORLENIS RODRIGUEZ, DO	Hospitalist Lee Health, Fort Myers, FL
DONA ROSE, DO	Hospitalist First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, FL
TALAL ALKAYALI, MBBS (Chief Resident)	Infectious Disease Fellowship University of Maryland Baltimore, MD

Class of 2020

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Talal Alkayali, MD	Chief Medical Resident Internal Medicine Residency Program FSU at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Bahaa Amer, MD	Hematology / Oncology Fellowship Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX
Caitlin Bass, MD	Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship FSU at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Derek Calkins, DO	Hospitalist Durham, NC
Ijeoma Eccles-James, MD	Hospitalist Atlanta, GA
Christopher M. Jenkins, MD	Cardiology Fellowship Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans, LA
Mallory Kimsey, DO	Primary Care Piedmont Healthcare Athens, GA
Marilyn Mosquera, MD	Rheumatology Fellowship University of Central Florida Orlando, FL
Belissa Ramos-Chaves, MD	Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Juan Ricardo, MD	Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship FSU at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Ahmed Salem, MD	Gastroenterology Fellowship University of Tennessee Memphis, TN

Chief Residents

2019-20 Rishin Handa, MD	Cardiology Fellowship Drexel University Reading, PA
2019-20 Antoni Wojtkiowski, MD	Hospitalist Madison, WI
2018-19 Evgeny Idrisov, MD	Gastroenterology Fellowship University of Oklahoma Tulsa, OK
2017-18 Upali Ranasinghe, DO	Hospitalist, First Physicians Group Sarasota Memorial Hospital

Chief Residents

2023-24	Zeina Kayali, MBBS Ian Motie, MD Sarah Paglialonga, DO Ryan Thompson, MD
2022-23	Ricardo Villasmil, MD	Cardiovascular Fellowship Orlando Health Orlando, FL
2021-22	Qassem Abdelal, MD	Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship University of Florida Jacksonville, FL
2020-21	Talal Alkayali, MD	Infectious Diseases Fellowship
2019-20	Rishin Handa, MD	Cardiology Fellowship Drexel University Reading, PA
2019-20	Antoni Wojtkowski, MD	Hospitalist Madison, WI
2018-19	Evgeny Idrisov, MD	Gastroenterology Fellowship University of Oklahoma Tulsa, OK
2017-18	Upali Ranasinghe, DO	Hospitalist Sarasota Memorial Hospital Sarasota, FL

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