Meet Our Residents | Recent Graduates

Our Internal Medicine Residents have been successful at acquiring fellowships in cardiology, infectious disease, cardiology and nephrology, to name a few. Others go on to work as hospitalists, returning to their love of hospital medicine. While some have chosen academic medicine as a career goal.

We are proud of each of their accomplishments and the seeds we have planted within them to provide the best quality healthcare.

 

2025 Graduates

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Andrew Carbajal, MD – Hospitalist, Lourdes

Suzanne Cooper, MD – Rheum Fellowship, LSU Nola

Erica Jones, MD – Hospitalist, Louisiana

Mekha Mathew, DO – Hospitalist, Illinois

Zui Keat Ng, MD – Hospitalist, Texas

Michael Nguyen, MD – ID Fellowship, Med University of South Carolina (Charleston)

Nadjel Opamen, MD – AI Fellowship, LSU Nola

Jason Simon, MD – Hospitalist, LSU Nola

Manpreet Singh, DO – Hospitalist, OLOL Baton Rouge

Kyle Stroda, DO – Hospitalist, TBD

Anthony Yeh, DO – ID Fellowship, Tufts University

 

2024 Graduates

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Youssef Bou-Mikael, MD - 4th Year Chief Resident, IM Residency Program, Lafayette, La.
Roger Chang, DO - Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, LSU Health Shreveport
Royce Darbonne, MD -  Hospitalist, TBD
Clayton Hayley, DO - Hospitalist, St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City Missouri
Joseph Hennig, MD - Hospitalist, Rochester, NY
Justin Hulin, MD - Emergency Room, Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
James Kuo, MD - Infectious Disease Fellowship, Tufts University
Allyson Larcena, MD - Infectious Disease Fellowship, Tufts University
Benjamin Pickard, MD -   4th Year Chief Resident, IM Residency Program, Lafayette, La.
Ibrahim Shenawi, MD - Nephrology Fellowship, UTMB
Ali Yousef, DO - Nephrology Fellowship, UAB

 

2023 Graduates

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Michael Almquist, DO - Private Practice, San Antonio, TX
Ryan Chan, MD - Pulmonary Fellowship, Eisenhower Medical Center
Christopher Chedid, MD -   4th Year Chief Resident, IM Residency Program, Lafayette, La.
Joseph Prechter, DO - Outpatient Clinic, New Orleans, La
Hirrah Sajjad, MD - Academic Faculty/Hospitalist at: Harvard Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Pavana Sakhamuri, MD - Rheumatology fellowship at LSUHSC New Orleans
Saifullah Shahid, MD - Academic Hospitalist at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
De'Angellica Vaughn-Allen, MD -   4th Year Chief Resident, IM Residency Program, Lafayette,La.
 

2022 Graduates

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Anjali Ajit, MD -  ID Fellowship, Mt. Sinai Morningside, NY
Victoria Bolgiano, DO -  Private Practice, Lafayette, La.
Tristan Dao, MD -  Heart Failure Hospitalist, New Orleans, La.
Xavier Diaz-Hernandez, MD -  Cardiology Fellowship, LSUHSC New Orleans, La.
David Heintze, MD -  Hospitalist, South Carolina
Jasmeet Kaur, MD -  Private Practice, Mississippi
Aamer Mahmood, MD -  Hospitalist, Lafayette, La.
Matthew Perkins, MD -  Fourth Year Chief IM Residency Program, Lafayette, La.
Panicker Renni Robinson, MD -  Geriatric Fellowship, LSUHSC New Orleans, La.

 

2021 Graduates

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Manith Bondugula, MD -  Hospitalist, Fort Worth, Texas
Jared Coe, MD -  ID Fellowship, New York, New York
Jeffrey Fontenot, MD -  Primary Care, Lafayette, La.
Madelaine Fontenot, MD -  Primary Care, Lafayette, La.
Janice Hanawi Heintze, MD -  ID/Critical Care Fellowship, University of South Carolina
Rebecca Lee, DO -  Internal Medicine Faculty, OUHC Lafayette, La.
Christian Nguyen, MD -  Nephrology Fellowship, Mayo Clinic Arizona
Jonathan Schouest, MD -  Rheumatology Fellowship, Mineola, New York
Bushra Shaik, MD -  Hospitalist, Jackson, North Carolina
Christopher Wexler, MD -  ID Fellowship, Charleston, South Carolina