Spring 2026 Cohort 

GW Residency Fellowship in Health Policy is offered to clinical residents and fellows across all medical specialties. The Spring 2025 cohort includes physicians specializing in emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and more. 
Scott Abrahamson
CNMC PGY-5
Psychiatry
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Sabihul Alam
CNMC PGY-5
Psychiatry
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Fatima Anwar
GW PGY-1
Internal Medicine
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Umair Ashraf
GW PGY-5
Palliative
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Joyce Chen
GW PGY-2
Internal Medicine
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Briyana Chisholm
 CNMC PGY-2
Pediatrics
Alessia Crielesi
 PGY-4
Preventative Medicine
Elisabeth Davis
​CNMC PGY-2
Pediatrics
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Sach Desai
Unity PGY-3
Family Medicine
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Jacob Edelman
CNMC PGY-2 
Pediatrics
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Alayna Gallagher
GW PGY-2
Internal Medicine
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Carol Gergis
GW PGY-2
Internal Medicine
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Hailee Grannan
GW-PGY-3
Internal Medicine
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Geoffrey Ho
GW PGY-4
Anesthesiology
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Abraham Ipe
CNMC PGY-2
Pediatrics
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Danielle Lefebvre
GW PGY-2
Internal Medicine
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Chidiebube Nzeako
​HU PGY-3
Family Medicine
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Marc Ruszaj
GW PGY-4

Psychiatry
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Emily Sherry
CNMC
PMHNP
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Ugochi Ojinnaka
HU PGY-3
 Family Medicine
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Rina Samant
GW PGY-3
 
Psychiatry
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El Shaddai Tesfaye
GW PGY-4
Geriatrics
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Fatima Pasha
GW PGy-1
Internal Medicine
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Mustafa Shehadeh
GW PGY-1
 
​Internal Medicine
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Trisha Torga
CNMC PGY-5
Adolescent Medicine​
Lauren Rosenfeld
GW PGY-3
 Emergency Medicine
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Aerial Petty
GW PGY-4
 Health Policy
​Fellow
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Kirsten Walton
GW PGY-4
Emergency Medicine
Allen Yiu
CNMC PGY-6
General Academic
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Ashley Yoo
GW PGY-2
Internal Medicine
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Peter  Yun
GW
Social EM Fellow​
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Fall 2025 Cohort 

The GW Residency Fellowship in Health Policy is offered to clinical residents and fellows across all medical specialties. The Fall 2025 cohort includes residents, fellows, practicing physicians, medical students, and PhD candidates, representing fields such as emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, hospice and palliative care, adolescent medicine, and pharmaceutical sciences.
Taylor Brewer

CNH PGY-2
Pediatric
Joseph DelFerro

CNH PGY-2
Pediatric
Ruth Demessi
HU PGY-2
Pharmaceutical
Science
Megan Gibbons

CNH PGY-2
 Pediatric
Vera Goldberg
CNH PGY-4
 Pediatric
Alejandro Haag
 GW PGY-3
Internal Medicine
Gary Hovsepian
 GW PGY-3
 Psychiatry
Garrett Kneese
 GW PGY-4
Family Medicine
Bruny Kenou

GW MS4
 Psychiatry
Mariana Leone
board certified physician
Family Medicine
Michael Walls
GW PGY-2
Emergency Medicine
Henry Mancao
GW PGY-3
Internal
Medicine 
Amna Nawaz
GW PGY-4
Health Policy
​Fellow
August Rakutt
GW PGY-5
Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellow
Ryan Shiesha
LBMH PGY-2

Family Medicine
Katrina Sookraj
HU PHD
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Yesenia Stephen
CNH PGY-2
Pediatrics
Caitlin Strachan
CNH PGY-2
 Pediatric
Hilary Strong
CNH  PGY-5
CAP Fellow
Bazil Tariq
GW PGY-2
Internal Medicine
Oscar Taube
Attending Physician
GW SMHS & CNH
Kenneth Terry II
Unity Health Care  PGY-3
 Family Medicine
Manisha Uppal
GW PGY-3
 Internal
Medicine
Srikar Adibhatla
MSH PGY-3
Emergency Medicine
The Residency Fellowship in Health Policy is made possible through the combined resources of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at GW, the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Children's National Medical Center.
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