New Fellows of the American College of Physicians March 1, 2017

The following 253 new Fellows were approved for election by the Credentials Committee. Their names are

listed by regions assignment in alphabetical order by last name. New Fellows outside of ACP Chapters are

listed under Other Countries.

Alabama Shirin Banu, MBBS FACP Arkansas Eric J Del Giacco, MD FACP Mukesh K Sharma, MD FACP Atlantic Provinces Derek N Chaudhary, MD FACP Christine J Orr, MD FACP Evelyn D Sutton, MD FACP Arizona Alejandro Chapa Rodriguez, MD FACP Richard V Guthrie, DO FACP Mary Margaret Jones, MD FACP Shilpa Lankala, MD FACP Dung T Nguyen, DO FACP Anthony V Torres, MD FACP Bangladesh Faruk Ahammad, MBBS FACP Md. Towhid Alam, MBBS FACP Gobinda Chandra Banik, MBBS FACP Sarmistha Biswas, MBBS FACP Partha Pratim Das, MBBS FACP Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, MBBS FACP Md. Azizul Islam, MBBS FACP Khan Fariduddin Mohammad Ayaz, MBBS FACP Syed Ghulam Mogni Mowla, MBBS FACP Mohammed Masudur Rahman, MD FACP Md Toufiqur Rahman, MD FACP Md. Mamunur Rashid, MBBS FACP

Brazil Clineu Mello Almada Filho, MD, PhD FACP Milton Arai, MD FACP Frederico P Lomar, MD FACP California Northern Nkiruka J Akabike, MD FACP Cheryll A Gallardo, MD FACP Satish Kabra, MD FACP Rajiv K Misquitta, MD FACP Manoj K Ray, MBBS FACP Krishan Soni, MD MBA FACP Paolo V Troia-Cancio, MD FACP Michael S Yoo, MD FACP California Southern 1 Huy Duong Au, MD FACP Raul B Easton-Carr, MD FACP Edward L Ha, MD FACP Bassel Hadaya, MD FACP Nida Hamiduzzaman, MD FACP Susan K Mayo, MD FACP Neill D Ramos, MD FACP Harshit R Shah, MD FACP Clement Yang, MD FACP California Southern 2 Erica K Childs, MD FACP Lisa Aimee Hechanova, MD FACP Lakshmi K Puvvula, MBBS FACP Bindu Kota Swaroop, MD FACP California Southern 3 Theresa R Bohun, MD FACP Dipul M Kansagara, MD FACP Bhupinder S Khehar, MD FACP Colombia Ariel A Bello Espinosa, MD FACP William Otero Regino, MD FACP

Colorado Daniel H Reirden, MD FACP Jennifer Stichman, MD FACP Connecticut Olugbenga Arole, MD FACP Theodore R Hartenstein, MD FACP Janaka M Periyapperuma, MBBS FACP Shivi Sharma, MBBCh FACP Svetlana Tikhomirova, MD FACP Delaware Vijaya Surekha Bhamidipati, MBBS FACP District of Columbia Boisey Barnes, MD FACP Ari D Fishman, MD FACP Chike Onyejekwe, MD FACP Rosemarie A Rollins-Folks, MD FACP Florida Stuart Bagatell, MD FACP Vicki Viveros Britton, MD FACP Nagy Elsayyad, MBBch FACP Christos Kokinakos, DO FACP Amalia M Landa-Galindez, MD FACP Ravish Narvel, MD FACP Monisola O Oni, MD FACP Rahul Pathak, MBBS, MD FACP Nancy A Rihana, MD FACP Georgia David J Cox, MD FACP Andre D Feria, MD FACP Maura R George, MD FACP Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD FACP Ali M Mohamed, MD FACP Abdul O Odemuyiwa, MBBS FACP Catherine I Onyiuke, MD FACP Suresh S Ramalingam, MD FACP Reaz M Siddiqui, MD FACP

Idaho Krista J Andersen-Harris, DO FACP Illinois Northern Firas Aubeid, MD FACP Umair Jabbar, MD FACP Ena Mahapatra, MD FACP Daniel J Pohlman, MD FACP Tina V Valdez, DO FACP Illinois Southern Rexanne L. Caga-anan, MD FACP Vamsi K Emani, MD FACP India Kaushik Ghosh, MBBS MD MRCP FACP Subrahmanyam Karuturi, MD FACP Bharat Panigrahy, MD FACP Mukundkumar Patel, AHP MD FACP Manish Rathi, MD FACP Indiana Robert J Fick, MD FACP John A Lucich, MD FACP Amikar Sehdev, MBBS FACP Mark J Tatara, MD FACP Iowa Daniela Frankova, MD PhD FACP Mandeep S Gill, MBBS FACP Gurunanthan Palani, MBBS FACP Megan J Romine, DO FACP Namrata Singh, MBBS FACP Japan Takayuki Fujita, MD FACP Mikio Hayashi, MD FACP Asahiko Oguchi, MD FACP

Kansas Haseeb A Ahmed, DO FACP David G Naylor, MD FACP

Kentucky Peter I Aliu, MBBS FACP Jeremy Luckett, MD FACP Hieu T Tuong, MD FACP Louisiana Murtuza J Ali, MD FACP Deepa Bhatnagar, MD FACP William Carter, MD FACP John T Cole, MD FACP Marc R Matrana, MD FACP Tamika A Webb, MD FACP Maine Renee M Fay-LeBlanc, MD FACP Massachusetts Imola Daniel, MD FACP Richard C Galgano, DO FACP Bruce Gardner Karlin, MD FACP Randall J Morse, MD FACP Lucy C Paniszyn, MD FACP Karen L Peterson, MD FACP Maryland Amit Pathak, MD FACP Evan L Siegel, MD FACP Mexico David Gomez Almaguer, MD FACP Michigan Michael R Brennan, DO FACP Mohd S Kanjwal, MBBS FACP Mukta Sharma, MD FACP

Minnesota Juan Bowen, MD FACP Mary L Cameron, MD FACP Elise C Carey, MD FACP Pankaj Gupta, MBBS, MD FACP Brita M Hansen, MD FACP Thomas M Jaeger, MD FACP Paul D Kleinschmidt, MD FACP Arya Mohabbat, MD FACP Michael J Ornes, MD FACP Mark J Plachta, MD FACP Rose A Quirk, MD FACP Karna K Sundsted, MD FACP Melissa J West, MD FACP Mississippi Otis Gowdy, Jr MD FACP Joshua C Stephens, DO FACP Missouri Mark S Box, MD FACP Lehman W Godwin, MD FACP Martha Jane Herring, MD FACP Jennifer M McBride, MD FACP Manav Nayyar, MD FACP Hariharan Regunath, MD FACP Marlon C Torrento, MD FACP Sreelatha C Varma, MD FACP Montana Alyssa V Burkhart, MD FACP Nevada Esteban C Hennings, MD FACP Sujatha Pitani, MD FACP New Jersey Northern Triveni Abburi, MBBS FACP New Jersey Southern Arif Asif, MBBS FACP

Jaya R Kothapally, MBBS FACP Jill F Schwartz-Chevlin, MD FACP New York – Manhattan/Bronx Michael H Pillinger, MD FACP Barry P Rosenzweig, MD FACP Aida C Vega, MD FACP New York – Brooklyn/Queens/Staten Island Akshay Avula, MD FACP Bablu Kumar Basak, MD FACP Pavel Groysman, DO FACP Michael Kantrowitz, DO FACP Kevin Tin, MD FACP New York – Long Island Richard Federbush, MD FACP Richard B Jacaruso, DO FACP New York – Hudson Valley Kola Dushaj, MD FACP Rona Heublum-Colton, MD FACP New York – Upstate Valentin G Guset, MD FACP Sarah L Lappin, DO FACP Gerald V McMahon, MD FACP North Carolina Sejan Bhupendra Patel, MD FACP Michael R Towarnicky, MD FACP Ohio Anand Bhat, MD FACP Aamir Khan, MBBS FACP Imran R Naqvi, MD FACP Kartik K Patel, MD FACP Jaskirat Singh Randhawa, MD FACP Silvi Shah, MD FACP Khaldoon Shaheen, MD FACP Houman Varghai, MD FACP

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD FACP Oklahoma Kevin L Oltmanns, MD FACP Ontario Ayman Al-Saleh, MBBS FACP Robina I Rana, MD FACP Oregon Stacy R Chance, MD FACP Linda M Hungerford, MD FACP Eduardo A Vides, MD FACP Jeffrey A Youker, MD FACP Other Countries Suranga R Manilgama, MBBS MRCP MD FACP – Sri Lanka Aun Raza, MBBS FACP – Pakistan Thozhukat Sathyapalan, MBBS, MD FACP – United Kingdom Pennsylvania Eastern Ayodele G Ayoola, MD FACP Ricardo Nicolas Bedoya, MD FACP Charles F Henderson, MD FACP Mina M Makary, MBBCh FACP Neti N Vora, MBBS FACP Nelson S Yee, MD FACP Pennsylvania Southeastern Pankaj Jagdish Sharda, MBBS FACP Pennsylvania Western Anita Edwards, MD FACP Saudi Arabia Thamer H Alenazi, MBBS, MD FACP Touqeer Ahmed Siddiqui, MBBS, MD FACP

South Carolina Nathan Felding Bradford, MD FACP Amit G Kachalia, MBBS, MD FACP Peter L Tilkemeier, MD FACP South Dakota Larry R Burris, DO FACP Steven P Feeney, MD FACP Southeast Asia Soebagijo Adi Soelistijo, MD FACP Tennessee Gregory K Jenkins, MD FACP Phyllis Tawiah, MD FACP George F Torres-Cuesta, MD FACP Jawwad Yusuf, MD FACP Texas Northern Arvinder Kaur Bains, MBBS FACP Sheldon C Chaffer, MD FACP Martha L Danhof, DO FACP Santiago Giraldo, MD FACP Erik R Grossman, MD FACP Henry U Ogbogu, MD FACP Abhilash Perisetti, MBBS FACP Pablo S Rodriguez, MD FACP Cheryl L Sampson, MD FACP Texas Southern Nicola Abate, MD FACP Ali M Al-Ameri, MBChB FACP Myo Aung, MBBS FACP Boris Blechacz, MD FACP Anna Kagan, MD, PhD FACP Catherine L Kowalewski, DO FACP Dereddi Raja Shekar Reddy, MD FACP Stacey R Rose, MD FACP Behyar Zoghi, MDPhD FACP

United States Air Force MAJ Anthony Andrew Cochet Jr, MD FACP United States Army CPT Misty D Carlson, MC USA FACP Vanya Wagler, DO FACP United States Navy LCDR Robert O Holmes, MC USN FACP CDR Gilbert Seda, MC USN FACP Utah Norah L Henry, MD FACP Virginia Karl C Kronmann, MD FACP Kenneth R Pendergrast, MD FACP Washington Gail R Feinman, MD FACP Brandee L Grooms, MD FACP Bhuwan Kayastha, MBBS FACP Barbara H Walker, MD FACP West Virginia Ely C Salon, MD FACP Courtney H Struthers, MD FACP

Wisconsin Thomas F Bugliosi, MD FACP Richard J Horecki, MD FACP Asif N Tahir, MBBS FACP