Residents » Class of 2021

Adrian Aurrecoechea

• Hometown: Hialeah, FL
• Medical School: UCSF School of Medicine
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: I love sailing, photo, food aesthetics, travel/wanderlust, indoor plants
• Why SUNY/Kings: Diverse colleagues & population, mission-driven, tools to work in any EM setting afterwards

• Hometown: South Jersey / Philly
• Medical school: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Love traveling, outdoor activities, movie buff, exploring new foods, Netflix binging
• Why SUNY/Kings: Some of the most supportive faculty and co-residents around, you’ll come out of the program a clinical monster

 Noah Berland

• Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
• BSE: Electrical Engineering CWRU
• MS: Electrical Engineering Columbia University
• Medical School: NYU SoM
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: I Bake, Brew, Bike, Weld, Take Photos, and Teach People to use Naloxone
• Why SUNY/Kings: The People, Whether our Patients or the Amazing Faculty and Residents, No Where else can you make such a difference, and Brooklyn, there is no where else as Amazing, and I’ve been around the block

 Angela Graham Cai

• Hometown: Charlotte, NC!
• Medical School: UNC Chapel Hill MD/MBA, Blue Devil for life
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Cooking, coffee, traveling, hanging out with husband who splits time in CT for grad school
• Why SUNY/Kings: because we recruit and produce clinical and system leaders in EM, who you are happy to work with at 4am

 Priscilla Chao

• Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
• Medical School: Rush Medical College
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Yoga, lounging in the sun, trying new eats and cocktails (hence the photo), bookaholic
• Why SUNY/Kings: the people – the patients, the faculty and the residents!

Smruti Desai

• Hometown: Mumbai, Virgin Islands, Boston
• Medical School: TouroCOM-NY
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Travel, reading, writing, cooking (sorry, i misspelled eating), biking, hiking, hanging with my awesome co-interns
• Why SUNY/Kings: This program empowers you to be an advocate for yourself and your patients.

• Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
• Medical School: Georgetown SOM
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Morehouse Undergrad, Former ER Scribe, Former Middle School Teacher, Currently Known as Good Hands #2 (after Rushabh), Big on Bikes, Black Literature and Bed-Stuy
• Why SUNY/Kings: awesome patient population, and I can bike everywhere

 Bryan Flores

• Hometown: Queens, NY
• Medical School: SUNY Downstate COM
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: basketball, tennis (table and life-size), awkward dancing, amateur shower singing, wanderlusting
• Why SUNY/Kings: home sweet home, great clinical training, blessed with the best group of co-interns ever! (except Tareq)

 Stacey Frisch

• Hometown: Manalapan, NJ
• Medical School: Albert Einstein COM
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Lover of the great outdoors, thirsty for travel, shameless dancer, Yelp Elite foodie (and strict poulitarian)
• Why SUNY/Kings:

 Chris Hanuscin

• Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
• Medical School: Tulane Undergrad and UCLA/Charles R Drew SOM
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Family-oriented, Sports, Exercising, Dancing, Boozy Brunch!!!
• Why Kings/SUNY: Diverse residents/faculty with a wide range of pathology in grateful patients

 Sharland Johnson

• Hometown: Kingston, JA
• Medical School: Hofstra Northwell SOM on LI
• Hobbies/Fun Facts:I love travelling, reading and watching movies, especially good sci-fi!
• Why Kings/SUNY: I loved the people here, there was a sense of support and fun that I didn’t see anywhere else!

 Chris Lim

• Hometown: Horsham, PA (philly suburb)
• Medical School: Weill Cornell Medical College
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Former EMT, weightlifting, biking (casually), flag football, petting other people’s dogs, rick and morty
• Why SUNY/Kings: Brooklyn, patient population, challenge

Hannah Moreira

• Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
• Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: I enjoy soccer, dancing, traveling, and health policy/advocacy
• Why SUNY/Kings: High volume, diversity of patients and staff and the ability to effectively advocate for yourself, colleagues and patients

 Annette Mueller

• Hometown: I’m from a cute little town in Bavaria, Germany (that’s where the beer was born)
• Medical School: DOWNSTATE!
• Hobbies/Fun Fact: I’m spending every minute I have with my 4 year old son Maxi. Before med school, I had a first career in management consulting … and I worked as a waitress and bartender in Tokyo
• Why SUNY/Kings: was my #1 because I liked how diverse, hands on, supportive AND challenging it is

 Gina Pan

• Hometown: Apple Valley, MN
• Medical School: Keck SOM of the University of Southern California
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Love traveling, hiking, watching football and basketball (Vikings and Twolves fan for life), brunch. I’ve been to 40 of the 50 states
• Why SUNY/Kings: county, diverse patient population, awesome residents

 Naomi Rachel Rebollo

• Hometown: San Juan, PR
• Medical School: University of Puerto Rico SOM
• Hobbies: Tiny happy human. Wiener dog obsessed. Lover of naps, coffee, nature and travel.
• Why SUNY/Kings: After hurricane Maria hit my country, everyone has been crazy supportive. 🙂 We really take care of each other.

 Rushabh Shah

• Hometown: Ramsey, NJ
• Medical School: NYU School of Medicine
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Hiking and generally being outdoors, eating tacos, and ogling at dogs I don’t own (…yet). Backpacked solo for five weeks before the start of residency
• Why this SUNY/Kings: Because it breeds clinical excellence and leaders in an underserved population in the best city in the universe. And the residents rock.

 John Riggins Jr

• Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
• Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: musician, traveling,foodie, beatboxing, club/bar/lounge attendee,enjoying life to the fullest! Born at Kings County Hospital!
• Why SUNY/Kings- No greater way to give back to my community and become a “Clinical Monster” simultaneously; the most diverse residency program anyone will see anywhere in any specialty

 Sophia Sharifali

• Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
• Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Weightlifting, Cooking, painting (watercolors mostly), trivia, going to stand-up comedy shows
• Why SUNY/Kings: County program, diverse population and resident group, experienced and humble faculty, great group of coresidents

Ray Tan

• Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
• Medical School: SUNY Downstate
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Photography + exploration of food and drinks
• Why SUNY/Kings: Stayed at Downstate/KCHC to get the best residency training

 Matthew Turner

• Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
• Medical School: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Hobbies/Fun Facts: Hiking, fishing, hanging at the beach, playing sports
• Why SUNY/Kings: