Emergency Medicine Residency Program About the Program Message from the Program Director Curriculum FAQs How to Apply Our Residents Residency Program Events Resident Life Our Residents Emergency Medicine Residency Program Home Research Research: Clinical Departments Emergency Medicine: Home Emergency Medicine: Education & Training Emergency Medicine: Education & Training > Residency Program Emergency Medicine: Education & Training > Residency Program > Our Residents Meet Our Residents The UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine attracts the best and brightest residents from around the world. Learn more about our residents in their own words. Class of 2026 Carson Dangberg, MD Austin DeJong, DO Xenia Ivanova, MD Bryan Kift, MD Ian Lopez, MD Adam Sauer, MD Antonio (Tony) Tapia, MD Michael Valdivia, MD Sixian (Chloe) Wang, MD Class of 2027 Jordan Brafman, MD Michael Hanna, MD Christine Hua, MD Riad Morrar, MD Kalani Nakashima, MD Kenneth (Kenny) Robertson-Brown, MD Umar Saeed, DO Jacob (Jake) Schettler, MD Rogelio (Roger) Velazquez, MD Class of 2028 Joshua (Josh) Gieschen, MD Nicholas (Nick) Gossett, MD Tushara Govind, DO Ellis Jang, MD Cheyenne (Chey) Low, MD Heather Mesa, MD Allison (Ally) Modesette, DO Thien Nguyen, MD Kristina Pagano, MD Our Alumni We have been graduating emergency medicine physicians since 1992 and are proud to acknowledge our alumni. Class of 2025 John Brazil, MD Christina Cantwell, MD Andy Hsueh, MD Tien Lu, MD Tyler Rigdon, MD Susan Siraco, MD Mark Slader, MD Sophia Spann, DO Savannah Tan, MD Class of 2024 Roy Almog, MD Glenn (Jamie) Collins, MD Alex Dang, MD Campbell Belisle Haley, MD Isai Lopez, MD Yuval Peleg, MD Carina Mireles-Romo, MD Kevin Woods, MD Robert York, MD Class of 2023 Michelle Brown (Miller), DO Kyle Dornhofer, MD Cali Kirkham-Garcia (Kirkham), MD Kerri Kraft, MD Joshua Livingston, MD Khoa Nguyen, MD Keneth Sarpong, MD Rory Schwan, MD Luke Walls-Smith, MD Class of 2022 Stephen Gassner, MD Christopher Gilani, MD Jana Florian, MD Jonathan Lee, MD Victoria Oppenheim, MD Graham Stephenson, MD Allen Yang, DO Tara Zand, MD Nadia Zuabi, MD Class of 2021 Nicholas Bove, MD Eric Dang, MD Ryan Gibney, MD Danielle Matonis, MD Andrew Mikhail, MD Toby Myatt, MD Christian Ruiz, MD Maximillian Smitham, DO Matthew Whited, MD Class of 2020 Matthew Abrishamian, MD Victor Cisneros, MD Maja Feldman (Cholody), MD Byron Etta, MD Breelan Kear, MD David Nykin, MD Scott Pierce, MD Claire Thomas (Wright), MD Emily Wing (Ma), MD Class of 2019 Tanya Dall (Valladares), MD Ethan Kunstadt, MD Sari Lahham, MD Alaina Rajagopal (Brinley), MD Lindsey Spiegelman, MD Lauren Sylwanowicz (Sims), MD Daryn Towle, MD Justin Yanuck, MD Class of 2018 Vy Han, MD Jessica Hoffmann, MD Reid Honda, MD Kevin Koenig, MD John Patane, MD Jon Pena, MD Robert Rowe, MD Siri Shastry (Sastry), MD Class of 2017 Samer Assaf, MD Samantha Costantini, MD Benjamin Feldman, MD Bryson Hicks, MD Kelly Kesler, MD Roman Navarro, MD Joelle Reynard (Schlang), MD Joseph Villarreal, MD Class of 2016 Wynne Breed, MD Kiah Connolly (Bertoglio), MD Candace Gutierrez (Thomas), MD Lori Ludeman (Feffer), MD Cassondra Majestic, MD Jason Mefford, MD Kimberly Sokol, MD Class of 2015 Ahmed Elrefaie, MD Erica Frumin, MD Kenneth Kim, MD Maxwell Jen, MD Juan Rendon, MD Alisa Wray, MD Class of 2014 Rod Mortazavi, MD Shaheena Patierno (Bielman), MD James Lee Puckett, MD Karin Reed, MD Shannon Toohey, MD Matthew Weber, MD Class of 2013 Deena Ibrahim, MD Austin Kinney, MD Weston Seipp, MD Sharis Simonian, MD Pamela Swan, MD Randy Woo, MD Class of 2012 Christian Maloschik, MD Eric Mervis, MD Patrick Popa, MD Tyler Reynard, MD Yalda Rezaimehr, MD Arthur Youssefian, MD Class of 2011 Samuel Cooper, MD Michael Habicht, MD James Howard, MD Sharon Lee, MD Rashmi Sreenivas, MD Montessa Tenny (Edwards), MD Class of 2010 Alexis Lieser (Long), MD Megan Osborn (Boysen), MD Jay Patel, MD Sehra Sampson, MD Daniel Thompson, MD Anita Vishwanath, MD Class of 2009 Omar Amr, MD Michael Mirhadi, MD Linda Soldavini, MD Christopher Wall, MD Christoph Wichelhaus, MD Warren Wiechmann, MD Class of 2008 Douglas Brosnan, MD Ali Ghobadi, MD Tom Grotsky, MD Eric Hegedus, MD Christopher Eric McCoy, MD Adrian Miranda, MD Class of 2007 Rocky Benoit, MD Nak Chhiv, MD Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD Zareth Irwin, MD Brian Potts, MD Virginia Tsai, MD Class of 2006 Kevin Dean, MD Jeffrey Henderson, MD Lynn Lulloff, MD Michelle Quinn, MD Matt Solley, MD Michael Waters, MD Class of 2005 Travis Henson, MD Matthew Janssen, MD Christopher Kahn, MD Anar Patel, MD William Scruggs, MD Julie Seo, MD Class of 2004 Stephen Anderson, MD Robert Erickson, MD Jason Fischer, MD Matthew Hunt, MD Boris Lubavin, MD Scott Wang, MD Class of 2003 Thomas Calkins, MD Dirk DeHaas, MD Todd Newton, MD Gary Schoeman, MD Douglas Williamson, MD Alex Zlidenny, MD Class of 2002 Brian Bearie, MD Tony Matthews, MD Eleni Pentheroudakis, MD Jennifer Steinfeldt, MD Hubert Wong, MD Ivan Wu, MD Class of 2001 Troy Falck, MD Delaram Ghadishah, MD Kevin Kelly, MD Scott Rudkin, MD Raynard Sebastian, MD Kerilee Wenker, MD Class of 2000 Greg Bush, MD Monique Devoe, MD Worth Everett, MD Chris Fox, MD Amy Peng, MD Peter Springer, MD Class of 1999 Wendy Conger, MD Enoch Huang, MD Kenneth Kwon, MD Clarke Lew, MD Robin Roberts, MD Tomiko Nguyen-Trung, MD Class of 1998 Barbara Blasko, MD Matthew Kaplan, MD Lynnus Peng, MD Anupama Singh MD Erik Thurnher, MD James Truong, MD Class of 1997 Gene Chan, MD Bret Ginther, MD Peter Grimes, MD Susan Munden, MD Christian Salleroli, MD Richard Taraska, MD Class of 1996 Mark Bell, MD Brian Maltby, MD Jennifer Mason, MD Loretta Samaniego, MD Daniel Starr, MD Ignacio Zarate, MD Class of 1995 John Bodnar, MD Clay Cormier, MD Ray Jacobson, MD Kris Koh, MD Jay Pennock, MD Federico Vaca, MD Class of 1994 Jeff Hughs, MD Rick Kozak, MD Eric Miller, MD John Myers, MD Clark Paddock, MD Mike Ritter, MD Class of 1993 Hansel Ashby, MD Pat Brunett, MD Jim Bryan, MD Andrea Brault-Fueling, MD Lisa Josephson, MD Ken Miller, MD Class of 1992 Ronn Berrol, MD Gary Chavez, MD Laurel Hodgson, MD Chris Juels, MD Cassandra Stroud, MD Mustafa Suleiman, MD