Residency Application Advisors
Residency Application Advisors are available to advise students who are certain that they are applying in a given specialty. Often the Residency Application Advisor is an initial point of contact and they will assign students applying in their field to an individual faculty advisor in the department.
Students who are undecided and want to learn more about the field, should contact their House Specialty Advisor: https://www.umassmed.edu/learningcommunities/faculty/specialty-advisors/
Anesthesiology:
- Aaron Scott, Program Director
- Danielle Birmingham, Associate Program Director
- Jason Vandoros, MSIV Rotation Director
- Julia Parzych, MSIII Rotation Director
- PURCH: Brian C. Martin, Program Director & Maria Lopez, Program Administrator
Dermatology:
- Karen Wiss, Program Director
- Leah Belazarian, Assistant Program Director
- Dori Goldberg, Assistant Program Director
Emergency Medicine:
- Richard Church, Program Director
- Viral Patel, Associate Program Director
- Alexandra Nordberg, Assistant Program Director
- PURCH: Adam Kellogg, Program Director
Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, Associate Program Director
Liza Smith, Clerkship Director
Family Medicine:
- Virginia Van Duyne, Program Director, Worcester Family Medicine Residency
- Beth Mazyck, Program Director, Fitchburg Family Medicine Residency
- Stacy Potts, Vice Chair for Education, former Program Director
- Frank Domino, Director of Family Medicine Predoctoral Education
- PURCH: Chandra Hartman, Program Director
- Nathan Macedo, Associate Program Director
General Surgery:
- Jen LaFemina, Program Director
- James Carroll, Clerkship Director
- Anne Larkin, former Program Director
- PURCH: Neal Seymour, Program Director
- David B. Tashjian, Associate Program Director
Internal Medicine:
- Scott Kopec, Program Director
- Beth Murphy, Program Director Primary Care Track
- P-Y Fan, Vice Chair for Education
- Maria Garcia, Paula Cullinane, Christine Donahue, Andrea Poisson-Irani, Associate Program Directors
- Christine MacGinnis, Steve Hatch, Majid Yazdani, Prashant Veerreddy, Abdul Dheyab, Master Clinician Educators
- Nancy Skehan, Jon Min, Laura Hallett, Vandana Nagpal, Rick Forster, Core Faculty
- PURCH: Riffat Sabir, Program Director
Christine Bryson, Associate Program Director
Kathryn Jobbins, Associate Program Director
Yesenia Greeff, Assistant Program Director
Medicine/Pediatrics:
- John Solomonides, Program Director
- David Fish, Med/Peds Division Director
- PURCH: Sharon Wretzel, Program Director
Maura Muñoz, Associate Program Director
Neurology:
- Kate Daniello, Program Director
- Raphael A. Carandang, former Program Director
Neurosurgery:
- Mark Johnson, Program Director and Department Chair
OB/GYN:
- Tara Kumaraswami, Program Director
- Gina Sullivan, Associate Program Director
- Luu Ireland, Assistant Program Director
- Anne Garrison, Clerkship Director
- PURCH: Jacqueline Kates, Program Director
Carolyn Delk, Associate Program Director
Kimberly Marakovitz, Faculty
Ophthalmology:
- Misha Faustina, Program Director
Orthopedics:
- Nick DeAngelis, Program Director
- Marci Jones, Tony Teebagy, faculty
Otolaryngology (no residency program currently at UMass):
- Lindsay Sobin, faculty
- Daniel Kim, Department Chair
Pathology:
- Dina Kandil, Program Director
- PURCH: Rahul Jawale, Faculty
Ashraf Khan, Chair
James Mueller, Program Director
Pediatrics:
- Michael Fahey, Program Director
- Tina Hermos, Associate Program Director
- Kate Wynne, Associate Program Director
- Jerry Durbin, former Program Director
- Tim Gibson, faculty
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (no residency program currently at UMass):
- Faren Williams, Division Chief
Plastic Surgery:
- Janice Lalikos, Program Director
- Douglas Rothkopf, Division Chief, former Program Director
Psychiatry:
- Auralyd Padilla, Program Director
- Sheldon Benjamin, Vice Chair for Education, former Program Director
- Beth DeGrush, Associate Program Director & PD of combined Neurology/Psychiatry Residency
- PURCH: Steven Fischel, Program Director
John Hopkins, Associate Program Director
Sonia Riyaz, Faculty
Radiology, Diagnostic:
- Carolynn Debenedectis, Program Director
- Carolyn Dupuis, Associate Program Director
- George Watts, Associate Program Director
- PURCH: Martha Lopez, Associate Program Director
Christopher Mudge, Faculty
Radiology, Interventional:
- Aaron Harmon, Program Director
Urology:
- Jennifer Yates, Program Director
- Jennifer Fantasia, Clerkship Director
- Katie Rotke, Joe McQuaid, faculty
Vascular Surgery:
- Jessica Simons, Program Director
updated APR 25 2023 | cjb