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Suburban Community Hospital Holds Residency Graduation

Nine physicians to begin careers after completing three-year medical residency

 

East Norriton, PA (06/28/2023) –  On June 14, Suburban Community Hospital’s Residency Program celebrated its 2022-2023 resident physicians graduates in a ceremony and reception at the Bluestone County Club in Blue Bell, PA. Nine resident physicians graduated this year, after three years of training at the hospital, and five residents went into their transitional year.

 

Members of the Class of 2023 include:

Internal Medicine:

Aemen Shams Khakwani, MD: Rheumatology Fellowship, Oklahoma University of Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Pragna Koleti, MD: Mercy Cleveland Clinic, Canton, OH

Bhavani Nagendra Papudesi, MD: Team Health, Myrle Beach, SC

Sridhar Reddy Patlolla, MD: Academic Hospitalist Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC

Jessica Rosskam, DO: Hospitalist, Paoli Hospital, Paoli, PA

Family Medicine:

Neha Augustine, MD: Yale New Haven Health, Stratford, CT

Kendall Alexander Cliatt, DO: UPenn Clinic, Philadelphia, PA

Ankush Gupta, MD: Outpatient Family Medicine Practice, Vancouver, Canada

Jorge Eduardo Gutierrez, DO: Guilford Family Practice, Yale New Haven Health, Guilford, CT

Transitional Year:

Akila Gill, MD: Internal Medicine Residency, St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ

Parneet Kaur, MD: Internal Medicine Residency, North Alabama Medical Center, Florence, AL

Anjana Patel, MD

Madhur Parashar, MD: Internal Medicine Residency, St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ

Koteshwareddy Vadagandla, MD: Internal Medicine Residency, Shasta Regional Medical Center, Redding, CA

Joseph Alexander Wise, MD: Radiology Residency, Mount Sinai West, New York, NY

 

Some of the program’s residents and attending physicians were also recognized with special awards during the program.  The awards were given as follows:

 

Resident of the Year Award: Family Medicine: Neha Augustine, DO, and Internal Medicine: Sridhar Reddy Patlolla, MD

Teaching Resident of the Year Award: Haroon Chaudry, MD

Intern of the Year Award: Jeffrey Berg, DO

ER Intern of the Year Award: Camron Daghigh, DO

Teaching Faculty of the Year Award: Mary Elizabeth Vitucci, DO

 

Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. Residents hold a medical degree and practice medicine under the indirect supervision of an attending physician, and successful completion of a residency program is a requirement to obtaining a medical license.

 

“It is a great honor to be a part of the residency program at Suburban Community Hospital.  Our programs focus on education and are integral to decreasing health disparities by providing more medical care to the community.  We are very excited to continue to serve the community for years to come,” said Teresa D. Robinson, MSEd, Administrative Director and Designated Institutional Official over Lower Bucks Hospital and Suburban Community Hospitals’ residency programs. “As the Program Director, I have had the privilege of working with the residents from their first day through graduation, getting a first-hand seat to the talented doctors they have become.”

 

She added, “Today is a celebration of your hard work and commitment to your patients and the community.  But, it’s also a great reminder of how by working together, we can truly change people’s lives.”

 

The residency program offers a learning environment across several settings, including hospital, ambulatory, emergency, and various specialty rotations. The rotations include training with community physicians specializing in pediatrics, behavioral health, wound care, podiatry, cardiology, geriatrics, dermatology, gynecology, obstetrics, general surgery, orthopedics, nephrology, urology, and pulmonology.

 

“You are leaving Suburban Community Hospital today having made countless memories together,” says Mathew Mathew, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Internal Medicine Program Director at Suburban Community Hospital, who spoke at the ceremony. “You’ve worked long hours and had to endure countless sleepless nights, all while not seeing your loved ones. But you made it! You are now officially graduates, and that’s something to be proud of.”

 

Medical residency training is required to practice as a physician in the U.S. and begins after graduation from medical school.

 

Each year, residents seek a graduate medical education program that is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; and after completion of a qualifying residency program, physicians are eligible to take an exam to become board-certified in the program specialty.

 

During this time, the residency staff reviews hundreds of applications for the limited number of spots.  After interviews, the residency program and applicants submit their ranking of preference to The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). The NRMP’s computerized mathematical algorithm matches applicants’ preferences with the selected programs for training positions available at teaching hospitals nationwide. The matches are announced on Match Day – the third Friday in March.

 

The Suburban Community Hospitals Residency program is comprised of Osteopathic and Allopathic physicians. Throughout the years, the hospital has been involved in training residents from universities in the Philadelphia region. On the educational side, residents benefit from exposure to a large, diverse patient population with a wide spectrum of disease states and clinical-social scenarios in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

 

To learn more about Suburban Community Hospitals Residency Program visit https://www.suburbanhosp.org/our-services/residency-program/

 

 

 

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About Suburban Community Hospital – Suburban Community Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care hospital, and a member of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. For over 65 years, Suburban Community Hospital has been delivering quality healthcare to Montgomery County and the surrounding region. Suburban Community Hospital, originally named Riverview Hospital, opened in 1944. Chartered at 740 Sandy Street in Norristown, PA, Riverview Osteopathic Hospital would provide medical and surgical services to the sick, afflicted and injured, and would educate persons in the care and nursing. As part of Prime Healthcare Services, headquartered in Ontario, California, Suburban Community Hospital is focused on becoming one of the leaders in technology.

Prime Healthcare is an award-winning hospital management company operating 45 acute care hospitals in 14 states, including Roxborough Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia, Lower Bucks Hospital in Bucks County, and Suburban Community Hospital in Montgomery County.

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