Graduates | Ophthalmology Residency Program | MedStar Health

Graduates—The MedStar Health—Georgetown / Washington Hospital Center Residency Program in Ophthalmology

We are so proud of our residents!

By the time our residents interview for fellowships or private practice positions, they are prepared to impress future instructors, mentors, and colleagues with an excellent fund of knowledge, excellent comprehensive and subspecialty clinical and surgical experience, and an excellent portfolio of accomplishments in research, customer satisfaction, process improvement, humanitarianism, and program and national examinations. Our residents’ Written and Oral Board Exam pass rate is well above the national average, and they have succeeded in matching into top fellowships or joining their preferred practices all over the country.


Where did they go?

  YEAR     NAME   FELLOWSHIP IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION   PRIVATE PRACTICE
 2024  Philip Conkling
  Retina - Albany Medical College  
   Jack Creagmile  Glaucoma – UC Irvine  
   William “Bren” Davis    Wills Eye Hospital
   Thomas Lamson  Global Ophthalmology – Wills Eye Hospital  
   Obadah Moushmoush  Retina – Cook County Chicago  
   Narmien Murdock  Oculoplastics – Wills Eye Hospital  
 2023  Natalia Diaz Torres    Williamsburg, VA
   Russel Dinh  Retina Vanderbilt University  
   Marielle Mahan  Oculoplastics-OHSU/Casey Eye Institute Portland  
   Tiffany Shahrooz  Ant. Seg./Refractive Surgery - Masket Foundation in BH, CA  
   Justin Shortell  Glaucoma -Wills Eye Hospital  
   Kristen Suzich  Retina - Wake Forest University  
 2022  Frank Abella Ayala  Neuro-ophthalmology - USC Roski Eye Institute  
   Julio Albarracin  Cornea - Emory  
   Michael Izzo  Glaucoma - Wills Eye Hospital  
   Davina Kirschenbaum  Cornea - Moran Eye Center  
   Georgina Medina  Glaucoma - Emory  
   Karine Shebaclo  Oculoplastics - Wills Eye Hospital  
 2021  Kelsey Durbin     Columbus, OH
    Brice Hwang
 Albuquerque, NM
    Joseph Mekhail  Cornea - UC Irvine
 
    Hector Rojas Martinez    
 Clinton, MD
    George Skopis  Retina - Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary
 
    Leah Umfrey  Glaucoma - New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
 
 2020    Jason Goldberg  Cornea - Univ. of Minnesota  
    Mariam Mathai  Retina - Retina Group of Wash/WNEC/
 
    Meghan Moroux
 Washington, D.C.
     Adam Pearlman Glaucoma - West Virginia U
 
    Noreen Shaikh  Retina - Lahey Boston
 
    Dian Yu  Cornea - Johns Hopkins U/Wilmer
 
 2019   Patrick Burke  Pediatric Ophthalmology – Children’s National Med. Ctr.  
    Jacquelyn Daubert
 Miami, Florida
    Samantha Feldman  Pediatric Ophthalmology – Vanderbilt University  
    Jocelyn Kim
 Sacramento, California  
    Kirsten Midgley   Cornea – Wake Forest University  
    Michael Ullman   Cornea – Washington University, Missouri  
 2018   Kelly Krespan   Cornea – Ohio State U./Havener Eye Institute  
    Laura Kueny   Pediatric Ophthalmology – Children's Natl Med Center DC  
    Hari Mylvaganam   Retina - Stroger Hosp. of Cook County/Retina Consultants Ltd     
    Ferdinand Rodriguez   Retina – Cincinnati Eye Institute/Univ. of Cincinnati  
    Zoey Stoumbos   Glaucoma – New England Eye Center/Tufts U. SOM  
    Jacquelyn Weber   Cornea – University of Minnesota  

Additional information

For more information, contact:

Penelope Helfgott
Executive Director
Washington National Eye Center, Inc.
Administrative Program Director
MGUH/MWHC Ophthalmology Residency Program

202-877-5329

penelope.a.helfgott@medstar.net

 

 

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