University of Maryland Medical Center offers opportunities for residents and fellows to serve on institutional committees. If you are interested in participating in any of these committees, please contact the Office of Graduate Medical Education.

View a full description of the committees and councils. The members are listed below:

Airway Safety Council

  • Kyle Chin Shue, Resident PGY-4, Anesthesiology
  • Wiktoria Gocal, Resident PGY-2, Otorhinolaryngology
  • Savannah Cofer, Resident PGY-3, Anesthesiology

Children's Hospital Quality and Safety Committee

  • Nikki Kus, Resident PGY-3, Surgery
  • Rebekah Sayre, Resident PGY-2, Pediatrics
  • Annie Sescleifer, Resident PGY-2, Surgery

Cross-Campus Psychiatry Quality and Safety Committee

  • Jenny Sabol, Resident PGY-2, Psychiatry
  • Sara Mahmood, Fellow PGY-5, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Employee Advisory Council

  • Ifeanyi D. Chinedozi, Resident PGY-3, General Surgery
  • Rohan Desai, Resident PGY-3, Internal Medicine
  • Angie Molina, Fellow PGY-7, Cardiology

Ethical Advisory Committee

  • Alison DiSciullo, Fellow PGY-8, Maternal Fetal Medicine
  • Sivaveera Kandasamy, Fellow PGY-7, Thoracic Surgery
  • Becca Kowalski, Resident PGY-3, Surgery
  • Kaitlin Griffin, Resident PGY-2, Pediatrics
  • Emily Bergbower, Fellow PGY-6, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
  • Nadim Ojaimi, Fellow PGY-4, Geriatric Medicine

Executive Infection Control Committee

  • Justin Klucher, Resident PGY-4, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
  • Walter Banfield, Resident PGY-2, Emergency Medicine

Graduate Medical Education Committee

  • Emily Toler, Resident PGY-4, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
  • Aarani Kandeepan, Fellow PGY-7, Pediatric Critical Care
  • Michael Sullivan, Resident PGY-3, EM/IM
  • Mariyam Anna Saviour, Resident PGY-4, Neurology
  • Katayoun Eslami, Fellow PGY-6, Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
  • Matthew Cahn, Resident PGY-3, Surgery
  • Hunter Leigh Mitchell, Fellow- PGY5, MS/Neuroimmunology
  • Cihan Caglayan, Fellow PGY-4, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Kahlo Baniadam, Resident PGY-2, Psychiatry
  • Satya Vedula, Resident PGY-2, EM/IM
  • Maggie Sundel, Resident PGY-4, Surgery

Lab Stewardship Steering Committee

  • Justin Klucher, Resident PGY-4, Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics
  • Tony Lam, Resident PGY-1, Internal Medicine

MEADE Committee

  • Myung Sun Jung, Resident PGY-3, Pediatrics
  • Jessica Palmer, Resident PGY-2, Internal Medicine

Medicine Quality and Safety Committee

  • Gregory Andrew Goshgarian, Resident PGY-3, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
  • Allison LaRocco, Fellow PGY-5, Pulmonary and critical care
  • Alexa Rangecroft, Resident PGY-2, Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics

Neurosciences Quality and Safety Committee

  • Nicole Wenger, Resident PGY-5, Neurosurgery
  • Sanjana Marikunte, Resident PGY-3, Neurology

Patient And Family Education Council

  • Tara Balasubramanian, Resident PGY-1, Emergency Medicine
  • Jacob Miller, Resident PGY-2, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Patient Family Advisory Council

  • Emma Silverman, MD, Resident PGY-1, Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine

Performance Improvement Steering Committee

  • Meshref Alshehri, Fellow PGY-5, Infectious Disease
  • Tara Talaie, Resident PGY-5, General Surgery
  • Trent Johnson, Fellow PGY-5, Cardiovascular Disease

Resident/Fellow and Advanced Practice Provider Wellness Committee

  • Kai Huang, Resident PGY-2, Medical Physics
  • Abigail Fariscal, Resident PGY-3, Neurology
  • Rukaiya Bashir Hamidu, Fellow PGY-7, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • John Kessler II, Resident PGY-3, General Surgery
  • Amy VanderStoep, Resident PGY-3, Surgery
  • Wyatt Nice, Resident PGY-1, Internal Medicine
  • Diana Leigh Alsbrook, Fellow PGY-6, Neurocritical Care
  • Andrea Lin, Resident PGY-3, Anesthesiology
  • Emily Rosen-Wachs, Fellow PGY-5, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  • Ashling Zhang, Resident PGY-2, General Surgery

Surgical Quality and Safety Committee

  • Amy Nemirovsky, Resident PGY-5, Urology
  • Eftikhar Akam, Fellow PGY-6, Surgical Critical Care
  • Joel Grunhut, Resident PGY-2, Surgery

Transfusion Practices Subcommittee

  • Hanan Alharthy, Fellow PGY-6, Hematology/Oncology
  • Andreah "Andy" De La Hoz, Resident PGY-3, Pathology
  • Vikram Mukherjee, Resident PGY-2, Anesthesiology
  • Georgia Pingue, Resident PGY-1, Internal Medicine

UMMC Medical Executive Committee

  • Joseph Anthony Chirico, Resident PGY-2, Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
  • Eseosa Fernandes, Resident PGY-1, Pediatrics

University of Maryland School of Medicine Council

  • Kimanthi Gicovi, Resident PGY-2, Integrated Thoracic Surgery

Workplace Violence (WPV) Committee

  • Wesley Steeb, Resident PGY-3, Emergency Medicine