Overview
Residents who enter the professional world after successfully completing the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute's fellowship and residency program continue to receive alumni support and recognition.
Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association together with the Departments of Urology and Kidney Medicine are pleased to sponsor alumni gatherings at the American Urological Association and the American Society of Nephrology annual conferences.
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Urology
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We invite you to stay connected with your fellow Cleveland Clinic alums and share professional news and photos with us. Send content to GUKIalumni@ccf.org, and join the @CleClinicUro conversation on Twitter.
Past Residents
| Name | Class | Fellowship | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diego Aguilar Palacios | 2022 | Faculty, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, TX | |
| Darren Bryk | 2022 | Andrology Fellowship, University of Virgina | |
| Michele "Mike" Fascelli | 2022 | Gender Reaffirming Surgical Fellowship, Oregon Health & Sciences University | |
| Sij Hemal | 2022 | Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery Fellowship, University of Southern California | |
| Prithvi Murthy | 2022 | Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Moffitt Cancer Center | |
| Molly DeWitt Foy | 2021 | Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship, University of Minnesota | |
| Kyle Ericson | 2021 | Faculty, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH | |
| Scott Lundy | 2021 | Male Infertility/Andrology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic | |
| Anup Shah | 2021 | Community Practice | |
| JJ Haijing Zhang | 2021 | Urologic Oncology Fellowship, UCLA | |
| Andrew Nguyen | 2020 | ||
| Daniel Sun | 2020 | Community Practice, San Francisco | |
| Abhinav Khanna | 2020 | Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Mayo Clinic | |
| Alice Crane | 2020 | Transplant Fellowship, Maryland | |
| Ben Abelson | 2020 | Pediatric Fellowship, Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Anna Zampini | 2019 | Faculty, Cleveland Clinic | |
| Nitin Yerram | 2019 | Oncology Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland | |
| Andrew Sun | 2019 | Andrology and Male Infertility Fellowship, UCLA - Los Angeles, California | |
| Paurush Babbar | 2019 | Male Reconstruction Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio | |
| Hans Arora | 2019 | Pediatric Urology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago at Northwestern University, IL | |
| Nima Almassi | 2018 | Faculty, Cleveland Clinic | |
| Bradley Gill | 2018 | Faculty, Cleveland Clinic | |
| Daniel Greene | 2018 | Private Practice, California | |
| Bryan Hinck | 2018 | Faculty, University of Minnesota, Minnesota | |
| Yaw Nyame | 2018 | Urologic Oncology, University of Washington, Washington | |
| Sam Haywood | 2017 | Oncology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York | |
| Iryna Makovey Crescenze | 2017 | Female and Reconstructive Urology Fellowship, University of Michigan, Michigan | |
| Chad Reichard | 2017 | Oncology Fellowship, MD Anderson, Texas | |
| Christine Tran | 2017 | Private Practice, Northern Virginia | |
| Sarah Vij | 2017 | Male infertility and Andrology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio | Faculty, Cleveland Clinic |
| Benjamin Cohen | 2016 | Private Practice, Baltimore, Maryland | |
| Juan Jimenez | 2016 | Private Practice, Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Ganesh Kartha | 2016 | Private Practice, Louisville, Kentucky | |
| Catherine Seager | 2016 | Pediatric Urology Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts | |
| Raman Unnikrishnan | 2016 | Private Practice, Virginia Beach, VA |
Past Fellows
| Name | Current Position |
|---|---|
| H. Collier Wright, MD | |
| Matthew Truong, MD | Private Practice, Rochester, NY |
| Manesh Panner Selvam, PhD | |
| Neil Kocher, MD | Private Practice, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| John Doolittle, MD | Faculty, Department of Urology, University of Oklahoma |
| Uzoma Anele, MD | Staff, Department of Urology, University of Louisville School of Medicine |
| Ali Aminsharifi, MD | Private Practice, Hershey, PA |
| C. Alex Wilson, MD | Private Practice, Corpus Christi Urology Group, Corpus Christi, TX |
| Lewis Thomas, MD | Academic Practice, BJC Healthcare, St. Louis, MO |
| Jessica Rueb, MD | Academic Practice, Prisma Health- USC, Columbia, SC |
| Eric Miller, MD | Private Practice, Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA |
| Naveen Kachroo, MD | Academic Practice, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI |
| Juan Garisto, MD | Government, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA |
| Juan Fella, MD | Academic Practice, Clinica las Condes/University of Chile, Santiago, Chile |
| Nicholas Farber, MD | Private Practice, Advanced Urology, Atlanta, GA |
| Samir Derisavifard, MD | Academic Practice, USMD, Arlington/Ft. Worth, TX |
| Parursh Babbar, MD | Private Practice, Cincinnati, OH |
| Patricia Zahner, MD | Staff, St. Mary Physician Group, Langhorne, PA |
| Roger Yau, MD | Staff, Urology Specialists of the Carolinas |
| Karen Stern, MD | Staff, Mayo Clinic-Phoenix |
| Neel Parekh, MD | Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Nathan Hoy, MD | Staff, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Laura Giusto, MD | Continence and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction at Chesapeake Urology Associates in Owings Mills, MD |
| Mohamed Eltemamy, MD | Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Michael Brooks, MD | Assistant Professor with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX |
| Luay Alshara, MD | Assistant Professor of Urology at Albany Medical College/New York, Endourology and Robotic Surgery |
| Daniel Sagalovich, MD | Faculty, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY |
| Jeremy Reese, MD | Faculty, Foothills Urology Colorado, Golden, CO |
| Jessica Lloyd, MD | Private Practice, Eugene, OR |
| Juan Guzman, MD | Staff, Cleveland Clinic Florida |
| Julien Dagenais, MD | Faculty, The Urology Center of Colorado, Denver, CO |
| Ryan Nelson, DO | Faculty, Michigan Institute of Urology, Macomb, MI |
| Matthew Maurice, MD | Faculty, Canton Urology, Canton, OH |
| Elodi Dielubanza, MD | Faculty, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Henry Okafor, MD | Faculty, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN |
| Daniel Ramierez, MD | Staff, Urology Associates of Nashville, Nashville, TN |
| Peter Caputo, MD | Faculty, Summit Urology Group, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Javier Pizarro Berdichevsky, MD | Faculty, Hospital dr Soto del Rio, Santiago, Chile |
| Marisa Clifton, MD | Faculty, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA |
Kidney Medicine
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We invite you to stay connected with your fellow Cleveland Clinic alums and share professional news and photos with us. Send content to GUKIalumni@ccf.org and join the @CleClinicKidney conversation on Twitter.
Past Fellows
| Name | Class | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Rahul Kumar | 2022 | Cleveland Clinic, OH |
| Jad Tabbara | 2022 | Cleveland Clinic, OH |
| Xin Yee Tan | 2022 | Private Practice, Arizona |
| Moarij Qazi | 2022 | Private Practice, Ohio |
| Aimen Liaqat | 2021 | University of Tennessee, Transplant |
| Liza Cholin | 2021 | Ohio State University, Transplant |
| Yuliya Sharakova | 2021 | Cleveland Clinic, OH |
| Mohamed Hassanein | 2021 | University of Mississippi, MS |
| Rahul Kumar | 2020 | Private Practice, Georgia |
| Roulan Abu Hweij | 2020 | Private Practice, Indiana |
| Rhyan Maditz | 2020 | Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Ali Mehdi | 2020 | Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Bushra Syed | 2019 | University of Mississippi, MS |
| Anum Malik | 2019 | Cleveland VA, Cleveland, OH |
| Rami Azem | 2019 | Private Practice, Cleveland, OH |
| Tarek Ashour | 2019 | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Rebecca Blonsky | 2018 | Private Practice Marshfield Clinic - St. Joseph Hospital, Marshfield, WI |
| Samir Brahmbhatt | 2018 | Private Practice, OH |
| Gayatr Nair | 2018 | North Shore University Hospital, NY |
| Adedeji (DJ) Sodeinde | 2018 | Private Practice, OH |
| Yvonne El Kassis | 2017 | University of Pennsylvania |
| Arani Nanavati | 2017 | Private Practice, IA |
| Arjun Sekar | 2017 | Private Practice, IA |
| Masaaki Yamada | 2017 | University of Iowa/Iowa VA |
| Taran Kaur | 2016 | UC Health, OH |
| Minesh Rajpal | 2016 | Private Practice, AZ |
| Reejis Stephen | 2016 | Private Practice,AZ |
| Saurabh Dasgupta | 2016 | Private Practice, MD |
| Georges Nakhoul | 2015 | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| Silvi Shah | 2015 | UC Health, Cleveland, OH |
| Grace (Snyder-Garza) Mcnutt | 2015 | Private Practice, Laredo, TX |
| Ma Clarisse (Toledo) Santos | 2015 | Private Practice, Honolulu, HI |
Where Are They Now
Former Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute Resident reflects on the personal and career impact of his training.
Parrush Babbar
Paurush Babbar is a urologist with The Urology Group in Cincinnati, Ohio. He specializes in Male Genitourinary Reconstruction, Prosthetics and Men’s Health. Paurush grew up in Melbourne, Australia and moved to Atlanta, GA at the age of 14 for high school. He then went to Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC for his undergraduate studies and stayed on at Wake Forest School of Medicine for medical school. Paurush then matched at the Cleveland Clinic for his urology residency. It was here under the mentorship of Dr Kenneth Angermeier and Dr Hadley Wood that he cultivated an interest in GU reconstruction and prosthetics. He hence decided to complete his fellowship under their tutelage and graduated in 2020.
“There is no better place to train in my eyes than the Cleveland Clinic. I feel extremely fortunate that I was given the opportunity to build lifelong relationships with some of the pre-eminent thought leaders in the field of urology while here at CCF. The camaraderie and collegiality between staff, residents, fellows, nurses, APPs and all the support staff is truly unique and allows for an extremely supportive and collaborative work environment. The culture of intellectual curiosity, cutting edge innovation and team work fosters a spirit of continued self-improvement.
If I had to outline the unique parts of the residency experience which differentiate the educational experience at CCF, they are –
- Chief Year where you are afforded the ability to pick from a diverse array of complex cases and tailor the year to your specific interests and goals. Being a quaternary care center, you get learn the nuances of managing cases ranging from the “bread and butter” of urology to once in a lifetime pathology. As a chief resident, you are in the operating room every day and can really focus on honing your operative skills and post-operative management of these cases
- Starting your PGY2 year, you run your own service. This is extremely critical as you learn from an early and formative stage in your career how to make decisions, interface with staff and take ownership over patient care. Instead of waiting till your senior years of residency to deliberate of substantive patient management issues, you do so from your first day on the urology service.
- There is unparalleled support for academic and research endeavors. We have access to statisticians and innumerable databases for clinical research and then there are great basic science options for your research year that actually yield tangible results in the one year timeframe allotted.
- Focus of resident well-being and mental health. The department and program leadership is very cognizant of the increasing demands placed upon residents and take steps to help manage stress for the residents. The program directors constantly solicit feedback on how to make the residency better. The residents are extremely tight knit and an integral support system for each other during these formative years of their fledgling career.
As I enter clinical practice, I am grateful for the experiences I had at CCF. I would recommend CCF unequivocally for anyone considering urology residency – you will come out with phenomenal training, meaningful friendships with co-residents and an amazing array of lifelong mentors who will always be in your corner.”
