2014
Jose Barquin , M . D ., recently took on the role of emergency department medical director , vice-chief of department of medicine and executive-at-large of his local community hospital in Palm Harbor . He and his wife are expecting their second child .
Quynh-An Chau , M . D ., completed the internal medicine residency program at Orlando Health and has begun a geriatric medicine fellowship at AdventHealth Winter Park .
Vishal Dahya , M . D ., completed a cardiology fellowship at Summa Health in Ohio and has begun an interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania .
Keerti Dantuluri , M . D ., completed an MPH degree program at Vanderbilt University in May and moved to Charlotte , North Carolina , to be an assistant professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Levine Children ’ s Hospital at Atrium Health .
Camilo Fernandez-Salvador , M . D ., is an otolaryngologist , head and neck surgeon in Fort Bragg , North Carolina .
Darren Klawinski , M . D ., completed the pediatric hematology / oncology fellowship at UF Health / Nemours Children ’ s Specialty Care and is a pediatric neuro-oncology fellow in Ohio .
Kimberly Manek , M . D ., was chief resident at the University of Florida College of Medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola and is practicing as an OB-GYN at Baptist Medical Center Beaches in Jacksonville Beach .
Alexander Nguyen , M . D ., won MacDill AFB Company Grade Officer of the Year in 2019 for the Healthcare Operations Squadron .
Avani Patel , M . D ., and husband Naresh Vissa welcomed a baby boy , Rohin Vissa , on Jan . 18 .
Colin Swigler , M . D ., completed the hand / upper extremity fellowship program at UF Health in Gainesville and is practicing as a hand and upper extremity surgeon at The Orthopaedic Group in Mobile , Alabama .
John Thomas , M . D ., completed the orthopedic surgery residency program at Orlando Health and is an adult reconstructive surgery fellow at the Orthopedic Center of Colorado .
Mitchell Whitehead , M . D ., is medical director for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Pensacola and was certified as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine .
2015
Blakele Bakker , M . D ., completed her residency at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga and is now an obstetrician-gynecologist at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast in Miramar Beach , Florida .
Stephanie Battistini , M . D ., welcomed a baby girl , Ivelisse , with her husband Antonio in August .
Ryan Berger , M . D ., completed the orthopedic surgery residency program at Cleveland Clinic and is in a spine-surgery fellowship at OrthoCarolina Spine Center in Charlotte , North Carolina .
Ryan Brosch , M . D ., completed the OB-GYN residency program at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and is practicing at Women ’ s Care Florida in Clearwater .
Alexa Buchanan , M . D ., and husband Kyle Pascioni welcomed a baby girl , Adeline Grace , on Nov . 12 , 2019 .
Adam Engel , M . D ., completed his residency in diagnostic radiology and is in a breastimaging fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center .
Shalini Golla , M . D ., completed the OB-GYN residency program at Ascension Medical Group Sacred Heart and is now practicing at North Florida Women ’ s Care in Tallahassee .
Ryan Howard , M . D ., was an adult hospitalist at the Kaweah Delta Health Care District , where he was honored by nursing staff as Physician of the Year for Compassionate Care . He then completed a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine through the University of California San Francisco Fresno Campus , and is now medical director of hospice and palliative medicine at the Kaweah Delta Health Care District .
Kyle Iketani , M . D ., married Erica Sheedy on Jan . 11 in Orlando .
Christina Kim , M . D ., graduated from the diagnostic radiology residency program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai West as chief resident and has begun a neuroradiology fellowship at Brigham and Women ’ s Hospital – Harvard .
Rachel Nickels , M . D ., welcomed a baby girl , Charlotte Yvonne Nickels , with husband Steven Nickels in April .
Keniel Pierre , M . D ., is a cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville . Keniel and his wife , Daphnee , welcomed their first daughter , Kaydence Noelle Pierre , on Aug . 4 , 2019 .
Anish Raj , M . D ., completed the pediatrics and child-psychiatry residency program at Rhode Island Hospital-Brown University and has entered a child abuse pediatric fellowship at Children ’ s Hospital of Philadelphia .
Andrew Van Sickler , M . D ., completed the general surgery residency program at Palmetto Health Richland-University of South Carolina School of Medicine and has begun a vascular surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland , Ohio .
2016
Kyle Andrews , M . D ., matched at UF for a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma in 2021-2022 .
Joseph Babcock , M . D ., matched into an adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Alabama Birmingham beginning in July 2021 .
Tara Becker , M . D ., completed a neurology residency at Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education and started a fellowship in epilepsy at the University of Pennsylvania .
Logan Blankenship , M . D ., completed the obstetrics & gynecology residency program at the UF College of Medicine in Jacksonville and has begun a gynecology oncology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio .
Amanda Danley , M . D ., is practicing at Physicians ’ Primary Care of SWFL Family Practice in Cape Coral .
Jared Davis , M . D ., completed the internal medicine residency program at the University of Alabama Medical Center at Birmingham and has begun a cardiology fellowship at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Health .
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