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Our Graduates' Career Paths by Year
Since the inception of the Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program at UC San Diego in 1994, we have enjoyed seeing the success of our graduates in a variety of fields. We also boast a first-time 96% board pass rate on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam and 98% pass rate on the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) exam over the past 12 years. This exceeds the national ABIM board pass rate of 91% and the national ABP pas
s rate of 91%.
Like most graduates trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics, you will have a wide range of opportunities available to you once you have completed training at UC San Diego.
Manyof our graduates go on to primary care practices doing both medicine and pediatrics in both outpatient and hospitalist settings. A large number choose practices in underserved areas. We also have many graduates who have applied to fellowship, and have matched all into competitive programs, as well as many graduates pursuing combined hospital medicine. Still other graduates have gone on to work for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the Indian Health Services, pursused global health careers, or have continued in academic medicine.
Career Paths - Summary
Our alumni have taken a variety of different career paths. Below is a summary of the types of career paths our graduates have chosen since completing their training at UC San Diego:
- 66% practice in the primary care setting, involving internal medicine and pediatrics
- 26% hold hospital-based positions
- 13% hold volunteer faculty academic appointments. (This is in addition to the 24% in academic-based practices listed above.)
- 7% pursue careers at the Centers for Disease Control, or a career in international health
- 28% pursue subspecialty/fellowship training in a wide range of fellowships (see below for details!) at competitive programs
- 46% remain in San Diego after graduation
Please see the list below to learn more about what our graduates do upon completing residency. The list includes the graduates from the UC San Diego Combined Med/Peds Program since the beginning of our program in 1994!
Click on the year of graduation to see a list of individual profiles for that graduating class. If you wish to contact any particular alumnus, please e-mail our program coordinator, Heejin Kim, at
heejinkim@ucsd.edu and we will provide you with their contact information, if available.
Graduates' Career Paths by Year
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Solomon Greenberg, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago
Career Following Residency: Medicine Hospitalist and Pediatric Urgent Care
Grant Meyer, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California
Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Primary Care
Patrick Passerelli
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Pediatric Chief Resident 2019-2010
Hannah Wangberg, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Career Following Residency: Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, Scripps Healthcare San Diego
Sally Kaufman, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Med Peds Primary Care
Isabella Niu, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Chief Pediatric Resident 2018-2019, followed by combined Med/Peds Endocrine fellowship at UC San Francisco
Stephanie Guerreri, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Career Following Residency: NICU Hospitalist at UC San Diego and Med/Peds Urgent Care
Evan Taylor, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Global Health Fellowship, UC San Francisco
Vishar Amin, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Palliative Care Fellowship at UT Southwestern, Dallas Texas
Mazen Odish, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Adult Critical Care and Pulmonary Fellowship, UC San Diego
Caitlin Dockweiler, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Palliative Care Fellowship at UC San Diego
Meghan Garcia, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Allergy and Immunology Fellowship at National Jewish Medical Center, Denver, CO
Nicole Ayson, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics
Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Primary Care
Constance Chace, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Massachusetts School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Chief Medical Resident, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego; Academic Internal Medicine Hospitalist UC San Diego
Mai Duong, MD.
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Primary Care Practice in underserved community clinic, San Diego, California
Christine Rukasin, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Creighton University School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Chief Medical Resident, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego; Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, Vanderbilty University, Nashville, TN
Lawrence Ma, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Geriatrics Fellowship at Stanford University
Diana J. Moke, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Career Following Residency: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Perrie E. Pardee, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Hospitalist and Associate Program Director, UC San Diego Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program
Vanessa N. Raabe, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Graduate School: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, M. Sc. in Control of Infectious Diseases
Career Following Residency: Medicine/Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellowship at Emory University
John Adams, M.D.
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Underserved Medicine Fellowship - UC San Diego
Shirin Alonzo, M.D., M.P.H
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Neurodevelopmental Fellowship – Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
Nicole Bendin, M.D.
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist - Chicago, IL
Patrick LaRochelle, M.D.
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Samaritan’s Purse – fieldwork in Democratic Republic of Congo
Eric Chow, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice at Kaiser Permanente, Honolulu, Hawaii
Scott Francioni, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in underserved community clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana
Katie O’Sullivan, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Endocrinology Fellowship, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Brian Williams, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Pediatrics Hospitalist Fellowship, Rady Children’s Hospital, UCSD
Benedict Dillon, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in underserved community clinic in San Diego, California
Ricardo Indacochea, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in underserved community clinic in San Diego, California and Associate Program Director, Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency at UCSD, 2012 – present
Benjamin Johnson, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Internal Medicine practice at UCSD Department of Medicine
Hannah Walford, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: UCLA School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Allergy/Immunology Fellowship at UCSD
Tracy Exley, M.D., M.P.H.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Practice in San Diego, CA
Adolescent Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine
Charles Gabbert, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Oregon Health Science University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Internal Medicine Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Patrick Lew, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Creighton University School of Medicine
Career: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist in Portland, Oregon
Lauren Worth Gannon, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Career: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in underserved community clinic in San Diego, California
Brian Frugoni , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, UCSD
Benjamin Frischhertz, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, Baylor University School of Medicine
Shawna Klinesteker, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Career: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in Santa Cruz, California
Erin Parise, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Career: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in Irvine, California
Kathryn A. Akong , M.D., Ph.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of North Carolina
Career Following Residency: Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship, UCSD
David C. Hall , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Virginia
Career following residency: Internal Medicine Hospitalist, Sharp-Rees Stealy Hospital, San Diego
Suresh B. Rangarajan , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Michigan School of Medicine
Career: International Medicine, Vietnam
Benjamin P. Westley , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Washington, School of Medicine
Career: Adult Infectious Disease Fellowship, Brown University, School of Medicine
Caitlin Carter-Wise , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Nephrology Fellowship, UCSD
Victor M. Ganata , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Finch University/Chicago Medical School
Career following residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Practice, San Diego
Rebecca Greco Preziosi, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Georgetown University
Career: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics practice in San Diego, California, Sharp Rees-Stealy
Norris Vivatrat , M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Texas, Southwestern
Career: Hospitalist Medicine in Academic Setting, San Jose, California
Maia Hightower, M.D., M.P.H.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Career Following Residency: Internal Medicine practice in Berkeley, California
Casey Moothart, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Wayne State University
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds community clinic serving the underserved in Detroit, Michigan
Kamala Randolph, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Illinois, Urbana
Career: Combined Med/Peds practice in Vancouver, Washington
Doris A. Yung, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Iowa
Career: Combined Med/Peds community clinic for the underserved in San Diego
Nicole D. Fortier, M.D.
Fellowship: PICU fellowship, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Medical College of Ohio
Undergraduate: Ohio Northern University - BS in Biology
Elroy Y. Jan, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - BS in Biology
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds hospitalist position in Portland, Oregon with an academic affiliation
Ilia Christy Wakeham, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Undergraduate: Stanford University - BS in Biological Sciences
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds Practice
Lauren Jefferis, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: MCP Hahnemann, Drexel University College of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds practice in San Diego
Aaron Lehman, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Arizona School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds community clinic for the underserved in San Diego, Associate Program Director, UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program, July 2007-June 2009, Kaiser Permanente Internal Medicine Physician in San Diego
Michael C. Martin, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Sharp Rees-Stealy Combined Med/Peds Practice (San Diego)
Shreya Parikh-Chandra, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds community clinic for the underserved in San Diego
Benjamin Bauer, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Pediatric hospitalist in Seattle, WA; now working in Indiana in a Med/Peds position
Susan Brister, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Baylor University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds practice in Austin, Texas
Rudolf Gausling, M.D., PhD.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Albert-Ludwig's University of Freiburg, Germany
Career following residency: Hospitalist position in Miami, Florida
Nancy McGreal, M.D.
Fellowship: Combined Med/Peds Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Chicago
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Kalpana Chalasani, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Medical College of Virginia
Career following residency: Academic hospitalist
Suzanne Lefebvre, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Tennessee School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds practice in Connecticut
Roger Long, M.D.
Fellowship: Combined Med/Peds Endocrine fellowship, UCSF
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nathan McFarland, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds community clinic for the underserved in San Diego
Laura Fagerland Petrovich, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Miami School of Medicine
Career following residency: Private Medicine/Pediatrics practice in Coronado, San Diego
Matthew Niedner, M.D.
Fellowship: PICU Fellowship, Children's Health Center, San Diego
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago
Career following fellowship: Academic position in the PICU at University of Michigan Health System
Matthew Schreiber, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Sackler University, Israel
Career following residency: Medicine hospitalist in Atlanta, Georgia
Kamei Tolba, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Career following residency: Urgent Care pediatrics in San Diego
Ken Brady, M.D.
Fellowship/Second Residency: PICU fellowship with anesthesia residency; John's Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California School of Medicine
Krista Burris-Kim, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds practice in San Diego, then joined the Indian Health Services
Susannah Ehret, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds community clinic in Los Angeles
Tory Katz, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Career following residency: Indian Health Services
Jennifer Neely-Blanchard, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Academic position in HIV medicine at UCSD
Jennifer Fisher, M.D.
Fellowship: Scripps Clinic Hematology/Oncology, San Diego
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds practice for five years, followed by a Hematology/Oncology fellowship
Aparna Miano Kambhampati, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Baylor University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds community clinic for three years; now holds an academic position at
University of Southern California
e-mail: miano@usc.edu
Christie Reed, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Baylor University School of Medicine
Career following residency: Centers for Disease Control - HIV in Washington, D.C.
Rachel Bacon, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
Career following residency: Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist and community pediatrician
Christine Casey, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Career following residency: Centers for Disease Control - Immunizations in Washington, D.C.
Michael E. Mills, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Michigan School of Medicine
Career following residency: Combined Med/Peds practice in Oregon
Lori J. Wan, M.D.
Fellowship: UCSD Women's Health Fellowship
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Career following residency: UCSD Combined Med/Peds Program Director, Associate Clinical Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics, former Med/Peds community hospitalist, community physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Brent Rathbun, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Career following residency: Sharp-Rees Stealy Combined Med/Peds practice
David Reynaldo, M.D.
Residency: UCSD Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
Career following residency: Sharp-Rees Stealy Combined Med/Peds Practice