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Graduate Career Paths

Many of our graduates go on to primary care practices doing both medicine and pediatrics in 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, Indian Health Services, pursued global health careers, or have unique roles in academic medicine.

Career Paths Summary

Our alumni have taken a variety of career paths after completing their residency training at UC San Diego:

  • 45% practice in the primary care setting, involving internal medicine and pediatrics
  • 18% hold hospital-based positions
  • 5% pursue careers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) or a career in international health
  • 31% pursue subspecialty/fellowship training in a wide range of fellowships at competitive programs

Graduates' Career Paths by Year

This list includes the graduates from the UC San Diego Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency since the beginning of our program in 1994! If you wish to contact any particular alumnus, email our program coordinator, Heejin Kim: heejinkim@ucsd.edu.

2023

Brian Coburn M.D.
Medical School: University of Utah
Career After Residency: Combined Med Peds Nephrology Fellowship, UC San Diego

Cris Ebby M.D.
Medical School: Rutgers School of Medicine
Career After Residency: Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship, University of Wisconsin

Michael Jew M.D.
Medical School: University of Southern California
Career After Residency: Medicine Chief Resident

Michelle Keyser M.D.
Medical School: UC San Diego
Career After Residency: Combined Med Peds Nephrology Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh

2022

Cathy Cichon, MD, MPH
Medical School: University of Miami
Career After Residency: Adult Infectious Disease fellowship, University of Nebraska

Ian Drobish, MD
Medical School: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids
Career After Residency: NIH Critical Care/Infectious Disease fellowship

Nicole Herrick, MD
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Career After Residency: Adult Cardiology at UC San Francisco (with plans to complete Adult Congenital fellowship following)

Alexis Quade, MD
Medical School: University of Minnesota
Career After Residency: Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship at University of Minnesota (plans to practice as Med Peds hospitalist)

2021

Conor Holton-Burke
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Career after residency: Medicine hospitalist at Stanford VA

Jack Strutner
Medical School: University of Miami
Career after residency: Med Peds Hospitalist, Santa Cruz CA

Pooja Jaeel
Medical School: University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Career after residency: Medicine hospitalist and Peds primary care, San Francisco

Kevin Yang
Medical School: UC San Diego
Career after residency: Palliative care fellowship, UC San Diego

2020

Lauren Covert, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: Georgetown School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship, Duke, North Carolina

Maggie Kozman, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Med/Peds Hospitalist, Harbor-UCLA

Jessica Mattox, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Med/Peds Primary Care, North Carolina

Danielle Munce, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of California, San Diego
Career Following Residency: Chief Resident, UCSD Internal Medicine Residency Program 2020-2021; Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship planned after Chief year

2019

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, MD
Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program
Medical School: University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Career Following Residency: Pediatric Chief Resident 2019-2020, followed by Academic Med/Peds Hospitalist in NY

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

2018

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

2006–2017

 2017

Vishar Amin, MD
Adult Palliative Care Fellowship (UT Southwestern)

Mazen Odish, MD
Adult Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship (UC San Diego)

Caitlin Dockweiler, MD
Adult Allergy & Immunology Fellowship (National Jewish, Denver, CO)

Meghan Garcia, MD
Adult Allergy & Immunology Fellowship (National Jewish, Denver, CO)

2016

Nicole Ayson, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice

Constance Chace, MD
Chief Pediatric Resident (UC San Diego)
Academic Hospital Medicine (UC San Diego)

Mai Duong, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego, CA)

Christina Rukasin, MD
Chief Pediatric Resident (UC San Diego)
Adult Allergy & Immunology Fellowship (Vanderbilt)

2015

Lawrence Ma, MD
Geriatrics Fellowship (Stanford)
Academic Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (UC San Diego)

Diana Moke, MD
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Fellowship (Children's Hospital Los Angeles)

Perrie Pardee, MD
Academic Hospital Medicine (VA San Diego)
Associate Program Director, UC San Diego Medicine/Pediatrics Residency

Vanessa Raabe, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Fellowship (Emory)

2014

John Adams, MD
Underserved Medicine Fellowship (UC San Diego)
Adolescent Medicine Fellowship (Boston Children's)

Shirin Alonzo, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Fellowship (Rady Children's)

Nicole Bendin, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist (Chicago, IL)

Patrick La Rochelle, MD
Samaritan's Purse Medical Mission (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

2013

Eric Chow, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (Honolulu, HI)

Scott Francioni, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (New Orleans, LA)

Katie O'Sullivan, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Endocrinology Fellowship (University of Chicago)

Brian Williams, MD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship (Rady Children's)

2012

Benedict Dillon, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego, CA)

Ricardo Indachochea, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego, CA)

Benjamin Johnson, MD
Internal Medicine Practice (Academic Practice, UC San Diego)

Hannah Walford, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Allergy & Immunology Fellowship (UC San Diego)

2011

Tracy Exley, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego, CA)
Adolescent Medicine Fellowship (Stanford)

Charles Gabbert, MD
Adult Gastroenterology Fellowship (University of Pittsburgh)

Patrick Lew, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist (Portland, OR)

Lauren Worth Gannon, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego, CA)

2010

Brian Frugoni, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship (Rady Children's)

Benjamin Frischhertz, MD
Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship (Baylor University)

Shawna Klinesteker, MD
Medicine/Pediatric Practice (Santa Cruz, CA)

Erin Parise, MD
Medicine/Pediatric Practice (Irvine, CA)

2009

Kathryn Akong, MD
Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship (Rady Children's)

David Hall, MD
Medicine Hospitalist (San Diego, CA)

Suresh Rangarajan, MD
International Medicine (Vietnam)

Benjamin Westley, MD
Adult Infectious Disease Fellowship (Brown)

2008

Caitlin Carter-Wise, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Nephrology Fellowship (UC San Diego)

Victor Ganata, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (Los Angeles, CA)

Rebecca Preziosi, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego)

Norris Vivatrat, MD
Internal Medicine Hospitalist (Santa Clara, CA)
Associate Program Director, Transitional Medicine (Santa Clara Valley Med Center, CA)

2007

Maia Hightower, MD
Internal Medicine Practice (Berkeley, CA)

Casey Moorhart, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (Detroit, MI)

Kamala Randolph, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (Vancouver, WA)

Doris Yung, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Practice (San Diego, CA)

2006

Nicole Fortier, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship (Rady Children's)

Elroy Jan, MD
Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist (Portland, OR)

Ilia Wakeham, MD
Internal Medicine Practice (San Diego, CA)