Pediatrics Residency Graduates

Our Goal: 100% Board Pass Rate

Our graduates have done quite well on the American Board of Pediatrics Certifying Examination. Two years ago, we started an initiative to bring our pass rate to 100%—integrating PREP questions in Morning Report and all subspecialty rotations, Faculty Board Review monthly, Intensive Board Review with Chief Residents 1 day a week from January through June. We also offer an Intensive Individualized Study Plans for at-risk residents.

Our Grads Successfully Obtain Fellowships of Their Choice

About half of our graduates go on to fellowship training in a pediatric subspecialty, and half go into general pediatrics practice, although this varies year-to-year.

In the last 20 years, our graduates have entered fellowships at institutions such as Boston University, Children’s Hospital Boston, Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Duke University, Johns Hopkins, MGH, Pittsburgh, UC San Diego, University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Yale, in subspecialties from Alternative and Complementary Medicine to Critical Care, from Neonatology to Sports Medicine, from Emergency Medicine to Hematology/Oncology.

Adolescent Medicine

  • University of Rochester, NY
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Indiana University
  • Boston Children's Hospital

Allergy-Immunology

  • Montreal Children's
  • University of Michigan
  • Baylor
  • Yale School of Medicine
  • University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Alternative and Complementary Medicine

  • University of Arizona

Cardiology

  • Advocate Children's Hospital, Chicago
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  • Seattle Children's Hospital
  • UCLA
  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

Critical Care

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Milwaukee Children's Hospital
  • University of California San Diego
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Virginia
  • Vancouver Children's Hospital
  • Yale University

Emergency Medicine

  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Baystate Medical Center
  • Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at UPMC
  • University of Calgary
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Oklahoma - OU Children's

Endocrinology

  • Baystate Medical Center
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Pittsburgh Children's Hospital
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • Yale University

Gastroenterology

  • Hasbro Children's Hospital (Brown)
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Utah Children's Hospital

 

 

 

Genetics

  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  • Duke University
  • Hematology-Oncology
  • Maria Fareri Children's Hospital
  • New York University
  • Penn State, Hershey, PA
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  • Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of North Carolina
  • Yale University

Infectious Diseases

  • Boston University
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • DC Children's Hospital
  • University of Massachusetts
  • Vanderbilt University

Neonatology

  • Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Brown University
  • Maria Fareri Children's Hospital
  • Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
  • Tufts Medical Center
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Rochester, NY

Neurology

  • Boston Children's
  • Boston University
  • Massachusetts General Hospital

Neuro-disabilities

  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Johns Hopkins

Palliative Care

  • Seattle Children's Hospital

Pulmonology

  • Boston Children's
  • Massachusetts General Hospital

Rheumatology

  • Duke University

Sports Medicine

  • Maine-Dartmouth
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of North Carolina, Greensboro
 
 

Our Graduates From the Last Five Years

See what our graduates from the past 5 years have gone on to do immediately post-grad:

2025

Veronica Andrade, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Chief Resident, UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate

Shelby Burton, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Inpatient Hospital Medicine, CHOP

Jason Cooper, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, Nemours Children's Health

Pooja Dahiya, MD
Post-Graduate Position: General Pediatrician, New Jersey

Ashley Kenyon, DO
Post-Graduate Position: General Pediatrician, South Shore

Deaven Theriault, DO
Post-Graduate Position: General Pediatrician, Pediatric Services of Springfield

Rebekka Vogelgsang, MD
Post-Graduate Position: NDD Residency, Boston Children's Hospital

Mollie Wald, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, Weill Cornell Medical Center

2024

Taylor Bates, DO 
Post-Graduate Position: Pedi Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA

Ahuva Brown, MD 
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Community Hospitalist, Wentworth-Douglas Hospital, Dover, NH

Maeka De La Torre, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Development-Behavioral Peds Fellowship, Brown University/RI Hospital, Providence, RI

Jessica Leung, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York

Matthew Richard Linnehan, MD
Post-Graduate Position: NDD fellowship, Boston Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA

Shatabdi Saha Pinky, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Private practice pediatrician, Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Wilbraham, MA

Elisabeth Romero, MD
Post-Graduate Position: NICU Fellowship, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Natasha Thiagalingam, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Chief Resident, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 

Jonathan Twiggs, DO 
Post-Graduate Position: Hospital Medicine Baystate Medical Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Springfield, MA, Poughkeesie, NY

Stephanie Vogel, DO 
Post-Graduate Position: Private practice pediatrician, Anchor Medical Pediatrics, Lincoln, RI

Stephanie Hibbard, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Private practice Pediatrician, Pioneer Valley Pediatrics, Longmeadow, MA

Peter Morton, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Hospital Medicine, CHOP, Philadelphia, PA

2023

Quinn Asher, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Hospital Medicine, Boston Childrens, Boston, MA

Nabeel Hashmi, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Fellowship Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Jixi Lucy He, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Ridgecrest

Stephanie Hibbard, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Chief Resident, UMass Chan - Baystate, Springfield, MA 

Hannah Pagelson, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Clarksville, TN

Cassandra Perry, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Cape Cod, MA

Stephen Vorenberg, DO<
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Bowdoin Street Health Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Zoë Warczak, MD  
Post-Graduate Position: Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Residency/Fellowship, UMass Chan - Worcester, Worcester, MA

Cason Wortley, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, North Logan, UT

Camille Audette, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Fellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine UMass Chan - Worcester, Worcester, MA

Marina Girgis, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Winnipeg, Canada

2022

Camille Audette, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident, Pediatrics Residency, UMass Chan-Baystate

Marina Girgis, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident, Pediatrics Residency, UMass Chan-Baystate

Kelly Hess, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Newborn Hospitalist, Oishei Children's Hospital

Filza Kaukab, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Outpatient private practice

Rajapillai Pillai, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency, Boston Children's Hospital

Chad Surber, MD
Post-Graduate Position: General Pediatrician - outpatient clinic, nursery and Inpatient Attending with a Family Medicine Residency, Arrow Regional Medical Center

Jeffrey Walbridge, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Newborn Hospitalist, Cambridge Hospital/Beth Israel

Mary Zabinski, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship, Albany Medical Center

Yifeng Zhang, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pedi Nephrology Fellowship, UPMC Medical Education

Richard Zheng, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Sleep Medicine Fellowship, Hospital of the Univ of PA/CHOP

2021

Molly Cain, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Massachusetts

Amara S. Danielczok, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Grzegorz Danielczok, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Atlanta, Georgia

Shauna E. Ejthehadi, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Sheridan, Wyoming

Emma Howard-Young, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident, UMMS-Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts

Cristina Miesch, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Birmingham, Alabama

Brienna G. Miller, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Denver, Colorado

Renee Robilliard, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident, UMMS-Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts

Samantha Roberge, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Daniel Winters, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatrician, Private Practice, Longmeadow, MA/Enfield, CT

Edward M. Zitnik, DO
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

2020

Maria Amira Covington, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Private Practice, Columbia Medical Center, Hudson and Catskill, NY

Elaine Mengchen Fan, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, Primary Children’s Hospital/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Timothy Grimes Kita, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ

Laura G. Lee, DO, MS
Post-Graduate Position: Private Practice, Kennebec Pediatrics, Augusta, ME

Marcus Daniel Neafsey, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Private Practice, MV Pediatrics, Quincy, MA

Samantha Haggerty Roberge, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident at UMMS-Baystate UMMS-Baystate Springfield, MA

Chandrika Sridharamurthy, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Private Practice, NYP-Cornell, New York City, NY

Daniel Laurence Winters, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Chief Resident, UMMS-Baystate, Springfield, MA

Rifat Ara Zaman, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Hospitalist, Exeter Hospital/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Exeter NH/Boston MA

Veronica Camacho Alix, MD
Post-Graduate Position: General Pediatrics, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan

Taylor Koerner, MD
Post-Graduate Position: Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, McGovern Medical School at UT Health, Houston, TX

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