Fellowships and Careers:

In the past nine years, 100% of Tulane’s residents seek fellowship training have been placed in a fellowship. Twenty percent of our graduates are hospitalists, and twenty percent are general medicine primary-care physicians. Sixty percent of our residents will pursue fellowship training in some of the best programs around the country. Have a look at the distribution map for fellowship training to see where they go. How do you ensure fellowship placement? As someone who reviews applications each year, let me tell you what it takes to find your fellowship of choice.

First, your application has to be more substantial than your application for residency. Fellowship directors want to know that they will not have to waste time teaching you internal medicine: you should have learned that in residency. Residents who have trained on the wards at our three hospitals easily satisfy this requirement: if you can handle the diversity and volume of patients seen at Charity, you can practice medicine anywhere.

Second, you need to demonstrate that you know, at the very least, the fundamentals of research. Again, the fellowship director does not want to waste time training you in these fundamentals: he or she wants to be able to plug you into a research project from the very beginning of fellowship. Even if a career in research is not in your long-range plans, it is still worth mastering these fundamentals, if only to better appreciate the importance and limitations of medical research. All of our residents will finish with a national presentation or a publication. This is made possible by having enough elective time in all three years to begin a research project (3 months in the intern year, for example). The strength of Tulane’s subspecialty and general internal medicine sections has vastly increased the number of mentors and research opportunities.

Third, most academic fellowships want fellows that have the ability to teach, since this is what makes them exponential. Tulane residents are required to do one teaching assignment each year; most will do three or four. Two-thirds of all preceptors for the first and second year students are Tulane Internal Medicine Residents. Teaching has a just reward for those who engage in it, for it clearly defines the limits of your knowledge. Once defined, and gaps filled in, the teaching resident becomes the stronger clinician.

Finally, you will need two strong advocates when it comes time to make that telephone call to the fellowship director of your chosen program. It will be too little too late if the program director and chairman try to learn your name and everything about you in the ten minutes before that call. Tulane’s greatest strength is in the personal involvement of the chairman and the program director in the residents’ lives from the very beginning of their residency. The program director (or coach, as Dr. Wiese is called) meets with each resident twice a year in addition to the frequent interactions on the wards and in Friday School and about town. The Department Chairman, meets with each resident once a year. Career planning begins from the outset, and this makes all the difference in getting you the fellowship of your choice. There will be many great applicants vying for that position you want; you will need more than just good letters of recommendation, you will need (and frankly, you deserve) a couple of strong advocates who will go to bat for you via that personal phone call. You won’t find this at very many programs, especially those that are monstrous in size; but you will find it at Tulane.




Given the combination of excellent patient experience, a solid curriculum, teaching and research opportunities and a balanced lifestyle, Tulane residents go where they please. Take a look at our resident’s fellowships for the last few years. As you can see, many of our graduates fall in love with New Orleans and remain with the Tulane team for fellowship, but as many choose to branch out to all parts of the country.

Adolescent Medicine Fellowship:
Nicole Mihalopoulos New York University

Allergy and Immunology:
Catherine Cali-Hasset Tulane University
Linda Kim Tulane University
Daniel Soteres Tulane University

Cardiology:
Jonathan Aliota Texas Heart Institute, Houston
Brent Anderson Vanderbilt University
Hunt Anderson George Washington University
Eli Beaty Rush University
Junaid Bhutto, Rush University
Kevin Cartright, Tulane University
Mike Cash Vanderbilt University
Robby Drennan, LSU 
Carrier Eshelbrenner, Univ. Texas- San Antonio
Kevin Holder Oregon Health Sciences
Eric Frischhertz Tulane University
Joan Homan Tulane University
Simonette Jones Ohio State University
Zia Khan, Tulane University
Marielle Lazard University of Florida
Aditya Nadimpalli (Pediatric Cardiology) University of Chicago
Ritchie Pearl Oschner Clinic
Kaveh Sadig, SUNY Upstate
Sairav Shah Tulane University
Waseem Jaffrani Tulane University
Seamus Whelton, Johns Hopkins
Joshua Willis Cleveland Clinic

Endocrinology:
Aubrey Carhill, Baylor University
Emily Chan University of California, Davis

Gastroenterology:
Farshad Aduli Tulane University School of Medicine
Brian Balmadrid Tulane University
Barry Cukor Tulane University
Jake Feagans Miami University
Henry Hefler, Tulane University
Chris Herrington, Tulane University
Cristina Hill Tulane University
John J. Hutchings Tulane University
Brett Hymel, LSU University
Klaus Koebel Tulane University
Sarath Krishnan Tulane University
Martin Moehlen Tulane University
Son Nguyen, Tulane University
Mira Olson Einstein University
Matt Rice, Tulane University
Nathaniel Winstead University of Alabama, Birmingham

General Internal Medicine (Academic Appointments):
Chayan Chakraborti Johns Hopkins
Caroline Christopher Tulane University
Schyuler Demming University of Arkansas
Danielle King NYU
Stanton Lee, Tulane University
John Marker, Tulane University
Brian Rimel, Tulane University
Philip Skelding Tulane University
Ben Springgate Robert-Wood Johnson Fellowship
Thomas Kim Tulane University

General Practice in Internal Medicine:
Gia Agresta Florida
Lakisha Bastain, New Oreleans
Robert Beck, Tennessee
Andrea Beck, Tennessee
Kate Fournier New Orleans
Alegra Venditto Tulane University
Shanta Parulakar North Carolina
Tatiana Pestana Florida
Geraldina Fuentes California
Jermey Dumas New Orleans
Karen Scott New York
John Canterbury Florida
Michele Simoneaux New Orleans
Alegra Venditto Tulane University
Sheryl Young New York City

Hematology / Oncology:
Jodi Layton Brown University
Brain Barnett Tulane University School of Medicine
Brigette Collins-Burrow Tulane University
Joe Fouche, Tulane University
Todd Gourdin, Univ. of Maryland
Trey Hayes UT Southwestern
Nuruddin Jooma Baylor University
Mike Harrison University of Wisconsin
Naomi Horiba Vanderbilt University
Kevin Hude Tulane University
Jens Reuter Tulane University
Sujal Shah Tulane University
Ying Zhuo Tulane University

 

Hospitalists (Academic Appointments)
Chayan Chakraborti Johns Hopkins 
Paul Durick, Tulane University
Marcia Glass Tulane University
Michelle Guidry Tulane University
Amit Kothari, UT Southwestern
Marlow Maylin Tulane University
Chad Miller Tulane University
Alanna Small, Tulane University
David Spruill, Tulane University 
Luis Teixiera, Tulane University

 

Hospitalists: (Practice)

Casey Burgdorf Tulane University
Jade Brice Ochsner Clinic
Marcus Foos Baylor
Jose Gonzalez Florida
Eric Gustafson Tulane University
Todd Kessler San Diego
Bob Kirkaldy Maryland
Cameron Legget San Francisco
George Loukatos Mississippi
Rima Patel, Baltimore
Usha Mandhare Tulane University
David Spruill Tulane University
Christy Valentine Louisiana
Phillip Williams Dallas
Keith Winfrey Mississippi
Arda Yarvak, New Orleans

Infectious Diseases:
Isolde Butler, Tulane University
Emery Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
Monica Dhand, Tulane University
Stacy Greene, LSU
Sarah Moore, Harvard
Obi Nnedu, Univ. of Washington
Jeff Percak, Tulane University 
Lauren Richey, Tulane University
John Schieffelin, LSU
Janine Van Sant, Tulane University
Nick Van Sickles, Tulane University
Kyle Widmer, Vanderbilt University

Information Technology:
David C. Kendrick Harvard University

Nephrology:
Elizabeth Brandt, Univ. North Carolina
Frank Cruz Tulane University
Chukwuma Eze Tulane University
Jumka Gosh Tulane University
Mike Haderlie Vanderbilt University
Ivo Lukitsch Tulane University
Annalisa Perez Tulane University
Fred Teran Tulane University
Herman Toliver, Tulane University
Al Vichot, Tulane University

Pulmonary:
Joe Huang NYU
Bryant Delgado LSU
Steven Davidoff Univ. Texas Southwestern
Mark Hamblin Johns Hopkins
Jeff Kenny U. of Minnesota
Ross Klingsberg Tulane University
Cynthia Crowder Tulane University
Jenny Meyers, Tulane University
David Patton, Tulane University

Radiology/Rad Onc:
Sue Evans (Radiation Oncology) Virginia