Successful Match Day for CMSRU's charter class
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU), the Delaware Valley’s newest medical school, celebrated a successful Match Day for its charter class today. Forty-two graduating medical students were offered residency positons through the National Residency Matching Program; 98 percent will begin those residencies this year. One additional graduating CMSRU student was placed previously through the Military Match.
“Match Day is the culmination of many years of hard work for medical students across the country,” explains Paul Katz, MD, Dean of CMSRU. “As a new medical school we are especially pleased to see the caliber of the institutions where our graduates will begin the next phase of their education. Given the intense competition for residency spots nationally, their results are extraordinary!”
Twenty-two of the 43 students will be entering specialties that comprise primary care medicine: 15 will begin internal medicine residencies; five will start in pediatrics; two in family medicine.
More than one-third of the class will remain in the Delaware Valley region to complete their training, including eight students who matched at Cooper University Hospital in emergency medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, and vascular surgery programs. Students also matched at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Temple University Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and DuPont Children’s Hospital. Nationally, students matched at a range of esteemed programs, including: Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Boston University Medical Center, University of Southern California, UCLA, and Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University.
According to the National Residency Matching Program, which coordinates the matching process, 18,187 U.S. MD-granting medical school seniors and 35,476 total applicants vied for 27,860 residency positions at institutions across the country.
Results of CMSRU's inaugural match are below.
| Jenny Akpe | Jamaica Hospital Medical Center; Jamaica, NY |
Obstetrics/Gynecology |
| Jordan Barger | Children's National Medical Center; Washington, DC |
Pediatrics - Primary/Community Health |
| Cristian Barrios | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Internal Medicine |
| Ryan Belecanech | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Pittsburgh, PA |
Internal Medicine |
| Jennifer Bleznak | Jefferson Medical College/DuPont Children's Hospital; Philadelphia, PA |
Pediatrics |
| Michelle Breda | Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University; Providence, RI | Medicine-Primary Care |
| Gita Byraiah | University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN | Obstetrics/Gynecology |
| Gwen Caffrey | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Lebanon, NH |
Internal Medicine |
| Holly Caten | Boston University Medical Center; Boston, MA |
Otolaryngology |
| Abhimanu Chandel | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; Washington, DC | Internal Medicine |
| Gabriela Chaviano | Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; New Brunswick, NJ | Internal Medicine |
| Michael Coletta | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Emergency Medicine |
| Nicole Diaz-Segarra | Lehigh Valley Hospital; Allentown, PA |
Transitional |
| Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School; New Brunswick, NJ |
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | |
| Daniel Eisman | New York Medical Center-Westchester Medical Center; Valhalla, NY |
Medicine Preliminary |
| Hofstra NSLIJ SOM-Staten Island University; New York, NY |
Diagnostic Radiology | |
| Sherri English | Resurrection Health; Memphis, TN |
Family Medicine |
| Lena Fan | Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University; Providence, RI | Internal Medicine |
| Marci Fornari | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, PA |
Pediatrics |
| Denise Garcia | Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, SC |
General Surgery |
| Robert Goldberg | University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA |
Thoracic Surgery |
| Kathryn Gussman | Loma Linda University; Loma Linda, CA |
Emergency Medicine |
| Imoh Ikpot | Ohio State University Medical Center; Columbus, OH |
Anesthesiology |
| Heaton Kath | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Internal Medicine |
| Cynthia Kroll | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Internal Medicine |
| Rebecca Lee | Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; New Brunswick, NJ | Internal Medicine |
| Daniel Lefler | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA |
Internal Medicine |
| J.C. Lopez | Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Torrance, CA |
Family Medicine |
| Amanda McCarthy | Jefferson Medical College/DuPont Children’s Hospital; Philadelphia, PA |
Pediatrics |
| Brian McCauley | Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University; Providence, RI | Medicine-Primary Care |
| Erin McIntosh | St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center; Boston, MA |
General Surgery |
| Katherine McMackin | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Vascular Surgery |
| Atlee Melillo | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
General Surgery |
| Jacqueline Park | Stony Brook Teaching Hospitals; Stony Brook, NY |
Internal Medicine |
| Yash Patel | Temple University Hospital; Philadelphia, PA |
General Surgery |
| Brittany Scarpato | Boston University Medical Center; Boston, MA |
Internal Medicine |
| Erica Schramm | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Emergency Medicine |
| Gururaj Shan | SUNY Health Science Center; Brooklyn, NY |
Emergency Medicine |
| Etty Sims | Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School; Newark, NJ |
Pediatrics-Preliminary |
| Thomas Jefferson University; Philadelphia, PA |
Anesthesiology | |
| James Stefano | Temple University Hospital; Philadelphia, PA |
Internal Medicine |
| Stephanie Stoneback | St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children; Philadelphia, PA | Pediatrics |
| Susan Talamini | University of Illinois College of Medicine; Chicago, IL |
Urology |
| Martin Weaver | Cooper University Hospital; Camden, NJ |
Medicine-Preliminary |
| Jackson Memorial Hospital; Miami, FL |
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | |
| Sara Zaidi | New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia & Cornell; New York, NY |
Emergency Medicine |