Harlem’s CUNY School Of Medicine Achieves Outstanding Residency Placements On Match Day

On Match Day 2024, 55 fourth-year medical students from the CUNY School of Medicine in Harlem achieved remarkable residency placements across 13 specialty areas.

Spanning seven states including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, South Carolina, and Florida. With a 96.5% match rate, CUNY Medicine also continues to surpass national averages, which stood at 93.5% this year.

The specialty areas and number of student matches are Internal Medicine (14), Pediatrics (11), Emergency Medicine (6), Anesthesiology (4), Psychiatry (4), Family Medicine (3), Surgery-Preliminary (3), Obstetrics-Gynecology (2), General Surgery (2), Transitional (2), Orthopaedic Surgery (2), Primary Care Internal Medicine (1), Emergency Medicine-Family Medicine (1). The class also reflected the great diversity that sets CUNY Medicine apart. Among the Match Day students who self-identified by race, 30% are Asian, 28% are Black, 23% are Latinx, and 10% are White. Nationally, nearly 80% of medical students come from the top two income quintiles, and only 10% are Black and 12% are Latinx. 

CUNY Medicine trains one out of every four Black MD students in New York City and we are fifth nationally in producing Black doctors.

“We are a small, compassionate school … changing the face and soul of medicine.”

“Representation matters,” said Dean Carmen Renée Green, MD. “We are a small, compassionate school that has an outsized impact on changing the face and soul of medicine.” CUNY Medicine offers an accelerated 7-year BS/MD degree that relies on a holistic application process and has never used the MCAT in its admission process, an approach that Dean Green credits with achieving the School’s unusually diverse medical student population.

An Emotional, Milestone Moment

Dean Green, MD, kicked off the event with welcome remarks at 11:45 am. “Match Day is the culmination of our students’ intense commitment to their medical education and it is the reward for all of their hard work these past seven years,” she said. “More than ever, we need healers, leaders, and scholars who—like our students—reflect the diversity and lived experiences of the people in our communities and in our country.” She also shared congratulations on behalf of CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos-Rodríguez, PhD, who conveyed “a collective sense of pride in CUNY Medicine’s students, and best wishes for the continued success on their next leg of their professional journey.” The event is available for viewing on the School’s YouTube channel.

Following a dramatic one-minute countdown, at noon—at the same time as all other Match-participants in the U.S.—students opened their gold envelopes to learn where they would be continuing their training. The Faculty Dining Room, where the event was held, erupted in cheers and applause, as students’ family members and friends, along with faculty and advisors, celebrated their achievements and placements. Students were then called up individually to participate in a symbolic tradition of coming up to a map to pin their names to the location where they will serve. National Match Day is observed annually on the third Friday of March.

The Class of 2024 Match Day Students and Their Placements Are:

• Edem Adika: SUNY Downstate, Emergency Medicine
• Anthony John Afif: Mount Sinai Morningside-West, Internal Medicine
• Tayyaba Afzal: Mount Sinai South Nassau, Family Medicine
• Emmanuel Amoateng, Sr.: Northern Westchester Medical Center, Internal Medicine
• Sabrina Ariot: NYP Hospital/Columbia and Cornell, Emergency Medicine
• Michael Andrew Avaricio: Northern Westchester Medical Center, Internal Medicine
• Anika Azam: Cleveland Clinic, Internal Medicine
• Hadi Hasnain Aziz: NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery
• Michael Barsoum: Northern Westchester Medical Center, Internal Medicine
• Jada Bedeau: Jacobi Medical Center, Pediatrics
• Jackee Elizabeth Bustos: Mount Sinai Hospital, Pediatrics
• Stephanie Grace Chain: Northwell North Shore/LIJ, Internal Medicine
• Cameron Chan: Westchester Medical Center, Anesthesiology
• Juliet Chen: Mount Sinai Hospital, Pediatrics
• Hannah Lauren Contreras: Campbell University/Cape Fear, Psychiatry
• Vincent Anthony Cortes: Brookdale University Hospital, Psychiatry
• Dominic Jared Dhaniram: Westchester Medical Center, Surgery-Preliminary
• Genefer Duran Uena: NYP-Columbia University Medical Center, Pediatrics
• Anna Fagbemi: Mount Sinai Hospital, Pediatrics
• Edgy Gernier: Delaware Valley Community Health, Family Medicine
• Farhan Ishtiyak Haque: Northwell North Shore/LIJ, Internal Medicine
• Tyesha Deseree Chanice Irving: NYU Grossman Long Island, Pediatrics
• Leslie-Ann Jerez Gaviria: Lincoln Medical Center, Obstetrics-Gynecology
• Ana Meiling Jimenez: Northwell North Shore/LIJ, Internal Medicine
• Sarah Ann Johnson-Cotes: Duke University Medical Center, Pediatrics
• Katerina Jou: Northwell North Shore/LIJ, General Surgery
• Shivam Kumar Khatri: Northwell North Shore/LIJ, Surgery-Preliminary
• Dona Anna Kiriella: Mount Sinai Morningside-West, Psychiatry
• Serphie LaGuerre: Albany Med Center, Pediatrics
• Kehinde Oluwaseun Lawal: Case Western University Hospital, Pediatrics
• Terry-Ann Lawrence: CarePoint Health/Bayonne, Internal Medicine
• Kayla Lewis: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Emergency Medicine
• Austin Manjila: Montefiore Medical Center/Wakefield, Internal Medicine-Preliminary
• Diana Mathew: Montefiore Medical Center, Internal Medicine
• Eleni McCaffery: NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Emergency Medicine
• Neil Meepagala: St Johns Riverside Hospital, Emergency Medicine
• Ivie Odiase: Mount Sinai Morningside-West, Obstetrics-Gynecology
• Joshua Ogogo: Northwell South Shore Hospital, Anesthesiology
• Claude Parola: Northwell -Hillside, Psychiatry
• Pranav Parsi: Westchester Medical Center, Anesthesiology
• Kush Patel: Northwell Peconic Bay, Transitional
• Justin Persaud: Northern Westchester Medical Center, Internal Medicine
• Terrique Pinnock: Mayo Clinic/Florida, Anesthesiology
• Daniela Pinzon: Northwell Phelps Hosp, Family Medicine
• Mimita Mehreen Rahman: Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital, Internal Medicine
• Akshara Ramakrishnan: Maimonides Med Center, Emergency Medicine
• Leela Rangachar: Yale-New Haven Hospital, Pediatrics
• Tara Ranjbar: Northwell Staten Island University Hospital, General Surgery
• Saud Rehman: Northwell Plainview Hospital, Transitional
• Hector Santiago Reyes: Jefferson Health, Emergency Medicine-Family Medicine
• Gabrielle Rosa Acosta: Northwell Cohen Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics
• Jeremiah Joseph Thomas: Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Orthopaedic Surgery
• Teena Mary Thomas: Montefiore Med Center/Jacobi, Emergency Medicine/Jacobi
• Emely Vasquez: Harlem Hospital, Surgery-Preliminary
• Barbara Williams: Northwell Cohen Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics
• Michael Xerras: Northwell North Shore/LIJ, Internal Medicine

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