Current and Past Fellows

2023 GI Fellows
 
CURRENT FELLOWS

 

 Kara Ashby

Kara Ashby, MD
First Year Fellow
Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine
Residency: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Program

Research Projects:  Does Elevated Procalcitonin, ESR and CRP Correlate with Disease Activity as Assessed by Endoscopic and Pathologic Findings in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients? 

Daniel Zhaostein

Daniel Zhaostein MD
Second Year Fellow
Medical School: Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Residency: Westchester Medical Center

Research Projects:  Degree of Response to Proton Pump Inhibitors by Esophageal Level in Children with  Eosinophilic Esophagitis 

 

Anisha Mohandas

 

Anisha Mohandas, MD
Third Year Fellow
Medical School: St. Matthew's University
Residency: Broward Health Medical Center

Research Projects: Biochemical Markers Associated with NAFLD and Depression

Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit


FORMER FELLOWS

Our fellowship prepares fellows to successfully start careers in academic medicine, private practice and entrepreneurship. Our former fellows have gone on to successful careers. 

Mila Tempel, DO 2011 Brooklyn Gastroenterology & Endoscopy, NY
Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Julie Khlevner, MD 2012  New York Presbyterian, NY,
Director of Intestinal Motility
Rebecca Abell, DO 2013  Golisano’s Children’s Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY
Fellowship Program Director
Sameer Lapsia, MD 2014  Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, VA
Assistant Professor 
Michelle Tobin, MD 2015  Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, NY
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
James Brief, MD 2016 Industry, Foodmarble, Inc., IRE
Building breath analyzer that shows what foods are causing your indigestion
Denease Francis, MD 2017 El Paso Children’s Hospital, TX
Assistant Professor
Sherin Daniel, MD 2018  Northwell Health, Staten Island University Hospital, NY
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Narendra Yallanki, MD 2019 Palmetto Health- USC- Prisma Health Children’s Hospital, SC
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Ada Lee, DO 2020 

Stony Brook Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Alexander Schosheim, MD 2021

RWJ Barnabas Health, NJ
Pediatric Gastroenterologist

Ashwin Agrawal, DO, MA 2022

RWJ Barnabas Health, NJ
Pediatric Gastroenterologist

Sameer Imdad, MD 2023

Akron Children's Hospital, Akron OH
Assistant Professor