Notable Alumni
Some of our notable alumni from the residency program have gone on to leadership positions in the Department or at IU School of Medicine (Autopsy Director Dr. Xing Zhang, Vice Chair for Education Dr. Matt Kuhar, Dr. Omer Saeed GI Section Head). Others serve as faculty at Mayo Rochester (Dr. Rumeal Whaley, Head and Neck Pathology Fellowship), Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Dr. Stephanie Kinney, Director of Transfusion Services), the University of Louisville (Dr. Dibson Gondim, Director of Pathology Informatics), Stanford University (Dr. Chia-Sui "Sunny" Kao, Director of Genitourinary Pathology Service and Fellowship), or the Cleveland Clinic (Dr. Sean Williamson, Director of Genitourinary Pathology Service and Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Surgical Pathology). Dr. David Priemer, is Associate Director of the Brain Tissue Repository in the Department of Defense/Uniformed Services University and Dr. Khaleel Al-Obaidy is a Senior Staff Pathologist specializing in GU, Head & Neck, and Molecular Pathology at Henry Ford. He was recently named one of ASCP's 40 under 40. Both are 2019 graduates of the program.
Alumni Placement
Graduates of the IU School of Medicine Pathology and Laboratory Medicine residency program typically go on to advanced subspecialty training in competitive fellowship programs. Explore the post-residency positions of residency graduates by year.
Adeyinka Akinsanya, MBBS — Cytopathology Fellowship (2024-25) and Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship (2025-26), Indiana University School of Medicine
Ahmad Alkashash, MBBCh — Gastrointestinal Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Jaffar Khan, MBBS — Staff Pathologist, Pathology Consultations Inc., Indiana
Yukiko Kitagawa, MD, PhD — NCI/NIH Fellowship, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MD
Jessica Muldoon, MD — Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Ani Toklu, MD — Surgical Pathology Fellowship (2024-25) and Bone and Soft Tissue Fellowship (2025-26), Indiana University School of Medicine
Ravi Tej Bommu, MBBS — Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship, University of Minnesota
Quinn Miller, MD — Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship, University of California, San Diego
Bianca Puello Yocum, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Ahmet Surucu, MD — Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Andrew Tharp, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Sampson Boham, DO — Hematopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Joe Curran, MD — Forensics Fellowship, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Tim Wysozan, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Carlo De la Sancha, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship at UCSF
Rae Dougherty, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship at IU School of Medicine
Nichole LePage, MD —Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Indiana University School of Medicine
Mohammed Saad, MBBS — Cytopathology Fellowship at University of Michigan
Xin Zhang, MD — Forensic Pathology Fellowship Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office
Fatimah Alruwaii, MBBS — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Mohammad Eldomery, MBBCh — Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine
Mohamed Mustafa, MBBS — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Mayo Clinic
Brian Pahn, DO — Hematopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Karen Trevino, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Rumeal Whaley, MD — Head and Neck Pathology Fellowship , Cleveland Clinic
Khaleel Al-Obaidy, MBBS — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Steven Alexander Mann, MD — Genitourinary Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Aaron Phelan, MD — Hematopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Omer Saeed, MBBS — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
David Priemer, MD — Instructor, Autopsy Division, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Laurel Bowen, MD — Pediatric Pathology Fellowship, Children’s Mercy Hospital
Alaleh Esmaeili Shandiz, MD — Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship, Stanford University
Alireza Ghaffarieh, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, University of Southern California
Joseph Marrazzo, MD — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Adam Miller, MD — Hematopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Kristen Partyka, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Zhikai Chi, MD, PhD — Gastrointestinal Fellowship, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Paul Ndekwe, MD — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Natalia Rush, MD — Gastrointestinal Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Rasha Salama, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Euna Choi, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Kurt Fisher, MD, PhD — GI Pathology Fellowship, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Stephanie Kinney, MD — Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, University of Minnesota
Hany Osman, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Justin Richey, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
Christina Cole, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Dibson Gondim, MD — Neuropathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Ashley Ibrahim, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Ted Kieffer, MD — Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Sarah Reuss, MD — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Riley Alexander, MD, MBA — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Joshua Bradish, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, ProPath, Dallas, TX
Ashley Inman, MD — Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Chia-Sui Kao, MD — GU/GYN Pathology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Morgan McCoy, MD, PhD — Microbiology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Lindsay Schelling, MD — Hematopathology Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin
Jihong Sun, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, University of Louisville
Julia Adams, MD — Hematopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Jessica Clevenger, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adam Darnell, MD — GI Pathology Fellowship, AmeriPath GI Institute, Oakwood Village, OH
Ann Marshall, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Sarah Martin, MD — Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Rudy Alvarez, MD — Staff Pathologist, South Texas Health System, McAllen, TX
Joseph Eaton, DO — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Nicole Hubbard, MD — Microbiology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Megan Redelman, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Sean Williamson, MD — GU Pathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Chen Zhang, MB, PhD — Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship, University of Michigan
Jill Ferguson, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Shanon Lacy, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Helena Spartz, MD, PhD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Jonathan Tongson, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Alden Webb, DO — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Maha Al-Khawaja, MD — GI Pathology Fellowship, GI Pathology, Memphis, TN
Andrew Armstrong, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Carrie Cocklin, MD — Staff Pathologist, Summit Urology, Bloomington, IN
Ryan Des Jean, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Michael Morton, MD — Oncologic Surgical Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Matthew Hagan, MD, PhD — Neuropathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Matthew Kuhar, MD — Dermatopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Sarah Lott, MD — Hematopathology Fellowship, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Rebecca Marks, MD — Cytopathology Fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine
Zandra D’Hue, MD — Staff Pathologist, Reid Memorial Hospital, Richmond, IN