Payal Ahuja, PGY 3
Hometown: Delhi, India
Education & Training:  Kasturba Medical School, Manglore

Why I chose MetroHealth: It had friendly people with a good learning environment

Professional Interests: OB/women’s health

Hobbies/Interests:  cooking, fine dining, spending time with family and friends

Jeff Brown, PGY 3
Hometown: Sharon, Massachusetts
Education & Training: University of New England 

Why I chose MetroHealth: It offered an incredible variety and volume of pathology, while having the feel of a very family oriented, nurturing environment.  I was right on both accounts

Professional Interests:  Resident Teaching, Narrative Medicine, Patient Education, Cardiology, Child Life

Hobbies/Interests:  Playing with my family, Golf, Cooking, Wine, Writing, Canada

Amer G. Haddad, PGY 3
Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon 
Education & Training: University of Balamand/St. George

Why I chose Metro Hospital: My goal was to work with underserved patients. Metro is a great place to get a full family medicine experience both in-patient and out-patient.

Professional Interests: Public health and community medicine

Hobbies/Interests: dining out, movies, reading, TV series, hiking, traveling

Geetu Pahlajani, PGY 3
Hometown: Raipur, India
Education & Training: Pt. JNM Medical College

Why I chose MetroHealth: It’s a friendly and educative environment, with excellent teaching staff and diversity

Professional Interests: women’s health, urgent care

Hobbies/Interests: reading, traveling, music

Tanvir Singh, PGY 3
Hometown: Malout, Punjab, India
Education & Training: Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India

Why I chose MetroHealth: It provides an intensive residency training (which prepares you well for the future) and serving the under-served patient population, has an excellent EMR system, and Cleveland gives a good feel for both big city and small town environment

Professional Interests: chronic disease management, urgent care

Hobbies/Interests: Listening to good old punjabi folk music, movies, eating, making plans to learn new languages (I hope to learn Spanish — which will help both personally and professionally)

Nish Sooriyapalan, PGY 3
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Education & Training: Saba University School of Medicine

Why I chose MetroHealth: It provided both inpatient and outpatient exposure, and I could never find a more friendly and educative environment than what was offered at Metro. 

Professional Interests: urgent care, rural medicine, teaching

Hobbies/Interests: traveling, watching movies, spending time with family & friends, and writing novels.

Xiaozhou Sher Tang, PGY3
Hometown: Canton, China
Education & Training: Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences

Why I chose MetroHealth: It’s a great hospital with a good reputation in terms of patient care.
Professional Interests: sports medicine
Hobbies/Interests: cooking, swimming

Dipali Desai, PGY2
Hometown: Surat, India
Education & Training: Government Medical College of India

Why I chose MetroHealth: It had outstanding and very friendly faculty members, thorough and broad base patient care experience and close proximity to my family. Cleveland, the city itself has a lot to give including art/culture, Metroparks, water sports and variety of restaurants.

Professional Interests: continuity of care, OB, newborn care, research in women’s health

Hobbies/Interests: dancing, art/drama, travelling, singing

Minal Patil- Desai, PGY 2
Hometown: Karad, India
Education & Training: D Y Patil Medical College, Kolhapur

Why I chose MetroHealth: It provided a good work environment, great learning opportunities, dedication and enthusiasm of the program director, excellent faculty members who are easily approachable and genuinely concerned about the welfare of every resident, friendly administrative staff; and most important was, multi-ethnic, diverse patient population where residents are prepared for whomever and whatever walks through the door.

Professional Interests: Full spectrum family medicine, geriatrics, pediatric

Hobbies/Interests: Cooking, Music and travelling

Kristen M. Haase, PGY 2
Hometown: Mentor, Ohio
Education & Training: Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Why I chose MetroHealth: It offers a high volume, diverse population with great attendings who provide a nurturing and educational learning environment.

Professional Interests: Pediatric, OB, nutritional, geriatric and preventative medicine.

Hobbies/Interests: Yoga, coffee, art, reading, cooking, and spending time with my family.

Asritha Pulimi, PGY 2
Education & Training: PES Institute of Medical Sciences, Kuppam

Why I chose MetroHealth: It has a great blend of excellent faculty, wonderful work environment, and great exposure to a variety of patient population and disease conditions, which is challenging as well as a great learning experience.

Professional Interests: primary care

Hobbies/Interests: volunteering, traveling, spending time with family, dancing, and badminton

Fnu Rajesh, PGY 2
Hometown: India
Education & Training: Government Medical College, Thirovanantaporam

Why I chose MetroHealth:  It has the greatest bunch of people I have ever met.

Interests/Hobbies:  Ping Pong

Ramya M Sarva, PGY2
Hometown: India
Education and Training:  Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad, India

Why I chose MetroHealth:  It provided extensive primary care exposure and reasonable in-patient exposure, with balanced professional and personal life and supportive co-residents and faculty.

Professional Interests: Inpatient care

Interests/Hobbies: Listening to music and watching movies