PGY-1
Name: Ariana Adnani
College: BA, Public Health, University of California-Irvine
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Bio: Ariana has had deep involvement with Stand Up for Kids, a nonprofit organization committed to helping vulnerable youth access safe housing, education, employment, and social support. Over the years, she has actively contributed to both the Orange County and Washington, D.C. chapters, working directly with young people in need and championing efforts to improve their well-being. Ariana actively participated in the Health Policy Scholarly Concentration, leadership in the Health Policy Student Forum, and enrolled in the highly regarded Residency Fellowship in Health Policy Program. She played a key role in developing an online platform designed to help children with ADHD enhance their organizational and time management skills, bridging the gap between psychiatry and education. Additionally, she contributed to the expansion of PsychEd, an interactive educational tool that enhances medical students’ understanding of psychiatry through historical case-based learning.
Hobbies: She enjoys skiing, hiking, spin class, and frequenting museums. She loves to travel, and enjoyed the memorable experience of attending the 2024 Olympic games in Paris this past summer. It is her personal goal to learn a new language this year, and she has begun practicing her Spanish on Duolingo.
College: BS, Chemistry, MB3 Minor in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Towson University
Medical School: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Bio: Garrett is deeply committed to youth and community service. As head basketball coach at the Scranton Jewish Community Center, he has provided high school students with a valuable athletic outlet, fostering their physical and emotional well-being. His dedication to education is evident in his tutoring roles at Towson University and with America Counts, where he supported underserved middle school students in Baltimore. As President of NAMI Scranton, he led education, advocacy, and resource initiatives to support individuals with mental illness and their families. Additionally, through a health outreach initiative, he delivered workshops introducing low-income and first-generation students to careers in health science. His involvement with the Fresh Food Farmacy program further reflects his problem-solving skills and empathy, as he helped provide groceries for patients with diabetes and their households, along with nutrition education to promote improved health outcomes. He also contributed to building personal shopping carts to assist families facing transportation barriers. He is a recipient of the Gold Humanism Award and the Excellence in Medical Student Wellness Award.
Hobbies: He enjoys running, hiking, and playing chess. Basketball has always been his passion, both as a player and a coach. He continues to advance his American Sign Language skills while learning Haitian Creole.
College: BS, Psychology, University of Miami
Medical School: Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Bio: Caile earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Miami in 2019, where she was inducted into both Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society and Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. She received her medical degree from Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in 2025. During medical school, Caile excelled in her pediatric acting internship at the top-ranked children's hospital in New Jersey, where she took on advanced responsibilities and served as the primary contact for the care of acutely ill children. Her passion for serving vulnerable populations was evident in her work with CarePlus New Jersey, facilitating supervised visits for children and families in the foster care system. She also contributed to research through an Artificial Intelligence Bioethics Lab, where she examined the ethical implications and applications of AI in healthcare, and participated in the SHINE program, which studied the relationships among resilience, trauma, and health outcomes in women living with HIV. Caile has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to community service through her role as an EMT with the Township of Washington Volunteer Ambulance Corps, as well as her ongoing involvement in the Human Dimension Voices Program, supporting elderly and underserved individuals.
Hobbies: A former New Jersey state champion swimmer and Water Safety Instructor for over a decade, Caile enjoys any activity involving water or the beach. She also loves building Legos, reading fantasy novels, and diving into her special interests in space and history. In college, she played Quadball (formerly known as Quidditch).
Clinical Interests: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mind-Body Connection and Mindfulness, Health Policy, Addiction Psychiatry
College: BA, Biology, Neuroscience, and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bio: During medical school, she held leadership roles as Community Chair of the Einstein Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Association and as Co-President of the Einstein Psychiatry Club, experiences that deepened her commitment to community engagement and mental health advocacy. She also provided clinical care to uninsured patients at the Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO) Free Clinic, where she also mentored premedical and medical students in patient advocacy and the social determinants of health. Nadine has a strong foundation in bioethics and qualitative research and is currently conducting research on the impact of long-term incarceration on post-incarceration adjustment and adaptation. Her academic and clinical interests are grounded in a deep curiosity about narrative, meaning-making, and a life well-lived. She has pursued additional coursework in philosophy and ethics, participated in psychoanalysis reading groups, and is a longtime fan of stand-up comedy, autobiographies, and shows like The Wire.
Hobbies: Outside of medicine, she enjoys long walks, baking, and has recently rediscovered a love for Legos, often building large floral designs as whimsical home décor.
College: BS, Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience, University of Michigan
Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Bio: Sydney grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout college and medical school, her involvement has consistently centered on service, education, and advocacy. Before medical school, she taught history at an underserved high school in Boston and assisted with the transition to online learning during the pandemic. In medical school, she continued her passion for teaching through JeffTEACH, where she volunteered and later served as President, developing weekly science lessons for middle school students and expanding the program’s outreach to additional local schools. She also served as a peer mentor to incoming medical students and organized journal clubs through the Hobart Armory Hare Medical Honor Society. As a dedicated volunteer with JeffHOPE, a student-run clinic serving unhoused individuals in Philadelphia, she provided direct patient care and helped lead the Kids’ Committee, offering emotional and social support to children at the shelter. After witnessing health disparities among incarcerated youth while volunteering at a juvenile detention center in Michigan, she co-founded the Justice for the Incarcerated Collective at Jefferson—a student initiative focused on educating future physicians about incarceration-related health inequities. Her research interests also reflect her commitment to advocacy, spanning a thesis on mental health initiatives for college students and the development of a curriculum to help medical students address vaccine hesitancy.
Hobbies: Sydney enjoys creative expression through mixed-media art, with her work selected annually for publication in Inside Out, Jefferson’s art magazine. She also loves exploring the city on walks with friends, trying new restaurants, practicing yoga, and attending live music events.
Clinical interests: Child and adolescent psychiatry, women’s mental health, addiction psychiatry
College: BS, Nutrition Science, North Carolina State University
Medical School: The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Bio: Krupa’s commitment to service, advocacy, and mental health equity has been a defining part of her academic and professional journey. As a Tiana Nicole Endowment Scholar, she partnered with the Links program at the Department of Social Services to lead workshops on interpersonal violence prevention for children in the foster care system. This experience deepened her dedication to providing trauma-informed, community-centered mental health care. She values approaching community engagement with humility to better understand and support the lived experiences of those she serves. Her interest in reproductive psychiatry and global mental health has been shaped by both research and community-based initiatives, including a focused research project on perinatal health disparities within Native communities. At the Marcé of North America 2023 Conference, Krupa served as a pre-conference speaker and co-led a workshop exploring how language and visual communication can act as barriers to inclusive practice in perinatal mental health. She is drawn to psychiatry for its capacity to foster resilience and healing through both therapeutic and pharmacologic approaches, and for its exploration of the emotional, behavioral, and relational forces that shape who we are.
Hobbies: Hosting family and friends, propagating plants, practicing yoga, traveling, cooking, and baking.
College: BSA, Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio: Hassan has been driven primarily by his never-ending curiosity. Throughout undergraduate school he took classes in Psychology, Physics, Islamic Studies, and Chemistry before finally settling on a Biology degree with the intention of entering the world of medicine. His curiosity contributed to his eventual graduation from medical school with distinction. He used this curiosity and academic knowledge to fulfill his other love: teaching. He has taught different areas of the sciences/medicine tailoring to each student’s learning style. Hassan aims to shape medical education by helping students better understand the fundamental principles of medicine and the proper use of AI in medicine. He believes his multicultural/multigeographical/working-class upbringing provides him a broad perspective in reaching people of all backgrounds.
Hobbies: He enjoys playing a wide array of video games (Playstation and PC); primarily focused on storytelling and/or team-based gameplay. He has played basketball since he was 10 and loves to play point-guard. He is a self-proclaimed foodie and loves to try all types of cuisines (Indian and Chinese being top of the list). Most of all, he loves spending time with family, friends, his partner, and his sassy cat, Maci.
PGY-2
Name: Alan Chajet
College: BS, Integrative Neuroscience, SUNY Binghamton
Medical School: State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
Bio: Alan has committed himself to service throughout his academic and professional career holding several volunteer positions that have richly contributed to the transferable skill sets required to successfully work within a patient-centered model; with experiences ranging from providing company and care to those at the end of life, to serving as a volunteer EMT-B and Ambulance Dispatcher, he finds motivation in the opportunities that affirm his ability to positively impact another's life. Alan’s appreciation for diversity of identity and thought was founded in his experience of attending Argentinian Saturday School from pre-K through grade 12. By way of this experience, Alan was able to connect with his family's home culture and language, later becoming an invaluable asset to him when connecting and communicating with his patients during his third year of medical school. On several occasions he was the only person on service who was readily able to translate for his patients.
Hobbies: Alan has swum competitively and enjoys playing basketball. He is a lifelong consumer of anything sci-fi, fantasy, or anime and is also a budding fan of horror but he also loves audio-theater horror podcasts. If he’s not listening to a podcast, he’s probably listening to hip-hop or reggaetón.
Name: Zachary Cohen
College: BA, Liberal Arts, St. John’s College
Medical School:
Bio: His undergraduate background was in the humanities. He completed a post-baccalaureate in pre-medicine at the George Washington University and will be soon graduating from the George Washington University of School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Zach believes that being an effective communicator is absolutely central to being a good doctor and has helped shape how he approaches the world and present himself to it. He has led small group discussions for first year medical students focused on the ethics and responsibilities of physicians. Zach’s hard work on his research project comparing treatments of patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome underscored how critical the process of clinical medical research is in expanding and improving current practice standards and how the standard of care is laid out.
Hobbies: Zach has engaged in competitive soccer and has played the violin since the age of five. He loves listening to music and reading. Zach picked up dancing in college and particularly enjoyed swing dancing and was the waltz club president. After graduating, he continued to dance, though more casually and would go out as much as with friends as their schedules would allow in dance events. If you haven’t tried it, Zach highly recommends it!
Name: Jabbarrius Ervin
College: BS, Chemistry, College of Charleston
Medical School: University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville
Bio: He has consistently demonstrated his passion for diversity, inclusion, and representation through various initiatives. He has actively participated in organizations promoting the success, connection, and enrollment of minority students during his undergraduate and medical school years, primarily through mentoring. His dedication to aiding others in their pursuit of objectives is apparent in his volunteer work and mentorship, including his role as a transition coach for Student Ambassadors at College of Charleston and Legacy Early College in Greenville, SC. He has displayed his leadership skills through numerous roles on executive boards and committees. In these positions, which include treasurer, secretary, vice president, and general board member, he also met the demands of a rigorous education. He has served as a Dean’s Ambassador as a member on the Admissions Evaluation Committee at USCSOM Greenville.
Hobbies: He is a first-generation college graduate. Jabbarrius loves spending time with friends and loved ones. He enjoys watching TV, movies, music, social media and most recently podcast. He also has developed a keen interest in meditation and hot yoga.
Name: Danielle Healey
College: BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rhodes College
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio: Danielle was the recipient of The Presidential Scholarship and Summit Scholarship for academic excellence. Danielle’s commitment to community service and advocacy is remarkable and speaks to her broad leadership and impressive skill set in working with different patient populations. She has served as a peer mentor to classmates and helped to train academic faculty in peer coaching and supporting medical students. She has worked as a community outreach coordinator and helped organize events promoting sexual education and reproductive social justice for disempowered and underserved communities. Danielle prides herself on connecting and communicating well with the people she serves. She has served as a student interviewer at George Washington for applicants to the medical school.
Hobbies: She plays video games competitively and is ranked Masters in the League of Legends which equates to the top 0.5%. She enjoys painting and drawing with acrylic paint, watercolor, pencil, and charcoal. She also enjoys hiking waterfalls and forest trails in Oregon, cooking Indian food and trying new recipes and collects fossils. She is a foodie who loves to discover new restaurants and is an avid traveler having visited over 30 countries.
Name: Yumin Kim
College: BA, Biology and Music, University of Virginia
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio: Yumin Kim will soon be graduating from the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences where she was inducted to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society and was a recipient of the Health Services Scholarship at GW. Yumin embraces active listening and therapeutic alliance formation as key to deliver effective, respectful care. As lead scribe in a large urban ER prior to medical school and as student leader within GW’s student run healthcare clinic for underserved communities facing substance use disorders and sex work related healthcare needs, she has witnessed the power of effective listening and trust-building to improve health outcomes. She hopes to pursue a career committed to serving these communities as a physician. She currently provides mentoring and peer-to-peer support for third year medical students throughout their core clinical rotations as a service offered by the Office of Student Support at her medical school.
Hobbies: A trained violist and former music major in college, she hopes to leverage her own varied interests and talents when caring for her future patients in a respectful, collaborative, whole-person care approach. She enjoys playing the viola and piano, being a foodie, continuing to improve her poker game, working out at Orange Theory, hanging out with her dog, and tending to her indoor plants.
Name: Shelby Warren
College: BA, Spanish and BS, Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior, University of California, Davis
Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Bio: Shelby Warren graduated from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She was part of her medical school's PRIME-Health Equity dual degree track and completed a Master’s of Science in Health Care Management from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She is passionate about advocating for underrepresented populations, for equity health access and delivery and for parity for mental health services. Over the years she has volunteered and led in many capacities to promote social justice, including harm reduction work, working in free medical clinics and leading justice and wellbeing focused advocacy groups. She was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She is certified as a medical Spanish interpreter.
Hobbies: Shelby enjoys sports, travelling, art, and dance.
PGY-3
College: BS, Biological Sciences, The Tuskegee University
Medical School: Howard University School of Medicine
Bio: Amari demonstrated a continued commitment to service through his extensive volunteerism while at Howard. Most notably, at the Adams Place Men’s Homeless Shelter (which offers a hot dinner and beds to the underserved community), he ultimately became a student liaison where he managed schedules and coordinated volunteers for different events. Amari is committed to mentorship and enabling exposure to the field of medicine to underrepresented and underserved students. As a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, he has consistently served as a mentor and provided leadership to disadvantaged black male youths throughout the Atlanta and D.C. metropolitan areas.
Hobbies: Cross-platform video games, with his favorite being Apex legends, where he is currently ranked Platinum on the global servers; Shonen manga, anime, and reading comic books
Name: John Clark
College: BA, Psychology, New York University
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio: John Clark is currently a PGY-1 in the Tri-County Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Psychiatry Residency Training Program and will be joining us as a PGY-2 in July 2024. He completed a Post-Baccalaureate in the Premedical Program at Scripps College. John articulates a longstanding fascination with the human mind, its ability to cope and manage grief, and the pathologies that can disturb these processes. He served as the President of the Psychiatry Interest Group and Associate Editor for Capital Psychiatry, the e-magazine of the Washington Psychiatric Society. He organized speakers and presentations for students interested in psychiatry during the Covid-19 pandemic. John’s first dream was to become a guitarist like Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. His aspirations shifted towards medicine as he continued to write his own songs and even recorded a short album.
Hobbies: He enjoys reading, basketball, reading and writing poetry and video games.
Name: Gary Hovsepian [he/him]
College: BS, Biology, The George Washington University
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio: Gary prides himself on connecting and communicating well with the people he serves through his experiences working in retail, providing comfort to inpatient hospice patients, engaging in ethnic communities, tutoring, and mentoring. Through Gary’s Armenian heritage and experiences with the greater Armenian community, he has gained an appreciation for the unique medical needs and considerations of subpopulations of ethnic minorities. He strives to apply his insights in his future work to provide culturally sensitive, patient centered care.
Hobbies: Plant propagation, beginner ukuleleist, 10+ guitarist, weight training, meditation, language learning, avid manga reader
Clinical Interests: Neuromodulation
Name: Benjamin McMahon [he/him]
College: BS, Biology; BA, History, University of Florida
Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine
Bio: Ben, raised in Tallahassee, FL, holds dual bachelor's degrees in Biology and History from the University of Florida, with a focus on disability studies and Holocaust history. His noteworthy research on the experimental transmissibility of ALS at the Borchelt Laboratory secured a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, leading to clinical research on neurotoxicity models of Huntington’s disease in Berlin, Germany at Charité Hospital. He then joined the National Institutes of Health for a two-year stint studying the clinical relationship between Gaucher disease and Parkinson’s disease before heading back down south to join his twin sister in New Orleans to attend Tulane School of Medicine. While at Tulane, Ben was the executive coordinator for the Compassion Prison Project, a grassroots organization dedicated to establishing trauma-informed connections between ambassadors and individuals who are incarcerated. He was also awarded the Tulane Klingenstein Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship prior to hosting a workshop at international conferences titled A National State of Emergency in Children’s Mental Health: Now What? A Practical Guide on Advocacy. In addition to his rigorous residency training, Ben is pursuing his MBA through the GW School of Business
Hobbies: Running, amateur woodworking, evening walks, talking with friends, learning American Sign Language from his sister, and fishing with his dad
Clinical Interests: Forensic psychiatry, private practice, and adolescent psychiatry
Name: Justin Sevier [he/him]
College: BA, Spanish, The George Washington University
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Bio: Justin Sevier began his medical training with eight years of experience as a paramedic and clinical technician, including work in inpatient psychiatric settings. These early roles provided a strong foundation in patient care, crisis management, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Justin’s clinical and academic interests include the role of lifestyle interventions in the prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders. He is particularly focused on the therapeutic potential of physical activity, mindfulness practices, sleep hygiene, and nutrition in supporting long-term mental health. He presented departmental Grand Rounds on the Default Mode Network and its relevance in mental health and has co-authored research on environmental factors in neurodegenerative disease, published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine, and contributed to a book focused on holistic approaches to health in the aging adult, published with Oxford University Press.
Hobbies: Outside of medicine, Justin is passionate about physical health and wellness and the outdoors. He regularly engages in strength training and high-intensity exercise and maintains a daily meditation practice. These activities help inform his approach to therapy and resiliency building in patient care.
Name: Yuto Tobin Miyaji [he/him]
College: BS, Biochemistry, Binghamton University
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bio: Yuto was born and raised in Japan and moved to New York during middle school. His experiences navigating two distinct cultures have shaped a broad and inclusive worldview that continues to influence his personal and professional interests. As an undergraduate, Yuto conducted research on beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease. In medical school, he explored 3D modeling to apply modern technology in medical education. He also translated Japanese psychiatric research papers into English, contributing to cross-cultural academic exchange and expanding access to international mental health literature. Witnessing the opioid epidemic firsthand in the Bronx sparked a deep interest in addiction medicine and mental health care—particularly for individuals from multicultural backgrounds and refugee or immigrant communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuto volunteered to deliver groceries, assemble care packages, and tutor the children of healthcare workers, as well as caring for his elderly family members. Outside of medicine, he played in a competitive NYC soccer league during medical school and continues to play in a local league in Maryland. He is also an avid language learner, driven by a passion for cross-cultural connection, patient care, and travel.
Hobbies: Running, hiking, snowboarding, salsa dancing, cooking, and baking.
Name: Ramsin Yadgar [he/him]
College: BS, Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara
Post-Baccalaureate Program: Scripps College Post Baccalaureate Premedical Program
Medical School: The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Bio: Ramsin graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara before attending GW for medical school. Prior to medicine, Ramsin had a successful career working as an electrical engineer in a Fortune 500 company. He decided to change his career to his true passion of becoming a doctor and went on to complete his prerequisites for medical school at the Scripps College Post Baccalaureate Premedical Program in Claremont, California. Ramsin has had extensive research experience and publications, starting from his senior engineering design project in college that culminated in a publication that has been cited over 300 times. His interests include patient education and advocacy, minority health, medical innovation/technology, and mentorship.
Hobbies: Running, high-intensity interval training, skateboarding, cars, architecture, design, and exploring new places to eat
Clinical Interests: Addiction psychiatry, cross-cultural psychiatry, neuromodulation, and neuropsychiatry
PGY-4
Name: Martin Clark, MD [he/him]
College: BS, Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Bio: Martin began his career as a mental health technician at Tucker Pavilion Psychiatric Hospital and enrolled in a post- baccalaureate pre-health sciences program while working full time at Tucker. Through his work with student interest groups and as a rehabilitation specialist and crisis intervention specialist on an Assertive Community Treatment in DC, he worked with adults experiencing homelessness and chronic mental illness. He has received awards and recognition for excellence in leadership in mental health delivery and organization both in the community and during medical school. Martin has shown steadfast commitment to providing mental health support for vulnerable patients and populations, and he hopes to continue his work in his future career.
Hobbies: Long distance backpacking (hiked 2,650 mile of the Pacific Crest Trail and 1,250 miles of the Appalachian Trail), bicycle touring (completed section of The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route from Canada to Montana), trail running, and electronic music production
Clinical Interests: community psychiatry, assertive community treatment, addiction medicine, evolutionary psychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine
Name: Hira Mohyuddin, MD [she/her]
College: BA, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Virginia
Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Bio: Hira is passionate about advocacy, mental health parity, and community health. During residency, she expanded training opportunities by spearheading the implementation of a new forensic elective at the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, a state forensic hospital. Prior to medical school, she completed an internship in the United States Senate with former Vice President Kamala Harris. She worked with legislative staff focusing on healthcare disparities and the Opioid Epidemic in the United States. As a psychiatry resident, she observed how national policies effect individual patient care. This inspired her to return to Capitol Hill during her final year of residency as the American Psychiatric Association Foundation Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellow. Hira is also a researcher and has been a member of a multi-disciplinary team for the past fourteen years. She continues to present at national conferences and publish peer-reviewed research articles. In medical school, she served as an Editor for the Fusion Journal, a student-led annual research publication and was President of the William H. Beaumont Medical Research Honor Society. Additionally, Hira is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
Hobbies: Tae Kwon Do (where she has a black belt!), kickboxing, running, traveling around the world
Clinical Interests: forensic psychiatry and interventional psychiatry