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Alumni Updates — Winter 2025

Appointments, Accolades and Featured Fellows

Brian Civic, MD (class of 2013) is the Chief of Pulmonary and Practice Lead at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania. He is also an Assistant Medical Director of Lehigh Valley Physician Group. He is a core faculty member for the pulmonary and critical care fellowship program and has received Top 20 Teaching Awards for the Department of Medicine in 2014-2019.

Jeffrey Stewart, MD (class of 2013) is an Associate Professor at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program and the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship.

Celebrations

Oisin O’Corragain, MD (Class of 2022) celebrated his wedding in August of 2023. Oisin and his wife Jenny are living in Virginia.

Melinda Darnell, MD (Class of 2022) and her husband Dan welcomed their first child Olivia in February 2024.

Ekamjeet Randhawa, MD (Class of 2022) celebrated his son’s first birthday in October 2024. In the picture is Ekam with his son Zorawar and wife Sonia. They are currently living in Dallas, Texas.

Graduating Fellows — Class of 2024

Congratulations to our 9 fellows who graduated on June 30, 2024: Sohaib Ansari, Ashwin Karanam, Samantha Pettigrew, Franco Laghi, Jin Sun Kim, Stephen Dachert, Mary Zulty, Joy Ayyoub, and Michaela Seigo.