Nathalie van der Rijst, MD (class of 2023) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, in Camden, New Jersey. She is also Core Faculty for the Department of Critical Care at Inspira Health Network and the Head of Research Development in Critical Care Medicine at the same institution.
Alumni Updates
Appointments & Accolades and/or Featured Fellows
Yaniv Dotan, MD (Class of 2018) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of the Pulmonary Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa Israel and he has held this position since 2022.
Celebrations
Melinda Darnell, MD (Class of 2022) and her husband Dan welcomed their second child Lucas in September 2025. In the photo on the right is Melinda and Olivia, who will turn 2 in February.
Roman Prosniac, MD (Class of 2021) lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with his wife, Melody, whom he met while living in Philadelphia. They have been married for two years.
Derlis C. Fleitas, MD (Class of 2023) lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife Sophia and their 2 babies, Theo who is 16 months old and Alma who is 2 months old.
Graduating Fellows – Class of 2025
Congratulations to our 9 fellows who graduated on June 30, 2025: Olivia Schanz, Zehra Dhanani, Truong-An Ho, Ahsan Gulzar, Michael Nicholson, Jay Pescatore, Michael Goulet, Jensen Galvis, and Matthew Bittner (not pictured).