Grant & Whitehill Recipients
Grant Recipients
Faculty Development
2025
Quan Bui, MD
Jisha Joshua, MD
Tiranum Rungvivatjarus, MD
Akash Desai, MD
Christopher Chu, MD
Kyle Hendrie, MD
Xiaojie Zhang, MD
Kanani Titchen, MD
Alice Chen, MD
Arjun Khanna, MD
Aviya Levy, MD
Vanessa Scott, MD
Yuri Shindo, MD
Rachna Subramony, MD
2024
Martin Krause, MDMojgan Hosseini, MD
Toluwalase Ajayi, MD
Li Lei, MD
Pratibha Binder, MD
Rahul Nene, MD
Anna Mercer, MD
Richard Childers, MD
2023
Lyudmila Bazhenova, MDSeth Bechis, MD
Kelly Bush, MD
Richard Childers, MD
Robert Deiss, MD
Samuel Eisenstein, MD
Srila Gopal, MD
Jona Hattangadi-Gluth, MD
Melissa Kanack, MD
David Klein, MD
Brian Kwan, MD
Akihiro Matsuoka, MD
Yahir Santiago-Lastra, MD
2022
Amir Aminlari, MDJulie Cormano, MD
Christian Dameff, MD
Katherine Hinchcliff, MD
Andrew LaFree, MD
Isabel Newton, MD
Soo Park, MD
Piper Sandel, MD
Andres Ricardo Schneeberger, MD and Jessica Thackaberry, MD
Tukisa Smith, MD
2021
Edward Chao, MDAaron Besterman, MD
Gladys Ramos, MD
Nikdokht Faird, MD
Deepa Sanniudhi, MD
Joseph Osorio, MD
Benjamin Heyman, MD
Amy Bellinghausen, MD
Tatyana Vayngortin, MD
Kay Yeung, MD
2020
Douglas Chang, MDJoel Baumgartner, MD
Terri Cheng, MD
Syed Abbas Fehmi, MD
Frederick Kolb, MD
Amy Leu, MD and Alan Shahtaji, MD
Jyoti Mayadev, MD
Christopher Reid, MD
Benjamin Heyman, MD
Mojgan Hosseini, MD
Mylinh Nguyen, MD
Tiranun Rungvivatjarus, MD
Charlotte Sadler, MD
Marc Schwartz, MD
2019
Lukas Austin-Page, MD
Allison Berndtson, MD
Ethan Bortniker, MD
Tatiana Catanzarite, MD
Ali Farkhondehpour, MD
Syed Fehmi, MD
Michael Gardiner, MD
Maria Huang, MD
Jejo Koola, MD
Daniel Lee, MD
Jeremy Orr, MD
Gabriel Wardi, MD
2018
Joslin Cheverie, MD
Christopher Coyne, MD
Nicholas Daniels, MD
Jeffrey Gold, MD
Jeffrey Jenks, MD
Theodore Katsivas, MD
William Kent, MD
Samuel Lance, MD
Syndey Leibel, MD
Alicia Minns, MD
Sheila Mody, MD
Ryan Moran, MD
James Murphy, MD
Taraneh Paravar, MD
Fareed Saleh, MD
Vanessa Tamas, MD
2017
Gobind Anand, MD
Edward Cachay, MD
Rekha Chandrabose, MD
Mohammed Eghtedari, MD
Samuel Eisenstein, MD
T. Mike Hsieh, MD
Jae Kim, MD
Jyoti Mayadev, MD
Farshad Moradi, MD
James Murphy, MD
Andrew Picel, MD
Yahir Santiago-Lastra, MD
I-Wei Shu, MD
Supraja Thota, MD
Kaiser
2025
Stacy Charat, MDJames Ford, MD
Eric Mendez, MD
2024
Joseph Diaz, MD
Jorge Fernandez, MD
Sarah Merrill, MD
Megha Shankar, MD
Claire Soria, MD
Elizabeth Yu, MD
2023
Carolyn Sawyer, MDClaire Soria, MD
2022
Helen Wang, MDDarcy Wooten, MD
2021
Jill Blumenthal, MDLaura Bauman, MD
Sarah Merrill, MD
Khai Nguyen, MD
2020
Isabel Newton, MDShannon Leung, MD
2019
Byron Fergeson, MDVanessa Scott, MD
2018
Ankita Kadakia, MDJamie LaBuzetta, MD
2017
Seth Bechis, MDCynthia Gonzalez, MD
WhiteHill Recipients
The Whitehill Charitable Trust was establised in 1995 by Jules Leonard Whitehill to support the Whitefill Prize for Excellence in the teaching of clinical medicine to students, residents and fellows. The recipient is chosen by the Chief Residents of each residency program and given to an Assistant or Associate level faculty member who best exemplifies compassionate bedside manners for learners to emulate, serves as an advocate for trainees, and encourages and facilities clinical, translation or basic science research projects.
Whitehill
2026
| Department | Name |
| Anesthesia | Megan Kawasaki |
| Dermatology | Reid Oldenburg |
| Emerg Medicine | William Bruno |
| Family Medicine | William Andrew |
| Internal Medicine | Jenna Klubnick |
| Neurology | Victoria Wu |
| Neurosurgery | Jillian Plonsker |
| OB/GYN & Repro Sci | Lindsey Burnett |
| Opthalmology | Sally Baxter |
| Orthopaedic Surg | Micah Blais |
| Otolaryngology | Daniel Cates |
| Pathology | Mitchell Zhao |
| Pediatrics | Daniele Leverone |
| Pharmacy | Andrew Willeford |
| Psychiatry | Paige Sutherland |
| Diagnostic Radiation | Julie An |
| Radiation Oncology | Kathryn Tringale |
| Surgery | Peter Than |
| Urology | Darshan Patel |
2025
| Department | Name |
| Anesthesia | Kenneth Miller, MD |
| Dermatology | Genevieve Kaunitz, MD |
| Emerg Medicine | Michael Self, MD |
| Family Medicine | Ariel Portera, DO |
| Internal Medicine | Ashley Scanlon, MD |
| Neurology | Victoria Wu, MD |
| Neurosurgery | David Santiago-Dieppa, MD |
| OB/GYN & Repro Sci | Nicole Teal, MD, MPH |
| Opthalmology | Nathan L. Scott, MD, MPP |
| Orthopaedic Surg | Ian M. Foran, MD |
| Otolaryngology | Jesse Qualliotine, MD |
| Pathology | Mariah Leivo, MD |
| Pediatrics | Chloe Kupelian, DO |
| Pharmacy | Andrew Willeford, PharmD, PhD, BCCP |
| Psychiatry | Yash Joshi, MD, PhD |
| Diagnostic Radiation | Lily Sung, MD |
| Radiation Oncology | Austin Hopper, MD |
| Surgery | Jarrett Santorelli, MD |
| Urology | Darshan Patel, MD |
2024
| Department | Name |
| Anesthesia | Eric Tzeng, MD |
| Dermatology | Timothy Dang, MD |
| Emerg Medicine | Casey Lee Smith, MD |
| Family Medicine | Julia McPherson, MD |
| Internal Medicine | William Cameron McGuire, MD, MPH |
| Neurology | Jessica Schulte, MD, PhD |
| Neurosurgery | Martin H. Pham, MD |
| OB/GYN & Repro Sci | Michelle Tang, MD |
| Opthalmology | Catherine Y. Liu, MD, PhD |
| Orthopaedic Surg | Joseph Mitchell, MD |
| Otolaryngology | Theresa Guo, MD |
| Pathology | Vanessa Goodwill, MD |
| Pediatrics | Rachel M. Marano, MD |
| Pharmacy | Andrew Willeford, Pharm.D, PhD |
| Psychiatry | Julia Gleichman, MD |
| Diagnostic Radiation | Paul Manning, MD |
| Radiation Oncology | Chika Nwachukwu, MD, PhD |
| Surgery | Laura Adams, MD |
| Urology | Juan Javier-Desloges, MD, MS |
2023
| Department | Name |
| Anesthesia | Claire Soria, MD |
| Dermatology | Dawn Eichenfield, MD, PhD |
| Emerg Medicine | Sukhdeep Singh. MD |
| Family Medicine | Graham Heimler, MD |
| Internal Medicine | Sean Kenmore, MD |
| Neurology | David J. Lee, MD |
| Neurosurgery | Martin Pham, MD |
| Opthalmology | Jiun Lap Do, MD, PhD |
| Orthopaedic Surg | Frank Chiarappa, MD |
| Otolaryngology | Carol Yan, MD |
| Pathology | Laura Stephens, MD |
| Pediatrics | Maria Huang, MD |
| Pharmacy | Jennifer Namba, Pharm.D |
| Psychiatry | Michelle Singh, MD |
| Radiation Oncology | Christopher Straka, MD |
| Diagnostic Radiation | Rupal Parikh, MD |
| OB/GYN & Repro Sci | Amy Driebe, MD |
| Surgery | Aleah Brubaker, MD, PhD |
| Urology | Maria Uloko, MD |
2022
| Department | Name |
|---|---|
| Anesthesia | Diana Hylton, MD |
| Dermatology | Veronica Shi, MD |
| Emergency Medicine | Jessica Brice Bagby, MD |
| Internal Medicine | Mazen Odish, MD |
| Neurology | Caitlin Mulligan, MD |
| Ophthalmology | Doran Spencer, MD |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | Frank Chiarappa, MD |
| Otolaryngology | Ryan Orosco, MD |
| Pathology | Jingjing Hu, MD |
| Pediatrics | Branden Engorn, MD |
| Radiation Oncology | Iain MacEwan, MD |
| Diagnostic Radiology | Michael 'Misha' Horowitz, MD, PhD |
| Reproductive Medicine | Jorge L. Alvarado, MD, FACOG |
| Surgery | Shanglei Liu, MD |
| Urology | Darshan Patel, MD |