The Department of Anesthesiology is pleased to announce its Match Day results for 2026. Twenty graduating medical students and two current residents matched into the residency program on March 20, the day medical students across the country learned where they will train as resident physicians.
The incoming class is an academically gifted group: eight hold advanced degrees including three MBAs and one MD-PhD who joins us as a Van Poznak Anesthesiology Research Scholar. Geograhpically, they come from across the country and around the globe, including one who attended medical school at our Global Health Initiative's partner institute in India.
Our new residents bring an exciting mix of talents and interests to our community: many enjoy travel, cooking, music, dance and sports of all kinds including several marathon runners.
We look forward to welcoming the new residents on July 1. They are:
CA1-PGY2
Anika Gnaedinger, MD, MPH
Residency: Duke University — Surgery
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Graduate: Bloomberg School of Public Health
Saiesh Kalva, MD, MBA
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine General Surgery
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Graduate: The Wharton School – Business
INTERN-PGY1
Alison Cline, MD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Nicholas Davis, MD
Florida State University College of Medicine Orlando Campus
Sophia Gamboa, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
George Ghafari, MD
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Anjali Ghoshal, MD, MBA
Harvard Medical School
Graduate: University of Southern California - Human Biology, Sociology
Emily Kim, MD, MS
University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine
Graduate: Boston University - Public Health
Yilun Ma, MD, PhD | Van Poznak Scholar
Weill Cornell Medicine
Graduate: Weill Cornell Medicine - Cell and Developmental Biology
Diya Mathur, MD, MBA
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Graduate: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth - Business
Michael Mbagwu, MD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Farimata Mbaye, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Caroline O'Brien, MD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Charlotte Pearson, MD
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Dante Puntiel, MD, MA
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Alexander Quan, MD, MS
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Graduate: Harvard Medical School - Bioethics
Brittany Sacks, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Amy Shi, MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Sirna, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine
Leena Syed, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Sargun Virk, MB BS
Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, India
Brandon Wang, MD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine