Internal Medicine

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Overview
Welcome to the MountainView Regional Medical Center Center internal medicine residency program! Our training program offers a supportive environment where our residents can fulfill their fullest potential as clinicians, educators and leaders with a special focus on physician well-being.

Mission and Vision
Our faculty is committed to our residents, keeping in mind their individualized career interests, learning styles and overall goals in medicine. Our purpose is to prepare graduates for today’s challenges in patient care. We provide a structured academic foundation with patient care diversity, subspecialty exposure, and research opportunities. Because of our affiliation with the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM) – located on the New Mexico State University campus – our residents have access to a library, simulation center and research facilities. Residents also work closely with BCOM students while rotating in both the inpatient and outpatient settings and participating in a “Residents as Teachers” curriculum.

Residents interested in osteopathic recognition at graduation have the opportunity to train alongside local experts in the field. MountainView Regional Medical Center is the only IM residency program in the region where residents can achieve such recognition.

Come train in sunny Las Cruces, where you will be considered part of our family. Residents, faculty, and staff pride themselves on maintaining a nurturing environment while maintaining an exceptional educational experience.

Curriculum
Case presentations (formally morning report): Held up to 1.5 hours daily from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The relaxed environment allows for group discussion of clinical cases with a multidisciplinary approach. Cases are broken down to help learners formulate assessments and plans on complex patients. Subspecialists are invited to add their clinical knowledge to the case.

Noon conferences: Residents receive lectures led by faculty in general medicine and its subspecialties. We also have frequent visitors:

• Topics in medicine: faculty presentations
• Morbidity and mortality conference
• Journal club
• Board review sessions from Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP)
• Wellness lecture series, including monthly fitness challenges
• “Rich Doctor Poor Doctor”: financial wellness lecture series for physicians
• Grand rounds
• Simulation training, including procedural skills workshops
• Internal medicine themed Jeopardy
• Clinical data integrity
• Billing and coding
• Transitioning to outpatient practice
• Hospitalist medicine

Research
Residents are required to do scholarly activity within three years of training. Examples include poster and podium presentations at local, regional, and national meetings, publications, and IRB approved studies, webinars, and quality improvement initiatives.

Committees
Residents are required to join at least one committee. Committees include yet are not limited to: Ethics, Infectious Disease, Mortality and Morbidity, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and Sepsis. Here, they discuss, plan and implement actions congruent with learning objectives and character building throughout the 3 years of residency.

Formal Mentor Program
Residents will regularly meet with a program assigned faculty advisor who will offer objective feedback, discuss rotation evaluations and provide a clear path to success based on the resident’s career goals.

Residents

Internal Medicine Residents PGY-1

Hebah Alrahamneh, M.D.
Medical School: Hashemite University Faculty of Medicine, Jordan

Auria Chowdhury, MBBS (M.D.)
Medical School: Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh, India

Hayden Collins, D.O.
Medical School: Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Rocky Vista, CO

Giselle Irio, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

M. Virginia Perez Bastidas, M.C., M.S. (M.D.)
Medical School: Universidad del Zulia Facultad de Medicina, Venezuela

Anita Shrivastava, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Sheeba Tauhid-Imran, MBBS (M.D.)
Medical School: Dow Medical College, Pakistan

Ekemini “Ben” Usoro, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Jason Yee, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Internal Medicine Residents PGY-2

Harriet Adeleke, MBBS (M.D.)
Medical School: University of Ibadan College of Medicine, Nigeria

Luis Beverido, M.D.
Medical School: Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara Facultad de Medicina, Guadalajara, Mexico

Hugo Gonzalez, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Aaron Hollenbaugh, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Madonna Phillip, M.D.
Medical School: St. George’s University, School of Medicine, Grenada

Shelby Reyes, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Sarbesh Rijal, MBBS (M.D.)
Medical School: Nepal Medical College, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kruti Shah, MBBS (M.D.)
Medical School: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Medical Education Trust Medical College, India

Pamela Yao, D.O.
Medical School: Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Internal Medicine Residents PGY-3

Sinan Abdul-Wahab, MBBS (M.D.)
Medical School: University of Baghdad College of Medicine

Nouf Almaghlouth, MBBS, (M.D.), MPH
Medical School: University of Dammam, College of Medicine, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Vincent Esparza, M.D.
Medical School: Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University, El Paso

Laurel Kittrell, M.D.
Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine

Chukwudi Muojieje, MBBS (M.D.), MPH
Medical School: Nnamdi Azikiwe University College of Health Sciences Nigeria

Elissa Peckham, D.O.
Medical School: University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth/Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Justin Sanders, D.O.
Medical School: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Carmelo Virgala, M.C. (M.D.)
Medical School: Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela) Facultad de Medicina

Internal Medicine Resident Graduates
2020-2021

Cherylene Abalos, D.O.
Fulfilling Air Force Obligation
Las Vegas, Nevada

Douglas Gaufin, D.O.
Hospitalist, Apogee Physicians
MountainView Regional Medical Center
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Jin A Hur, D.O.
Primary Care
Facey Medical Group
Santa Clarita, California

Benoit Lebrun, D.O.
Nocturnist
Summerville Medical Center
Charleston, South Carolina

Britte Lowther, D.O.
Hospitalist
Central Florida Hospitalist Partners
Advent Health
Altamonte Springs, FL

Sarah Moats, D.O.
Endocrinology Fellowship
Sunrise Health GME Consortium
Las Vegas, Nevada

Sundeep Mummaneni, D.O.
Locums
New Orleans, Louisiana

Shravya Nagurla, D.O.
Infectious Disease Fellowship
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worchester, Massachusetts

Kishan Patel, M.D.
Critical Care Fellowship
SUNY Upstate
Syracuse, New York

Matthew Robinson, D.O.
Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Memphis, Tennessee

2019-2020

Jose M. Sanchez, D.O.
Internist
San Juan Regional Medical Center
Farmington, New Mexico

Floreta Shapiro, D.O.
Internist – Geriatric Medicine
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin

Cindy Tran, D.O.
Hospitalist
Covenant Health Plainview
Plainview, Texas

John Wuthrich, D.O.
Hospitalist, Apogee Physicians
MountainView Regional Medical Center
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Leadership and Staff