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) are 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 internal 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

Osteopathic Recognition

Here at MVRMC, we offer all residents the opportunity to graduate from residency with a certificate in osteopathic recognition (OR). OR is a designation granted to programs through the ACGME Osteopathic Recognition Review Committee. MVRMC's internal medicine residency program was accredited for OR in 2020. We offer a robust curriculum which includes a monthly didactic session where residents attend hands-on workshops and journal clubs as well as inpatient bedside rounds where residents treat patients in both the general ward and critical care settings. If you are interested in continuing and improving your osteopathic skills as a doctor of osteopathic medicine or looking to learn a new skill set as a graduate of an LCME accredited medical school or hold a certification from the ECFMG, MVRMC may be a perfect location for you to become not only an outstanding internal medicine physician, but also one proficient in osteopathic principles and practice.

Scholarly Activity

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 but 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 three 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

Ananya Cingireddy, M.D.
Medical School: Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Ahmed Hasson, M.D.
Medical School: Spartan Health Sciences University, Saint Lucia

Stuart Hepworth, D.O.
Medical School: Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona

Samuel Huseman, M.D.
Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas

Pretty “Sara” Idiculla, M.D.
Medical School: Sree Gokulam Medical College, India

Zachary Lang, D.O.
Medical School: Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona

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

Ashraf Rjob, M.D.
Medical School: Cairo University Faculty of Medicine, Jordan

Aditi Roy, D.O.
Medical School: Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York

Internal Medicine Residents PGY-2

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-3

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 Resident Graduates
2021-2022

Sinan Abdul-Wahab, M.D.
Hospitalist, Northwest Medical Center
Tucson, Arizona

Nouf Almaghlouth, MBBS, (M.D.), MPH
Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Elissa Foster, D.O.
Nephrology Fellowship
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Laurel Kittrell, M.D.
Hospitalist
St. Peter’s Health
Helena, Montana

Chukwudi Muojieje, M.D.
Endocrinology Fellowship
Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

Justin Sanders, D.O.
Nocturnist
Amarillo, Texas

Carmelo Virgala, M.D.
Hospitalist
Millennium Physicians Group
Port Charlotte, Florida

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