Current GPC Residents
PGY1
Ashri Anurudran, MD
Ashri, as the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants, grew up in London, Kuala Lumpur, and Houston, and feels lucky to call each of these cities home! She studied economics at Harvard College, pursued a MPhil in Public Health at the University of Cambridge, and completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. Throughout her interdisciplinary education, Ashri had been deeply committed to global women’s health. Over the past decade, she has worked on various women’s public health initiatives on gender-based violence and women’s cancer detection in Kenya, Rwanda, India, and the US. These formative experiences shaped Ashri’s interest in providing holistic primary healthcare for underserved women, locally and globally. Outside of medicine, Ashri loves boxing, hiking, dancing, and traveling!
Kishan Bhatt, MD
A New Jerseyan, Kishan worked in government -- but med school beckoned. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s in public policy at Princeton, where he researched health insurance expansions. His federal work brought him to DC, London, and New Delhi. Then, during medical school at Columbia, he led the health policy committee, the student-run free primary care clinic in Washington Heights, and the Bienvenidos neighborhood pre-orientation program for new students. Kishan completed his major clinical year in rural Cooperstown, New York through the Columbia-Bassett program, where he advanced Lean Six Sigma quality improvement projects with hospital executives. In his spare time, he enjoys competing with his friends and family on NYT Games, tossing a frisbee, and pensively jotting down haikus (did you catch the one in the first sentence?). The GPC pathway will allow Kishan to pursue health services research and integrate community health into his career.
Sharlene Choi, MD
Sharlene Choi is from Brooklyn and went to Weslyan, medical school at Einstein. Her area of interest in medical school was global health, working in Uganada and the Himalayas. She is a first generation student from an immigrant family and is interested in practicing in low resource areas. She loves Backpacking, cooking, watercolor and reading.
Rushnan Islam, MD
Rushnan was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She completed her undergraduate studies at Stony Brook University and earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her upbringing in Bangladesh, combined with her clinical experiences serving the diverse population of the Bronx, inspired her commitment to caring for underserved communities with cultural and social sensitivity. She has been actively involved in medical education and quality improvement initiatives, a passion she continues to pursue throughout residency. Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, going on walks, cooking, and reading.
Prateek Sahni, MD
Prateek Sahni grew up in New York City and earned his undergraduate degree at Columbia University, majoring in biology. Before starting medical school, he worked in public sector healthcare consulting at McKinsey. He stayed in New York for medical school and attended Columbia VP&S. While in medical school he developed a passion for access to care and geospatial disparities in transplant. Outside of medicine, he enjoys listening to live music, is an aviation enthusiast, and is an avid distance runner.
Mansi Shah, MD
Mansi Shah was born and raised in northern New Jersey. While completing her undergraduate degree at Rutgers University, Mansi studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico and tutored individuals in math and reading at a NJ state prison. An internship at Rikers Island inspired Mansi to develop a formal curriculum in carceral care for undergraduate students, called the Rutgers Justice Health Summer Program. She went on to serve as an AmeriCorps case manager at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program. During medical school at Columbia VP&S, Mansi channeled her passion for community health by engaging youth in health lessons through sports and addressing segregated care at the hospital level. Entering residency, her clinical interests include academic general medicine, cardiology, and addiction medicine. In her free time, you can find Mansi on a pizza tour around NYC, visiting a national park, or honing her (novice) graphic design skills!
PGY2
Shivangi Goel, MD, MBA
Shivangi grew up in New Jersey and earned her undergraduate degree at MIT in Biology, with a focus in biomechanical engineering, and Political Science. She worked as an EMT through high school and college, which jump started her interest in improving preventative care for patients in underserved communities. Shivangi founded a public health education organization, called Save a Life, Save a Heart, to educate people on providing basic life support and change public school healthcare education. She went to Harvard Medical School and continued to conduct medical device research to increase healthcare access and improve quality outcomes, after which she developed an interest in life science entrepreneurship and pursued an MBA at Harvard Business School. Shivangi spent 2 years leading clinical product strategy at an AI and medical device startup, focused on augmenting Gastroenterology care. She is excited to devote her career to providing holistic care to patients with chronic diseases and conducting medical device research to make primary care more accessible and affordable. Outside of medicine, Shivangi loves dancing, singing karaoke, and playing with dogs.
Daniela Suarez-Rebling, MD
Daniela was born and raised in New York City, however both of her parents are Mexican and she considers herself Mexican-American. She completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University where she majored in History of Science and minored in Global Health and Health Policy. She spent four years working in maternal and child global health at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Global Health and Human Rights before attending the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. While in medical school, Daniela focused her work on immigrant health and became a leader of the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program providing medical evaluations to asylum seekers, as well as EHHOP, the student-run free clinic providing care to the uninsured and mainly Hispanic East Harlem community. Daniela aspires to devote her career in medicine to the immigrant community of New York City and is thrilled to be serving the patient population in Washington Heights! Outside of medicine, she enjoys reading, going to the movies, running in Central Park, hiking, and exploring NYC’s amazing food scene.
PGY3
Caroline Boyle, MD
Caroline grew up in Princeton, NJ, and earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in neuroscience. She spent her gap year living in New York City and working at the Hospital for Special Surgery doing clinical research on injury prevention. She stayed in the New York area for medical school and attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine. While in medical school she developed a passion for medical student education and worked as a tutor as well as a teaching assistant for a variety of classes. Outside of medicine, she enjoys cooking, going out to eat, and long walks through Central Park and Riverside Park!
Rocio Casanova Torres, MD
Rocío was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She completed her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She later went to University of Connecticut School of Medicine where her early interest in geriatrics led her to pursue research in depression among the aging community at an urban senior center in Hartford and volunteer at a nursing home facility. Guided by her love for teaching, she also mentored students of underrepresented backgrounds in STEM careers. Rocío aspires to give back to the Hispanic community and is so glad to be serving the patient population in Washington Heights! Outside of medicine, she enjoys the beach, board games, puzzles, thrift shopping and, mostly, eating!
Yardelis Diaz, MD
Karly Hampshire, MD
Karly grew up in San Diego, California and completed her undergraduate degree in anthropology at Emory University. In college, her coursework and extracurricular activities focused on refugee and immigrant populations, which led her to study abroad at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northern India. Seeing climate change as a powerful driver of displacement and other inequities impacting health, she became a climate and health advocate in medical school at UC San Francisco. She founded the Planetary Health Report Card Initiative (phreportcard.org) and took a gap year to lead various climate change and health education, research, and advocacy initiatives. In her spare time, she enjoys pottery, biking along the West Side Highway, and quirky NYC festivals.
Allyson Hernandez, MD
Allyson was born and raised in New York City, in the neighborhood of Inwood Manhattan. She earned her undergraduate degree at City College of New York in Biochemistry. Before starting medical school, she spent 1 year teaching science/health topic to elementary school aged students from The Bronx who come from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM and medicine. While attending SUNY Downstate medical school, she worked in a literature review project looking into the in the bidirectional relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes mellitus. Her clinical interests include endocrinology as well as exploring the structural and hidden barriers that prevent patients from seeking medical care. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys video games, attending rock concerts, and reading.
Dipal Nagda, MD
Dipal grew up in Boston and earned her undergraduate degree at Brown University in neuroscience. She spent a gap year working in a neurobiology lab in Germany before heading to Harvard for medical school. She found a career interest in community and immigrant health, and spent an extra year pursuing her Master’s in Public Health. She has worked on projects related to health inequities in immigrant communities and patient burden of healthcare costs. Outside of the hospital, she loves dancing, doing puzzles, and strolling Central Park.
Rosanna Sanchez, MD
