Current GPC Residents

Current GPC residents

PGY1

  • Anagha Kumar, MD

    Anagha Kumar grew up in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and studied the History of Science and Neuroscience at Harvard College before completing her medical degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is passionate about geriatric cardiology and the future of aging care, with a particular interest in how digital health and innovation can transform the way we care for older adults. She is now thrilled to be joining the Columbia community and looks forward to continuing her work at the intersection of clinical medicine, technology, and aging. Outside of medicine, Anagha loves teaching hot yoga, taking dance classes, and exploring NYC's food scene! 

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  • Tiffany Liu, MD

    Tiffany is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and was born on Long Island, New York, but grew up primarily in a small town in central Florida. Growing up in a community with limited diversity exposed her to experiences with racism and language barriers at an early age. Along with volunteering at a free clinic during her undergraduate years at the University of Florida, these experiences inspired her to pursue a career in medicine focused on health equity and caring for underserved communities. During medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, she deepened her interests in immigrant and minority health, care coordination, and wellness in medical training. She has led research projects focused on culturally tailored mental health resources and nutrition counseling. Outside of medicine, Tiffany runs a freelance portrait photography business and enjoys dancing, painting, and spending time with her cat.

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  • Nevedita (Nivi) Ravi, MD

    Nivi grew up in Westchester, New York and completed her undergraduate degree in neuroscience and music at Harvard University. In college, she explored relationships between music and medicine through music cognition research and Esperanza Spalding’s Songwrights Apothecary Lab. During medical school at Columbia VP&S, she deepened her interest in the medical humanities while also developing a growing interest in pulmonary health. She worked on a project to develop music-guided breathing exercises and pursued research in respiratory epidemiology to investigate the cardiopulmonary effects of e-cigarettes. She is also a professionally trained opera singer who toured with several productions during her gap year and performed with NYC-based opera companies throughout medical school. Outside of music and medicine, Nivi loves reading new fiction and spending time with her friends and family. 

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  • Harry Shanmugan, MD

    Harry grew up in Hopkinton, MA and went to Boston College for his undergraduate education, majoring in biology and business. In college, he developed an interest in health policy while serving on Boston’s Ryan White Planning Council, the body that allocates federal funding of last resort for underinsured patients with HIV in Boston and its surrounding areas. After graduation, he worked at Boston Consulting Group in the healthcare and public sector practices before completing his MD at Harvard Medical School. During his time at HMS, Harry worked at MassHealth, Massachusetts’ state Medicaid agency, on issues related to drug affordability and safety net funding. Clinically, he is interested in cardiac and pulmonary physiology and caring for critically ill patients. Outside of medicine, Harry loves running and working out, spending time with friends and family at new restaurants and the movie theater, and exploring both new cities and nature.

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  • Sam Yoon, MD

    Prior to joining Columbia, Sam earned his MD at the Yale School of Medicine where he developed an interest in health policy research. While there, he worked with the Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency working on regulatory science research that advances policy and informs medicine and public health to protect patients. For his undergraduate studies, he graduated from the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned both a BA in mathematical biology and BS in economics from the Wharton School with a concentration in statistics. Sam grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ and outside of medicine enjoys playing tennis, judo, and photography. 

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PGY2

  • 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! 

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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!

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PGY3

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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