Message from Program Director
Dear Prospective Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in the Westchester Medical Center Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program, located just 20 minutes north of New York City. The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery currently has 15 residents and offers three five-year training positions. The residency program is fully accredited by the Orthopedic Residency Review Committee of the ACGME and offers a well-rounded clinical and academic experience in each of the orthopaedic subspecialties. Residents in this program work with dedicated full-time and voluntary faculty members. The comprehensive program includes rotations at Westchester Medical Center (a Level I trauma center), Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital (a dedicated pediatric hospital on the main campus), and Stamford Hospital (a Level II community hospital).
I invite you to look through our website to learn more about the training program, and I encourage you to ask questions and discuss the program with our current residents. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
David Wellman, MD
Program Director
Program Overview and Curriculum
Program Leadership
David Asprinio, MD – Chairman
David Wellman, MD – Program Director
Rachel Talley-Bruns, MD – Associate Program Director
Jennifer Francis – Program Coordinator
How to Apply
We accept three residents each year. All applications must be submitted through electronic residency matching services (ERAS). Your application will be considered complete with receipt of the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae (ERAS generated CV is sufficient)
- Medical school transcript
- Scores from Part I and Part II (if taken) from the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE)
- Personal statement
- At least three letters of recommendation completed by physicians – one should be from the chairman or program director of an orthopedic surgery program. All letters need to be dated within the current academic year.
- Dean’s letter
After thorough review of the applications, competitive applicants will be invited to interview. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Interviews are scheduled during the month of January, and will be conducted virtually for the 2023-2024 interview season.
For further inquiry please contact our Residency Coordinator, Jennifer Francis at 914.493.8743 or [email protected].
Current Residents
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Roy Miller, MD – University of California-San Diego; Medical School: New York Medical College
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Carlos Ortiz, MD – Medical School: Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
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Zachary Thomas, MD – Medical School: New York Medical College
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Andrew Grant, MD – Middlebury College; Medical School: New York Medical College
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Juliana Overby, MD – Dartmouth College; Medical School: Homer Stryker/Western Michigan
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Michael Weiser, MD – University of Wisconsin-Madison; Medical School: Drexel
- Areil Aminov, MD – Yeshiva University; Medical School: Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
- Ozair Meghani, MD – Boston University; Medical School: New York Medical College
- Kevin Quindlen, MD – Bucknell University; Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
- Kevin Berardino, MD – University of Michigan; Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Parth Kamdar, MD – New York University; Medical School: New York Medical College
- Ruby Patel, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Medical School: New York Medical College
- Ian Jarin, MD – Boston College; Medical School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Thomas Kroshus, MD – Princeton University; Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Samir Rao, MD – Rutgers University; Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; Orthopaedic Research Fellowship: Rothman Orthopaedics Sports Medicine
Past Residents
- Eric Yoon, MD – Bowdoin College; Medical School: Emory University; Fellowship: Sports Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital
- Wells Prather, MD – University of Mississippi; Medical School: University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Orthopaedic Research Fellowship: University of Alabama at Birmingham; Fellowship: Shoulder and Elbow, Mount Sinai
- Avinesh Agarwalla, MD – Washington University in St. Louis; Medical School: New York Medical College ; Orthopaedic Research Fellowship: Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush; Fellowship: Sports Medicine, Kerlan Jobe. Foot and Ankle, Harvard/MGH
- Adrian Wu, MD – McGill University; Medical School: New York Medical College; Fellowship: Spine, Twin Cities Spine Center
- Phillip Johnson, MD – Boston College; Medical School: Albany Medical College; Fellowship: Spine, UPenn
- Greg Fasani-Feldberg, MD – Northeastern University; Medical School: New York Medical College; Fellowship: Spine, Texas Back Institute
- Hiren Patel, MD – University of Pennsylvania; Medical School: University of Pennsylvania; Fellowship: Spine, UPenn
- Saranya Sethuraman, MD – Yale University; Graduate: Georgetown University; Medical School: University of Cincinnati; Residency: Penn State General Surgery Intern Year; Fellowship: Sports, University of Rochester
- Ashlyn Morse, MD, MPH, Chief Resident – California State University; Graduate: California State University; Doctoral: New York Medical College DrPH Candidate
Medical School: University of Miami; Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Orthopaedic Oncology Fellowship - Zan Naseer, MD – University of Maryland; Medical School: New York Medical College; Orthopaedic Research Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University; Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Spine Surgery Fellowship
- Nathaniel Rawicki, MD – Pepperdine University; Medical School: Texas Tech University; Fellowship: Twin Cities Spine Center Fellowship
- Rachel Talley-Bruns, MD – Purchase College, SUNY, Columbia University Post Baccalaureate Premedical Program; Medical School: New York Medical College; Fellowship: Sports Medicine at Brown University
- Rachel Silverstein, MD, MBS – University of Connecticut; Berkeley California Post Baccalaureate Premedical Program; Graduate and Medical School: The Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College; Residency: Brown University General Surgery Intern Year; Fellowship: Pediatric Orthopedics at Baylor/Texas Children’s; Fellowship: Sports Medicine
- Azlyn Goff, MD – Florida State University; Medical School: New York Medical College; Fellowship: Pediatric Orthopaedics at Vanderbilt University
Our Clinical Locations
Westchester Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.
WMC has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR.
Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art WMC Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that when completed will span 162,000 square feet over five floors. Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.