On Friday, March 18, the University of Michigan Department of Anesthesiology celebrated Match Day with 27 newly matched residents. Members of the Class of 2026 hail from 21 medical schools — including three University of Michigan Medical School graduates — across 15 states and the District of Columbia.
This marked the second consecutive year University of Michigan residency programs conducted an entirely virtual recruitment season due to the pandemic.
Meet our Matches, pictured above from top left:
Samuel Bowers
Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chaitanya Chittineni
University of Minnesota Medical School
Yujie Ding
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Rachel Eaton
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Catherine Fabian
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Christopher Heleniak
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Ellianna Hoff
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Emily Kershaw
University of Washington School of Medicine
Merry Krueger
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Ralph Lamonge
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Timothy Lauzon
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Itzel Lopez-Hinojosa
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences
The Pritzker School of Medicine
Jonathon McBride
University of Michigan Medical School
Allison Milen
University of Michigan Medical School
Allie Mohr
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Zach Murphy
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Naveed Noordin
East Tennessee State University
James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Lillian Nosow
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Edward O’Connor
University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
Alexandra Ogando Velez
Howard University College of Medicine
Rachel Patterson
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Michal Rajski
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Sudhu Srinivasan
University of Michigan Medical School
Beshoy Tawfik
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Nicole Villiger
Indiana University School of Medicine
Jordan Wolf
University of Minnesota Medical School
Allen Zheng
Creighton University School of Medicine
