The Michael J. Droller Chief Residents’ Debate Meeting

 

Program Chair:
Katie Murray, DO MS
Professor, Dept. of Urology
NYU Langone Health & Grossman Sch. Of Med.
Vannita Simma-Chiang, MD, MBA

Judge(s):
Willie Underwood, III, MD, MSc, MPH
President-Elect
American Medical Association

Debate Winners:

  • Parth Joshi, MD – NYU Langone Long Island Hospital
  • Laurence Hou, MD – Hackensack University Medical Center
  • Farzaan Kassam, MD – Montefiore Medical Center
  • Ernest Cole Gillan, MD – Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School
  • Jose Torres, MD – SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital
  • Kelvin Zheng, MD – New York Medical College
  • Patrick Ho, MD – Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Rachel Passarelli, MD – Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Overall Best Debater:

  • Sarah Brink, MD – Hackensack University Medical Center

Program Chair:
Vannita Simma-Chiang, MD, MBA
Associate Professor
Associate Residency Program Director
Department of Urology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Judge(s):
Gary Lemack, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Education
Department of Urology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Debate Winners:

  • David Ambinder, MD – New York Medical College
  • Sarah Brink, MD – Hackensack University Medical Center
  • Joo Lee, MD – NYU Langone Long Island Hospital
  • Kelly Ieong, MD – SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital
  • Charan Mohan, MD – Northwell Health
  • Jonathan Diah, MD – SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Olamide Omidele, MD – Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • David Han, MD – Columbia University

Overall Best Debater:

  • Sarah Brink, MD – Hackensack University Medical Center

Program Chair:
Aaron E. Katz, MD, FACS
Chairman of Urology
NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island
Professor of Urology
NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

Judge(s):
A. Ari Hakimi, MD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Surgery
Urology Service & Member of the
Immunogenomics and Precision Oncology
Platform at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center

Debate Winners:

  • Phillip Westbrook, MD – NYU Langone Long Island Hospital
  • Luke Griffiths, MD – Northwell Health
  • George Martin, MD – Columbia University
  • ​Christina Sze, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Joshua Altschuler, MD – Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Dora Jericevic Schwartz, MD – NYU Medicall Center
  • Anh Nguyen, MD – Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School
  • Joseph Hartnett, MD – SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital

Program Chair: Andrew Winer, MD
​​​Associate Professor of Urology
​​​SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Judge(s): Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Urology and Radiology
Interim Chair, Department of Urology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heersink School of Medicine
Debate Winners:

  • ​Thomas Williams, MD – Northwell Health
  • Corey Weinstein, MD – SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Annie Chen, MD – SUNY Stony Brook
  • ​Parwiz Abrahimi, MD – NY Presbyterian/Cornell
  • Daniel Tennenbaum, MD – Maimonides Medical Center
  • Daniel Tennenbaum, MD – Maimonides Medical Center
  • Shirin Razdan, MD – Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Rogerio Huang, MD – New York Medical College
  • Hiren Patel, MD – Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Program Chair: Michael Schwartz, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor of Urology
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Residency Program Director
Director of Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery
Northwell Health
Judge(s): Barry A. Kogan, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Surgery
Falk Family Chair in Urology
Albany Medical College
Debate Winners:

  • Colin Ryan – Stony Brook University
  • Andrew Katims – Mount Sinai Health System
  • Alexandra Tabakin – Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Joshua Gottlieb – Montefiore Medical Center
  • Chris Sayegh – Columbia University
  • Leon Telis – Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Jacob Taylor – New York University Medical Center
  • Jason Elyaguov – New York Medical College

Program Chair: Jessica Kreshover, M.D.
Associate Professor
Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell
Chief of Urology, Long Island Jewish Hospital
Associate Program Director, Urology Residency Program
Judge(s): Li-Ming Su, M.D.
David A. Cofrin Professor of Urologic Oncology
Chairman, Department of Urology
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Debate Winners:

  • Joseph Caputo – Columbia University Phy. & Surgeons
  • Curran Emeruwa – SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Alyssa Yee – Maimonides Medical Center
  • Nikhil Gopal – New York Medical College
  • Joseph Sarcona – Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Zachary Kozel – Northwell Health System
  • Joshua Sterling – Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Edward Forsyth – SUNY at Stony Brook

Program Chair: John P. Sfakianos, M.D., Assistant Professor Urology and Urologic Oncology, Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Judge(s): Peter A. Pinto, M.D., Head, Prostate Cancer Section, National Cancer Institute,
Bethesda, Maryland
Debate Winners:
  • Ramy Goueli – NY Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Med. Ctr.
  • Tian Chen Zhou – Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
  • Vinaya Vasudevan – Northwell Health
  • William Berg – SUNY at Stony Brook
  • Michael Benson – Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School
  • Xiaosong Meng – New York University Medical Center
  • Jared Winoker – Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Nicholas Farber – Rutgers – Robert Woods Johnson Med. Sch.

Program Chair: Grace Hyun, M.D., Director, Pediatric Urology, NYU Brooklyn
Judge(s): Thomas J. Guzzo, M.D., MPH, University of Pennsylvania
Debate Winners:
  • Saman Moazami, M.D. – Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
  • Rachel Davis, M.D. – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Matthew Goland-Van Ryn, M.D. – Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • Brenton Armstrong, M.D. – New York University Langone Medical Center
  • Rutveej Patel, M.D. – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • John Graham, Jr., M.D. – SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Johnson Tsui, M.D. – Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Wai Lee, M.D. – SUNY at Stony Brook

Program Chair: Ojas Shah, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center
Judge(s): Michael N. Ferrandino, M.D., Duke University Medical Center
Debate Winners:
  • Haris Ahmed, M.D. (Northwell Health)
  • Parth Modi, M.D. – (Rutgers – Robert Woods Johnson Medical School)
  • Matthew Pagano, M.D. – (Columbia University Physicians & Surgeons)
  • Jonathan Bloom, M.D. – (New York Medical College)
  • Nitin Sharma, M.D. – (Lenox Hill Hospital)
  • Aryeh Keehn, M.D. – (Einstein/Montefiore Hospital)
  • Paras Shah, M.D. – (Northwell Health)
  • Raveen Syan, M.D. – (New York University Medical Center)

Program Chair: Michael Palese, M.D, LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, LA
Judge(s): Christian Winters, M.D., LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, LA
Debate Winners:
  • Yaniv Larish, Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Blake Wynia, New York University Medical Center
  • Mazyar Ghanaat, SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Christopher Hartman, North Shore/LIJ Health System
  • Mina Fam, Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School
  • Mohit Sirohi, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center
  • David Peters, Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center
  • Kara Watts, Einstein/Montefiore Hospital

Program Chair: Elizabeth Kavaler, M.D., NY Urology Associates
Judge(s): Thomas W. Jarrett, M.D., The George Washington Univ. School of Medicine
Debate Winners:
  • Simpa Salami, MD from North Shore/LIJ Health System
  • Jason Van Batavia, MD from Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.
  • Billy Cordon, MD from Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Edan Shapiro, MD from Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.
  • Sarah Mitchell, MD from NY University Langone Medical Center
  • Ariel Schulman, MD from Maimonides Medical Center
  • Susan MacDonald, MD from Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
  • Charles Osterberg, MD from NY Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Med. Ctr

Program Chair: Ridwan Shabsigh, M.D., Columbia University
Judge(s): Joel Byron Nelson, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Debate Winners:
  • Rahuldev Bhalla, M.D., SUNY Stony Brook
  • Jeffrey M. Donohoe, M.D., SUNY Downstate
  • Nicole Beth Fleischmann, M.D., Montefiore Medical Center
  • Jaime Freyle, M.D., Maimonides Medical Center
  • William Harry Gans, M.D., Mount Sinai
  • Eric Mayer, M.D., UMDNJ
  • Robert Wood Johnson Rupa T. Patel, M.D., New York University
  • Eric Charles Rottenberg, M.D., Brookdale University Hospital

Program Chair: Caner Dinlenc, Beth Israel Medical Center
Judge(s): Raju Thomas, M.D., Tulane Univ. Health Sciences Center
Debate Winners:
  • Aaron Berger, M.D., New York University Medical Center
  • Jay Shah, M.D., Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surgeons
  • Troy Edwards, M.D., UMDNJ/Robert Woods Johnson Medical School
  • Paul Milhoua, M.D., Einstein/Montefior Hospital
  • Paul Grewall, M.D., New York Medical College
  • Gregory Lovallo, M.D., UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School
  • Eddie Michli, M.D., Brookdale University Hospital
  • Susan Rusnack, M.D., Columbia Univ. Phys. & Surgeons

Program Chair: Jonathan Coleman, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Judge(s): Robert C. Flanigan, M.D., Loyola University Medical Center
Debate Winners:
  • Eric Kwon, M.D., Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Matthew Stanizzi, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • Ciamack Kamdar, M.D., Brookdale University Hospital Med. Ctr.
  • John Riordan, M.D., UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Jonathan Kaye, M.D., North Shore/Long Island Jewish Medical Center
  • Mara Monoski, M.D., NY Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical Center
  • Jamie Kanofsky, M.D., New York University Medical Center
  • Mauricio Davalos, M.D., New York Medical College

Program Chair: John L. Phillips, M.D., New York Medical College
Judge(s): Edward M. Messing, M.D., Univ. of Rochester Medical Center
Debate Winners:
  • Scott Tiplitsky, M.D., Albert Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
  • Zamip Patel, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • John Fitzgerald, M.D., Brookdale University Hospital Med. Ctr.
  • Courtney Lee, M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Alex Shteynshlyuger, M.D., Maimonides Medical Center
  • Michael Schwartz, M.D., New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical Center
  • Michael Lipkin, M.D., New York University Medical Center
  • Brandon Louis, M.D., New York Medical College

Program Chair: Caner Dinlenc, M.D., Beth Israel Medical Center
Judge(s): Robert G. Uzzo, M.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center
Debate Winners:
  • Andrew Grollman, M.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Joseph Feliciano, M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Srinivas Rajamahanty, M.D., New York Medical College
  • Elias Hyams, M.D., New York University Medical Center
  • Arun Srinivasin, M.D., Long Island Jewish Medical Center
  • Joseph Jamal, M.D., Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Stephen Poon, M.D., Columbia Univ. Phys. & Surg.
  • Jean Wong, M.D., Maimonides Medical Center

Program Chair: Ravi Munver, M.D., Hackensack University Medical Center
Judge(s): David Albala, M.D., Associated Medical Professionals of NY
Debate Winners:
  • Nadya Cinman, M.D., North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health Center
  • James Breese, M.D., Beth Israel Medical Center
  • Michael Degan, M.D., Brookdale Univ. Hospital Medical Center
  • Brian Marks, M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Ari Abraham Hakimi, M.D., Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
  • Michael Herman, M.D., NY Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Med. Ctr.
  • Tim Siegrist, M.D., Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Michael Nazmy, M.D., UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School

Program Chair: Lee Richstone, M.D., The North Shore-LIJ Health System
Judge(s): Margaret Pearle, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern
Debate Winners:
  • Ciara Marley, M.D., Lenox Hill Hospital
  • Heather McCaffrey, M.D., SUNY at Stony Brook
  • Israel Nosnik, M.D., Beth Israel Medical Center
  • Andrew Fishman, M.D., New York Medical College
  • John Sfakianos, M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical School
  • Arvin George, M.D., NY University Langone Medical Center
  • Aaron Hagge-Greeberg, M.D., Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
  • James Rosoff, M.D., NY Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Med. Center