Clinical Fellows in Gastroenterology
2009-2010
Third Year: Class of 2010
Matthew Spinn, MD
Chief Clinical Fellow 2009-2010
Hospitalist for Hepatology Service: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Medical School: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Undergraduate: Texas State University - San Marcos
Dharmendra Verma, MD
Hospitalist for Hepatology Service: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Master of Public Health: The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston Health Science Center
Medical School: University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi
Second Year : Class of 2011
Gaurav Arora, MD
Residency: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT
Advanced Hepatology Fellow: Stanford University School of Medicine
Medical School: All India Institute of Medical Sciences,, New Delhi, India
Hak Nam Kim, MD
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School and University of Florida
Medical School: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ayodele T. Osowo, MD
Residency: Unity Health System Rochester, NY
Medical School: University of Benin, Nigeria
Apurv K. Varia, MD
Residency: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
First Year : Class of 2012
Ryan R. Barrientos, MD
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Medical School: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School

Gerald W. Mank, MD
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Medical School: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School

Catherine Noelle O'Shea, DO
Residency: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences/ College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, CA

David Richards, MD
Residency: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine

Graduation Celebration 2009
Class of 2009
Jennifer Brenner, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2009
Residency: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Medical School: Loyala University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Washington University, Saint Louis
Following Graduation: Private Practice in Colorado
Syed Mohammed Jafri, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2009
Residency: Mayo Clinic
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of Michigan
Following Graduation: Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, Michigan
Alexander Shpaner, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2009
Residency: UCLA-VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles
Following Graduation: Private Practice in California
David Wolf, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2009
Chief Clinical Fellow: 2008 - 2009
Chief Medical Resident: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medial School
Residency: The University of Texas UT Health Science Center at Houston Medical School
Medical School: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School
Undergraduate: Tufts University and The University of Texas at Austin
Following Graduation: Academic Medicine: The University of Texas at Houston Medical School, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Clinical Fellows in Gastroenterology 2007-2008

Class of 2008
Amir Ahmed, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2008
Residency: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Medical School: University of Dundee
Following Graduation: Private Practice in Texas
Chukwuma Egwim, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2008
Hepatology Fellowship: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Residency: Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Medical School: University of Nigeria
Following Graduation: Private Practice in Texas
Kevin Leung, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2008
Residency: University of Illinois Medical Center
Medical School: University of Illinois
Undergraduate: University of Illinois
Following Graduation: Private Practice in Washington.
Jennifer Northrop, MD
Completed UT Gastroenterology Program: June 30, 2008
Chief GI Fellow: 2007 - 2008
Residency: Beth Israel Medical Center for Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Medical School: Sackler School of Medicine / NY State American Program, Tel Aviv, Israel
Undergraduate: Columbia College of Columbia University
Following Graduation: Private Practice in New York
Graduation Celebration 2008
Clinical Fellows in Gastroenterology 2007-2008

Class of 2007
David Goetz, MD 
Brian Weston, MD 
Class of 2006
Carl Frank, MD

Elizabeth Half, MD

Mohen Rengen, DO

Selvi Thirumurthi, MD
Class of 2005
Paul Azad, MD
Sanjeev Wasan, MD
Class of 2004
Mike Bismar, MD
Ishaan Kalha, MD
Duke Dguyen, MD
Class of 2003
Emad Abu-Hamba, MD
Carl Foulks, MD
Aparna Kulkarni, MD
Mihir Patel, MD
Class of 2002
Sandeep Singh, MD
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