Meet the Michigan Medicine 2026 Surgery Intern Class

Introducing the newest intern cohort who will be training within the Department of Surgery

A new set of faces will be joining us this summer to start their intern year of surgery residency! Get to know who they are and where they’ll be coming from before they join us, and be sure to give them a warm Michigan welcome.

General surgery interns:

Announcement graphic welcoming new matches into general surgery residency at Michigan Medicine featuring Keerthi Burgik, Grant Chappell, Brittany Landavazo, Ajitha Mallidi, Araiye Medlock, Brendan Rosamond and Kayla Stanley.

 

Keerthi Burgi - University of Michigan Medical School
Grant Chappell - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Brittany Landavazo - Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine
Ajitha Mallidi - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Araiye Medlock - University of California Davis School of Medicine
Brendan Rosamond - University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
Kayla Stanley - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 

General surgery preliminary interns:

 Announcement graphic welcoming new preliminary matches into general surgery residency at Michigan Medicine featuring Joanna Hua, Bradford Sokol and Barry Wei.

 

Joanna Hua - University of Michigan Medical School
Bradford Sokol - Tufts University School of Medicine
Barry Wei - Indiana University School of Medicine

 

Plastic surgery interns:

Announcement graphic welcoming new matches into plastic surgery residency at Michigan Medicine featuring Holly Cordray, Ganiat A. Giwa, MPH, Noelle T. Thompson and Hannah Xu.

 

Holly Cordray - Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Ganiat A. Giwa, MPH - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Noelle T. Thompson - The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Hannah Xu - University of Michigan Medical School

 

Oral and Maxillofacial surgery interns:

Announcement graphic welcoming new matches into oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Michigan Medicine featuring Grant Egnatz, DDS, Matthew Lowe, DDS and Sarah Wong, DDS, PhD.

 

Grant Egnatz, DDS - University of Michigan Medical School
Matthew Lowe, DDS - University of Michigan Medical School
Sarah Wong, DDS, PhD - University of Michigan Medical School

 

Thoracic surgery interns:

Announcement graphic welcoming new matches into thoracic surgery residency at Michigan Medicine featuring Kellie Phipps and Hecong Qin.

 

Kellie Phipps - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hecong Qin - University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

 

Vascular surgery intern:

Announcement graphic welcoming new match into vascular surgery residency at Michigan Medicine featuring Teryn Holeman.

 

Teryn Holeman - Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah

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