Pediatric Alumni

After graduation, approximately half of our graduates choose to practice general pediatrics, with several taking positions right here at Lehigh Valley Health Network. Approximately half go on to do further training in pediatric subspecialty fellowship programs. The list below outlines which specialties our graduates have chosen and what programs they matched into for fellowship.

Class of 2024

Juhee Patel, DO

Subspecialty: Pulmonary
Program: Colorado Children’s Hospital

Erin Brown, DO

Subspecialty: Critical care
Program: Nemours Children’s Hospital

Class of 2023

Austin Schatzman, DO

Subspecialty: Child abuse
Program: University of Minnesota

Cayanne Liew, DO

Subspecialty: Gastroenterology
Program: Nemours Children’s Health/AIfred duPont

Class of 2022

Julia Vandenheuvel, MD

Subspecialty: Hematology oncology
Program: UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Kaitlyn Kuntzman, DO 

Subspecialty: Pulmonary  
Program: Children’s National Hospital

Class of 2021

Kelsey Kaplan, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric critical care
Program: Loma Linda University Health

Alison Toback, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric hematology oncology
Program: Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health

Class of 2020

Julia Durante, MD

Subspecialty: Adolescent medicine
Program: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Ashley Griswold Haggerty, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric emergency medicine
Program: Virginia Commonwealth University

Class of 2019

Yalile Perez, MD

Subspecialty: Pediatric cardiology
Program: Mayo Clinic

Caroline Perkowski, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric critical care
Program: Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

Class of 2018

Joelynn Dailey, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric gastroenterology
Program: Connecticut Children’s

Jeanette Taveras, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric infectious disease
Program: Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Class of 2017

Timothy Roach, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric emergency medicine
Program: University of Louisville 

Amy Dooley, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric pulmonology
Program: Children’s National

Saisho Mangla, DO

Subspecialty: Population medicine and public health
Program: Loma Linda University Health

Alisha Williams, MD

Subspecialty: Pediatric critical care
Program: St. Christopher’s

Class of 2016

Patrick Philpot, DO

Subspecialty: Neonatology
Program: Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Christiana Hospital, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Tasha Desai, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric emergency medicine
Program: Connecticut Children’s

Lauren Greenawald, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric pulmonology
Program: Nemours duPont Hospital for Children

Christine Bender, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric sports medicine
Program: Maine Medical Center

Class of 2015

Nidhi Shah, DO

Subspecialty: Pediatric hematology oncology
Program: Nemours duPont Hospital for Children

Tonasha Johnson, MD

Subspecialty: Adolescent medicine
Program: Children’s National

Dalya El Tawil, MD

Subspecialty: Pediatric gastroenterology
Program: Children’s Mercy Kansas City