Ryan Hospital Residents and Interns

At Ryan Hospital, interns and residents are integral members of the clinical care team, comprising senior faculty supervisory clinicians, staff veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and students.

What Our Residents and Interns Do

Supervise the care and treatment of patients under the direction of the attending faculty/senior clinician.
Attend clinical rounds, seminars, continuing education, and meetings related to their clinical service.
Take part in the clinical teaching of junior and senior veterinary students.
Supervise patient care provided by students; active instruction of students is expected.

What is an intern?

An intern is a veterinarian who is seeking additional training in a more specialized hospital environment such as an academic hospital. Obtaining an internship at Penn Vet is highly competitive. Our interns represent some of the top young veterinarians in the world. An internship is a one year position. Most interns rotate through multiple services in our hospital, obtaining a broad exposure to veterinary medicine and surgery. However, there are some specialty interns who focus on a single specialty.
What is a resident?

A resident is a veterinarian who has already completed an internship, and has decided to continue his or her training in a particular specialty. Only the finest interns are successful in obtaining a residency, which is typically a three-year program. Towards the end of their three-year tenure in an academic veterinary hospital, residents typically take specialty board examinations so that they can become board-certified in a specialty service. Residents who have completed this type of intensive, post-graduate training aim for academic careers in clinical care and research, or serve as specialty care veterinarians in private practice.

Meet Ryan Hospital's Residents & Interns

Ryan Hospital Rotating Interns
	Yael Ad, DVM Intern
	Kaitlin Daly, DVM Intern
	Max Holzman, VMD Intern
	Tiffany Kei, DVM Intern
	Robb Kessel, VMD Intern
	Jacqueline Kroll, DVM Intern
	Jenna Menard, DVM Intern
	Ali Pankowski, DVM Intern
	Elizabeth Riley, DVM Intern
	Audrey Rollins, VMD Intern
	Allison Shannon, DVM Intern
	Meghan Smith, DVM Intern
	Brandon Weiss, DVM Intern
	Kimberly Worland, DVM Intern

Specialty Interns
	Yeonji Cho, DVM Specialty Intern, Cardio/ECC Research
	Deborah Chapman, DVM Specialty Intern, Neurology
	Karin de Wit, DVM Specialty Intern, Interventional Radiology
	Nimar Gill, DVM Specialty Intern, Surgery Oncology
	Karl Hoenecke, BVetMed Specialty Intern, Surgery Research
	Olivia Lenz, DVM Specialty Intern, Radiation Oncology
	Grace Wei-Qi Woo, DVM Specialty Intern, Radiation Oncology

Anesthesia Residents
	Twila Booke, DVM Resident
	Jerianne Brandly, DVM Resident
	Alycia Frampton, VMD Resident
	Emma Gorenberg, VMD, DACVIM (LAIM) Resident
	DeAnna Theiss, DVM, MPH Resident

Behavior Residents & Interns
	Alison Emmert, BDVM Resident, Behavior Medicine
	Anna Mukhina, DVM Resident, Behavior Medicine

Canine Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Residents & Fellows
	Gretchen Powers, DVM Resident

Cardiology Residents & Interns
	Erin Achilles, VMD Resident, Cardiology
	Tori Convey, VMD Research Intern, Cardiology
	Laura Massey, VMD Resident, Cardiology

Dentistry & Oral Surgery Residents
	Esther Choi, DVM, MS Resident, Dentistry & Oral Surgery
	Haixia Kong, DVM Resident, Dentistry & Oral Surgery
	Robert Thompson, VMD Resident, Dentistry & Oral Surgery

Dermatology & Allergy Residents
	Lindsey Citron, VMD Resident, Dermatology
	Emily Davis, DVM Resident, Dermatology
	Christina Dierkes, DVM Resident, Dermatology

Diagnostic Laboratories - Residents
	Taylor Chan, DVM Resident, Anatomic Pathology
		Dhruv Desai, DVM, MVSc, PhD Resident, Clinical Microbiology
	Stefano De Arcangeli, DVM, PhD Resident, Clinical Pathology
	Nathan Fanzone, VMD Resident, Anatomic Pathology
	Devin Fussell, DVM Resident, Anatomic Pathology
	Joshua Hargrove, DVM Resident, Anatomic Pathology
	Karuna Katariwala, DVM Resident, Clinical Pathology
	Victoria Leopardi, VMD Resident, Anatomic Pathology
	Lillian Miller, DVM Resident, Anatomic Pathology
	Brianna Stoyle, DVM Resident, Anatomic Pathology

Emergency & Critical Care Residents
	Rachel Clarkin-Breslin, VMD Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Joseph Frame, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Selimah Harmon, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Justin Hildebrand, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Leanna Hoover, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Justin Lam, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Rachel Manchester, BVetMed Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Lauren Minter, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Brooke Newmans, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care
	Curtis Rheingold, DVM Resident, Emergency & Critical Care

Internal Medicine Residents
	Jessica Box, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Samuel Chien, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Carson Campbell, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Victoria Carter, BVetMed Resident, Medicine
	Sarah Edwards, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Lindsey Garcia, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Jessica Mampe, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Valerie Nelson, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Kathryn Sanders, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Federica Serafini, DVM Resident, Medicine
	Elizabeth Snyder, VMD Resident, Medicine
	Olivia Wallace, DVM Resident, Medicine

Neurology & Neurosurgery Residents
	CarolAnn Daidone, VMD Resident, Neurology/Neurosurgery
	Marina Hernandez Guzman, DVM Resident, Neurology/Neurosurgery
	Tommie van Veghel, DVM Resident, Neurology/Neurosurgery

Oncology Residents & Interns
	Kathleen Bardales, DVM Resident, Medical Oncology
	Dillon Didehvar, VMD Resident, Oncology
	Audrey Ghanian, VMD Resident, Oncology
	Aimee Soileau, DVM Resident, Oncology
	Laurel Upton, DVM Resident, Oncology

Ophthalmology Residents
	Tiffany Chen, DVM Resident, Ophthalmology
	Harathi Krishnan, VMD Resident, Ophthalmology
	Rhiannon Ross, VMD Resident, Ophthalmology

Radiology/Imaging Residents
	Rachel Durrwachter, VMD Resident, Radiology
	Natalie Goolik, DVM Resident, Radiology
	Elisa Heacock, VMD Resident, Radiology
	Maria Mulvihill, DVM Resident, Radiology
	Lawrence (Alex) Quilty, DVM Resident, Radiology
	Yu (May) Wang, DVM Resident, Radiology
	Robert Wise, DVM Resident, Radiology
	Jin Yu, DVM Resident, Radiology

Surgery Residents
	Alison Billas, VMD Resident, Surgery
	Samuel Burkhardt, DVM Resident, Surgery
	Camille Duvieusart, BVMS Resident, Surgery
	Isabella Hildebrandt, DVM Resident, Surgery
	XiaoXiao Lederer, DVM Resident, Surgery
	Alysha McGrath, DVM Resident, Surgery
	Maya Sekhar, VMD Resident, Surgery