Radiology Residents Class of 2026

(PGY3)

Venus Barlas, MD Venus Barlas, MD
Hometown: Alburquerque, NM
Undergraduate school: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Medical school: University of New Mexico
Internship: St. Mary's Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: Boba tea, board games, reading, interior design
Future Plans: Undecided
 Anthony Blackburn, MD Anthony Blackburn, MD
Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA
Undergraduate school: Cornell
Medical school: Cornell
Internship: UCSF
Extracurricular interests: Mountain biking, reading, working on classic cars
Future Plans: Undecided
Timothy Chen, MD Timothy Chen, MD
Hometown: Edwardsville, IL
Undergraduate school: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Medical school: University of Illinois College of Medicine
Internship: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: board games, weightlifting, anime/manga, world-building fantasy, video games, learning piano, mango desserts.
Future Plans: Undecided
Brandon Fields, MD Brandon Fields, MD
Hometown: Denver, CO
Undergraduate school: University of Colorado Boulder
Medical school: Keck School of Medicine of USC
Internship: Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA
Extracurricular interests: Guitar, Dream Theater
Future Plans: Academics
Neda Ghassemi, MD Neda Ghassemi, MD
Hometown: Newport Beach, CA
Undergraduate School: UCLA
Medical school: UCSD
Internship: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: Tennis, piano, spending time with family
Future Plans: Undecided
Bradley King, MD Bradley King, MD
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, CA
Undergraduate school: Pomona College
Medical school: UCSD
Internship: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: Rock climbing, indoor houseplants, photography, video games, piano.
Future Plans: Interventional Radiology, Global Health
Sean Lee, MD Sean Lee, MD
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea/ Marietta, GA
Undergraduate school: Brown University
Medical school: Brown
Internship: Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital
Extracurricular interests: Trumpet, Baseball, Starcraft, Podcasts, Health Economics.
Future Plans: Undecided
Eric Lopez, MD Eric Lopez, MD
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Undergraduate school: Stanford University
Medical school: UCSF
Internship: Kaiser Oakland Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: Health policy research and advising, academic journal editing (resident member of the JACR editorial board), guitar, and reading (history, sociology, philosophy, and novels).
Future Plans: Undecided
Rohil Malpani, MD Rohil Malpani, MD
Hometown: Kolkata, India
Undergraduate school: Johns Hopkins University
Medical school: Yale
Internship: California Pacific Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: Writing, landscape photography, traveling, humor, spending time with friends and family, becoming an ice cream connoisseur.
Future Plans: Undecided
Shan McBurney-Lin, MD, MBA Shan McBurney-Lin, MD, MBA
Hometown: Los Gatos, CA
Undergraduate school: University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate school: Duke University
Medical school: Duke
Internship: Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Extracurricular interests: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, hiking, and scuba diving.
Future Plans: Undecided
Paola Perez Rivera, MD Paola Perez Rivera, MD
Hometown: Caguas, Puerto Rico
Undergraduate school: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Medical school: University of California, San Francisco
Internship: Riverside Community Hospital/UCR
Extracurricular interests: Board games, exploring Latin-food restaurants, drawing, my dog - Nemo.
Future Plans: Undecided
Michael Romano, MD, PhD Michael Romano, MD, PhD
Hometown: Fairfield, CT
Undergraduate school: Davidson College
Graduate school: Boston University
Medical school: Boston University
Internship: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Extracurricular interests: Philosophy, meditation, programming, coffee, neuroscience.
Future Plans: Undecided
Carol Tran, MD Carol Tran, MD
Hometown: Richmond, CA
Undergraduate school: Harvard University
Medical school: University of California, San Francisco
Internship: Highland Hospital
Extracurricular interests: Pilates, trying new foods, museums, cosmetology, humorist books, history.
Future Plans: Undecided
Sarah Yu, MD Sarah Yu, MD
Hometown: Dublin, OH
Undergraduate school: The Ohio State University
Medical school: The Ohio State University
Internship: Mount Carmel Health System
Extracurricular interests: Horseback riding, powerlifting, and travel
Future Plans: Musculoskeletal Radiology
Yannan Yu, MD Yannan Yu, MD
Hometown: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Undergraduate school: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Medical school: Peking Union Medical University
Internship: University of Massachusetts 
Extracurricular interests: Painting, Graphic design, forest/coastal foraging, board games, skiing, Astronomy.
Future Plans: Undecided