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Tulane Resident and Fellow Congress (TRFC)

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The Resident and Fellow Congress is the residents’ voice to ensure the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s mission of striving for excellence in education. This organization will provide a mechanism by which residents can participate directly in GME activities for the purpose of:

  1. Opening dialog to identify concerns and facilitate resolution
     
  2. Encouraging resident input into graduate medical education governance and policy
     
  3. Fostering professionalism, empathy and personal growth and development for our physicians in training
     
  4. Improving:
    1. The educational experience and opportunities
       
    2. Representation of the interest of its members in deliberations with affiliated hospitals on issues regarding working conditions and benefits
       
    3. Communication with other health care providers, program directors, the medical staff and administration
       
    4. Active membership and participation in constituent societies of organized medicine
       
    5. Overall quality of patient care
       
    6. Resident and resident’s significant other’s well-being through social and charitable activities

 

TRFC Executive Committee Officers:

President

David Thompson, MDDavid Thompson, Internal Medicine

 

 

 

 

Co-Vice Presidents

Danae BrierreDanae Brierre

 

 

 

Zil ShahZil Shah

 

 

 

Secretary

Sarah J. Lewis, MDSarah J. Lewis, Pathology

 

 

 

Treasurer

Dileep Mandali

Dileep Mandali

 

 

 

 

Past TRFC Executive Committee Officers

2021-2022

President - Andrew Pham (PGY3/4, Anesthesiology)

Co-Vice Presidents - Mary Jenkins (PGY3/4, Med-Peds)
Megan Lerner (PGY2/5, Urology)

Secretary - Leslie Miller (PGY3/5, Peds/Psych/ChildPsych)

Treasurer - Blake Winston (PGY2/4, Anesthesiology)

TRFC Representative Board Meetings 

Location: via Zoom https://tulanehipaa.zoom.us/j/97532450368 

Occurrence: 1st Thursday of each month, 7-8 pm CST 

Attendees: TRFC reps only. MINIMUM attendance quarterly per representative, please designate someone to attend in your place if you cannot attend and send email to executive secretary to notify who will be standing in.  

  • 07/07/2023 
  • 08/02/2023
  • 09/07/2023 (Open Forum preceding)  
  • 10/05/2023 
  • 11/02/2023 
  • 12/07/2023 (Open Forum preceding)  
  • 01/04/2024 
  • 02/01/2024 
  • 03/07/2024 (Open Forum preceding) 
  • 04/04/2024 
  • 05/02/2024 
  • 06/06/2024 (Open Forum preceding)  

 

TRFC Open Forums   

Location: via zoom https://tulanehipaa.zoom.us/j/94384238902 

Occurrence: Quarterly preceding TRFC meeting (Thursday. 6-7 pm CST) 

Attendees: as many TRFC reps as possible, open to all residents & fellows 

  • 09/07/2023
  • 12/07/2023 
  • 03/07/2024
  • 06/06/2024  
TRFC Representatives (2023-2024)

Representative Name

Program

Anesthesiology

Dory Askins

Cardiology

Edgar Acuna Morin

Child Adolescent Psychiatry

Bianca Watson

Dermatology

Reed Gioe

ENT

Brekel Kemp

General Surgery

Carolyn Cook

General Surgery

Michael Ghioe

General Surgery

Leila Sabbagh

General Surgery

Xinyi "Cathy" Luo

HemOnc

Leigh Deshotels

Infectious Disease

Victor Wang

Internal Medicine

Alec Goldberg

Internal Medicine

Austin Bath

Internal Medicine

Dileep Mandali

Internal Medicine

Josh Busken

Med/Psych

Neel Reddy

Med/Psych

Rachael Stevens

Med Peds

Jahnavi Rudrakshala

Med Peds

Mounika Kandalam

Neurology

Cade Picou

Neurology

Phil (Tse Chiang) Chen

Neurosurgery

Pierce Spencer

OBGYN

(Venkata) Sahithi Kothamasu

Ophthalmology

Alexander Wang

Opthalmology

Emily Laurent

Orthopaedic Surgery

James Clemmons

Pathology

Phoenix Hwaung

Pathology

Sarah J. Lewis

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Kathleen Condon

Pediatrics

Mina Hanna

Pediatrics

Zil Shah

Plastic Surgery

John Holtrop

Psychiatry

Matthew Lagarde

Pulmonary Critical Care

Stephanie Ferrell

Radiology

Gautam Dua

Radiology

Mitchell Jackson

Triple Board

Danae Brierre

Triple Board

Leslie R. Miller

Urology

Haritha Pavuluri

 

Past TRFC Representatives

2022-2023

Representative Name

Program

Kathryn Davis Germeraad

Addiction Medicine

Gregory Della Penna

Allergy and Immunology

Jon Cohen

Anesthesiology

Dory Askins

Anesthesiology

Edgar Acuna Morin

Cardiology

Bianca Watson

Child Adolescent Psychiatry

Ian Watson

Dermatology

Reed Gioe

Dermatology

Caleb Fligor

General Surgery

Cathy Luo

General Surgery

Leila Sabbagh

General Surgery

Michael Ghio

General Surgery

Hogan Hudgins

Internal Medicine

Jonathan Jalali

Internal Medicine

David Thompson

Internal Medicine

Shanan Immel

Internal Medicine

Victor H. Rodriguez

Internal Medicine/Psychiatry

Rachel Stevens

Internal Medicine/Psychiatry

Taylor Katt

Med Peds

Kiondra Fisher

Med Peds

Austin Hansen

Nephrology

Shane Dorsey

Neurology

Cade Picou

Neurology

Alison Key

OBGYN

Emily Marlow

OBGYN

Ricky Salinas

Opthal

Tara Reza

Ortho

Sarah Lewis 

Pathology

Robert Wood

Pathology

Zil Shah

Pediatrics

Oyinlola Oshinowo

Pediatrics

Jayde Price

Peds/Psych/Child Psych

Danae Brierre

Peds/Psych/Child Psych

Aadit Patel

Plastic Surgery

Eunice Neeley

Preventative Medicine

Elora Apantaku

Preventative Medicine

Jemimah Chen

Psychiatry

Dani Takai-Castioni

Psychiatry

Guatam Dua

Radiology

Roberto Chavez-Appendini

Radiology

Megan Lerner

Urology

 

Graduate Medical Education Resident & Fellow Policies & Procedures

 

 
TRFC Meeting Minutes

TRFC Summary