Tulane Resident and Fellow Congress (TRFC)

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

2025-2026 TRFC Executive Committee Officers

S. Mounika Kandalam, MD
President
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

George Luong, MD
Vice President
Internal Medicine

Arunava Saha, MBBS
Vice President
Pulmonary/Critical Care

David Cooper, DO
Secretary
Anesthesiology

Brittany Tran, MD
Treasurer
Pediatrics

TRFC Representatives (2025-2026)