Rebecca Chernick, M.D.
Undergraduate: Brown University
Medical School: University of Massachusetts
Arvin Farhang, M.D.
Undergraduate: University of Toronto
Medical School: St. George’s School of Medicine
Hobbies/Interests: semi-professional E-sports at one point, trivia, beach volleyball, dancing, boxing
Fun Fact: As a Chess player, at one point he was ranked 3rd in Canada and first in Toronto in his age group
Brandon Gibson, D.O.
Undergraduate: University of Maine
Medical School: University of New England
Hobbies/Interests: Exploring new cities, snowboarding, fishing
Fun Fact: Made two medical mission trips to Senegal
Mohit Gogna, D.O.
Undergraduate: Niagara University
Medical School: New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Hobbies/Interests: 3-D printing, baking and interior design.
Fun Fact: Student class president at NYIT and participated in a non-clinical community-based internship that focused on health care disparities in New York City.
Nicholas Hawkes, M.D.
Undergraduate: The University of Arizona
Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine
Hobbies/Interests: University of Arizona Collegiate athletics, reading fiction books.
Fun Fact: Served as a member of the Board for Digital Content and publishing with the journal “Circulation: Heart Failure”
Matthew Hodgson, D.O.
Undergraduate: Brigham Young University
Medical School: Campbell University
Hobbies/Interests: Guitar playing, hiking, board games, conditioning
Fun Fact: Matthew went to Brazil as a volunteer missionary to underserved communities teaching English and building homes. In medical school where he won the AACOM Silver Award for community service in Health.
Kevin Jon, M.D.
Undergraduate: University of Illinois
Medical School: Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Hobbies/Interests: Visiting national parks, woodworking
Fun Fact: Kevin served as a combat medic in the United States Army and was deployed in Iraq.
Marc Locke, D.O.
Undergraduate: The Honors College at Grand Canyon University, Phoenix AZ
Medical School: Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University
Hobbies/Interests: Playing drums
Fun Fact: Writes questions for TrueLearn
Evan Magaliff, M.D.
Undergraduate: Stony Brook
Medical School: The Ben-Gurion University
Hobbies/Interests: computer programing, cooking
Fun Fact: Evan has a profound interest in Global Health which promoted him to take on the highly selective curriculum at Ben-Gurion in a program with a deep and rich collaboration with Columbia University.
Tamir Pinhasov, M.D.
Undergraduate: Hunter College, CUNY
Medical School: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra
Hobbies/Interests: Guitar, cycling, hiking, rock climbing
Fun Fact: Currently working on an Elo rating of 1,500 in chess
Dana Potashner, M.D.
Undergraduate: Queen’s University, Ontario Canada
Masters: M.Sc., Global Health, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
Medical School: Ben-Gurion University in Be’er-Sheva, Israel
Hobbies/Interests: worldwide travel (backpacked through 25 countries), canoe camping
Fun Fact: She is a gymnast and competed at the Maccabiah Games - the third biggest athletic event in the world after the Olympics and FIFA.
Peter Rafla, MSurg, D.O.
Undergraduate/Medical School: Assiut University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Medical School: New York Institute of Technology
Fun Fact: Peter was a fully trained surgeon in Egypt and to fulfill his desire to help the medically underserved traveled, he traveled to Tanzania where he treated chronic diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
Samana Zaidi, D.O.
Undergraduate: University of Connecticut
Medical School: New York Institute of Technology
Hobbies/Interests: Endurance hiking - climbed Yosemite, baking, amateur film photography
Fun Fact: Founded of NYITCOM’s chapter of White Coats for Black Lives