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\"Rebecca<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Rebecca Chernick, M.D.<\/h3>\n

Undergraduate: Brown University
\nMedical School: University of Massachusetts<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Arvin<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Arvin Farhang, M.D.<\/h3>\n

Undergraduate: University of Toronto
Medical School: St. George\u2019s 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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Brandon<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Brandon Gibson, D.O.<\/h3>\n

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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Mohit<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Mohit Gogna, D.O.<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Nicholas<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Nicholas Hawkes, M.D.<\/h3>\n

Undergraduate: The University of Arizona
Medical School: St. George\u2019s 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 \u201cCirculation: Heart Failure\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Matthew<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Matthew Hodgson, D.O.<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Kevin<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Kevin Jon, M.D.<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Marc<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Marc Locke, D.O.<\/h3>\n

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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Evan<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Evan Magaliff, M.D.<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Tamir<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Tamir Pinhasov, M.D.<\/h3>\n

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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Dana<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Dana Potashner, M.D.<\/h3>\n

Undergraduate: Queen\u2019s University, Ontario Canada
Masters: M.Sc., Global Health, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
Medical School: Ben-Gurion University in Be\u2019er-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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Peter<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Peter Rafla, MSurg, D.O.<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Samana<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Samana Zaidi, D.O.<\/h3>\n

Undergraduate: University of Connecticut
Medical School: New York Institute of Technology<\/span>
Hobbies\/Interests: Endurance hiking - climbed Yosemite, baking, amateur film photography
Fun Fact: Founded of NYITCOM\u2019s chapter of White Coats for Black Lives<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Chernick, M.D. Undergraduate: Brown University Medical School: University of Massachusetts Arvin Farhang, M.D.Undergraduate: University of TorontoMedical School: St. George\u2019s School of MedicineHobbies\/Interests: semi-professional E-sports at one point, trivia, beach volleyball, dancing, boxingFun Fact: As a Chess player, at one point he was ranked 3rd in Canada and first in Toronto in his age group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":507,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 08:44:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35270,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35269\/revisions\/35270"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}