{"id":6684,"date":"2018-01-18T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=6684"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:15:52","slug":"graduates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/hand-surgery-fellowship\/graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recent Graduates<\/h3>
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Year of Completion<\/strong><\/td>\nGraduate<\/strong><\/td>\nPractice Type<\/strong><\/td>\nLocation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>\nDerek Jones, D.O.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nFlorida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025<\/td>\nTammer Raouf, D.O.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nNew Jersey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>\nHiba Ibad, M.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nMissouri<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>\nAdam Schumaier, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nOhio\/Kentucky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>\nAndrea Little, M.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nConnecticut<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>\nFrank Yuan, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nGeorgia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nKevin Kim, D.O.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nCalifornia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nAbdelghaffar Salous, M.D., Ph.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nWisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nDevon Banda, D.O.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nMichigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nJared Potts, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nNew York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Kyle Grooms, M.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nIdaho
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2020
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Ravi Viradia, M.D.<\/td>\nPlastics Residency<\/td>\nTennessee
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2019<\/td>\nJohn Gorski, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nMichigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nBenjamin Robichaux, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nLouisiana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nAndrea Gale, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nSouth Carolina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nArie Trouw, M.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nOregon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nEdward Hahn, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nNew Jersey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nChristopher Koontz, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nNew Jersey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nAra Bush, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nMichigan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nSteve Vander Naalt, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nIllinois<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nJonathan Macknin, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nArizona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nHaruko Okada, M.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nOhio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nDana LaVanture, M.D.<\/td>\nHospital Based Practice<\/td>\nPennsylvania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nPurnell Traverso, M.D.<\/td>\nPrivate Practice<\/td>\nFlorida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent Graduates Year of Completion Graduate Practice Type Location 2025 Derek Jones, D.O. Private Practice Florida 2025 Tammer Raouf, D.O. Private Practice New Jersey 2024 Hiba Ibad, M.D. Hospital Based Practice Missouri 2024 Adam Schumaier, M.D. Private Practice Ohio\/Kentucky 2023 Andrea Little, M.D. Hospital Based Practice Connecticut 2023 Frank Yuan, M.D. Private Practice Georgia 2022 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":6656,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 18:04:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6684"}],"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=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35329,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6684\/revisions\/35329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}