Match Day 2023
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Medical students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford and across the nation found out where they’ll spend the next three to seven years of their medical training on Match Day, Friday, March 17.
All 56 students from the Class of 2023 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford matched into residency programs in 17 specialties in 18 different states. Fifty-four percent of the Rockford students matched into primary care specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. Nineteen graduates will stay in Illinois for their residency programs.
“I’m incredibly excited for the Class of 2023 this Match Day,” said Alex Stagnaro-Green, MD, MHPE, MHA, dean of the College of Medicine Rockford. “They came to Rockford as first-year medical students in the fall of 2019 and then the COVID-19 pandemic impacted not only their educational experience, but their ability to celebrate medical school milestones together. Today is their day to celebrate their hard work and resiliency that allowed them all to match into residency programs around the nation.”
The National Resident Matching Program, or “The Match,” is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors.
University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford Match List – Class of 2023
Anesthesiology
Nicolas Bonamici, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA
Joshua Green, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Medical Center, Evanston, IL (Medicine-Preliminary)
Jeana Kim, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Alexander Wheat, University Hospitals-University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
Child Neurology
Aaron Hezeltine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
Emergency Medicine
Emily Allison, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Jessie Kirk, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Stephen Tse, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Family Medicine
Kailyn Baalman, St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Julia Beccue, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Blake DePaul, Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg, FL
Holly Garcia, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Rockford, IL
Victoria Gustafson, University Hospitals-University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
Alison McDonald, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
Jesseca Pirkle, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Rockford, IL
Jairo Rosales Garcia, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Alec Sikarin, Tidelands Health, Myrtle Beach, SC
Eric Stevens, Genesis Quad Cities, Davenport, IA
Maria Isabel Van Gundy, University of Arizona College of Medicine – South Campus, Tucson, AZ
Reilly Wojciehowski, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Rockford, IL
Internal Medicine
Joseph Berei, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Katrina Dovalovsky, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Zach Hart, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
Maya McLain, Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, CA
Gabriel Moreno, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
Jake Pecorin, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Katrina Soyangco, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Katherine Walka, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
Kate Saulcy Baumgartner, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Kelli Utz, University of Illinois College of Medicine-OSF, Peoria, IL
Internal Medicine/Psychiatry
William Graft, Jr., Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, WI
Neurology
Naeva Bratina, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL (Medicine-Preliminary)
Samridh Gupta, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Saumya Patel, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Adrianna Gorniak, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Macey Mattock, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Rural), Iowa City, IA
Deniz Raif, Western Michigan University Stryker School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI
Abbey Zacharski, Ascension St. Alexius, Hoffman Estates, IL
Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical
Ande Marchini, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
Pediatrics
Bailey Clancy, University Hospitals-University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
Madelyn Dulin, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Rebecca Hezeltine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
Wendy Pocklington, University of Illinois College of Medicine-OSF, Peoria, IL
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Timothy Mason, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, Wheaton, IL; MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL (Transitional)
Psychiatry
Christian Alfonso, Tri-County Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Orangeburg, SC
Won Huh, Wisconsin Northern & Central (WiNC) Graduate Medical Education Consortium, Wausau, WI
Diagnostic Radiology
Kovas Polikaitis, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT; University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT (Medicine-Preliminary/FAP)
Christopher Yao, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Advocate Health Care, Chicago, IL (Medicine-Preliminary/AIMMC)
Interventional Radiology
Omair Ali, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Ascension St. Joseph, Chicago, IL (Surgery-Preliminary)
General Surgery
Marc Altimari, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Johnathan Beldin, Ascension St. Joseph, Chicago, IL
Marley DeVoss, Central Iowa Health System, Des Moines, IA
Titus Hou, University of Illinois College of Medicine-OSF, Peoria, IL
Jinghui Xiong, Detroit Medical Center-WSU, Detroit, MI
Preliminary Surgery
Alexandra Brown, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
Gabrielle Kuhn, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI