115 future doctors celebrate Match Day at Geisinger School of Medicine

SCRANTON – Today, soon-to-be graduates of Geisinger School of Medicine took part in “Match Day,” an event at which all fourth-year M.D. students around the country simultaneously open envelopes to learn where they’ll spend the next years training in their chosen specialty.
 
“Once again, our School of Medicine celebrated a successful Match Day,” said Julie Byerley, M.D., M.P.H., president of Geisinger College of Health Sciences, dean of the School of Medicine and executive vice president and chief academic officer, Geisinger. “Our students matched into excellent local residency programs, as well as some of the most competitive and prestigious programs and specialties in the nation. And because our focus is on making better health easier for our own communities, I am particularly pleased to note that 16 students matched at Geisinger, making it more likely that they will remain in our region. Additionally, more than a third of our Class of 2025 – 43 students -- are Abigail Geisinger Scholars. While many will go elsewhere for residency all will eventually return to work at Geisinger caring for our neighbors.”
 
At the Match Day event held at the Scranton Cultural Center, Dr. Byerley addressed the Class of 2025 saying, “Today is not only your dream come true.  It is our dream too – it is the dream of each of your faculty and staff that you will become physicians that use your amazing skills, talents, and teachings to be in service to others.” 
 
In addition to the School of Medicine’s celebration in Scranton, Geisinger hospitals learned who will arrive this summer to begin residencies across the system. Dr. Byerley noted that Geisinger hospitals successfully matched 148 new physicians into 29 residency programs.
 
GEISINGER MATCHES
·       Alexandra Angheloiu, Internal Medicine, Wilkes-Barre
·       Dayna DeSalve, Pediatrics, Danville
·       Emily Ellison, Anesthesiology, Danville
·       Seth Ellison, Anesthesiology, Danville
·       Jessica Fanelli, Family Medicine, Wilkes-Barre
·       Steven Grampp, Orthopaedic Surgery, Danville
·       Helen Guo, Internal Medicine, Wilkes-Barre
·       Akshay Patel, General Surgery, Wilkes Barre
·       Tyler Singer, General Surgery, Danville
·       Michelle St Omer Roy, Family Medicine, Lewistown     
·       Haydn Swackhamer, Neurology, Danville 
·       McKenzie Zellers, Internal Medicine, Danville     
·       Shane Bross, General Surgery Preliminary, Wilkes Barre
·       Mckinley Carey, General Surgery Preliminary, Wilkes Barre
·      Madison Wivell, General Surgery Preliminary, Wilkes Barre
·      Kyle-Allen Kidd, Radiology-Diagnostic, Danville

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