The list for 2024-25 includes two residents, six fellows, seven students who earned doctorates, and three who earned master’s degrees. Graduates are listed with their next destination, if known:
Graduating Residents
• Jordan Burr, DO – Cytopathology Fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC
• Austin Helmink, MD – Surgical Pathology Fellowship, UNMC
Graduating Fellows
• Ketav Desai, MD (Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellow) – Faculty, UNMC
• Kayla Hoerschgen, MD (Hematopathology Fellow) – Hematopathologist, Sanford USD Medical Center, Sioux Falls, SD
• Zaid Khreefa, MBBS (Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellow) – Staff Pathologist, AmeriPath Cleveland, Twinsburg, OH
• Pranav Renavikar, MBBS (Surgical Pathology Fellow) – Faculty, UNMC
• Ahmed Sabri, MD (Hematopathology Fellow) – Faculty, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
• Chunyi Zhou, PhD (Clinical Microbiology Fellow) – pending
Graduating with PhD
• Benjamin Girardo – Vireo Systems Inc., Quality Assurance and Quality Control Supervisor
• Aaron Jensen – Phibro Animal Health, Omaha, NE, Research and Development Scientist
• Elizabeth Klug – Senior Scientist, UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, in Dr. Joshua Santarpia’s lab
• Itidal Reslane – postdoctorate in Tennessee
• Ramia Salloom
• Zachary Van Roy (MD/PhD scholar) – continuing medical school at UNMC
• Ray Widner
Graduating with MS
• Emily Heaton
• Megan Otte
• Dania Sahtout