Congratulations to our graduates

Line of graduates in caps and gowns

The list for 2025-2026 includes four residents, five fellows, 10 students who earned doctorates, and two who earned master’s degrees. Graduates are listed with their next destination, if known:

Graduating Residents

  • Thomas Auen, DO, Forensic Pathology Fellowship, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
  • Esther Habib, DO, Surgical Pathology Fellowship, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Richard Laye, MD, Hematopathology Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, VA
  • Casey Schwee, DO, Surgical Pathology Fellowship, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Graduating Fellows

  • Ahmed Ahmed, MBBCh (Hematopathology), Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
  • Tory Durkin, MD (Gastrointestinal/Liver & Transplant), Staff Pathologist, Stanford USD Medical Center, Sioux Falls, SD
  • Marika Forsythe, MD (Molecular Genetic Pathology), Neuropathology Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • Austin Helmink, MD (Surgical Pathology), Staff Pathologist, Physician’s Laboratory of Northwest Iowa Ltd., Preston, IA
  • Scott Stevenson, PhD (Clinical Microbiology), Technical Director, Labcorp, Department of Serology, Burlington, NC

Graduating with PhD

  • Ashish Das
  • Francis Fontanilla, Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNMC in Rey Carabeo’s lab
  • Valerie Fousek-Schuller, Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNMC’s Eppley Institute in Gloria Borstahl’s lab
  • Dylan George, Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNMC in M. Jana Broadhurst’s lab
  • Abigail Hall
  • Dawson Hollingsworth
  • Brigham Killips, Two-Year Fellowship at NIH, Bethesda, MD (National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program/Intramural Research Training Award)
  • Aramis Pereira, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr. Courtney Aldrich’s lab in the University of Minnesota’s College of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Gabrielle Schulze
  • Reegan Sturgeon, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr. SJ Gao’s lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Hillman Cancer Center

Graduating with MS

  • Jampa (Jhyama) Gurung, entering IPID program as PhD student
  • Kamryn Reynolds, entering IGPBS program at UNMC as PhD student
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