SPRING 2026 ISSUE

Carilion Clinic Update

By Karishma Soni, MD
Carilion Clinic

Child Adolescent Psychiatry fellow Shweta Patel will join Marshall University in WV child adolescent department after fellowship in 2027

Our PGY4 class will be moving on.  We wish them well!

  • Dr. Jacqueline Cleary – Eastern State hospital affiliated with Kentucky University
  • Dr. Samantha Matthews – Sheppard Pratt in Maryland
  • Dr. Justin Goolcharan – Maria Param Hospital North Carolina 
  • Dr. Dana Sharma – Carolina Psychiatry in South Carolina
  • Dr. Kajal Mawa – addiction psychiatry fellowship at University of Illinois-Chicago.
  • Dr. Amin Syed – geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York
  • Dr. Karishma Soni – geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York

Our Current PGY3 class;

  • Dr. Shubham Kamal – Jefferson University Hospital
  • Dr. Sameera Chippada – child adolescent psychiatry fellowship in Pennsylvania

Welcome to our Incoming interns (PGY1)

  • Alisha Arul Alphonse MD
  • Partha Baral MBBS
  • Melissa Hoff MD
  • Avilasha Singh MBBS
  • Matthew Moreida MD
  • Hely Patel MBBS
  • Navdeep Singh MBBS
  • Obinna Ejimofor MD

We congratulate Dr. Jay Vora – 2026 American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry Scholar.

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