SUMMER 2026 ISSUE

VCU Medical School Update

By T’Keyah Vaughan, MD, MS
PGY-2 | Department of Psychiatry
VCU Health System

Congratulations to our graduating residents!

Jacqueline Guo – Going to the Bay Area in California to work at Kaiser
Husayn Tavangar – Going to work at the Veteran’s Affairs
Lydia Bedford – Going to Columbia University for a Community Psychiatry Fellowship
Michaela Hurley – Going to Yale University for a Consult Liaison Fellowship
Conrad Mascarenhas – Going to Yale University for Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Some of our PGY-3’s are leaving for child fellowship. We wish them well.

Abenaa Asare: Going to Thomas Jefferson
Parker Booren: Going to Boston Children’s
Crystal Lewis: Going to University of Maryland
Alina Nguyen: Going to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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