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Abrazo Health graduates largest class of physicians
Abrazo Health
Abrazo Health held the largest graduation for its Graduate Medical Education program this year.
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Abrazo Health’s Graduate Medical Education program recently graduated its largest class of primary care and specialty physicians.
The program graduated 33 residents and three fellows during a June 14 ceremony at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess. The Class of 2025 includes 16 internal medicine residents, three general surgery residents, seven emergency medicine residents, seven family medicine residents, two cardiology fellows and one infectious disease fellow.
“Abrazo Health’s GME program continues to attract, educate and mentor the next generation of primary care and specialty physicians,” said Brian Elisco, Abrazo Health Arizona Group CEO, in a press release. “We take great pride in the contribution Abrazo Health has made — and continues to make — to help alleviate the shortage of trained physicians nationally, regionally and within our own community.”
The program’s fellowship efforts have shows the quality of the overall class, said Angela Franco, Abrazo Health’s administrative director of Graduate Medical Education.
“In order to offer fellowships, all core residency programs have to be in good standing and fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education,” she said in a press release. “It’s a testament to how our program has continued to expand and mature in recent years as we have added more residencies and fellowships.”
Drs. Jorge Rodriguez and Raj Shah are not only the first two cardiology fellows to graduate from the program, but they were also members of its first graduating class of internal medicine residents in 2022. Dr. Omair Hasan chose to do his two-year infectious disease fellowship at Abrazo Health after completing his internal medicine residency in California in 2011.
All three physicians say they intend to continue practicing in the Phoenix area. Hasan has applied for privileges within the Abrazo system and will help train future infectious disease fellows. Rodriguez and Shah both plan to return to the area after they complete one-year sub-specialty fellowships in California and Texas, respectively.
