Residency Rumble - Academic Contest

Over 100 Residents Compete in 16th Academic Rumble Game Show at Residency Education Summit East 2019

Saturday, August 10, 2019

The well attended 16th Residency Rumble was won this year by a very impressive combined team from Montifiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, and Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, NY.

Rumble 1st Place

Teams from Montifiore Medical Center/Good Samaritan Hospital MC take First Place in the 2019 Residency Education Summit East Residency Rumble Academic Competition (L to R: Vincent Gramuglia, DPM, Residency Director, Pooja Shah, DPM, Alisha Poonja, DPM from Montifiore, and Amanda Khoury, DPM, Maria Cifone, DPM, Michael Mazer, DPM, and Kevin Douglas, DPM for Good Samaritan Hospital MC)

Second place went to Jefferson Health - Northeast, Philadelphia.

Rumble 2nd Place

Jefferson Health - Northeast Participants (L to R:) Dustin Davis, DPM, Robert Northon, DPM, Michael Ham, DPM, Kyle Haverstom, DPM, and Kevin Oshiokpekhai, DPM

3rd place to St Barnabas Medical Center, Bronx, NY/Bridgeport Hospital - Yale New Haven Health, Bridgeport, CT/DVA Salem, Salem, VA.

Rumble 3rd Place

St Barnabas Medical Center Participants (L to R:) Jonathan Fung, DPM, Mia Cosentino, DPM, Bridgeport Hospital - Yale New Haven Health Participant Scott Bastian, DPM, DVA Salem Participants (L to R:) Aliza Lee, DPM - Residency Director, Karen Uchmarowicz, DPM, John "Max" Cooper, DPM, and Mina Sarbaz, DPM

4th place went to DVA-Orlando, FL/Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ.

Rumble 4th Place

DVA - Orlando Participants (L to R:) Robert Phillips, DPM - Residency Director, Yanine Velasquez, DPM, Marissa Venero, DPM, Saint Michael's Medical Center Participants (L to R:) Adeen Khokhar, DPM, Fulvia Giraldi, DPM, and Jacob Reinkraut, DPM - Residency Director

5th place went to DVA-New York Harbor Healthcare, NYC, NY.

Rumble 5th Place

DVA - New York Harbor Healthcare Participants (L to R:) Jalu Patel, DPM - Residency Director, Shilpa Sharma, DPM, Parth Dixit, DPM, Danielle Dubois, DPM, Caitlyn Goodwin, DPM, Ashley Kim, DPM, Shing Yuen, DPM, Vani Manchanda, DPM, and Joe Schmidl, DPM

The Prizes

$2600 Total in Prize Money was Awarded to the Winners


  •  1st Prize $1000 for the combined Teams of Montifiore Medical Center/Good Samaritan Hospial MC
  • 2nd Prize $750 for the Jefferson Health - Northeast Team
  •  3rd Prize $500 for the combined Teams of St Barnabas Medical Center/Bridgeport Hospital - Yale New Haven Health/DVA Salem
  •  4th Prize $250 for the combined Teams of DVA-Orlando, FL/Saint Michael’s Medical Center
  •  5th Prize $100 for the DVA-New York Harbor Healthcare Team