A Dozen Physicians to Graduate Adventist Health’s Residency Program

HANFORD, CA — After three years of training, 12 physicians graduated from the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Residency program at Adventist Health Central California Network. 
 
On Tuesday, June 24, Adventist Health honored the residents during a ceremony at the Visalia Convention Center. 
 
The residents have been participating in Adventist Health’s GME family medicine residency programs, which provide supervised clinical training that allows physicians to have hands-on clinical experience. The GME program comprises five residency programs: 
 

• Hanford Family Medicine 
• Hanford-Sonora Family Medicine 
• Tulare Family Medicine 
• Tulare Internal Medicine 
• Bakersfield Internal Medicine 

 
With these programs, Adventist Health is helping address a shortage of physicians across the nation. California will likely face a statewide shortfall of clinicians in the next 14 years, and some regions, such as the Central Valley, face a greater shortage because providers are not evenly distributed across all regions of the state, according to a study from the Health Center at the University of California, San Francisco. The residency program also helps Adventist Health extend its reach and ability to provide compassionate care to patients throughout the region. 

List of Graduates: 
 
Hanford Family Medicine                                         Tulare Family Medicine 

Natasha Ahmed, MD	Shareefa Begum, MD
Kavya Chavali, MD	Mandeep Kaur, MD
Jonathan Pinches, IV, MD	Patrick Matian, DO
Aseem Singh, MD	Otito Odiakosa, MD
Anthony Trinh, MD	Yiuing Pinches, MD
Tiffany Yu, MD	Oliver Sabalboro, MD