DOM welcomes new 2025-26 IM interns to residency program

July 8, 2025
David Mogollon, Communications Manager, Department of Medicine

The U of A Department of Medicine greeted 38 new Internal Medicine Residency – Tucson first-year residents to the largest such program in the college and the state with a series of activities starting in mid-June. Learn more and see a mini-photo gallery.

[Collage of images from new intern welcome events hosted by the Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson, the largest residency program at the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson, including orientation day (June 16), Mount Lemmon hike (June 22), web profile photo day (June 27), and IM research mixer (June 30).]

Collage of images from new intern welcome events hosted by the Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson, the largest residency program at the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson, including orientation day (June 16), Mount Lemmon hike (June 22), web profile photo day (June 27), and IM research mixer (June 30).

David Mogollon, Department of Medicine

A series of events are held every summer to welcome new interns as members of the Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson, the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s and state’s largest residency program. See a photo gallery from some of those activities below.

The welcome starts with orientation day, which fell on June 16, when the first-year residents get their white coats and pagers as well as briefings by program leadership and Department of Medicine Chair James K. Liao, MD, a cardiovascular medicine physician-scientist in the Division of Cardiology and Sarver Heart Center and Graduate Faculty member.

“All the interns were very excited to meet the faculty and get started,” said Vikram Singh, MD, MS, one of five IM chief residents for 2025-26.

[Tyler Gloe, DO, a 2025-26 Internal Medicine chief resident]
In terms of memories of my intern year, I vividly recall how grateful I felt toward the senior residents who took me under their wings and spent the extra time that I needed to learn a new system. Early in the year, it is important to lean on your team and ask plenty of questions. Take things one step at a time.

— Tyler Gloe, DO, a 2025-26 internal medicine chief resident

Among tips shared by IM Residency associate program director Joshua Malo, MD, a lung transplant specialist in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine whose research includes coccidioidomycosis, or Valley fever, was to ignore social media while in clinic.

The welcome continues with team-building exercises, including hikes in Tucson’s famous mountain ranges. One took place June 22 on Mount Lemmon — the highest peak at 9,159 feet in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson — led by IM Chief Residents Tyler Gloe, DO, and Joshua Sethi, MD, MS.

“We hiked a total of 3.6 miles,” Dr. Gloe said. “There was nice variety of terrain, some elevation climb and cool mountain air that felt wonderful, especially when the weather was so hot in Tucson (with a high of 103°F — about 20° hotter than on the mountain). It was good to spend some time with the incoming interns outside the hospital.”

Also this year and last year, Banner Health, the college’s primary clinical partner as operator of two hospitals and multiple clinics through Banner – University Medicine Tucson, held receptions at Culinary Dropout on June 18 for new residents and July 2 for new residents and fellows.

[[Image of flyer for 6.30.25 Research Mixer hosted by Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson in COM-T Social Hall, Noon-2 p.m.]

Other events include photo day with U of A Health Sciences BioCommunications photographers to get profile shots for their directory webpage as well as a composite flyer of all 2025-26 residents (June 27) and, this year, an Internal Medicine Research Mixer (June 30 — see flyer at left).

“The mixer was a great event that allowed our senior residents and several fellows to introduce interns to the process of conducting research. Our residents are eager to get involved in the scholarly process,” Dr. Singh said. “It is academic medicine after all.”

For more photos from the Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Research Mixer, see this link.

Click here for a composite of all this year’s 38 new IM interns — categorical or preliminary (preliminary interns move on to different residency training after first year) and the colleges or universities where they earned their medical degrees.

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MINI-PHOTO GALLERY
Click images to enlarge and for captions:

[At orientation day in Lecture Hall 5403 on June 16, Josh Malo, MD, a lung transplant specialist and IM Residency – Tucson associate program director, offers tips to new interns – or first-years – in the program regarding things to keep in mind while on service in clinical settings.]
[Critical care specialist in the Pulmonary division, Laura Meinke, MD, IM Residency – Tucson director and DOM associate vice chair for education, underscores the teamwork required to deliver effective, efficient patient care while interns train as new physicians.]
[IM Residency – Tucson program manager Mary Gosciminski explains the role that staff play in making sure new residents know where they’re supposed to be when and other services to ensure they’re learning what they need to know to provide the best evidence-based, compassionate care while taking care of their wellness needs as well.]
[The Division of Inpatient Medicine’s Joao Paulo “JP” Ferreira, MD, another IM Residency – Tucson associate program director, provides practical advice about balancing rotations and working with attendings and fellow physicians while on clinical service.]
[A group of interns with chief residents Tyler Gloe, DO, and Josh Sethi, MD, MS, in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson for a teambuilding hike in cooler weather. Temperatures vary from 20-30 degrees cooler on Mount Lemmon.]
[IM Chief Resident Josh Sethi, MD, MS, leads the pack on their 3.6 mile Mount Lemmon hike, June 22. About 45 minutes from the U of A campus, Mount Lemmon is 9,159 feet above sea level – the second highest point in the mountain ranges surrounding Tucson. The highest is Mount Wrightson in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson at 9,453 feet.]
[After the Mount Lemmon trek, hikers relax in the shade back in Tucson, including (from left) Adrianna Diviero, MD, her friend, Andres Sanchez, MD (standing), (unidentified - back of head to camera), Benjamin Maglajac, MD, (unidentified), Hyun Kim, MD, Chris Sallurday, DO, and (in the foreground, center) Justin Le, MD, and Laura Tran, MD, with lunch and cold beverages.]
[In their white coats (from left), new Internal Medicine interns Tim Yu, MD, Shawn Wang, MD, Nellie Tolliver, MD, Cooper Stateler, MD, and Sheyda Mesgarzadeh, MD, wait their turn for profile photos to be shot at the UAHS BioCommunications photography studio on the College of Medicine – Tucson’s third floor.]
[Also waiting to be called for their turn for profile photos to be shot at the UAHS BioCommunications photography studio on the College of Medicine – Tucson’s third floor, are new Internal Medicine interns (from left) Ricardo Reyes, DO, Khaja Siddiqui, MD, Kenneth Silvestro, MD, Laura Tran, MD, Adam Westen, MD, and Andres Sanchez, MD.]
[UAHS BioCommunications photographer Mitch Masilun (left) prepares to shoot a white coat profile shot of Ethan Renfrow, DO, in the BioCom studio on the college’s third floor.]
[At an Internal Medicine Research Mixer in the COM-T Social Hall on June 30, new interns get to know each other a little better (from left): Faith Kim, MD, Tim Yu, MD, Andres Sanchez, MD, Gowtham Anche, DO, Luca Bertozzi, MD, Shreeya Agrawal, MD, Nina Maitra, MD, Grace Miller, DO, Ricardo Reyes, DO, and Chris Sallurday, DO.]
[At the IM Research Mixer, residency program director Laura Meinke, MD, a critical care medicine specialist in the Pulmonary division, chats with IM interns (from left) Khaja Siddiqui, MD, Ryan Schmidt, MD, and Emily Adamson, DO, with Eric Brucks, MD, a Tucson VA Medical Center physician who’s an associate program director for the IM Residency – Tucson program there.]
[New interns in the IM Residency – Tucson program Mujtaba Shah, DO, and Khaja Siddiqui, MD, enjoy a chat June 30 during the Internal Medicine Research Mixer in the COM-T Social Hall.]
[Eric Brucks, MD, a Tucson VA Medical Center physician who’s an associate program director for IM Residency – Tucson program members training there, chats with new intern Nicole Price, MD, and fellow IM Residency associate program director J.P. Ferreira, MD.]
[IM Residency – Tucson chief residents (center, top of photo) Sam Cheong, DO, and Max Hart, MD, MEd, answer questions from new interns in the program about how they can fit research into their workloads and various efforts underway in the U of A Health Sciences colleges and its various centers and institutes.]
[A PGY-3 IM resident Simar Singh, MD, PhD, MS (with plate upper right), holds court at the IM Research Mixer, June 30, in the COM-T Social Hall with (to the left of him) interns Adam Weston, MD (giving thumbs up), Nellie Tolliver, MD, Joy Eskandar, MD, and others enjoying the moment.]

Contacts

David Mogollon
mogollon@arizona.edu
520-626-1137