Fall 2019 Fellows Yearbook

Chukwuka Ojiako Dr. Ojako is a PGY 3 resident within The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’s National Family Medicine Residency, training at Unity Health Care in Washington, D.C.. He attended medical school at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has a commitment to delivering community-oriented primary care services to less privileged populations.

Laura O’Neill Laura O’Neill is a third-year pediatric hospital medicine Fellow at Children’s National Medical Center. Prior to medical training, she completed a Master’s of Science in Clinical Psychology and worked with adults with serious mental illness. She completed medical school at the University of California at Davis and a pediatric residency at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her academic interests include: medical education, curriculum development, clinical decision-making and cognitive reasoning. She plans to pursue a career in academic medicine. During this course, she hopes to gain a better understanding of how she can be a better advocate for hospitalized children and adolescents.

Ameet Piryani Ameet is from Seattle, WA. To obtain a global perspective he attended medical school abroad, obtaining an M.D. degree from Xavier University in the Dutch Antilles. His passion for discovery and knowledge led him to work in cardiovascular, renal and stem cell research at the UMKC and later at the Mayo Clinic with current ongoing clinical trials. Subsequently moving to Washington DC, he is currently a PGY3 Internal Medicine Resident at the George Washington University Hospital. Zain Qazi Zain Qazi is a 5th year radiology resident at the George Washington University Hospital. He is from southwestern Virginia, where he also acquired his undergraduate Economics degree with a minor in Chemistry at Virginia Tech. Thereafter, he took post-graduate courses for a semester at the Harvard Extension School in Cambridge Massachusettes. He matriculated into medical school and acquired his MD from Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington West Virginia. After medical school, he did a year of general surgery internship