Welcome to Our New Pathology Residents!

We’re excited to welcome our incoming pathology residents following Match Day 2026! Read the bios of this talented group below.

 

Devin Busono will join us from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, after undergraduate studies at Rutgers University where he majored in oceanography. He has extensive experience in exploration and has a wealth of medical experience as an EMT and has studied marine viruses in diatoms.

Shelcie Fabre will join us from New York Medical College with her medical degree and a master’s of public health. She is invested in helping students consider jobs in the lab and in pathology and is very interested in education. Shelcie has experience in the microbiology lab from her time getting an undergraduate degree in microbiology in Pittsburg.

Burcu Gurun-Demir will join us after completing her MD/PhD at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine. With her undergraduate and graduate degrees in statistics and her PhD in biomechanical engineering, Burcu comes to pathology with a wealth of experience in computational biology and cancer research.

Ariel Hernandez-Leyva will return to the Northeast after a combined MD/PhD program at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, where he went after his biology undergraduate degree from Yale. During his graduate studies, Ariel investigated the relationship between the gut microbiota and host breath, incorporating metabolomics and metagenomics analyses.

Cassidy Miller will graduate from the Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados, after receiving her undergraduate degree in biomedical science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virigina. Cassidy spent her time in medical school as a peer tutor and brings with her strong teaching skills to pathology residency.

Nicholas Osborne will come east from the Northeast Ohio Medical University where he is completing his MD/PhD. He comes to pathology residency with a master’s degree in medical ethics & humanities, where he studied how to prepare pathology trainees for ethical issues raised by AI and precision medicine.

Michael Shukis is completing his MD at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where he went after an undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Brigham Young University. Michael has leadership experience within the AMA and the Association of Native American Medical Students, and in medical school he worked on a project building an AI-based simulation platform for standardized patient interactions.

Riley Smith is coming to the northeast from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine where he was involved in leadership roles and research in post-treatment pseudo-progression in glioblastoma patients. He is a multi-instrumentalist and a collector of fountain pens.

Mallissa Vuong will join us from the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School where she went following undergraduate work in molecular biology and chemistry at Duke University, where she did translational oncology research in large cetacea. She was president of the Chinese Language Medicine Group and co-ran a student-run group that provides art for healing within the hospital.