Residency Programs
Residents and Graduates
Our family medicine residents engage in a community-focused program that emphasizes bringing health, wholeness and hope to our patients.
Where our graduates go
Adventist Health Glendale family medicine program trains residents broadly, as evidenced by the wide spectrum of practice settings our graduates move on to. Some locations our most recent graduates are practicing at include inpatient, outpatient, and fellowship programs.
Graduate locations include
- Adventist Health Group
- Facey Medical Group
- Harbor UCLA Medical Center Sports Medicine Fellowship
- Kerlan-Jobe Institute Cedar Sinai Sports Medicine Fellowship
- UCLA Health
- Memorial Care Health Services
- LAC+USC Geriatric Fellowship
- UCSF Health
- Kaiser Permanente
- USC HIV Fellowship
- Asia Pacific Healthcare
- Core Faculty at Dallas Methodist Family Medicine Residency
- Vituity Hospitalist Group at Adventist Health Glendale
- St. Anthony Medical Clinic
- Optum
- Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Loma Linda Medical Center
- AltaMed
- Core Faculty at Adventist Health Glendale Family Medicine Residency
- Sports Medicine Fellowship UHS Southern California Medical Education Consortium
- UCSF Palliative Care Fellowship Fresno
- Chinatown Service Center
- Kaiser Glendale
- Kaiser San Jose
- All For Health
Past graduates
Class of 2026
- Baina Barouni, DO
- Sami Daher, DO
- Alexandra Lee, MD
- Karin Saran, DO
- Teodick Shahbandari, DO
- Ani Terteryan-Asryan, DO
Class of 2025
- Athenia Barouni, DO
- Tyler Dawson, DO
- Arusyak Harutyunyan, MD
- Fay Kamsut, MD
- Talin Nazarian, DO
- Lara Parsekhian, DO
Class of 2024
- Samuel Almasi, DO
- Narek Asryan, MD
- Brian Le, DO
- Djordje Milvojevic, DO
- Azar Razikeen, MD
- Felicia Salanga, DO
- Christine Sayegh, DO
- Hapet (Jack) Shaybekyan, MD
- Vesta Yazadani, DO
Class of 2023
- Mustafa Arch, DO
- Jae Choe, DO
- Aris Melkonian, MD
- Andrew Nguyen, DO
- Naira Sargsyan, DO
- Laura Spanko, DO
- Sophia Sun, DO
Graduate medical education and verification of training
To submit a request for verification of training, please email your request along with a signed “Release of Information” to Sam Rodriguez, Residency Administrator.
Email: rodrigs29@ah.org
Phone: 818-409-8012
Payment information and fees
Cost: A $30 processing fee applies.
Processing Time: Please allow 7–14 business days for processing.
Make checks payable to: Adventist Health Glendale
Please add the following to the memo line: Medical Education Tax ID: 95-1816017
Payment mailing address:
Adventist Health Glendale
ATTN: Graduate Medical Education
1509 Wilson Terrace
Glendale, CA 91206
Current residents
Armin Aghazarian, DO
PGY-3
Nicole Chong, MD
PGY-3
Mohamed Hussein, MD
PGY-3
Lilian Iskandaryan, DO
PGY-3
Samanta Landazuri, MD
PGY-3
Shriya Sharma, DO
PGY-3
Erin Su, MD
PGY-3
Dania Tarar, DO
PGY-3
Allison Yoon, MD
PGY-3
Fatima Alabbad-Perez, DO
PGY-2
Amir Bakhshi, MD
PGY-2
Meline Ghazaryan, DO
PGY-2
Khachik Hmayakyan, DO
PGY-2
Richard Joo, MD
PGY-2
Hsin Yu “Caleb” Lee, MD
PGY-2
Patrick Minassians, MD
PGY-2
Gary Moy, MD
PGY-2
Andrew Avila, DO
PGY-1
Daniel Hsiao, DO
PGY-1
Erica Kim, MD
PGY-1
Mary Kocharyan, DO
PGY-1
Elizabeth Lee, MD
PGY-1
Sims Ma, MD
PGY-1
Ani Orujyan, MD
PGY-1
Lilian Reddivalam, DO
PGY-1