Class of 2025

Victor Cao, MD

  • Hometown:  Loma Linda, CA

  • Undergraduate Education:  California State University, San Bernardino

  • Medical Education:  Loma Linda University School of Medicine

  • Hobbies:  Exploring the culinary scene, Mountain biking, BJJ

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  My smashburgers will knock your socks off

  • Plans after Residency:  Paying off loans and traveling as much as I can

  • Next Adventure:  Exploring the Amalfi Coast

  • EM Interests:  EMS, event medicine, ultrasound

Yuwen Cheng, MD

  • Hometown:  Queens, NY

  • Undergraduate Education:  New York University

  • Medical Education:  Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

  • Hobbies:  #gymtoeat, coffee enthusiast, netflix binger

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  motorcycle-chick-wannabe

  • Plans after Residency:  Be a spirited ER doc living the Cali dream; oh and to open a coffee shop

  • Next Adventure:  If stars aligned and covid controlled, a trip to Europe. Or get a puppy I guess?

  • EM Interests:  Crit Care, EMS, Addiction Med

Dev Dhillon, MD

  • Hometown:  Fontana, CA

  • Undergraduate Education:  University of California, Davis

  • Medical Education:  University of California, Riverside School of Medicine

  • Hobbies:  Snowboarding, automotive enthusiast, wood working, lifting, shooting, camping, hiking, fishing, video games

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  Put my ankle back in place after breaking it doing back flips. I landed the first one though.

  • Plans after Residency:  start a family, enjoy life as an ER doc

  • Next Adventure:  Travel through India

  • EM Interests:  Ultrasound, EMS, critical care, toxicology, wilderness medicine

Thuy-My Le, MD

  • Hometown:  Sarasota, FL

  • Undergraduate Education:  Johns Hopkins University

  • Medical Education:  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

  • Hobbies:  weightlifting, skiing/snowboarding/hiking, cookie and cake decorating, cooking, writing scathing yelp reviews, and playing guitar poorly

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  I believe in ghosts

  • Plans after Residency:  open my own bakery, start my own tech business, and be a real doctor

  • Next Adventure:  rebranding myself as a surfer chick

  • EM Interests:  wilderness medicine, research, administration

Cyrus Nguyen, MD

  • Hometown:  Van Nuys, CA

  • Undergraduate Education:  Yale University

  • Medical Education:  UC Riverside School of Medicine

  • Hobbies:  surfing, Color Me Mine, world exploration

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  I was on American Idol

  • Plans after Residency:  trophy husband

  • Next Adventure:  adopting a dog

  • EM Interests:  admin, med ed, and very excited to learn more about the many other facets of emergency medicine with which I am not familiar

Dustin Phan, MD

  • Hometown:  Nashville, TN

  • Undergraduate Education:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Medical Education:  Meharry Medical College

  • Hobbies:  Live music, eating, exercise, and playing with my dog Mac

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  I once won a music scholarship for playing bluegrass guitar

  • Plans after Residency:  Get a job and pay off my loans

  • Next Adventure:  Hawaii

  • EM Interests:  US and toxicology

Niluk Leon Senewiratne, MD

  • Hometown:  Chino, California

  • Undergraduate Education:  University of Southern California

  • Medical Education:  University of California Riverside School of Medicine

  • Hobbies: Marksmanship, Building cars, Snowboarding, Camping, Offroading, Gardening
    Fun Fact About Yourself: I have survived 3 helicopter crashes

  • Plans after Residency: Work in a county medical setting/ community program. Continue to teach medical education.

  • Next Adventure: Take my dad to go see Machu Picchu

  • EM Interests: Critical care medicine, EM advocacy/ legislation, Hospital administration, Medical student education

Ray Tang, MD

  • Hometown:  Fullerton, CA

  • Undergraduate Education:  Columbia University

  • Medical Education:  Mount Sinai

  • Hobbies:  Kickboxing, BJJ, camping/hiking, karaoke, DIY projects, video games

  • Fun Fact About Yourself:  Lately been on a medieval history binge

  • Plans after Residency:  TBD, but hopefully working with many veterans

  • Next Adventure:  Somewhere tropical, never had a proper tropical vacation

  • EM Interests:  Wilderness med, EMS