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Internal Medicine Residency Program to Expand as 12 More Trainees Match to Join Inaugural Class

Posted by [email protected] on 08/26/2025 3:01 pm  

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, proudly announces its next group of incoming Resident Physicians.

The 12 trainees who will make up the second class will join the inaugural class of Resident Physicians who founded the program in 2021. The group will begin their three years of training in July 2022 as PGY1s following a two-week orientation period.

These clinicians matched with BMH-NM on the first day of the National Resident Matching Program’s Main Residency Match after a rigorous recruitment, interview, and ranking process. The program received 1,500 applications, and a committee comprised of program leadership and core faculty physicians conducted 178 interviews to determine a ranked list of trainees to fill the 12 positions.

The program’s mission remains to train clinically and procedurally competent physicians in the specialty of Internal Medicine who will provide high quality, safe, cost-effective, and patient/family-centered care for adults in North Mississippi, upholding the greater Baptist Memorial Health Care mission of “Healing, Preaching and Teaching.”

Download a PDF of the class flyer.

2022-2023 First-Year internal Medicine Resident Physicians


Bilal Abaid, MD

Medical School: Rawalpindi Medical College (Rawalpindi, Pakistan)
Undergraduate: Government College University (Lahore, Pakistan)
Hometown: Lahore, Pakistan
Moving to Oxford from: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Haya Alghazo, MD

Medical School: Jordan University of Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine (Ar-Ramtha, Jordan)
Hometown: Ajloun, Jordan
Moving to Oxford from: Currently resides in Oxford, MS

Kelley Bellia, DO

Medical School: Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Lynchburg, VA)
Undergraduate: Thiel College (Greenville, PA)
Hometown: Beaver Falls, PA
Moving to Oxford from: Currently resides in Oxford, MS

Richard Bresler, MD

Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine (Dublin, Ireland)
Undergraduate: Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Moving to Oxford from: Philadelphia, PA

Zachary Ellis, DO

Medical School: William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Hattiesburg, MS)
Undergraduate: Chapman University (Orange, CA)
Hometown: San Clemente, CA
Moving to Oxford from: Corinth, MS

Rejina Fahhoum, DO

Medical School: William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Hattiesburg, MS)
Undergraduate: Rhodes College (Memphis, TN)
Hometown: Cordova, TN
Moving to Oxford from: Cordova, TN

Naira Fatima, MD

Medical School: Changsha Medical University (Changsha, China)
Undergraduate: Superior College (Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan)
Hometown: Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan
Moving to Oxford from: Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Siddharth Gupta, MD

Medical School: Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (Punjab, India)
Hometown: Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Moving to Oxford from: Otonabee-South Monaghan, Ontario, Canada

Kenny Ikebudu, MD

Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia (Suwanee, Georgia)
Undergraduate: University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Hometown: Lawrenceville, GA
Moving to Oxford from: Lawrenceville, GA

A.J. Lynch, DO

Medical School: Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Lynchburg, VA)
Undergraduate: Northwest Nazarene University (Nampa, ID)
Hometown: Payette, ID
Moving to Oxford from: Payette, ID

Thomas Rabadi, MD

Medical School: Saint James School of Medicine Anguilla (The Quarter, Anguilla)
Undergraduate: University at Albany, SUNY (Albany, NY)
Hometown: Yonkers, NY
Moving to Oxford from: Yonkers, NY

Dakota White, DO

Medical School: William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Hattiesburg, MS)
Undergraduate: University of Mississippi (University, MS)
Hometown: Hernando, MS
Moving to Oxford from: Corinth, MS