Psychiatry Residency Program
Welcome to AtlantiCare’s Psychiatry Residency Training Program
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center is a fully ACGME accredited Psychiatry Residency Training Program. We are dedicated to training residents, teaching medical students and building healthy communities together. We are committed to providing trainees with the highest quality graduate medical education training that will prepare you to become our next generation of board certified Psychiatrists.
The AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center is a community-based teaching hospital. The ARMC has a state of the art psychiatric inpatient unit. It’s compliant with the highest level of patient safety and provides a comfortable healing space for our patients. The unit is equipped with a calming room, music room, art therapy room and our wonderful mental health staff, nurses, social workers and dedicated teaching attendings. Our outpatient continuity clinics are located a few blocks from our city campus and throughout our Mainland campus. Residents will have the opportunity to manage a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses from culturally diverse and socioeconomic patient populations.
2026-2027 Interviews
Conducted virtually starting October 2025
Number of Positions
3
Length of the Program
4 Years
Program Start Date
July 1, 2026
Focus on Education
- All Psychiatric services have one to one supervision with our faculty.
- At ARMC we work together to ensure collaborative care. We have fully integrated disciplinary teams and supportive hospital leadership.
- Weekly protected didactic time. Our very own program director Brian Isaacson, MD, MBA was awarded the 2019 Faculty Teaching Award from Cooper University Hospital.
Focus on our Community
- At our city campus the Psychiatric Intervention Program (PIP) is the only crisis response center providing screening for all of Atlantic County including children. Residents are always on-call with a dedicated attending.
- Our services range from child to adult partial programs.
- Program for Assertive Community Training (PACT)
- Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). A Medicare and Medicaid program that helps people meet their health care needs in the community instead of going to a nursing home or other care facility.
Meet the Director
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Ramkrishna Makani, MD, MPH, FAPARESIDENCY PROGRAM DIRECTOR Dr. Makani is a clinical interventional psychiatrist and director of the Department of Psychiatry at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center. He is board certified in psychiatry and neurology and child and adolescent psychiatry. |
Core Faculty
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| Anup Mani, DO Associate Residency Program Director Board certified: Psychiatry and Neurology |
Sayed Ammar, MD Teaching Faculty Attending Psychiatrist Board Certified: Psychiatry |
Mohammad Ashfaq, MD, FAPA Teaching Faculty Attending Psychiatrist Board Certified: Psychiatry and Neurology |
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| Maria Teresa Daclan, MD Teaching Faculty Attending Psychiatrist Board Certified: Psychiatry |
Michael J. DeMotte, MD, MS Teaching Faculty Board certified: Psychiatry |
Roshi DeSilva, DO Teaching Faculty Consultation and Liaison Psychiatrist Board Certified: Psychiatry and Neurology |
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| David Huang, MD Teaching Faculty Outpatient Medical Director Board Certified: Psychiatry and Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
Kevin Hunter, MD Teaching Faculty Attending Neurologist Board certified: Psychiatry and Neurology and Sleep Medicine |
Brian Isaacson, MD, MBA Teaching Faculty Chairman, Department of Psychiatry Board Certified: Psychiatry and Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
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| Kirsy Japa, MD Teaching Faculty Attending Psychiatrist Board Certified: Psychiatry |
Justin Lee, MD, MS Teaching Faculty Attending Psychiatrist Board certified: Psychiatry |
Lisa Lindquist, DO Teaching Faculty Inpatient Medical Director Board Certified: Psychiatry and Neurology |
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| Joseph Ranieri, DO, FAAFP, FASAM Teaching Faculty Medical Director, Addiction Services |
Garrett Rossi, MD Teaching Faculty Attending Psychiatrist Board certified: Psychiatry and Neurology |
Keith Semler, DO Teaching Faculty Interventional Psychiatrist Board Certified: Psychiatry and Neurology |
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| Alkeem Savage, MD Associate Medical Director John Brooks Recovery Center Board Certification: American Board of Family Medicine Board Eligible: ABPM Addiction Medicine Board Certification |
Cassandra Ramirez, DO Attending Psychiatrist Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) |
Asma Badar, MD Attending Psychiatrist Acute Adult Partial Care Board Certified: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Board Certified: Geriatric Psychiatry |
Current Residents
PGY 1
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Brittany C. Eason, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Steven Kaufmann, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Leah Elizabeth Thomas, MD
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
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Erik Vandenberg, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
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PGY 2
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Cara Anzulewicz, MD
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
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Alexandra Fleck, DO
Hometown: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Zhi-Shan Hsu, MD
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
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Camille Lynch, MD
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Drexel University College of Medicine
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Connor Mott, MD
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Cooper Medical School
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PGY 3
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Jesse Aaron Benzell, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Krisdaniel Berreta, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Carolinas
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Peter Muraca, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Mariel Nepa, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Bianca Patel, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine
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PGY 4
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Kendrick Abad, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Jonathan Morden, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Sean Rush, DO
Hometown: Undergraduate School: Medical School: Clinical Interests: Personal Interests: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
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