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Match Day 2019: A photo celebration

Published on: March 15, 2019 By: Staff Reports

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Bound for a preliminary year at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Stephanie Florez-Pollack, who matched in Dermatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, is filled with emotion as she hugs her dad, Gonzalo Florez.

Bound for a preliminary year at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Stephanie Florez-Pollack (center), celebrates after opening her letter. She matched in Dermatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Stephanie Florez-Pollack matched in Dermatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Evan Wright (center), who will serve his Anesthesiology residence at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, hugs his classmate, Adrienne Walker. Evan's older brother Elliot Wright (left) joined in the celebration.

Evan Wright (center), who will serve his Anesthesiology residence at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, celebrates with his older brother Elliot, and his classmate, Adrienne Walker.

Emily Lukose, who will be at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth for her Family Medicine residency, shared the day with parents Georgy and Erina, family and friends.

Elise Burger will complete a preliminary year at HealthONE in Colorado before her Dermatology residency at the University of California San Diego Medical Center.

Alvand Sehat, who matched in General Surgery at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, hugs friend Ruba Alafifi.

Alvand Sehat, who matched in General Surgery at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, celebrates with his family.

Medical student Evan Barrios, who will travel to the University of Florida College of Medicine for his General Surgery residency at Shands Hospital, and his wife, Megan, brought along some handy ear protection for 2-month-old son Henry in the celebratory din of the Williams Center gymnasium.

Courtney Ritchie, Clara Telford, Kristen Murphy, and Bethany Werner celebrate their matches.

Arjun Aggarwal, who is headed to Austin for his Internal Medicine residency training at Dell Medical School, is joined by father Vinod and mother Sushma.

Arjun Aggarwal, his father Vinod and mother Sushma, and younger sister Alisha.

Gene Hu, matched in Internal Medicine at UC San Francisco, celebrates with his fiancé, Stephanie Guo, and friend Loktao Shing.

Brittany Talamantes, whose Pediatrics residency will be at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, celebrates with her brother Henry Talamantes.

Brittany Talamantes (center) shares the good news with friend Clarissa Rice (left), and brother Henry Talamantes (right).

Kylie Cullinan, who is staying at UT Southwestern for her Medicine-Pediatrics residency, shows her match letter to her mom Mimi Cullinan.

Kylie Cullinan and Hannah Viroslav have fun doing a celebratory dance.

Doing the Match Day dance!

Michael Kutschke matched in Orthopaedics at Brown.

Match Day is always a day filled with photo opps.

Smile for your closeup!

Kinjal Mehta, an OB/Gyn match, celebrates with father Mukesh and mother Dipti. The whole family is happy that her training will be at UT Southwestern.

Group of students with the Match Day shirts

Group of students with the Match Day shirts

Lakshya Trivedi, matched in Internal Medicine at UTSW, celebrates with family.

Meaghan Colletti (center right), who will serve her General Surgery residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, is joined by Dr. Angela Mihalic (center left), and her sisters, Ashleigh and Christina.

There’s no doubt about how proud the family of Armando Monroy was on Match Day 2019. He matched in Family Medicine at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, and is joined by his four brothers, Adrian Monroy, Alex Monroy, Jonathan Valadez, Cristian Valadez, mom, Liliann, and friend Armando Valadez.

Toan Nguyen, Diagnostic Radiology at UTSW, Tran Nguyen, Internal Medicine at UTSW, Minh Tran, Internal Medicine at UTMB Galveston, and Pooja Prabhakar, Orthopedics at U Wash-Seattle.

Toan Nguyen, Diagnostic Radiology at UTSW, pinning his match location to the US map, while Tran Nguyen, Internal Medicine at UTSW, looks on.

Miles Batty, who matched in Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Combined, with his 2-year-old son, Max.

Match Day locations on US map

Chelsea Zhang, who matched in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, celebrates with her mom Jumin Xue and dad Jianning Zhang.

Chelsea Zhang, who matched in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, celebrates with her mom Jumin Xue and dad Jianning Zhang.

Van Dang, who matched in Family Medicine at Mid Michigan Medical Center, celebrates with Sophia Tinger, who matched in Family Medicine at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Courtney Ritchie, who matched in Obstetrics-Gynecology at Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University, Michigan, and Bethany Werner, who matched in Obstetrics-Gynecology at UT Southwestern.

Van Dang, who matched in Family Medicine at Mid Michigan Medical Center, celebrates with Sophia Tinger, who matched in Family Medicine at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Courtney Ritchie, who matched in Obstetrics-Gynecology at Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University, Michigan, and Bethany Werner, who matched in Obstetrics-Gynecology at UT Southwestern.

Bound for a preliminary year at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Stephanie Florez-Pollack (center), celebrates after opening her letter. She matched in Dermatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

It was a day of hugs and celebration.

Vanessa Norris, who matched in Obstetrics-Gynecology at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, celebrates with Degian Ghebermicael, who matched in Internal Medicine at Tulane University.

Vanessa Norris and Degian Ghebermicael react to the great news.