Bayhealth resident physicians plan to make Delaware home

Bayhealth’s physician residency programs – the first in central and southern Delaware to launch back in 2021 – have now come full circle. The inaugural classes of family medicine and internal medicine residents recently graduated from Bayhealth, proudly joining the ranks of primary care doctors who are in high demand due to nationwide physician shortages.

Just three years ago, Bayhealth made history when it became a teaching hospital and welcomed its first classes of residents. Its graduate medical education program has steadily grown to include residencies in general surgery and emergency medicine, in addition to a hematology and medical oncology program that began training fellows in July and a gastroenterology fellowship set to begin in July 2025.

As part of their program training at Bayhealth, resident doctors care for patients in the hospital setting and at the two residency practices – Bayhealth Family Medicine, Dover, and Bayhealth Internal Medicine, Milford – first created in 2021. This has resulted in expanded healthcare access for many Delawareans. In fact, between the two practices and the care provided by the residents, nearly 39,000 patients in area communities have received the healthcare they needed.

Four of the graduating residents have permanently joined the Bayhealth Medical Staff and will continue caring for patients locally. Nwando Tony-Onugu, MD, is a hospitalist providing inpatient care at Bayhealth hospitals and will be a faculty member in the residency program. Michael Sabry Daniel, DO, was hired as an Apogee hospitalist working at Bayhealth. Paulina McCabe, DO, is a new family medicine physician at the Bayhealth Primary Care Milford practice. Kendall Barton, MD, will soon start as a family medicine physician at the new Bayhealth Primary Care Blue Hen practice in Dover. McCabe and Barton will both be welcoming new patients for primary care. Two additional internal medicine residents, Matt Moorman, DO, and Shereen Salfity, MD, were selected to remain at Bayhealth an additional year as chief residents and academic hospitalists.

Four other Bayhealth residents have matched with specialty programs in nearby states where they will continue their advanced medical training. Eunae Ko, DO, will pursue a pulmonary/critical care fellowship at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Chelsea Loughner, DO, will pursue an endocrinology fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Amanda Nguyen, DO, will pursue a critical care medicine fellowship at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, N.J.; Usamma Ghumann, MD, will pursue a hepatology fellowship at the University of Texas; and Keertana Seeli, MD, will pursue a pulmonary/critical care fellowship at Guthrie/Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa.

“We are so proud of all the residents who have excelled in our programs and have significantly contributed to the health and betterment of our communities,” said Gary Siegelman, MD, MSc,Bayhealth designated institutional official. “Having residents pursue primary care or further their training in subspecialities they are passionate about is a testament to their dedication as well as the quality of our programs, including our devoted faculty and attending physicians who have prepared them well to become future primary care or specialist physicians. We hoped that some of the residents would fall in love with Delaware and decide to stay and continue their career here, and we’re very pleased that’s been the case.”