Payam Pourhassani, DO, MSc, is a third-year internal medicine resident at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia. He received his medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Sneha N. Patel, MD, is an internal medicine resident at Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. She received her medical degree from St. George’s University in 2015.
Arundathi Jayatilleke, MD, is the program director of the Drexel Rheumatology Fellowship at Drexel University. Dr. Jayatilleke completed her internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital and her rheumatology fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
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