Ekaterina Vypritskaya, MD, FACP
Director, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr. Vypritskaya earned her medical degree and was trained in Cardiology in Russia, where she worked in City Emergency Hospital with concomitant teaching responsibilities for 10 years.
After relocating to the United States, she once again completed an Internal Medicine Residency in 2009, this time with Capital Health, which became her home. Dr. Vypritskaya served as Chief Resident, Core Faculty, and Associate Program Director within the Internal Medicine Residency Program. In 2022, she accepted the role of Program Director of the new Transitional Year Program at Capital Health.
Dr. Vypritskaya enjoys working with residents and medical students on ward rotations as physicians in training always bring energy, intellectual curiosity, and “out of the box” thinking to the patient's bedside and teaching rounds.
Dr. Vypritskaya collaborates with her residents on quality improvement projects such as preventing iatrogenic anemia, hospital-associated infections, improvement in the management and diagnosis of sepsis, and others. She strongly believes that medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and systems-based practice should all be intertwined, revised, and reinforced, to provide safe and high quality patient care. One of her abstracts, reflecting multidisciplinary quality improvement efforts, was accepted at the International Safety and Quality Forum in Hong Kong in August of 2024.
One of Dr. Vypritskaya’s passions is Community Outreach. She and her residents collaborate with the Eastern Service Workers Association (ESWA), our neighbors in Trenton, by providing educational sessions, vaccinations, and helping to establish their primary care physicians in our free resident run clinics. She is one of the recipients of the prestigious Dr. Martin Epstein Award in 2022, reflecting her work in the community.
Sarah I. Sordo, MD
Core Faculty, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr. Sordo graduated with a Gold Diploma from the Higher Institute of Medical Science in Havana, Cuba. She completed her Internal Medicine training at Capital Health and worked as a fourth-year chief resident. She is the recipient of multiple awards from attending physicians and nursing staff during her training at Capital Health and was recognized as a “superior medical resident”.
Dr. Sordo is part of the team at Capital Health Primary Care – Hopewell and is actively involved with resident education and training. Dr. Sordo has been a faculty member of the Internal Medicine Residency Program since 2001. Her areas of interest are preventive medicine and wellness, obesity and other metabolic disorders, and women’s health.
Muhammad Tahseen, MD
Core Faculty, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr.Tahseen is an intensivist in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell and continues to instruct Capital Health’s Internal Medicine residents as part of their ICU rotation at Hopewell.
Board certified in Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Tahseen received his medical degree at Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, PA. He did a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Dr. Tahseen enjoys teaching and instructing the residents during their ICU rotation. He encourages residents to be vigilant about every aspect of the patient and their care and challenges residents in a positive way to make them think critically about management.
Jared Paster, DO
Emergency Medicine Clinical Faculty, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr. Paster is an attending physician in the Emergency Department (ED) at Capital Health and helps to instruct residents from each GME program as part of their ED rotation.
Board certified in Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine, Dr. Paster received his medical degree at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Bethlehem, PA and his Sports Medicine fellowship at Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Daniel F. Goldsmith, MD, FACP
Internal Medicine Clinical Faculty, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr. Goldsmith graduated from Cornell University Medical College and trained in Internal Medicine at Boston University. After his training, he joined Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, a community-based Internal Medicine practice where he served as a firm leader for the resident practice for three years prior to joining Capital Health in 2001.
Dr. Goldsmith mentors the residents in submitting abstracts and other scholarly activities, resulting in numerous acceptances for presentations at National and Regional Conferences every year. He has a special interest in teaching bedside physical diagnosis. Dr. Goldsmith also has an academic appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine from Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is the Chair of the Institutional Review Board and Chair of the Continuing Medical Education Committee at Capital Health. Dr. Goldsmith also serves as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Goldsmith is very likely to ask you about the music you listen to, the restaurants you frequent, and what else you like to do outside of work.
Sumiya Ahmed, MD
Ambulatory Clinical Faculty, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr. Ahmed was studying to be a Physician’s Assistant at Drexel University in Philadelphia when she got the opportunity to go to medical school. Dr. Ahmed graduated from Dow International Medical College in Pakistan. She is experienced in providing care for adults have worked as a Primary Care Physician since her graduation for the Capital Health Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2020.
Dr. Ahmed will be working with residents at one of our Ambulatory Rotation training sites at Capital Health Primary Care – West Windsor.
Maria D. Lugo, MD
Ambulatory Clinical Faculty, Transitional Year Residency Program
Dr. Lugo is a Family Medicine board certified physician. She attended medical school at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in San Juan, Puerto Rico as well as completed her Geriatric Fellowship there. As a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and American Medical Association, Dr. Lugo brings years of experience in primary care medicine.
Dr. Lugo will be working with residents at one of our Ambulatory Rotation training sites at Capital Health Primary Care – Bordentown.
Steve McDonnell
Coordinator, Transitional Year Residency Program
Steve McDonnell graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Communication Arts & Sciences. Before joining the Transitional Year Residency Program, he worked for several years in Capital Health’s Rehabilitation Services Department, running the daily operations at the Outpatient Therapy Clinic.
Steve works closely with the residents, program director and faculty daily to ensure an efficient and productive academic year. He assures compliance with ACGME hospital system requirements through managing all non-clinical functions of the program. Steve believes the Transitional Year Program will be a tremendous foundational building block for residents to succeed in their future professional and academic endeavors.