(l-r) Dr. Reny Cherian, Dr. Katherine Wang, Dr. Kevin Nyabera, Dr. Daphne Metellus, Dr. Milhenka Auguste

The Health Care District of Palm Beach County’s teaching hospital, Lakeside Medical Center, recently graduated five new physicians. The hospital’s 12th class of family medicine residents completed three years of rigorous training, the first of which was during the Delta wave of the pandemic in the underserved, rural Glades communities.

Reny Cherian, M.D., Katherine Wang, D.O., Kevin Nyabera, M.D., Daphne Metellus, M.D., and Milhenka Auguste, M.D., completed rotations in emergency medicine, critical care, women’s health, psychiatry, general surgery, inpatient, outpatient and community medicine, sports medicine, cardiology, geriatrics, and pediatrics. As part of the residency program, the residents also treated patients at the Health Care District’s Community Health Center in Belle Glade, which shares space with the hospital. One of the program’s goals is to cultivate physicians to practice locally. To that end, Dr. Cherian, Dr. Wang, Dr. Metellus and Dr. Auguste plan to continue their careers in Palm Beach County.