Alumni

Caitlin Bilotti

Class of 2012
Medical School: University of Rochester
EM Interests: Education, research, pediatrics
Interesting Fact: I used to be a competitive gymnast and have the orthopedic injuries to prove it!

Susan Brim

Class of 2012
Medical School: Tulane University
EM Interests: Public health in the ED, pediatric asthma
Interesting Fact: My husband is Adrian Flores (R3) and our amazing 3 year-old daughter has been braving double-parent-residency with us. Ask her and she will tell you how she works at "The Children's Hospital. You know, it's where children work"

Liz Brown

Class of 2012
Medical School: University of Washington
EM Interests: Ultrasound, critical care, airway management
Interesting Fact: I used to be a rock star. Translation: Played cello in a band in high school in Mississippi.

Ben Hippen

Class of 2012
Medical School: University of Iowa
EM Interests: Underserved rural US populations, international EM
Interesting Fact: Every week or two I try to write, record, or arrange a piece of music and post it on my music blog. (http://notesfromanopenwindow.blogspot.com/)

Hemal Kanzaria

Class of 2012
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Training: RWJ Fellowship at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
EM Interests: Public health, global health, policy
Interesting Fact: I love listening to the banjo and wish I was the least bit musically talented (I'm not). I love playing East Coast prep school sports. I'm a converted dog lover. I make a mean chocolate chip cookie/homemade ice cream combo but I wish I could cook Indian food like my mom.
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF

Bory Kea

Class of 2012
Medical School: Stanford
EM Interests: Trauma, palliative care
Interesting Fact: I speak Spanish better than Cambodian, but understand Cambodian better than I speak it.

Pat Lenaghan

Class of 2012
Medical School: Georgetown
EM Interests: Ultrasound, critical care, airway management
Interesting Fact: Grew up on the Jersey Shore, and proud of it!

Jake Miss

Class of 2012
Medical School: Drexel University
EM Interests: Ultrasound, wilderness medicine, global health
Interesting Fact: As a new intern, successfully demonstrated his ATLS skills by extricating and resuscitating the pulseless victim of a rollover collision on a mountain road returning from a day of skiing at Kirkwood

Margaret Salmon

Class of 2012
Medical School: University of Washington

Eric Silman

Class of 2012
Medical School: UC Irvine
EM Interests: Education, ultrasound
Interesting Fact: Had a 3-second non-speaking role in the pilot episode of NBC's short-lived SF TV flop "Trauma" and fell asleep in an out-of-service ambulance while off-camera

Swati Singh

Class of 2012
Medical School: George Washington University
EM Interests: Global health, EMS

Jenny Wilson

Class of 2012
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: EM critical care, palliative care in the ED, EM in resource-scarce settings

Kendall Allred

Class of 2013
Medical School: University of Arizona
EM Interests: Access to care, physician wellness, medical media, handoff/signout, quality improvement, ED throughput
Interesting Fact: Jobs I've had: janitor, cotton farmer, Sonic cook (mmm...), construction worker, tire monkey, exterminator, ED tech, valeting cars, others...

Kristin Berona

Class of 2013
Medical School: Northwestern University
EM Interests: Ultrasound

Hangyul Chung-Esaki

Class of 2013
Medical School: University of Michigan
EM Interests: Critical care, research
Interesting Fact: Any interesting fact about me seems to be overshadowed by the overall difficulty of pronouncing my name. Trust me, I've heard all variations, and my name is not the same as the "Korean" language.

Adrian Flores

Class of 2013
Medical School: LSU
EM Interests: Ultrasound, critical care, global health, wilderness medicine
Interesting Fact: I was a bartender in the French Quarter for 2 years before starting med school.

Joseph Freeman

Class of 2013
Medical School: University of Washington
EM Interests: Health economics, health care and insurance status, at risk populations and health prevention
Interesting Fact: Used to be a Tae Kwon Do instructor. Ninja Kick!

Michael Kennedy Hall

Class of 2013
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
EM Interests: Ultrasound, EMS and frequent users
Interesting Fact: Two Truths and a Lie: I was a street performer in promotions for Cirque du Soleil I was a beekeeper on the first organic farm in Pennsylvania I once taught a yoga class on accident for half an hour without realizing it

Marianne Juarez

Class of 2013
Medical School: University of Michigan - Go Blue!
EM Interests: Sports medicine
Interesting Fact: I've been told I have a Michigan accent but I think people are making that up. Come find me, we'll have a pop and chat and you can decide for yourself
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF

Aaron Kornblith

Class of 2013
Medical School: University of Colorado
EM Interests: Pediatrics, ultrasound, education
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, UCSF

Jillian Mongelluzzo

Class of 2013
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
EM Interests: Critical Care, education, research
Interesting Fact: I am always lucky on the Roulette table.
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF

Sarah Schaaf (Sarah Gertler)

Class of 2013
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Ethics, palliative care in the ED, toxicology
Interesting Fact: I have done a lot more fishing than you'd expect

Brian Berger

Class of 2014
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: EMS/Disaster Medicine, Education, Health Policy
Interesting Fact: I have driven cross country close to a dozen times. I am the one person in the world who likes driving through Kansas and Nebraska.
Current Position: Clinical Instructor, UCSF

Neda Farzan

Class of 2014
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Global health, EMS/Disaster, peds
Interesting Fact: I once spent a year road-tripping around the US and teaching kids about US history. Alaska is the only state I haven't been to (yet!). Iowa was my 49th state, thanks to my husband Ben (one of the main reasons I married him, let's be honest).

Brooke Hensley

Class of 2014
Medical School: University of Colorado
EM Interests: Ultrasound, critical care
Interesting Fact: My first groundbreaking diagnosis in medical school was Bell's Palsy... in my friend's cat, Cooper! His whiskers were drooping, he meowed from one side of his mouth, and wouldn't blink when we (gently) poked his eye. He got a CAT scan, which was negative, a course of steroids, gained 15 pounds, lost the weight, and made a full facial recovery and lived happily ever after.

Daniel Kievlan

Class of 2014
Medical School: University of Texas at Houston
EM Interests: Research, critical care, ultrasound
Interesting Fact: Trivia champion since before you were in high school (unless you're Ben Hippen): Four-year letterman and captain of Western Hills High School quiz bowl team, University of Oklahoma Boren Cup tournament all-star, leader of championship pub quiz teams in Houston, Austin, and San Francisco. Always looking for new initiates and teammates in the world of pub trivia!

Kristin Kuzma

Class of 2014
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
EM Interests: Disaster medicine, EMS, global health
Interesting Fact: Worked in EMS for 12 years before starting medical school at 37

Deepa Ravikumar

Class of 2014
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Health services research, quality improvement, health systems innovations
Interesting Fact: Former spelling bee and lemon-and-spoon race champion

Daniel Repplinger

Class of 2014
Medical School: University of Wisconsin
Training: Medical Toxicology Fellowship at NYU/NYCPCC
EM Interests: Toxicology, international emergency medicine
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF

Daniel Shepherd

Class of 2014
Medical School: Penn State College of Medicine
EM Interests: Ultrasound, critical care
Interesting Fact: Worked as an ocean lifeguard for the state of California for 10 years

Natalie Snyder (Natalie Desouza)

Class of 2014
Medical School: East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine
EM Interests: Disaster
Interesting Fact: While living in North Carolina I was chased through a field by a heard of cattle... and lived to tell about it
Current Position: Clinical Instructor, UCSF

Philippa Soskin

Class of 2014
Medical School: Stanford
EM Interests: Health policy, public health
Interesting Fact: I play a mean game of ping pong!

Nicholas Villalon

Class of 2014
Medical School: Yale
EM Interests: Education, ultrasound, pediatrics
Interesting Fact: In his youth, he starred on '¡Sabado Gigante!,' and aspires to return to realize his early fame

Kathy Vo

Class of 2014
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Training: Medical Toxicology Fellow, UCSF
Interesting Fact: In college, I had a short stint as a character host at Disneyland and I loved it, except the part about how I had to be Tweedle Dum for a shift.

Dina Wallin

Class of 2014
Medical School: UC Los Angeles
EM Interests: Pediatric emergency medicine, medical education
Interesting Fact: When I was younger, I used to throw up every time I got excited. Totally threw up every Halloween (throwing up inside a zombie mask is NOT fun) and every year getting our Christmas tree. I also had a mullet around 1989, and only had one ear pierced until I was 12. No wonder I had to rely on vulgarity and my loud voice to make friends.
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, UCSF

Alexa Bisinger

Class of 2015
Medical School: Stanford
EM Interests: Humanitarian disaster relief, ultrasound
Interesting Fact: I worked as a waitress for about eight months at a steakhouse where I needed to wear heels (>2 inches, specifically) and skirts to work, learn about 4 different ways to cut cigars, and attend to port tastings before I escaped to live in Paris for two months. I also have an MBA, and am interested in social entrepreneurship, social venture, and food start-ups.

Lauren Chalwell (Lauren Wooley)

Class of 2015
Medical School: University of Maryland
EM Interests: Critical care
Interesting Fact: I'm a diehard Michigan football fan - you can find me on any given fall Saturday morning wearing maize and blue and singing Hail to the Victors. I was convinced I wouldn't get into med school at Maryland though, because my interviewer was an Ohio State alum... and I provided the evidence of why Michigan is a superior team.
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF

Raphael Falk

Class of 2015
Medical School: Mount Sinai
EM Interests: Health policy, pediatrics, cost-effectiveness
Interesting Fact: I've been knocked unconscious twice: once by myself and once by a stranger.

Scott Fischette

Class of 2015
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Ultrasound, international emergency medicine, palliative care in the ED
Interesting Fact: I've collected a menagerie of strange jobs during my past lives: working as a shepherd in Scotland, a bouncer/night manager up on Quadra Island, working as a gardener at Amitabha Buddhist Center in Somerset, living off the grid, and running a CSA in Kitsap County, WA.

Sean Kivlehan

Class of 2015
Medical School: New York Medical College
EM Interests: EMS, policy and global health
Interesting Fact: Was a NYC paramedic before residency, now adjusting to life on the west coast and trying to stand on a surfboard for more that 5 seconds!
Current Position: Attending Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School

Johnson Kwan

Class of 2015
Medical School: Albany Medical College
EM Interests: Ultrasound, sports medicine, global health
Interesting Fact: I have tried durian and liked it

Jennifer Lanning

Class of 2015
Medical School: University of Chicago
EM Interests: Research

Ross Levin

Class of 2015
Medical School: Georgetown
EM Interests: Distaster/EMS, international EM

Cynthia Maldonado

Class of 2015
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: ultrasound, critical care, underserved medicine, research, international EM/systems development

Brian Resler

Class of 2015
Medical School: New York Medical College
EM Interests: Simulation, education, global health, policy
Interesting Fact: : I've tried all the top-ranked burgers in New York City (Rub BBQ is the best) and I am now working on San Francisco

Julian Villar

Class of 2015
Medical School: Emory
EM Interests: Critical care, wilderness
Interesting Fact: Even though I grew up in Latin America, I cannot play soccer to save my life.

Nathan Wilson

Class of 2015
Medical School: University of Michigan
EM Interests: EMS/Disaster, global health
Interesting Fact: Brief stint as a movie star in the "Last King of Scotland." Past lives as a commercial fisherman and carpenter. I cannot live without fried plantains.

Neha Amin

Class of 2016
Medical School: Texas Tech University
EM Interests: Health Policy, Public Health
Interesting Fact: The most spontaneous trip I have ever taken was to drive across the country- NYC to LA in 7 days.

Maria Beylin

Class of 2016
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
EM Interests: Critical care, global health, policy, and research
Interesting Fact: I have an adopted penguin on the Falkland Islands.

Kalie Dove-Maguire

Class of 2016
Medical School: University of Washington
Interesting Fact: I love Xtreme Bulls

Sally Graglia

Class of 2016
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: International medicine, ultrasound as an incredibly effective tool in low resource settings, improving access to care, and health policy as a tool to improve people's lives.
Interesting Fact: People tell me I laugh really loud.

Kai Li

Class of 2016
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: Pediatrics, international medicine
Interesting Fact: I have all four wisdom teeth.
Current Position: Toxicology Fellow, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Juan Carlos Montoy

Class of 2016
Medical School: Stanford University
EM Interests: Health policy
Interesting Fact: Took a leave from medical school to pursue a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley

Srihari Namperumal

Class of 2016
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: Critical Care, Advocacy
Interesting Fact: I used to be a serious Trekkie (conventions and everything), and it’s probably why I got a degree in aerospace engineering. I am still determined to go to space before I die – but I’m okay with being a passenger, although I prefer to be an astronaut.

Max Ritzenberg

Class of 2016
Medical School: Columbia University
EM Interests: International medicine, disaster response, and medical education
Interesting Fact: As a result of a dinnertime conversation, I found myself in the cosmetics industry for a portion of my early 20s, having started a company providing high quality personal care products to pre-teen girls (aka tweens)!

Kaija-Leena Romero

Class of 2016
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Research, Latino healthcare, and palliative care
Interesting Fact: An avid indoors woman, I have learned the fine art of recreation inside buildings.

Tiffany Schegg

Class of 2016
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: Medical education, global health, EMS, and pediatrics
Interesting Fact: I have been involved in theater since I was young, even minoring in musical theater in college. These days, the only theater I do is Karaoke. In fact, I once got an entire bar of Nicaraguans to sing "Like a Virgin" with me.

Luz Silverio

Class of 2016
Medical School: Stanford University
EM Interests: quality improvement in terms of adverse event analyses, interdisciplinary communication (presentations/sign-outs/discharge instructions/EM-primary notifications), EMS
Interesting Fact: I was raised in a small town in Michigan famous for the instant cornbread mix created there. Have you heard of Jiffy?

Prathap Sooriyakumaran

Class of 2016
Medical School: Yale University
EM Interests: Pediatrics, Ultrasound, Disaster (manmade or otherwise) Medicine
Interesting Fact: I’m a reverend. Technically it’s with the “Universal Life Church”, and they let anyone become a reverend, but I can be your wedding officiant and sign your wedding certificate in the state of New York!
Current Position: Clinical Instructor, UCSF

Allison Barker

Class of 2017
Medical School: Boston University
EM Interests: Global Health, Ultrasound and anything else that keeps me on my toes
Interesting Fact: In my former life, I lived with convicts in the swamps of Florida

Dylan Carney

Class of 2017
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
EM Interests: Health services research, process & quality improvement, medical education
Interesting Fact: My toddler-self starred in a TJMaxx commercial alongside a frog

Ashley Foster

Class of 2017
Medical School: Mayo Medical School
EM Interests: Research, Global Health, Critical Care
Interesting Fact: Signs the South will always stay with me- I was named after Ashley Wilkes from Gone with the Wind and I will never be able to live without biscuits, gravy and fried chicken

Jonathan Fu

Class of 2017
Medical School: Yale University
EM Interests: Injury prevention, education, ultrasound, EMS
Interesting Fact: My two dogs when full grown will weigh 11 lbs. combined. Close friends call me Jon Jon.

Robert Goodnough

Class of 2017
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
EM Interests: Toxicology, EMS
Interesting Fact: I used to be a file clerk at UCSF. Shadow file clerk, that is. I don’t think my position would exist anymore what with EMR and such.

Noah Hawthorne

Class of 2017
Medical School: UCSF
EM Interests: Global Health, community development projects, EMS/Disaster, telemedicine, ultrasound
Interesting Fact: Other lives outside of medicine have included being a divemaster, bartender in Bolivia, and wedding photographer.

Shelby Murphy

Class of 2017
Medical School: Tulane University
EM Interests: Ultrasound, wilderness medicine, hyperbarics
Interesting Fact: I play fantasy football and have won 2 of the 3 years I have been playing. I also recently learned to sew and made the dress I wore for match day

Taylor Nichols

Class of 2017
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: Health policy and advocacy, Global health, Disaster medicine, Wilderness and tropical medicine, Ultrasound
Interesting Fact: I feel very fortunate to be a resident at the same hospital at which I was a patient two decades ago. I have been to 13 different countries, and am always looking for new suggestions - I really want to go to Antarctica. I have been sworn at by a California State Senator, which could be due to the fact that I advocate strongly for my opinions.

Christian Rose

Class of 2017
Medical School: Columbia University
EM Interests: I’m interested in biomedical informatics and how we can use information technologies to improve patient care. As an avid athlete, I’m also interested in sports medicine and treating the “lycra-nauts” who frequent the ED.
Interesting Fact: I worked my way through the ranks on the West 4th Street “Cage” basketball circuit, eventually attaining the nickname (only my friends know) and calling my own team. I’ve also completed an Ironman (Saint George) and started an athletically-inspired bakery with my sister.

Joe Sills

Class of 2017
Medical School: Tufts University
EM Interests: Disaster & EMS, Medical Education, Critical Care
Interesting Fact: I once started a beehive to overcome a fear of stinging insects. I also took a leave from medical school to get an MFA in fiction at the University of Virginia.

Erin Sullivan

Class of 2017
Medical School: UCSF
EM Interests: Medical education, palliative care in the ED, bioethics, critical care, cost-effectiveness, EMS/disaster
Interesting Fact: I used to do mosaic art somewhat professionally

Scott Tcheng

Class of 2017
Medical School: UT Southwestern at Dallas
EM Interests: Undergraduate and graduate medical education, wilderness medicine, ultrasound
Interesting Fact: I made my first solo skydive just before sunset during a solar eclipse

Karla Canseco

Class of 2018
Medical School: UT School of Medicine at San Antonio
EM Interests: Critical Care and Toxicology
Interesting Fact: I was delivered by my 3rd year OB/Gyn clerkship attending. I can still do a back handspring 15 years after quitting gymnastics. I once won a small Texas Hold’em tournament in Vegas.

Brian Chang

Class of 2018
Medical School: Brown University
EM Interests: EMS, International EM, Critical Care, Sports Medicine
Interesting Fact: One summer, I rode my bike from Rhode Island to my home in Los Altos. Also, I can lick both of my elbows (not at the same time).

Julia Chang

Class of 2018
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
EM Interests: Health Services, Epidemiology, Global Health
Interesting Fact: All of my family lives abroad, except for my sister. I taught elementary school in Taiwan for a year before med school; it’s been the hardest year of my life to date! I’m writing this from Mozambique where today we saw two cases of cerebral malaria.

Rosny Daniel

Class of 2018
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Education, Ultrasound, Global EM, Cost Effectiveness
Interesting Fact: When I was 5 years old, I met the best soccer player in the world—Pele. I have surfed on a wave with a dolphin. I helped to start an adolescent substance abuse prevention program as a medical student at UCSF.

Nida Degesys

Class of 2018
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University
EM Interests: Medical Education, Curriculum Design, Patient Safety/Quality Improvement, Sustainable Global Health
Interesting Fact: I was on a TV dating game show host in undergrad

Gretchen Fuller

Class of 2018
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
EM Interests: Healthcare systems and delivery, quality improvement, international medicine
Interesting Fact: I lived in Cape Town and Buenos Aires, worked at a healthcare IT startup

Delphine Huang

Class of 2018
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Health policy, IT technology, global health
Interesting Fact: I was born in the car that I would later learn to drive in and I love mangosteens.

Charley Murphy

Class of 2018
Medical School: Tulane University
EM Interests: Critical Care, Global Health, Medical Education
Interesting Fact: Only three things come to mind. First, I used to sell art door-to-door. Second, when I was 10 the original James Bond approached me and asked (in a thick Scottish brogue) “Is this your 9 iron?”…It wasn’t, but I was so star struck that I said yes and accepted the club. Third, I go by Charley. That makes my name Charley Murphy, the same as Eddie Murphy’s brother of Chappelle’s Show fame. If you like, you may call me “Darkness.”

Steven Straube

Class of 2018
Medical School: Brown University
EM Interests: Health Policy, Global Health
Interesting Fact: I was once stalked by a lion in Africa and saved by a local ranger. I have eaten “the world’s spiciest curry” in under 5 minutes without anything to drink

Gabe Sudario

Class of 2018
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Medical Education, clinical decision making, health policy, health care delivery in low resource settings
Interesting Fact: My beautiful wife and I met in the Cal marching band during college. She played trumpet and I played saxophone. We were the first couple to have our ceremony and reception at Cal’s football stadium.

Divya Thapar

Class of 2018
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Ultrasound, simulation
Interesting Fact: I have eaten cooked goat brains on more than one occasion. I was chased out of Jamaica by a hurricane

Chloe Thomas

Class of 2018
Medical School: University of Southern California
EM Interests: Global Health, community outreach
Interesting Fact: I’ve never had a PB&J

Remy Bizimungu

Class of 2019
Medical School: Yale University
EM Interests: Violence Prevention, Global Health
Interesting Fact: I was on a train that derailed and all I could think was “Wow, I’m about to die listening to 50 Cent”. Big Russell Wilson fan coming out of college and therefore a Seahawks fan. Originally from Rwanda

Tiffany Cobb

Class of 2019
Medical School: Duke University
EM Interests: Ultrasound, International Emergency Medicine, Health Disparities
Interesting Fact: Career switched from marketing to medical school

Bryan Darger

Class of 2019
Medical School: University of Texas at Houston
EM Interests: The spectrum of EM’s clinical practice from palliative to critical care, neurologic emergencies, QI/safety research, education (big fan of the #FOAMed movement), and improving the intersection between technology and medicine.
Interesting Fact: Between college and medical school I taught high school chemistry, astronomy, and special education for three years in Houston, TX through the Teach For America program. My former students are amazing people, and taught me many things that I will undoubtedly use in my career.

Tomas Diaz

Class of 2019
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
EM Interests: Advocacy, policy, medical education, diversity in medicine
Interesting Fact: I was one of the first cases of swine flu (H1N1) in New York City in 2009. I was, consequently, placed under quarantine but still managed to infect my father.

Lamarr Echols

Class of 2019
Medical School: Florida State University
EM Interests: EMS, critical care, underserved medicine, patient advocacy
Interesting Fact: I once had a performing act in a circus. I tried to eat 100 shrimp one time but only got to 93. While in Panama, I tried to take a picture of a charging bull with a disposable camera (I then proceeded to break world records in the sprint and high jump over a wall). In an attempt to overcome my fear of heights I took flying lessons for a couple months; Update: I still have a fear of heights.

Alina Fomovska

Class of 2019
Medical School: Mount Sinai
EM Interests: Global health, human rights and social justice, palliative care
Interesting Fact: My ideal alternative (future?) career – astronaut-ethno-botanist.

Joseph Graterol

Class of 2019
Medical School: Dartmouth
EM Interests: Global Health, Health Disparities, Critical Care
Interesting Fact: First time traveling to SF, my flight from Boston got cancelled because of a blizzard and my next possible flight was 4 days later. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Michael Losak

Class of 2019
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
EM Interests: Healthcare Systems, Medical Education, Organizational Infrastructure, Global Health
Interesting Fact: If you creatively misspell my name, you can find a YouTube video of me on Colombian statewide news. It has about 200 views, probably.

Andrew Merriman

Class of 2019
Medical School: Baylor
EM Interests: Education, EMS, Tox
Interesting Fact: Grew up sharing the roads with Amish horse and buggies

Lily Muldoon

Class of 2019
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Island medicine
Interesting Fact: I once danced in a Bollywood movie in India. I’ve been deported from Mozambique. I delivered a baby on a boat. All during medical school.

Kevin Padrez

Class of 2019
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Health policy, especially around underserved populations and improving transitions/coordination of care. Epidemiology and outcomes research. Wilderness medicine.
Interesting Fact: I once escaped from Alcatraz.

Stephen Villa

Class of 2019
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Critical Care, Med-Ed, Research
Interesting Fact: I used to be the “worm specialist” in a break dancing crew as a kid

David White

Class of 2019
Medical School: Stanford University
EM Interests: Ultrasound Education, LGBT Health, Simulation
Interesting Fact: As part of my southern roots, I go by my middle name. So if you see me gallivanting around as David White or William White, recognize we are the same person. Just don’t call me Junior.

Louis Yu

Class of 2019
Medical School: Boston University
EM Interests: Global Health, Ultrasound, EMS, Policy
Interesting Fact: I am addicted to hot springs, I’ve been known to chauffeur my pug around in a large backpack via bicycle, and once stood 300 meters from the farthest point on the surface of the planet from the center of the earth.

Sergio Alvarez

Class of 2020
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
EM Interests: My interests include ultrasound, EMS, Underserved Populations, and medical education
Interesting Fact: I competed in amateur Muay Thai and collegiate wrestling during medical school.

Cortlyn Brown

Class of 2020
Medical School: Yale University
EM Interests: I am interested in the interface between mental health and the emergency department, specifically the boarding of psychiatric patients in the ED.
Interesting Fact: I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and got high altitude pulmonary edema. I was also a part of a professional women’s full contact football team (I am terrible at sports but great at embarrassing myself).

Josh Bukowski

Class of 2020
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: Aeromedical Emergencies, Ultrasound.
Interesting Fact: Member of the University of the Philippines, Manila Dragon-Boat Race Team.

Winnie Chan

Class of 2020
Medical School: UCSF School of Medicine
EM Interests: Global health, Administration, Lean processes and Kaizen events, Health systems strengthening, Capacity building
Interesting Fact: I’m the odd one out in a family of entrepreneurs! I grew up with family businesses (50s diner, bar and grills, bakery and cafes and most recently a higher-end burger joint). My past jobs/positions have included administrative assistant, accounting/billing, barista, cashier, server, busser, burger-flipper, and burger-assembler. Next, I will work on becoming a knowledgeable bartender. I also took a year off to earn a Master’s in Global Health, during which I spent six weeks mapping where injuries that presented to an ED in Tanzania occurred.

Tiffany Cheng

Class of 2020
Medical School: Washington University
EM Interests: EMS, wilderness/disaster, critical care, ultrasound
Interesting Fact: Before I decided on medicine, I wanted to be a wildlife researcher or marine biologist. To explore this interest, I worked in a lab for a few years in college in which I took care of stomatopods, aka mantis shrimp (look up theoatmeal.com’s entry on mantis shrimp for an entertaining read, or YouTube videos of mantis shrimp vs other sea creatures). One time, I got sucker punched by one of them when I was trying to feed her; she subsequently committed suicide a few weeks later by jumping out of her tank, probably out of guilt. On a side note, mantis shrimp are considered delicacies in China, and I had to eat them one time (to be polite) when I visited my relatives, even though it felt like cannibalism because they were like my babies. I’m still slightly traumatized.

Brian Cheung

Class of 2020
Medical School: Stanford University
EM Interests: Pre-hospital care, health services/policy, healthcare operations.
Interesting Fact: I was on a team that designed and built a car run entirely on solar power. We raced this car from Austin to Calgary over ten days on less power than it takes to run your hairdryer.

Jessica Chow

Class of 2020
Medical School: UC San Francisco
EM Interests: Pediatric, Public health research/community development, Health policy and advocacy
Interesting Fact: I once held a baby tiger on a trip to China. I’ve memorized the lyrics to most Disney musicals.

Olga Diaz

Class of 2020
Medical School: University of Wisconsin
EM Interests: health equity, health policy, addiction medicine, infectious diseases
Interesting Fact: When I was a little girl, I sang Bob Marley songs in my father’s radio station. I feel pretty bad for our listeners as I recognize now that I lack any talent.

Shirin Kasturia

Class of 2020
Medical School: Emory University
EM Interests: Social Emergency Medicine/Access to care, EMS
Interesting Fact: While doing a summer internship abroad during college, I ate a whole salad made up of pig intestines and flying ants. I decided to stop asking my coworkers to order for me after trying frog legs, beef vein, snails, dried squid, and tarantulas (I couldn’t bring myself to eat a tarantula).

Ryan Martin

Class of 2020
Medical School: Baylor University
EM Interests: Administration, Sports Medicine, Health Policy
Interesting Fact: All put together I’ve probably spent over 3 months and traveled 400 miles in the woods

Jessica Paz

Class of 2020
Medical School: UC Davis
EM Interests: Quality & Process Improvement, Medical Education, Global Health
Interesting Fact: I learned how to make pad thai in Thailand and empanadas in Argentina

Michael Shelendich

Class of 2020
Medical School: Northwestern University
EM Interests: Public health, LGBTQ healthcare, medical education, critical care
Interesting Fact: As proud Minnesotans, my family and I have enjoyed learning to bottle our own maple syrup, brew beer, and make cheese.

Jesus Torres

Class of 2020
Medical School: New York Medical College
EM Interests: Research, Public Health, Underserved patient populations, Policy, Outreach
Interesting Fact: I once met Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson.

Jessica Zhang

Class of 2020
Medical School: UC San Diego
EM Interests: Disaster Medicine, Integrative Medicine
Interesting Fact: I lived out of a ’97 Jeep Wrangler with my husband and dog one summer while camping our way through California and Oregon. In my life before medicine, I was a consultant for the Department of Homeland Security. I once played with a juvenile Giant Pacific Octopus – fyi, super stick and amazing!

Anna Bilski

Class of 2021
Burbank, California
Medical School: Northwestern University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: International emergency medicine and global health policy, medical entrepreneurship, women’s health in emergency care, and gender and leadership in the field of Emergency Medicine
Hobbies/Interests:
yoga, music, traveling, going out dancing, cooking new recipes/trying new foods, museum going, adventuring
Interesting Fact: I’ve lived in Berlin and Paris, and am a dual American – EU Citizen with my parents hailing from Poland; I used to be an avid Polish Folk Dancer and Polish Girl Scout and speak/write in Polish fluently. Na zdrowie!

Erin Bowler

Class of 2021
San Francisco, California
Medical School: Emory University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Toxicology, Wilderness medicine, Global Health
Hobbies/Interests:
Hiking, mountain climbing, rock climbing, backpacking high routes in the Sierras, mountain biking, road biking, scuba diving, caving, camping, skiing, snow shoeing… basically anything outdoors in nature!
Interesting Fact: In my past life, I worked as a nurse in Lake Tahoe, Honduras, Iraq… and even Burning Man!

David Dillon

Class of 2021
Portland, Oregon
Medical School: Weill Cornell University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Global health, using epidemiology to increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery
Hobbies/Interests:
Biking, hiking, bread baking, beer brewing, boats, seeking the perfect gin & tonic
Interesting Fact: I’ve traveled to 6 continents and lived on 4 of them. Australia continues to taunt me from afar!

Edward Grom

Class of 2021
Stratford, Connecticut
Medical School: Harvard University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Health policy, underserved populations, global health
Hobbies/Interests:
Creative writing, running, Netflix
Interesting Fact: I once directed a viral YouTube video that got over 2 million views and was featured on TV.

Kevin Hanley

Class of 2021
Manhattan Beach, California
Medical School: Keck SOM USC
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: US, research, community outreach to the underserved population
Hobbies/Interests:
Running, finding new breweries, eating great Mexican food, alternative music and festivals
Interesting Fact: It took me 3 years, 9 days, 3 hours and 19 minutes to finish the Los Angeles Marathon. Also, I once met Tina Fey, but before I could take a picture with her, Meryl Streep interrupted us to talk to Tina in private.

Paul Hausknecht

Class of 2021
Houston, Texas
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Ultrasound, Wilderness Medicine, Global Health, Medical Education
Hobbies/Interests:
Mountain biking, rock climbing, camping, fishing, urban farming
Interesting Fact: Amateur beekeeper and home brewer

Timothy Hong

Class of 2021
Seattle, Washington
Medical School: University of Rochester
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Ultrasound, Sports Med, Simulation, Palliative Care
Hobbies/Interests:
Climbing, ultimate frisbee, martial arts, hiking
Interesting Fact: I’m a Ravenclaw. I have a secret twitter account that you will never find. Also, deer have no gallbladders.

Jonathan Kobles

Class of 2021
Farmington, Connecticut
Medical School: University of Connecticut
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Medical Education, Health Policy, Disparities in Healthcare
Hobbies/Interests:
Tennis, bicycle touring, photography, exploring national parks, language learning
Interesting Fact: I once cycled from the San Francisco Bay to the Connecticut shoreline over a course of 55 days!

Shelby Legeros

Class of 2021
Honolulu, Hawaii
Medical School: Keck SOM USC
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Healthcare for LGBTQ and other underrepresented groups, Quality improvement
Hobbies/Interests:
Rock climbing, making music, stress cooking, watching horror-satire movies, and collecting new hobbies – most recently surfing and modern calligraphy
Interesting Fact: After graduating from college I lived in an illegally converted office space with ten other people in NYC

Nicholas Mauricio

Class of 2021
Palos Verdes, California
Medical School: Boston University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Ultrasound, Addiction Medicine, Medical Education
Hobbies/Interests:
Travel, cooking, mastering the perfect cup of coffee
Interesting Fact: I once waited five hours in the rain for sushi

Emily Neill

Class of 2021
Kentfield, California
Medical School: Keck SOM USC
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Global health, social determinants of health
Hobbies/Interests:
Dogs and outdoors; ideally a combination of the two. Baseball fanaticism - Go Giants! Food: eating, cooking and sharing it with loved ones.
Interesting Fact: I lived in Santiago, Chile, for a year during medical school, and consequently I now know a lot of truly odd Chilean slang.

Joseph Nelson

Class of 2021
Brooklyn, New York City
Medical School: New York University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Health disparities in the Emergency Department, administrative efficiency in emergent and urgent health centers
Hobbies/Interests:
Figure drawing, interior design, oil & canvas, acrylic painting
Interesting Fact: My dream job was to become an artist, after realizing most successful artists are also starving, I decided to become a physician instead.

Saned Raouf

Class of 2021
Global nomad, but more recently Denver, Colorado
Medical School: University of Colorado
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Global health, humanitarian response, disease surveillance
Hobbies/Interests:
Climbing, hiking, boxing, traveling, languages
Interesting Fact: I am on a mission to hike all active volcanoes in the world.

Grace Taylor

Class of 2021
Arlington, Massachusetts
Medical School: Harvard University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Critical care, medical informatics and clinical decision support systems, social justice in medicine
Hobbies/Interests:
Running, playing the guitar and mandolin with friends, chess, drinking coffee
Interesting Fact: My first experience at UCSF was when I was interviewing for medical school and lost my luggage right outside the San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department ten minutes before my interview.

Mayra Cruz

Class of 2022
Los Angeles, California
Medical School: UCSF
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Health access to underserved populations, sustainable emergency medicine in low resource settings, global EM
Hobbies/Interests:
I love the outdoors and exploring new lakes and beaches. I also love dancing salsa, cumbias, merengue!
Interesting Fact: I recently went swimming with a couple of sea turtles, a stingray, and schools of fish in Holbox Island. I was just adopted by a mini schnauzer who keeps me running in circles.

Mindy Duong

Class of 2022
San Diego, California
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Ultrasound, Disaster Medicine
Hobbies/Interests:
Travel, photography, rock climbing, eating Mexican food and ice cream, cooking (but not baking), sipping coffee and reading at my local coffee shop
Interesting Fact: I have an endless stomach for dessert. I’ve learned to play seven instruments so far (3 types of clarinet, piano, percussion, oboe, and ukulele) and want to try guitar next!

Paul Ehlers

Class of 2022
Mercer Island, Washington
Medical School: Wake Forest University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Toxicology, critical care, substance use disorders in the ED, medical education, & FOAMed
Hobbies/Interests:
I used to row and be fit, but now I just lift weights. I also spend my time hiking, trying to conquer my fear of heights, and eating adventurous things.
Interesting Fact: Before medical school, I taught high school students in New Orleans with City Year, an AmeriCorps program. I also gave myself a spontaneous pneumothorax in the gym during interview season for residency – I don’t recommend it.

Carli Haasbroek

Class of 2022
Sunnyvale, California
Medical School: UCSF
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Global EM medical education, Global Trauma/EMS, and Critical Care
Hobbies/Interests:
Spending time with friends and family, foodie, fashion lover, traveling, playing dodgeball, hiking, climbing, watching sports but prefer to play, movies, television, and adrenaline junkie filled activities
Interesting Fact: South African, learned to read and write in German first, played for UC Berkeley Woman’s soccer team, three knee surgeries before the age of 18, trilingual unfortunately downgraded to bilingual, and I look like I am my older brother’s identical twin (he calls himself the pretty one).

Robert Inglis

Class of 2022
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
Medical School: UCSF
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Ultrasound, global health, rural health, human health impacts of environmental change
Hobbies/Interests:
Backpacking, biking, whitewater kayaking and rafting, old time and bluegrass music
Interesting Fact: Before med school, I worked as an environmental journalist and a congressional staffer in DC. I also spent a season working in the sheet metal and welding shop at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Stacey Lakin

Class of 2022
Villa Park, California
Medical School: USC
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Pediatrics, Critical Care, Medical Education/Administration
Hobbies/Interests:
Camping/Hiking, Games, Doubles Tennis
Interesting Fact: I had a number of exotic pets growing up including a dog-sized rabbit, an octopus, and a chicken named Roxanne.

Vincent Lee

Class of 2022
Davis, California
Medical School: UC Davis
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Healthcare for the underserved, health services
Hobbies/Interests:
Traveling, Fitness, Eating Pho, Brunching, Dolores Park
Interesting Fact: I once gave Alexa Chung advice on how to cure her hangover.

Nicole Moore

Class of 2022
San Francisco
Medical School: UCSF
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Ultrasound, Research
Hobbies/Interests:
Spin Class, Exploring Golden Gate Park, Reading, Salsa, Discovering new restaurants in SF
Interesting Fact: I enjoy traveling, hiking, and building LEGOS!

Emmanuel Quaidoo

Class of 2022
Rochester, New York
Medical School: University of Chicago
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Critical care, toxicology, social emergency medicine, global health
Hobbies/Interests:
Guitar and hip-hop music, comedy (fan, not performer), running
Interesting Fact: I once traded guitar riffs with a performer on a NYC subway. After quickly being outshined, I determined that finishing college was the better career plan for me.

Anu Ramachandran

Class of 2022
San Jose, California
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Health system resiliency, Refugee and humanitarian crisis affected populations, HIV, Critical care
Hobbies/Interests:
Cooking, exploring California’s national parks and wineries, learning new languages
Interesting Fact: I lived in London last year and met the Queen and Prince Harry! I once delivered a baby goat. I’ve been to six continents (I’m coming for you Antarctica!).

Shuaib Raza

Class of 2022
Troy, Michigan
Medical School: Yale
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: MedEd, Simulation
Hobbies/Interests:
Cricket, making small batch ice cream, learning languages, hiking
Interesting Fact: I helped officiate a wedding in Rio, Brazil of two people I met minutes prior.

Nicholas Stark

Class of 2022
Gregory, South Dakota
Medical School: Georgetown University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Quality Improvement, Leadership, ED Flow/Efficiency, Access to Care, Healthcare Disparities
Hobbies/Interests:
Piloting, writing music, marathoning, scuba diving
Interesting Fact: I grew up on a ranch and had a pet buffalo. Weirdly, I decided I wanted to run a marathon on every continent (including Antarctica) during med school…and actually did it.

Sojung Yi

Class of 2022
Seattle, Washington
Medical School: George Washington University
Training: UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program
EM Interests: Global Health, Social Medicine, Medical Humanities
Hobbies/Interests:
Being outside, adventuring, exploring cafes in new places, baking desserts, boxing, yoga, photography
Interesting Fact: I’ve pet a baby lion before! I’ve also almost been eaten by a lioness (not the mother of previously mentioned baby lion).