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