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