Laura Checkley

Medical school:

UCSF

Residency Program:

UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Class of: 2024

Hometown

San Diego, CA

EM Interests

Substance use interventions from the Emergency Department, social EM, global health

Future Plans

Learn to be the best EM doctor I could be. Travel to as many countries as possible. Likely want to stay in academic medicine and work with vulnerable populations. I'm thinking about a fellowship after residency, although I'm fairly undecided.

Hobbies/Interests

Traveling the world, cooking and eating all the carbs (pasta, sourdough bread are some of my favorites), gardening, running in Golden Gate Park to burn off all the food I like to eat, scuba diving, snuggling with my adopted pup

Interesting Fact

I've traveled to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine twice - once to 800m and once to 600m (minor detail was that I was a fetus at the time, but shoutout to my mom who clearly loves her work enough to dive while pregnant).