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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).