Class of 2029
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Nickname: Scotty
Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU)
Hobbies and interests: Hiking, kayaking, skiing, board games, photography, trivia nights, road trips, and traveling.
Favorite movie or tv show: Any reality game show like Traitors or Survivor.
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Agostinos
Favorite music: Early 2000s pop punk like Fall Out Boy and Blink-182
Five-year plan: Pain or Critical Care fellowship with the ultimate goal of practicing in a rural setting.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Outdoor adventure guide somewhere in the mountains.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation
Random fact: I lived in Alaska during my 3rd and 4th year rotations.
Nickname: Gabi
Undergraduate: The Ohio State University
Medical School: KYCOM- University of Pikeville
Hobbies and interests: Pickleball, horseback riding, tennis, spending time with my family, board games,
Favorite movie or TV show: How I Met Your Mother
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Blue point grill
Favorite music: Country but I like everything
Five-year plan: Critical care fellowship
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: I would be a horse trainer
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation
Random fact: I love cooking and I make my own tomato sauce
Nickname: Evy
Undergraduate: Binghamton University
Medical School: Rowan-Virtua SOM
Hobbies and interests: Waterskiing, spin classes, hiking or just being outside, napping, wine tasting
Favorite movie or tv show: New Girl, New Girl, and New Girl
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Mitchell's Ice Cream, looking forward to exploring more Cleveland restaurants in residency!
Favorite music: Early 2000s music - Usher, 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull
Five-year plan: Probably working in the community, maybe exploring my interest in PEM
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Teaching probably. I love working with kids, but I could also see myself as a college organic chem professor.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation
Random fact: I hold a world record for the longest continual row! (29 hours as a team relay)
Nickname: Lauren
Undergraduate: The University of Texas at Arlington
Medical School: Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
Hobbies and interests: Trivia, baking, board games, homebrewing, going to baseball games
Favorite movie or tv show: The Final Cut - a little weird, a little sci-fi, and the kind of movie that makes you stay up too late talking with your friends after
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: On The Rise Artisan Breads - you can't go wrong with the sticky buns
Favorite music: A healthy mix of emo, pop-punk, alternative, and rock. My music taste peaked somewhere around 2012 and I've been trying to recover ever since
Five-year plan: Hopefully I'll be an attending who still loves emergency medicine, has figured out how to have a life outside of the hospital, and has somehow accumulated even more hobbies than I have now
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: This one is hard to say! My twin sister is an architect, and I've always wondered if I would have ended up going in that direction. I've always liked engineering and figuring out how things work. I've especially loved seeing all the different bridges around Cleveland, apparently that's become one of my random special interests since moving here, so maybe some sort of structural engineer that helps to build bridges
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: The ability to pause time. I could get everything done during a shift, sleep enough, and still have time for all my hobbies
Random fact: I have a black cat named Hubble, after the Hubble Space Telescope. He's appropriately spacey and has absolutely no idea what an impressive name he has
Undergraduate: Mary Baldwin University
Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Hobbies and interests: Running, drawing, playing the piano.
Favorite movie or tv show: Favorite movie is Hereditary
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Luna Bakery Cafe
Favorite music: Pop, classical, and indie.
Five-year plan: Finish EM residency and complete an interventional pain fellowship.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: If EM weren’t an option, I think I’d probably do something involving music or art.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Definitely teleportation
Random fact: I have two very sweet cats named Athena and Persephone.
Nickname: Chris
Undergraduate: University of Washington
Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Hobbies and interests: Video games, Swimming/Aquatic activities/Winter sports, Karaoke
Favorite movie or tv show: Movie: White Chicks // TV Show: Spongebob
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Don't have one quite just yet
Favorite music: Pop/EDM
Five-year plan: To finish residency :). But then afterward, I'm pretty open to staying local, going back home, or even potentially pursuing a fellowship.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Maybe doing something with an art/design degree. Either that or sitting at home doing nothing.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Invisibility
Random fact: I've drowned 2 times in my life and had to be rescued
Nickname: N/A. Always wanted one, never happened organically.
Undergraduate: The Ohio State University
Medical School: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Hobbies and interests: Dungeons and dragons/board games, comics, cooking, theatre, working out. I always say that if I’m with good people, I’ll be happy doing anything.
Favorite movie or tv show: Shameless (US). Probably my first exposure to a series that really took character writing and development seriously. It’s home to some of the most genuine depictions of emotion across the spectrum that I’ve seen even to this day. It may not be for everyone, but it was a lightbulb moment for me regarding how grounded characters should feel which is a perspective I take with my writing/directing/creative outlets even today.
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Cleveland Breakfast Company. Great vibes and great brunch.
Favorite music: Honestly, it depends on the day. I swing wildly between alt rock, musical theater, indie, and everything in between. Can never go wrong with Twenty One Pilots or Haley Williams, though.
Five-year plan: I barely have a 5 day plan, friend. What I do know concretely is that I hope to be in a place where I feel mentally, physically, and emotionally well. I aspire to be surrounded by people that I love, mentoring those who come after, and making a difference in peoples’ lives, in whatever corner of EM I find myself carving out.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Realistically: working in the Bioethics space and/or directing local theatre. Unrealistically: secret spy.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: I could not be more pedantic about this question. If it’s a world in which other super powered people exist, I’d want powers like Peter Petrelli from Heroes (if you know you know). If not, I’ve always been a huge fan of telepathy/telekinesis (shout out to Jean Grey from the X-Men).
Random fact: In general: there are more unique ways to shuffle a standard deck of 52 cards than there are number of atoms on all of planet Earth; about me: part of my iris is attached to the back of my eye (no deficit).
Nickname: Ry
Undergraduate: The Ohio State University
Medical School: OUHCOM - Dublin Campus
Hobbies and interests: Sports (watching and playing), tv shows (dramas and sitcoms), movies, books, video games
Favorite movie or tv show: TV show: The Wire; Movie: No Country for Old Men
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: El Palenque
Favorite music: Kid Cudi
Five-year plan: I’d love to work in med ed, whether it be at a med school or a residency program
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Teaching high chemistry, math or history
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Super speed
Random fact: Naming random former athletes with friends is one of my favorite past times
Nickname: John
Undergraduate: University of Minnesota
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Hobbies and interests: I love being outside in just about any way possible. I enjoy anything that helps me stay fit, usually lifting, running, or biking. When I'm not doing that, I'll be reading a book or playing videogames.
Favorite movie or tv show: Jurassic Park
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Still waiting to find out!
Favorite music: Paramore
Five-year plan: Survive! (possibly to a fellowship in critical care or wherever the road takes me)
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: I'd be deep in the woods as a Park Ranger.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation so I'd never get stuck at red lights again
Random fact: I've only eaten grapes like 7 or 8 times in my life
Nickname: Mari
Undergraduate: Ohio Dominican University
Medical School: OU-HCOM Cleveland
Hobbies and interests: I’m big into reading books lately, diehard Cleveland sports fan (the good but mostly bad) and I love being outdoors running, biking playing in sports leagues.
Favorite movie or tv show: Favorite comfort show is Greys Anatomy but currently Im rewatching Hose of The Dragon 10/10 show.
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Luca's Italian in The Flats
Favorite music: Country Music
Five-year plan: I hope to be living and working somewhere in CLE with my wife and hopefully a couple kids! Plus or minus one of a dozen fellowships I've considered.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Living on a farm on a lake with 100 huskies while running a dog rescue or more practically I would've gotten my Fire certificate and kept working EMS.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation
Random fact: Fun fact about myself is my eyes change color from blue to green to greyish. Not about myself but super cool is that Komodo dragons can clone themselves.
Undergraduate: Rowan University
Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Hobbies and interests: I love trying new coffee shops and restaurants. I've also being enjoying going to Pilates classes and playing pickleball. But my favorite thing to do on my day off is binge watch shows.
Favorite movie or tv show: Big Bang Theory
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: The Fairmount
Favorite music: Pop/indie
Five-year plan: Hopefully, by then I will have graduated from residency and begun practicing at a community hospital. At the same time, I am keeping an open mind about the possibility of pursuing a fellowship and exploring where my interests may ultimately lead me.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: I’ve always had a strong interest in and appreciation for interior design, so maybe something in that field.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation
Random fact: I don't like ketchup
Undergraduate: University of California San Diego
Medical School: Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine
Hobbies and interests: Video/Board games, hiking, camping, olympic weightlifting (currently on hold as I train to eventually run a marathon), photography, trying new restaurants
Favorite movie or tv show: The Simpsons, Friends, Arrested Development, Better Call Saul, Band of Brothers, Inception, The Incredibles
Favorite Cleveland restaurant: Mitchell's
Favorite music: Just about anything, but I go through phases. Currently on 80s-90s hip hop
Five-year plan: Getting married and eventually building a family with my fiancée. Becoming a great physician and hoping to teach a bit.
If you weren't doing emergency medicine, what would you be doing?: Opening an ice cream shop, which is still my retirement plan.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?: Teleportation! No worrying about the commute/parking and I can take a trip anywhere anytime.
Random fact: When I was in college, I paddled for Team USA at the Dragon Boat World Championship.