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Current Residents - Second Year Residents
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Megan Cummings
Meg was born and raised in Oneida, NY, a small city in Upstate NY. Upon graduation of high school she remained in the Upstate region for the next 8 years (a real world traveler) while attending college and medical school. She received a BS degree in Psychobiology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY and her medical degree at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Although her brother, sister, and parents are still in the Syracuse area Meg is excited to branch out a little and try a new state! She enjoys watching sports (just about any type) as well as playing sports such as volleyball, tennis, golf, softball, and swimming. Meg also enjoys reading, twirling her hair (spend some time with her and you’ll see), telling stories that are too long and never get to the point, and loves nothing more than to laugh with friends. |
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Nicholas Dutton-Swain
Nick was born in La Jolla, CA and is a Southern Californian at heart, however after attending Middlebury College in Vermont and Tufts Medical School in Boston, MA, he now feels at home in the slush and snow in addition to the sun and sand. He became interested in emergency medicine at a young age when he performed the Heimlich Maneuver on his grandmother to dislodge a poorly chewed piece of meat. Nick is excited to stay in the northeast, where he remains an avid Chargers and Padres fan, and spends his free time playing rugby and basketball, eating, skiing, and spending weekends at the beach. |
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Benjamin Evenchik
Ben was born and raised in the beautiful Berkshires in western MA. He attended the University of Michigan (GO BLUE!) for undergrad then went on to Albany Medical College for his MD. His main passions in life have been music, the outdoors, traveling, and more recently emergency medicine. Growing up just south of Vermont, Ben is an avid skier and mountain biker, notorious for coming down with "strange illnesses" the day after a blizzard. While in Michigan, Ben delved into music production, using flamenco/jazz guitar, cello, percussion, and various singers to create a unique beachy chillout vibe a la Cafe Del Mar that has seen distribution from Ibiza to Brazil. Throughout all this, Ben has traveled extensively, lived in Portugal and Ibiza, provided medical relief to Central America and Uganda, and thus has great aspirations for a future in International Medicine. |
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Alex Goldstein
Alex grew up in Lynnfield, MA. He attended UMASS-Amherst where he earned a BS in Biology, and spent much of his time playing soccer and working as Director of EMS for UMASS. After graduating and working briefly as an ED technician, Alex decided to take some time off before medical school, moving out to Breckenridge, CO where he developed a love for snowboarding and came to appreciate the relaxed pace of the mountain life. He then completed medical school in Beersheva, Israel at the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion Univ., pursuing his interests in International Medicine. He is now very happy to be back in New England, where he can once again follow religiously all of his local sports teams. Alex’s hobbies include playing just about any sport, traveling just about anywhere, and eating just about anything. |
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Peter Gottschalk
Pete was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in Alabama, with intermediate stopovers in Tennessee and New Jersey. Subsequent to completing his MD at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, his great love of Dunkin Donuts hazelnut coffee compelled him to return to the Northeast. Pete also learned to appreciate college football while attending Auburn University for a BA in Psychology and an MS in Biochemistry. His hobbies include traveling (with uniformly unflattering passport photos), breaking and/or fixing anything electrical or mechanical, running, snow skiing, and getting lost in Ikea furniture stores. |
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Robert Libfeld
Rob was successfully delivered (full term) at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. Raised in the urban jungle of Western Massachusetts, he went on to attend the University of Massachusetts Amherst and received a B.S. in Biotechnology. While at UMass, Rob worked as an EMT and became hooked on international travel. He survived a wintry semester abroad at Moscow State University’s Faculty of Basic Medicine and was able to participate in humanitarian aid efforts at a local Russian orphanage. Rob then dawned a backpack and headed out to Israel, South America, Europe and the Azore Islands and spent the last two summers of undergrad working for Genzyme Transgenics Corporation in Framingham, MA. Tethered to the Baystate, he continued his studies at UMass Medical School (M.D.) and the UMass Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Medical Bioinformatics Research). While at UMass Med, Rob independently designed an online application for healthcare professionals and started the InterMED Technologies Corporation. In his spare time, Rob enjoys the outdoors, watching documentaries, keeping domestic animals, inventing strange products and taking on bizarre challenges. |
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Christian Molstrom
Christian hails from Oregon, where he was born and received his medical training (Oregon Health and Science University). Prior to medical school he completed an MA in ethnomusicology at UCLA and worked for five years in the tech industry as a web developer and project manager in Los Angeles and Tokyo. He met his wife, Naomi, while scuba diving - a shared passion of theirs - in Japan. He plays guitar and is an avid listener of everything from opera and jazz to bluegrass and indie rock. He also enjoys cycling, skiing, and rock climbing. |
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Laurel Parker
Laurel Parker grew up in a small Maine town, the kind where everybody knows everybody. She attended college at the University of Maine majoring in Biology. While in college she studied abroad, traveling to Mexico, Argentina and Spain to improve her Spanish. Right after college she moved to the "big city" of Boston to attend Tufts medical school. During her fourth year of medical school she did an international elective in Paraguay where she worked in rural medical clinics. Upon her return, her long-time summer romance proposed. Laurel enjoys summers on the coast of Maine, sailing, spending time with her fiancé, being with her family, traveling, reading and hosting dinner parties. |
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Tushar Patel
Tushar was born in Ahemdabad, India. He moved to Chicago, IL at the age of six. He earned his BS from the University of Illinois at Champaign. After graduation, he moved to Northern California to work for a management consulting company. While working, he received a certificate in mathematics for financial engineering from University of California at Berkeley. While completing pre-med requirements, he managed a fashion boutique for women in Los Angeles and worked as a health educator for the American Lung Association of Chicago. Afterward, he enrolled in the MD/MPH program at Tufts University. During medical school, he assisted with the restoration of homes and aided at health care clinics in Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Katrina. He conducted research on HIV related opportunistic infections and worked in a non-profit hospital in Chennai, India. He also worked in an emergency department in Bagayam and studied rotavirus related diarrheal diseases in India. Since age eight, Tushar has enjoyed playing tennis. He also enjoys hiking in the great outdoors, rock climbing, most other athletic endeavors, photography, and writing. |
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Frances Russell
Frances was born in Hartford Hospital and grew up in Willington, CT. Being so close to the UConn campus she became a Husky fan at a very young age. Frances enjoyed running track and cross-country competitively throughout high school. This love for running lead her to Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, where she ran as a Lady Gael. Post undergrad she moved to the land of the cheese, beginning medical school at UW- Madison. There she was introduced to ‘fish fry’s’ and ‘cheese curds’. Now, back in Connecticut, Frances is excited to be close to friends and family. Her interests include shopping, running, dancing, cross-county skiing, traveling (but NOT flying), ultrasound and sports medicine. |
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Shawn Stapp
Shawn was born and raised in Hatfield, PA (“Home of the Smiling Porker”) where he spent most of his high school summers lifeguarding at the local pool and making the occasional trip down to the Jersey Shore. He went to Penn State, graduating with a B.S. in Pre-medicine and a minor in Health Policy & Administration, all while volunteering as an EMT with the local ambulance service. During college, Shawn made some close friends (& fellow ski-bums) that still meet up at a new ski location each year (when financially possible). Shawn took one year off to do research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences on cystic fibrosis. While in medical school at The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine (UMDNJ-SOM… longest acronym ever) he met his adored fiancé, a fellow UCONN resident in OBGYN. He loves to travel and has visited both Europe and Central America. Shawn’s goals are to one day master the Spanish language and to spend a summer vacation by skiing in Chile. |
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