The Class of 2011 had a wonderful weekend catching up! We spent the afternoon on Saturday bowling in East Haven (with remarkably good scores across the board!) and walking around campus eating Arethusa ice cream. The evening's events then shifted over to Geronimo, where we indulged in a cocktail hour with free margaritas, tacos, nachos, quesadillas, and lobster mac and cheese. Since it hasn't been too long since graduation (most of us finished in 2012 or later), everyone still appeared young and spry, but we still had a great time sharing and celebrating all that has been accomplished in the meantime. It was so nice to see each other and we only wished that more of our classmates could have made it!
To recap the updates from those who attended:
Kristel Carrington is finishing her psychiatry residency at New York University (NYU). She will be working at NYU and Elmhurst Hospitals next year.
Nupur Garg just moved back to New Haven, now that she is about to complete her emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai in New York. She will be working as an EM physician 50 percent of the time at Waterbury Hospital while serving as a part-time hospital consultant for a physician group and as a start-up company CEO.
Lauren Goldman (neé Hackney) got married to Dave in August 2013. She has moved back to the East Coast as a radiology resident at Montefiore in New York City after spending a few years in orthopaedic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
George Hauser completed his pathology residency at Yale and is now on the faculty with a joint research and clinical appointment. He and his wife Christine have an 18-month-old son named Jonah and are expecting another baby in a few months.
Michael Ma visited from Boston with his fiance David Peloquin, to whom he got engaged in Paris this past March. Mike completed his pediatrics residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is now a primary care pediatrician in Brookline, Mass. In his spare time, he has enjoyed playing rugby for the past few years.
Steven Oh visited New Haven to celebrate both his fifth medical school reunion as well as his 10th college reunion. He is finishing his radiation oncology residency at the Cleveland Clinic. He will soon be moving to Philadelphia and working at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J.
Patricia Peter and Henry Park got married in New Haven in April 2015, then celebrated by getting a Yorkie puppy named Archie. After finishing her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, Patricia is completing her endocrinology fellowship at Yale and will be joining the faculty here in July. Henry is beginning his chief resident year in radiation oncology at Yale.
Bob Ross got married to his wife Michelle in October 2014. He's been quite busy this spring, graduating from the Yale M.D./Ph.D. program in cell biology; becoming a father to their first baby, Hope Aurora; and starting his Yale psychiatry residency.
John Thomas is finishing his chief residency in the Yale Primary Care Program, and he worked mainly this year at the VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. In July, he will be joining the Dominican religious order in preparation for becoming a Catholic priest, though he plans to continue his clinical and research work in palliative medicine, geriatrics, and primary care.
Kate Wynne and Michael Soule were married in Chicago in June 2013. Kate finished her pediatrics residency at MGH and is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, where she works as a pediatric hospitalist. Michael is about to finish his psychiatry residency at MGH/McLean and will be working at as an outpatient primary care psychiatry consultant in an integrated care model at the Dimock Center in Roxbury, Mass. He will also be starting a small private psychotherapy practice in the Boston area.
We were also glad to hear other updates from classmates who were unable to make it to the festivities:
Elie Balesh is completing his diagnostic radiology residency at MGH. He'll be spending the next year as a clinical advisor to early-stage biotech and med-tech ventures before completing an interventional radiology fellowship the following year.
Christopher Bartley finished his M.D./Ph.D. at Yale in 2015 and is entering his PGY-2 year in psychiatry at UCSF. He is still interested in basic science research and will study protein translation in normal and abnormal brain function. This summer he will marry his fianceé Kaitlyn Landgraf (Yale Divinity '13 and Stanford Journalism '16) at Stanford Memorial Church.
Ryan Blum is finishing his psychiatry residency at Yale, where he is a chief resident for education. He, his wife Daniela, and their children Silas, 8, Norah, 5, and Leo, 1, will be moving to Berkeley, Calif. Ryan will begin working as an outpatient psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.
Jessica Bod is about to graduate from her emergency medicine residency at Yale and will be staying as faculty. She recently married Tamara Schechter, and they enjoy raising their two adorable dogs, Brie and Linus.
Larissa Chiulli is graduating from the Brown general surgery residency, with plans to join University Surgical Associates at the Miriam Hospital in Providence for one year before practicing general surgery at Falmouth Hospital in Cape Cod in 2017. She looks forward to getting married to John Harrison in August.
Annie Dewan (neé Engberg) and Michael Dewan are residents at Vanderbilt, she in dermatology and he in neurosurgery. Starting in July, Annie will be the first complex medical dermatology fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, while Michael will be a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Clinical Fellow in Mbale, Uganda.
Bridget Hopewell is finishing up residency in otolaryngology at the University of Missouri. She is looking forward to starting a fellowship in laryngology and Care of the Professional Voice at Vanderbilt in July.
Aliya Jiwani is finishing her ophthalmology residency at Harvard Medical School. She will stay there for a one-year glaucoma fellowship starting in July.
Matthew Kruse is completing his psychiatry resident at the University of Minnesota, where he will be staying for a forensic psychiatry fellowship.
Matthew Lidstrom is currently a radiology resident at the University of Washington, with plans to do a fellowship in neuroradiology there in 2017-18.
Janice Man has graduated from her anesthesiology residency at UCSF and is completing her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In July, she will be starting as an attending in pediatric anesthesiology at the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. Her clinical focus will be in pediatric acute pain and regional analgesia.
Yehoda Martei is currently a second-year hematology-oncology fellow at Penn. She finished her internal medicine residency at UCSF. Her clinical and research interests are breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa and access to essential medicines for cancer treatment in low- and middle-income countries. She writes, "I was recently in Botswana (in Southern Africa) for a couple of months and ran into Annie Dewan who was doing a derm rotation at the same hospital in Gaborone (capital of Botswana). We co-managed a few patients and it was a lot of meaningful work, great learning, and fun."
Nina Ni finished her internship in San Francisco, ophthalmology residency at Wills Eye in Philadelphia, and cornea fellowship at UCSF. Right before graduation, she married her college love Alex, and they recently welcomed their baby boy Wesley on May 23. In the next few months, they'll be moving to a new house and Nina will be starting a private practice job. She looks forward to seeing everyone at the 10th reunion!
Kim Nguyen finished her primary care residency at UCSF in 2015 and stayed in the area, as her partner Mark started medical school at UCSF. She now works at a federally qualified health center in Berkeley, providing primary care to uninsured and publicly insured patients. She writes, "I'm continually grateful for the people and philosophy of Yale Med."
Odayme Quesada completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF in 2015, where she stayed for a hospitalist year on the heart failure service. She will be starting her cardiology fellowship this July at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
Lin Shen is on the general medicine faculty at Yale after completing his internal medicine residency there. He is moving to Boston with his wife Jessica (who is completing her primary care medicine residency at Yale) and their dog Sadie in order to be a GI fellow at the Brigham.
Matthew Singleton finished his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview and has been a hospitalist at Yale this year. He is starting five years of fellowship in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at Wake Forest in July. He and his wife Katie keep busy with their sons, Matthew Jr., 4, Jack, 2, and baby Michael (born on June 10 at Yale).
Alla Lescure Smith completed her pediatrics residency at Boston Children's Hospital. She is currently an attending in the intermediate care unit at BCH and serves as the associate director of quality for the BCH network hospitals.
- Henry Park and Michael Soule