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Emergency Medicine Residents: PGY-1

2008-2009 

Resident Spotlight: UNDER CONSTUCTION

Sarah Carle

Sarah Carle, M.D.

The first concert I ever went to was: Dave Matthews Band

My favorite team to cheer for is: NY Giants

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: An anthropologist

My most interesting job was: Building tiger cages

I spend my free time: With my friends and family, hiking and camping or simply being outdoors, baking, reading or just napping

My most desired superpower is: Time travel

My most random personal talent is: I can cook Thanksgiving dinner over a campfire

 My dream vacation consists of: Seeing the Northern Lights and then the Southern Lights (although, I guess that’s two vacations)


 

EkeochaChidi

Chidi Ekeocha, M.D.


The first concert I ever went to was: Boot Camp Clik (An ancient hip hop group from Brooklyn, NY that was pretty popular back in the mid 90’s)

My favorite book is: To Kill a Mockingbird and My Start-Up Life

My favorite team to cheer for is: University of Maryland Terrapin basketball team. Go Terps!

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: Science Teacher

My most interesting job was: Clinical Assistant in the Neurobehavioral Department at Kennedy Krieger Institute

I spend my free time: Watching movies and stand-up comedians

My most desired superpower is: Mind control

My most random personal talent is: I can make both of my Pectoralis majors dance on command

My dream vacation consists of: A trip spanning all of Europe

FongTiffany

Tiffany Fong, M.D.


The first concert I ever went to was: Little Guilt Shrine (a local band from Sacramento, CA)

My favorite book is: Love in the Time of Cholera— Garcia-Marquez
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles—Murakami

My favorite team to cheer for is: Oakland A’s

My most interesting job was: Working as an “interpretive naturalist” at an aquarium.  (This did not involve mime or dance, unfortunately.)

I spend my free time: Swimming in circles, sleeping in.

My most desired superpower is: Something having to do with overcoming time and space – either stopping time or being able to teleport.

My most random personal talent is:
I know many, many jokes.

My dream vacation consists of: Anywhere that I have not seen before.


 
GilbertDoug

Doug Gilbert, D.O.


 

GoldsteinMark

Mark Goldstein, M.D.

The first concert I ever went to was: Vanilla Ice Ice, Baby 

My favorite book is: Catch-22

My favorite team to cheer for is: Ravens!  

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: I’d probably teach social studies to high school kids. 

My most interesting job was: Camp counselor for two summers.  I got paid to hike and play soccer.

I spend my free time: Doing sports stuff, discovering new music, hanging out with friends. 

My most desired superpower is: Shooting laser beams from my eyes.  It would make a cool party trick.

My most random personal talent is: I can make a ridiculous omelette.

My dream vacation consists of: Water, sand, wine, and sun.    


 

   


HeverlingHarry

Harry Heverling, D.O.


The first concert I ever went to was: Bob Dylan

My favorite book is: The Tao of Pooh

My favorite team to cheer for is: Philadelphia Phillies

My dream vacation consists of: My friends, a sailboat and 20 knot winds


 
 KhanderSam

Sam Khandahar, M.D.


The first concert I ever went to was: T.I.

My favorite book is: The metrosexual guide to style –hilarious!

My favorite team to cheer for is: I’m a hardcore fair-weather fan

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: international CIA operative or a music producer like Timbaland. Or both

My most interesting job was: waiter at Applebee’s

I spend my free time: trying new things

My most desired superpower is:
eternal youth, physically and mentally

My most random personal talent is: not appropriate to share here

My dream vacation consists of: exploring a remote corner of the world

KipeBrian

Brian Kipe, M.D.


The first concert I ever went to was: I have no idea

My favorite book is: Michael Crichton’s “Travels”

My favorite team to cheer for is: Virginia Cavaliers

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: School teacher

My most interesting job was: Paintball field referee

I spend my free time: Hanging out with my family, playing soccer, watching football, fixing up my house

My most desired superpower is: Flying

My most random personal talent is: ability to blow fire . . . no really.

My dream vacation consists of: Beach, waves, wife, villa by shore and a surfboard

  
MortonMelinda

Melinda Morton M.D.


The first concert I ever went to was:  Dave Matthews Band

My favorite book is:  "Mountains Beyond Mountains", by Tracy Kidder 

My favorite team to cheer for is:  The Philadelphia Eagles, as painful as it has been lately 

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc:  An MP Officer in the U.S. Army, which I was before medical school, believe it or not

My most interesting job was:  Working with the Secret Service and planning emergency/disaster response while serving in the military in DC

I spend my free time:  What free time?  I have three kids.  Sleeping I guess.

My most desired superpower is: Cloning myself

My most random personal talent is: Sending email while in labor

My dream vacation consists of: Warm sun, sand, no kids, a strawberry daiquiri, People Magazine, my husband, and lots of time to shop… 

RhyneRandall

Randall Rhyne, M.D.


The first concert I ever went to was: Dave Matthews Band

My favorite book is: Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine

My favorite team to cheer for is: North Carolina Tar Heels

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: A pilot.

My most interesting job was: Pool Manager

I spend my free time: Traveling and enjoying outdoor activities such as running, scuba diving, and soccer.

My most desired superpower is: Flight

My most random personal talent is: As yet undiscovered.

My dream vacation consists of: Scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef.



ShahSneha

Sneha Shah, M.D.

The first concert I ever went to was: The Goo Goo Dolls

My favorite book is: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

My favorite team to cheer for is: Any team my friends are playing on                      

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: A diplomat in the United Nations

My most interesting job was: A balloon holder for the dress rehearsal of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

I spend my free time: Exploring

My most desired superpower is: The ability to live without sleep (imagine all the things I could do with an extra 2500 hours a year!!)

My most random personal talent is: Winning large stuffed animals at amusement parks

My dream vacation consists of: Being anywhere anytime with the right people


StewartdeRamirezSarah

         Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, M.D.

The first concert I ever went to was: Milli Vanilli—and the day after that the news busted them for lip syncing the whole time! 

My favorite book is: Interpreter of Maladies by: Jhumpa Lahiri

My favorite team to cheer for is: The Boston Red Sox—but I’ll give the Orioles a chance to win me over.

What I’d be if I wasn’t an ER doc: A safari lodge owner in south East Africa

My most interesting job was: Teaching the hokey pokey to kids in Haiti

I spend my free time: Spending time with my husband (that doesn’t involve signing out ortho cases to him), traveling, merengue dancing, traveling….did I already say that?

My most desired superpower is: Teleporting…is that a superpower or just tell you I might be a treky? 

My most random personal talent is: Undiscovered I suppose.

My dream vacation consists of: Somewhere with very few footprints…I could tell you but then…


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