|
Graduates:
“A DAY IN THE LIFE”
GRADUATING CLASS 2010
Matthew Fagan, DO - VCOM
Jacqueline Judd Flack, DO - WVSOM
Abdurahman Hassan, MD - VCU
Jordan Hill, DO - VCOM
Tamara Spriggs, MD, MPH – EVMS
Molly Vorster, MD, PhD - VCU
Back to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2009
Micah Crouse, MD
David Flack, DO
Larisa Martin, MD
Daniel Pham, MD
Ramashilpa Sudireddy, MD
Back to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2008
Chaitanya Alli, MD
Monina Daguio, MD
Martin Kosciuk, MD
Charles Middelhof, MD
Kimberley Wyrick, DO
Back to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2007
Christopher Craig, DO has joined Stephens City Family Practice in Stephens City, VA
Samer Hawari, MD has joined Selma Family Medicine in Winchester, VA
Namrata Joshi, MD has joined a private practice in Northern Virginia
Rajith Rajan, MD has joined a private practice in Northern Virginia
Jocelyn Serrano, MD has joined a private practice in Northern Virginia
Back to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2006
Holly Abernethy, MD has joined a private practice in New Mexico.
Charles Cho, DO has joined a private practice in Northern Virginia.
Anne DeLanoy, MD has joined a clinic in Martinsburg, WV
Omar Khan, MD is completing a Neurology residency at Dartmouth
Back to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2005
Alexander Akhavan, MD has joined a private practice in the Las Vegas, NV area.
Cynthia Flores, DO is starting a private practice in the Gainesville, VA area.
Shannan Green, MD has joined the Front Royal Family Practice and is a member of the faculty of Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency.
Jason Hackett, MD has joined a private practice in Gainesville, VA.
Minh Nguyen, DO has joined a private practice in the Seattle, WA area.
Back to Top
GRADUATING CLASS
2004
Joel Grant, MD has started a solo practice in Stephens City, a small town in the region. Dr. Grant now regularly precepts in the Family Practice Center.
Gina Adair, MD is in locum tenens work while deciding between private practice and academia.
Iris Sadowsky, DO has started a solo practice in Arizona
Nancy Pandi, MD is going to an academic Family Medicine Research Fellowship at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert Saunders, MD is working in our regional community health clinic and is in private practice in the Ashburn, VA area.
Brian West, MD is serving as a military physician.
Back
to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2003
Jason Bhan, M.D. has joined a family practice group in Potomac Falls, VA.
Pamela Heath, D.O. is practicing in Maryland.
Dreama Rucker, M.D. has joined a multi-specialty group practice in Kentucky.
Back
to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2002
Christine M. Aiello, M.D. has joined a family practice physician in Berryville, Virginia (20 miles from Front Royal).
Tony Fiore, D.O. has joined a group family practice in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
Daniel Freed, M.D. became the only practicing physician in the very underserved county of Highland in Virginia.
Rebecca Layman, M.D. joined one of our 2001 graduates, Dr. Dwyer, in Strasburg, Virginia (10 miles from Front Royal).
Nimsha Thaver, D.O. moved to Oklahoma where her husband was recently transferred. She has started her own solo family practice.
Back
to Top
GRADUATING CLASS 2001
Sam Armitage, M.D. has started his own family practice in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Jennifer B. Dwyer, M.D. has started her own family practice in Strasburg, Virginia (10 miles from Front Royal).
Michael T. Lin, M.D., has joined a family practice physician in Warrenton, Virginia (35 miles from Front Royal). After completing a Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty Development Fellowship Program for 2001-2002, Dr. Line now regularly precepts in the Family Practice Center.
Douglas Thrasher, D.O., has joined a family practice group in Bealeton, Virginia
(40 miles from Front Royal).
Back
to Top
“A DAY IN THE LIFE”
I look at my alarm clock. It’s 5:30 a.m. I’m up, but the sun’s not. Yawn! It’s time to get out of bed and start my day as a 3rd year resident. By about 6:30, I arrive at Warren Memorial Hospital. It may look small on the outside, but don’t let that fool you. On the inside, things are always plenty busy! I arrive on the second floor and print out our Family Medicine inpatient list. There’s a variety of patients as always. There’s a pregnant patient in labor (better visit her first!). There’s a newborn male who needs a circumcision. An ICU patient on a ventilator just had an ABG performed and the settings on the machine need to be changed. Of course the 2nd floor is full of interesting folks. Pancreatitis, chest pain, atrial fibrillation, pulmonary emboli, hip fractures, and pneumonia are just a few of the disease processes that we deal with on a typical day. I’m so glad I’m not alone! My second year is here and we’re ready to divide up the patients and begin our day. It’s 8:00 a.m. and our attending arrives. We all sit down and update him/her about our patients and devise our treatment plans. Beep! Beep! Beep! There goes my pager. It’s the ER and they have a patient for me to evaluate. I go downstairs and find a 90ish female who is unresponsive, a tearful family by her side. I perform an H&P and write orders for her admission. It’s about 11:00 a.m. now and it’s time for teaching rounds. Today, the Clinical Pharmacist on our staff presents a case for discussion. On other days, our attending asks us to present a case and teach the other residents and students about a particular disease process. Wow, I look at my watch, its 12:30. Time flies when you’re having fun! I grab a quick bite to eat and finish some discharge paperwork on the floor. During the rest of the day, there are a few more trips to the ER. Beep! Beep! Beep! The nurse on the on the phone tells me that the elderly lady that I admitted earlier in the morning isn’t doing well. I rush up the steps and make my way into her room. Around her bed, her family gathers. I join them. Her prognosis is not favorable. A few minutes pass, and I pronounce her: 4:00 p.m. It’s a sad moment for us all. As I walk out of the room, a nurse tells me that they need me downstairs in Labor and Delivery. Remember that pregnant patient in labor? I run to the Women’s Care Center. I gown up and get myself ready to deliver a baby. I position myself at the end of the bed and take in the scene. Here again is a family joined around a bed for an entirely different reason: to welcome a child into the world. One, two, three… We start pushing. Soon after we start, I deliver a beautiful baby girl. Everyone is smiling, especially me! As I walk up the stairs to sign out to the on call resident, I pause and think how privileged I am as a family medicine physician to participate in the circle of life. It’s 5:00 and it’s time to go home. A few hours later, it’s time to go to bed. I set my alarm and think of what the next day will bring. I fall asleep happily thinking of tomorrow.
Back to Top
|
