EM4′s

Hometown: Reno, NV

Undergraduate: University of California, San Diego

Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Academic Interests: Global Health, Disaster Medicine, Neurologic Emergencies, Toxicology, Ultrasound, Wilderness Medicine

Other Interests: Live music, skiing, backcountry snowboarding, wakeboarding, biking, golf, tennis, swimming, diving, laughing, singing, live music!

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Undergraduate: Rutgers University- Rutgers College

Graduate School: Harvard School of Public Health

Medical School: UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Academic Interests: Public Health (Health Communication, Health Disparities, Health Policy)

Other Interests: Not falling out of his loft bed, public speaking, live music (especially bass guitar), his family, being in front of and behind the camera, and Matthew 5:16

Chief Resident: Mount Sinai Medical Center

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Undergraduate: Brown University

Medical School: Brown University

Interests: Rugby, eating, naps, karaoke

Chief-At-Large

Hometown: Parsippany, NJ

Undergraduate: University of Rochester

Medical School: UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School

Interests: Soccer, running, basketball, movies (even chick flicks)

Undergraduate: University of Georgia

Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine

Academic Interests: Toxicology, Critical Care

Other interests: Napping, coffee, and finding free lunch. If napping were an Olympic sport, she’d be a 4 time gold medalist.

Hometown: L’viv, Ukraine

Undergraduate: Georgetown University

Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Academic Interests: Global Health

Other Interests: Capoeira, photography, biking, the outdoors, languages

Paolo Hernandez, MD

Chief Resident: Elmhurst Hospital Center

Hometown: New York, NY

Undergraduate: Brown University

Medical School: New York University School of Medicine

Academic Interests: International Medicine

Other Interests: Traveling, history, running, bicycling, photography, cooking, eating, spending time with friends and family

If he weren’t a physician, he’d be a diplomat

Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, MI

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Graduate School: University of Michigan (Masters in Architecture)

Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School

Interests: Food, cooking, eating, chocolate

Jacob Isserman, MD

Hometown: Urbana, IL

Undergraduate: Grinnell College

Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine

Academic Interests: Critical Care

Other Interests: Physical fitness, guitar, ancient maps/coins, sailing, the museums and restaurants of NYC, watching and playing sports

Eduardo Lacalle, MD, MPH

Hometown: Sebastopol, CA

Undergraduate: University of California Santa Cruz

Graduate School: University of California Berkeley School of Public Health

Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Alternative path to fame and fortune: Bass guitar

Favorite place to lose himself: 6 feet under the sea

Guilty pleasure: Prince

Most misunderstood member of the Fellowship: Boromir

Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan

Undergraduate: University of California Berkeley

Medical School: Columbia University

Academic Interests: Sports Medicine, International Medicine, wilderness/hyperbaric medicine, alternative/complementary medicine

Other Interests: Boxing, scuba diving, go

Norman Mok, MD

Hometown: Rockville Centre, NY

Undergraduate: Carnegie Mellon University

Medical School: SUNY Stonybrook School of Medicine

Worked in management consulting for several years before going to medical school

Interests: Golf, cars, running

Undergraduate: Duke University

Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia Campus

Interests: Politics, current events, non-fiction reading

Favorite Movie: V for Vendetta

Amy Sanghvi, MD

Hometown: Troy, MI

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine

Academic Interests: International Medicine

Interests: Eating new things, travel, family time, walking around big cities (especially NYC), beaches, different kind of meat (was a vegetarian for 24 years!), cheese, chocolate, Taco Bell, picnics in the park, scrabble, crosswords

Nelson Wong, MD

Academic Chief Resident

Hometown: Livingston, NJ via Torrance, CA

Undergraduate: Yale University

Post baccalaureate: Columbia University

Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Academic Interests: Ultrasound, Simulation, Medical Education

Other Interests: Snowboarding, basketball, TV, NYC in the Fall

Things he should be interested in: Reading, running, arithmetic, spelling, culture

Favorite activity: Sleeping