Another year gone by

Hi All-

Its amazing to me how quickly the years go by... I wanted to update you on the past week and will try to do so weekly as the year goes by.

First, I wanted to say congratulations on the latest (and largest) PRIME graduating class. It is an amazing group who are going to do really cool things. I am going to take a minute to list them all and then say what they are going to be doing next year. This is their graduation photo at the R3 dinner.

Nicole Appelle- Fellowship in med-ed
Rhonda Bitting- CRI attending followed by Duke Heme-Onc fellowship
Danielle Brandman- UCSF GI Fellowship

Andrew Braun- UC 4th year then Pulmonary fellowship
Anh Bui- Cards Fellowship at UCLA

Rebecca Cogswell- Cards Fellow, UCSF post CR year at VA

Suzanne Chang- International Research, Peru
Mathew Gubens- H/O fellowship at Stanford
Kurt Hoffmayer- Cards fellow at UCSF
Omar Khan- UC 4th year then GI fellow at U. Chicago
Paul Kleinschmidt- Hosptilist, Eugene Oregon

Larry Lazar- Cards Fellow, Cleveland Clinic
Michelle Mourad- UCSF Hospitalist Fellow
Rita Ng- Cards Fellow, Cedars Sinai

Jennifer Poehls- Endocrine Fellow,U. Wiscosin

Michael Richardson- Hospitalist, San Diego
Justin Sewell- GI Fellow, UCSF
Delphine Tuot- Renal Fellow, UCSF

Sreek Vemulapalli- Cards Fellow- Duke, CR VA

Jeremy Warner- CRI attending, BI for Heme Onc Fellowship

Mani Sharma, Eric Williams were this years VA CRs who are going on to H/O in Chicago and Cards at Duke respectively. Elizabeth Kaplan was CR at Moffitt and is going to be joining the staff here at the VA in GIM.

It is another impressive group! They are going to get invited to join this blog tomorrow by Art as I am still clueless on how to do this.

I had a tea with Christina Ghaly (nee Rall) with her lovely baby Cayna last week. It was fun to catch up and it was disapointing for me that Cayna just slept the whole time and I couldn't pick her up and hold her. Leslie and I are sure we are done with babies so we have to live vicariously through others...

Please keep in touch and let me know how things are going with all of you! I am wicked sore as I am training for my first triathlon and ran long yesterday and at 46 cannot do the miles as easily as before... I promise to keep writing each week as long as all of you keep checking in!

Jeff