Meet the new R2's

Hi All-

I wanted to make sure that everyone got a chance to meet the new R2's- this years group is bigger and better than ever (at least bigger!). It is a great group with a really diverse interest set- fun to challenge Rebecca and I to think how we are going to keep up with them all.

Before meeting the new primates.. let me outline some changes that we have made for the curriculum this year. I have gotten involved with the GME pathways group in the last year- working with Doug Bauer from UCPC (as well as Emily Von Scheven from Peds and Miriam Kupperman (Andy Avin's wife) from GYN) to be a "Co-Director of Resident Research" across the campus. It is fun and thus far not too time consuming. It is also providing the potential to do more epi curriculum sharing than ever before- finally! In both August and October we are going to be teaching Epi 150.03 to residents from all different specialties in both lecture and small group settings- finally making more formal what we have done in prime for sometime. best part is there is no cost for the course- this is quite an accomplishment! It will give a one month intense experience and enable us to do more supportive type work later on.

The new R2's are:
Kristen Adams
Katherine Aragon
Michael Guarneri
Carolyn Hendrickson
Jon Holtz
Vasantha Kolvavennu
Brett Ley
Kurt Lin
Gabe Mannis
Kana McKee
Susie Ng
Eric Nordsieck
Abi Philips
Arti Shah
Derrick Siao
Rachel Smith
Tilak Sundarsen
Ailihn Tran
James Troy
Celia Yau
Jie Zheng

Marissa Cruz was also going to be doing prime but she has decided to delay her R2 year because she is going to go back to DC to be a policy wonk in the new FDA anti-write smoking legislation.. seems a weak excuse to me :)

Hope everyone is doing great out there in the world- keep me up to speed with what is going on with you!!

until next week- Jeff