PIMS
Alexander H. Nguyen, M.D., is practicing at Joanna (Meadors) Hales, M.D., was selected 1972
the Air Force family medicine clinic at Incirlik to be chief resident for the pediatric residency Air Base in Turkey. He graduated from the program at the University of North Carolina Eglin Air Force Base family medicine residency Chapel Hill Medical Center for the 2018-19 program, where he was one of three chief year. Her husband and classmate, JD Hales III, residents and was named Eglin’s residency M.D., is a family medicine resident at UNC. mentor for 2017. They’re expecting a daughter in September. Benjamin Robelo, M.D., was promoted to Laura Irastorza, M.D., is in her last year of chief anesthesiology resident at SUNY Upstate the pediatric residency program at Palmetto Medical University in New York. Health in Columbia, South Carolina, and Alex Sanchez, M.D., is a consultant in
occupational medicine; medical director for
Clariant Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina;
and medical director for JPS Composites in
Anderson, South Carolina. “My wife, Linda,
and I live on Lake Norman, just 25 miles north
of where I completed my residency (Carolinas
Medical Center) in 1978,” he said. “I was an
assistant residency director for the family medicine
program 1978-1982. I then went into emergency
medicine at Mercy Hospital, where I was chief
of ED 1982-1989. In 1989 I started a career in
occupational medicine and became the medical
director for Springs Industries in Fort Mill, South
Carolina. I practiced clinical medicine until 2005.”
Alyson (Lewis) Sanchious, M.D., is chief gastroenterology. She is the Pediatric Ethics resident in the Florida State University College Committee chair at her hospital and has been of Medicine-Lee Health family medicine awarded the Resident Super Star Award by the residency program. She was married in 2014 nursing staff. She married Clifton David Perry 1977
and has a 1-year-old daughter. last year. David Swoboda, M.D., is chief resident in Matt Neth, M.D., is in the wilderness internal medicine at Georgetown University medicine track in his emergency medicine Medical Center and is applying for a residency at the University of Alabama- hematology/oncology fellowship. Birmingham. Michael S. Marsh, M.D., is nearing retirement
after serving six years in the Navy as a family
physician and 32 years in Dayton, Virginia, as
a family physician in a rural setting. He and
his wife, Jane, have three sons and a daughter.
“We’re happily anticipating this new time in
our lives,” he said. “My blessings to all of my
friends and colleagues from PIMS.”
Marianne Turner, M.D., finished her family Anushi Patel, M.D., switched residency medicine residency at Jackson Memorial programs. She’s now with the Diagnostic Hospital-University of Miami and is now Radiology Residency Program at the University completing a geriatrics fellowship there. of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. Ryan Williamson, M.D., is a neurology Jonathan Salud, M.D., in his third year of resident at MedStar Georgetown University residency in the internal medicine-primary care Hospital and received the 2016 String of Pearls track at Emory University School of Medicine, Resident Teaching Award, which is annually has been selected as the Primary Care Center awarded to one resident from each department. Clinic Resident of the Year for two years in a row. 2015 2016 Neeka Akhavan, M.D., and Tony Brar, Kristen Dimas, M.D., was selected to serve M.D., were selected this year for membership as the Lee Health Family Medicine Program’s 1996
in the University of Florida Chapter of the Gold resident representative to the Florida Academy Humanism Honor Society. Both are internal of Family Physicians. Woodward Burgert III, M.D., is the medical
director of UNC Family Medicine at Pittsboro,
North Carolina. He completed a family
medicine residency at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill in 2002.
medicine residents at UF Health in Gainesville.
2017
1982
John D. Woody, M.D., is an anesthesiologist at
the Surgery Center of Lakeland, Florida. He is
the chief of the anesthesiology department and
the medical director and an assistant professor
of anesthesiology at UCF. He and his wife,
Karen, have three daughters, all of whom are in
medical residency programs or medical school.
1995
Brian G. Wilson, M.D., is a private-practice
allergist at Tallahassee Allergy, Asthma &
Immunology.
David Deray, M.D., and Kristen Valencia, M.D., Matt Grove, M.D., in the diagnostic radiology were married May 20 in Asheville, North Carolina. residency program at Mayo Clinic School of 1997
Graduate Medical Education in Jacksonville, Alexander Franz, M.D., is practicing at North
Florida Women’s Care and is a clerkship faculty
member at the FSU College of Medicine.
and his wife are expecting a baby.
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plans to pursue a fellowship in pediatric