Laura McLaughlin, M.D., is a pediatric
hematology/oncology fellow at the University
of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz.
David Deray, M.D., is a pediatrician at Blue
Fish Pediatrics-Sienna Plantation in Missouri
City, Texas. Patrick Murray, M.D., is practicing at Turley
Family Health Center in Clearwater.
Kristen Deray, M.D., is in the Infectious
Disease Fellowship Program at Texas Children’s
Hospital in Houston.
Ryan Dickert, M.D., is practicing family
medicine at UF Health.
Nicole Dillow, M.D., is an attending physician
at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
JD Hales, M.D., is beginning a sports
medicine fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Matthew Neth, M.D., is an emergency
physician with the University of Cincinnati
Physicians Co. in Ohio.
Rachel Nickels, M.D., is an attending
physician at UF Health in Gainesville.
Pratik Pandit, M.D., was selected for a
fellowship in geriatrics at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Anushi Patel, M.D., was named chief resident
of her Diagnostic Radiology Residency
Program at UF Health-Jacksonville.
Joanna Hales, M.D., is chief resident of the
pediatric residency program at UNC-Chapel
Hill. Keniel Pierre, M.D., is an internist at Stanton
Road Clinic in Mobile.
Kevin Hou, M.D., is practicing with Martin
Health Physician Group as an adult primary
care physician in Stuart, Florida. Kristopher “Ryan” Shannon, M.D., is
practicing in Las Vegas with TeamHealth
Nevada.
Ryan Humphries, M.D., is a hospitalist at
Novant Health Matthews Medical Center in
Matthews, North Carolina. Farnaz Shariati, M.D., is chief resident of the
internal medicine residency program at Ochsner
Clinic Foundation Hospital in New Orleans.
Evgeny Idrisov, M.D., is an internist at
Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Melanie Siefman, M.D., is a pediatrician at
Unity Health Care in Washington, D.C.
Sudeep Kuchibhotla, M.D., is the James T.
Willerson Clinical Research Fellow and serves
as a clinical research professional within the
Women’s Heart & Vascular Health Department
at the Texas Heart Institute. Ross Stemmler, M.D., is an internist at
Wilmington Health in North Carolin a.
Rida Laeeq, M.D., is a cardiology fellow at
Boston University. Kevin Yan, M.D., is an assistant professor of
internal medicine and faculty practice clinician
at Mount Sinai West in New York.
Luke McKenna, M.D., has returned to Florida
and is practicing at Island Coast Pediatrics in
Fort Myers.
John Turner, M.D., has joined Tallahassee
Primary Care Associates in family medicine.
2016
Joah Aliancy, M.D., is scheduled to
become the first African-American resident
in ophthalmology at Columbia University’s
Harkness Eye Institute.
Sarah (Avila) Crowley, M.D., has been
appointed chief resident this year at the
Surgery Residency Program at the University of
California at Davis.
Makandall Saint Eloi, M.D., is family
medicine chief resident at Jackson Memorial
Hospital in Miami. He also helped create
Driven, a foundation to mentor at-risk youth.
Alexander Schrodt, M.D., received the Intern
of the Year Award in 2017, and was inducted
into the Gold Humanism Honor Society at
Texas Tech University Health Sciences.
2017
Allison Ellis, M.D., recently married classmate
Alex Davis, M.D.
PIMS 1976
John Gale, M.D., sent the following update:
“Retired (probably!). Practiced peds and adult
psych in private practice, HMO (Kaiser), and
community mental health clinics for 30 years
in Portland area; locum tenens in Christchurch,
New Zealand, in winter 2014. Have also
done some admin, teaching and volunteer
work. Married, two adult kids. Enjoy outdoor
activities; e.g., skiing at Mt. Hood and boating/
salmon fishing at Oregon coast.”
PIMS 1982
John and Karen Woody, M.D., live in
Orlando and graduated three daughters this
year: Casey, 30, anesthesia residency, University
of Pennsylvania; Kelli, 27, family medicine,
UF; and Lindsey, 25, UCF College of Medicine
Class of 2018. John continues as chief
anesthesiologist and medical director at Surgery
Center of Lakeland Hills Boulevard. He’s also
an assistant professor of anesthesia at the UCF
College of Medicine.
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David Cristin, M.D., is a gastroenterology
fellow at the University of Colorado School of
Medicine-Denver.