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2005 2009 2009
Kerry Bachista, M.D., was named the 2018
State of Florida Raymond H. Alexander, M.D.,
EMS Medical Director of the Year, in his role
as medical director for the St. Johns County
Fire and Rescue Department. In Jacksonville,
Bachista practices emergency medicine at
Baptist Health and is an assistant professor at
UF Health. Jonathan Journey, M.D., is an assistant
professor of emergency medicine at the
University of Central Florida College of
Medicine.
2006
Robert Allison, M.D., is chief of the
Infectious Diseases Section and associate
director for research in the Department of
Transfusion Medicine at the NIH Clinical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also on
the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health.
2011
Mary Crocker, M.D., was a Fogarty Global
Health Fellow living full time in Peru, working
on research related to childhood pneumonia.
Now she is with Seattle Children’s Hospital in
pediatric pulmonology.
Zaher Elmir, M.D., is practicing general
surgery at Lake Regional Urgent Care in
Leesburg, Florida. Jessica Gershen, M.D., recently married
alumnus Robert Daly, M.D., from the Class
of 2012.
Phuong Nguyen, M.D., is practicing at
Central Valley Colon and Rectal Surgical
Associates in Fresno, California. Erin Golden, M.D., practices neurology at
Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis.
2007
Sady Alpizar, M.D., is practicing at Clinical
Research Trials of Florida in Tampa.
Tristan Altbuch, M.D., is practicing at the
Orthopaedic Institute in Gainesville.
Robert Crescentini, M.D., is practicing at St.
Joseph’s Hospital-BayCare in Tampa.
Tamara Kolev, M.D., is an assistant professor
of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive
science at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York.
Joseph Mahoney, M.D., is a clinical assistant
professor at the University of South Carolina
School of Medicine in Greenville.
Savita Pai, M.D., is a hospitalist at Baptist
Health in Jacksonville.
Dolly Penn, M.D., is a medical officer and
program director at the National Cancer
Institute in Rockville, Maryland. Actually, she
is now Dolly P. White, M.D., married to
classmate DeJuan White, M.D.
Ferdinand Schafer, M.D., is an assistant
professor of emergency medicine and
hospitalist services at Augusta University in
Georgia.
Evan Johnson, M.D., is a senior associate
consultant at Mayo Clinic-Rochester.
Ashley (Chandler) Regnaud, M.D., is
practicing at Patterson Plastic Surgery in
Pensacola.
2012
Elizabeth Anderson, M.D., is practicing
at Nephrology Associates in Mobile. She
specializes in chronic kidney disease, polycystic
kidney disease and metabolic diseases.
Lakeema Bruce, M.D., is a full-time faculty
member and assistant professor for the
University of Florida College of Medicine
OB-GYN Residency Program at Sacred Heart
Hospital in Pensacola.
Mark Cogburn, M.D., formerly chief resident
in the urologic surgery residency at Maimonides
Medical Center, is practicing at the Southern
Arizona VA Health Care System in Tucson.
Allison (Poimboeuf) Ferrara, M.D., is an
assistant professor of medicine at the University
of Central Florida’s College of Medicine
internal medicine residency program. Her
husband, classmate Marco Ferrara, M.D., is
joining the Colon and Rectal Clinic of Orlando.
Sarah Novara, M.D., is an assistant professor
and assistant program director in the Child
Neurology Program at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine’s
Department of Pediatrics.
Alex Parker, M.D., is in an advanced
fellowship in heart failure and transplant
cardiology at the University of Virginia.
Kristina Seeger, M.D., is practicing at United
Gastroenterologists in Southern California.
Allen Sirizi, M.D., is an anesthesiologist at
Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford.
2013
Erin (Bascom) Carlquist, M.D., is a
dermatopathologist at KWB Pathology
Associates in Tallahassee.
Brandon Cook, M.D., has begun a fellowship
in adult and pediatric spine surgery at the
University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Lisa Cunningham, M.D., who was inducted
into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in her
residency at UF Health-Gainesville, has begun
a fellowship in colorectal surgery at Ohio State
University.
Caitlin Dunham, M.D., is practicing OB-
GYN at Mayo Clinic in Austin, Minnesota.
Michele Edison, M.D., is in a body and breast
imaging fellowship program at the Weill Cornell
Medicine Department of Radiology in New
York.
Zach Folzenlogen, M.D., has begun an
endovascular neurosurgery fellowship at the
University of Colorado School of Medicine in
Denver.
Robert Daly, M.D.: See Jessica Gershen’s update
(Class of 2011).
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