the asklepiad yearbook (2014)

AsklepiadEditors

Christina H. Noguera, MS IV - Class of 2014

PhotographyJohn Knight

Karen Roeder

Layout and DesignBeth Hyde

Faculty and Staff AdvisorsSabina BadalovaWendy Gaskin

Alice House, MDLeslie Jackson

The

2013-2014

Table of ConTenTs

Introduction...............................................................................................................................3

Dedications................................................................................................................................4

Administration...........................................................................................................................5

Faculty........................................................................................................................................9

Staff...........................................................................................................................................19

Columbus Campus................................................................................................................32

MD Class of 2014.....................................................................................................33

MD Class of 2015.....................................................................................................42

Macon Campus.......................................................................................................................43

MD Class of 2014.....................................................................................................44

MD Class of 2015.....................................................................................................56

MD Class of 2016.....................................................................................................58

MD Class of 2017.....................................................................................................61

Macon Interest Groups.........................................................................................................66

Graduate Programs...............................................................................................................69

Savannah Campus..................................................................................................................79

MD Class of 2014.....................................................................................................80

MD Class of 2015.....................................................................................................92

MD Class of 2016.....................................................................................................94

MD Class of 2017.....................................................................................................96

Savannah Interest Groups..................................................................................................100

Medical Missions Trips.........................................................................................................103

Congratulatory Ads............................................................................................................107

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InTroduCTIon

To My Fellow Classmates,

Four years ago, we met each other as nervous, eager to impress, first year medical students. We were introduced to one another during one week of orientation, where initial bonds were formed. Then, we hit the ground running on that first day of phase A. Six weeks later, we celebrated with one another after our first exam, whether we passed it or not. For two years, we were all book worms studying in the library until 6 pm and then in our group classrooms until all hours of the night. We bonded over popcorn and recorded Histology lectures, as well as the nights we could enjoy each other’s company after our stressful exams. We stressed out together, and probably stressed each other out dur-ing step 1 study, and then began our clinicals in year three. Another journey awaited us as we studied for shelf exams, entered the hospital at 4 AM, and left sometimes at 7 PM. All of us have thought about what kind of doctor we each wanted to become, and whether or not we had what it took to enter the residency of our choice.

Over the years, we all volunteered in our communities, attended interest group meetings, traveled on mission trips, or did summer scholar research projects. After four years, we know each other very well. We know where each of us pre-fers to study. We know where each of us enjoy spending our weekends, and with whom we are close. We even know about the struggles of some of our classmates, and not only know about them, but care enough to help each other when needed. This includes special tutoring in hard subjects, sharing notes, or even explaining material to make sure our classmate is not left behind. This means comforting one another during the death of a family member, sharing joy with one another over an engagement or wedding, providing support to those who are parents or expecting parents, as well as helping take care of our pets when one may be out of town. Over the years, we have lost fellow classmates who fell behind. However, we will never forget who was with us initially when we began our med school journey.

Whichever campus you may be a part of, we can all relate to this message, because we are the students of Mercer. Our cities and campus lives may be distinct, but our curriculum and goals stay one in the same. We are all from Georgia, or at least have ties to this great state, and have all experienced community medicine with a doctor in a rural/underserved community, which has influenced each of us differently. We all know what it is like to take 8 hour standardized tests, clinical skills OSKEs, and wait patiently and nervously to open that Match Day letter.

These past four years have been difficult, but they were doable, and WE DID IT! We did it together, with the support of one another, and with determination. As your editor, I hope you enjoy your senior yearbook. I hope the photos con-tained in these pages are memories you will hold for a lifetime. I wish the best for each and every one of you, whether we are close or not. I hope our Alumni Association is strong, and that we can have a 10 year reunion after we are all finished with residency. By that time, we will be real, certified physicians. Can you imagine?

To my Savannah classmates, thank you for making these past four years enjoyable, fun, and unforgettable. I would not have been able to survive without the wonderful comradery we developed and shared with one another over the years. I know in my heart that all of you will be great successes, and I am proud to call you my colleagues.

Good luck to all of you, in residency and beyond.

Love Always,Christina Leigh Huntley NogueraClass of 2014 Asklepiad Editor

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dedICaTIon

Gail ColemanOctober 10, 1969 - February 27, 2014

M.D. Class of 2014 Honoree

No one has been accepted into medical school without communicating with Gail Coleman. Gail served Mercer University SOM for over 14 years with many years serving as the Senior Admissions Specialist helping applicants navigate through the maze of medical school admissions. Every student in every program at the School of Medicine has been touched by Gail’s compassion and concern and they have been the recipient of her many hours of labor on their behalf. There is no more fitting person to which this yearbook should be dedicated than Gail Coleman. Her quiet and gentle spirit will be missed and we are all the better for having known her.

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Carl R. Boyd, M.D.Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education - Savannah

admInIsTraTIon

William F. Bina, III, M.D., M.P.H. Dean

T. Philip Malan, Ph.D., M.D. Dean - Savannah Campus,

Vice Dean - School of Medicine

W. Grady Carter, M.D.Associate Dean for Academic Affairs - Macon

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admInIsTraTIon

Wayne Glasgow, Ph.D.Associate Dean for Research

Marie Dent, Ph.D.Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs - Macon/Savannah

David E. Mathis, M.D.Assistant Dean - Columbus Campus

Alice House, M.D.Senior Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs

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admInIsTraTIon

Tina Thompson, Ph.D.Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Robert Shelley, M.D.Associate Dean for Student Affairs - Savannah Campus

Samuel D. Murray, M.D.Associate Dean for Admissions - Savannah Campus

Ramon V. Meguiar, M.D. Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs - Savannah Campus

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admInIsTraTIon

Joseph M. Van de Water, M.D.Assistant Dean for Research

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maCon Campus faCulTy

Anesthesiology

Alrick Brooks Arthur GrayJian HuaRobert LaneKen McDonald, Chair

Richard McCann

Rob McKallip

Andon Placzek

E.S. Prakash

Roy Russ, Chair

Jon Shuman

Laura Silo-Suh

Mark Swanson

James Thomas

Qian Wang

Ananda Weerasuriya

Henry Young

Rudolfs Zalups

Community Medicine

William Bina III

Randolph Devereaux

Alvin SewellSanjiwan TarabadkarBasic Sciences

Christy BridgesAmanda ChaseSusan Cline

Daniel Hagan

Kristen Ashley Horner

Michael Horst

Balint Kacsoh

Sandra Leeper-Woodford

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Richard Elliot

Cheryl Gaddis

Suzanne LaMarca

Mary Mathis

David Parish, Chair

Stephen Noe

Gregory Whatley

Family Medicine

Y. Monique Davis-Smith

Sabry Gabriel

Fred Girton, Chair

Alice House

Warren Hutchings

Kathy Kemle

Hugh McLaurin

Sandhya Ramayya

Patrick Roche

Dipesh Patel

J. Paul Seale

Sylvia Shellenberger

Barbara Walker

Mike Smith

Nannette Turner

Yudan Wei

Emergency Medicine

Barbara Camp

Tomas Concepcion, Chair

Antonio De La Luz

Carol Gallik-Karlson

Jason Gardiner

Lloyd Harrington

Naomi Kirkman-Bey

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Roberta Weintraut

Internal Medicine

Avinesh Bhar

Charles Callender

Shelley Street Callender

Rossana Carter

Ritu Kumar

Ericka LiFuentes

Blanca Lopez

Emad Malak

Elizabeth May

John Meadows

Nnamdi Nwaohiri

Pankil Patel

Rafael Ponce Terashima

Guilda Saint-Fleur

Allison Scheetz

Ahmed Shah

Betsy Smith

Lisa Snellgrove

Richard Snyder, Chair

Dana Eilen

Jalal Ghali

Hemant Goyal

Edwin Grimsley

Glynnis Haley

George Hart

John Hawkins

Erskine James

Harold Katner

Larry Kohse

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Ajay Srivastava

Jeffery Stephens

Hamid Syed

William Terry

Peter Uchakin

William Butler, Chair

Gary Lee Eddy

Christopher Hendry

Paul Kross

Michael Makii

Pathology

Robert Donner, Chair

William Pope

Jerome Tift

Anna Walker

Pediatrics

Tarek Bisat

Edward Clark

Lowell Clark

Jaime Davis

Rogelio Dela Cruz

Noel Israel

Bridget Wright

Sadia Zahid

Tatheer Zohra

Library

Carolann Curry

Kristen Howard

David Greenbaum

Miriam Hudgins

Anna Krampl

Kim Meeks, Interim Director

Alycia Miles

Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Joanne Kennedy

Umesh Narsinghani

Christy Peterson

Mitch Rodriguez

Vishwas Sakhalkar

Robyn Mowery

Dan Phillips

Samuel Shillcutt

Sandy Shoemaker

Melton Strozier

Bowden Templeton

Paige Tench

Alan Williams

Surgery

Dennis Ashley, Interim Chair

Macram Ayoub

Amy Christie

Bruce Innes

William Thompson

Joseph Van De Water

Zhongbiao Wang

Elizabeth YoungPsychiatry & Behaviorial ScienceChristopher BelousRichard Camino-GaxtambideGrady Carter, Interim ChairKerry Coburn

Diane Elliot

Joseph Gallant

Angela Hale

Jane Hardee

Steven Hobbs

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savannah Campus faCulTy

AnesthesiologyT. Philip Malan

Biomedical SciencesAnna Blumental-Perry

Himangshu BoseRonald Garner

Wayne Glasgow, Chair

Amy Greene

Shi-Wen Jiang

Uddhav Kelavkar

Edward C. Klatt

James E.Knapp

Jinping Li

Nan Lin

Edward Perkins

William Rhoten

Tina Thompson

Robert Visalli

Wei-Hsiung Yang

Zhi-Qing Zhao

Community Medicine

Marie Dent

Michael Leblang

Eric Shaw

McKinley Thomas

Emergency Medicine

Jay Goldstein, Chair

Joseph Hogan

Jason Pope

Family MedicineSteve Livingston

Robert Pallay, ChairInternal Medicine

David BaxterSteven Carpenter, Chair

Lora Denton

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Wade Fletcher

Lloyd Goodman

Stephen Morris

Christina Negrea

James Ramage

Michael A. Ruiz

Douglas WebbLibrary & Information ScienceJane BridgesCarolyn KlattMedical EducationEdward AbramsObstetrics & GynecologyJames Burke

David Byck, Chair

Kimberly Crute

Melissa Decker

Pamela GallupLynn Leaphart

Ramon Meguiar

William Osborne

Todd Robinson

Anthony Royek

Pediatrics

Michael Bossak

John DeVaro

Donna Evans

Doris Greenberg

Martin Greenberg

Natalie Hogan

Martin Johnston

Blake Long

Susan Mazo

Thomas McKee

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Alison Niebanck

John Pastorek

Eric Pearlman, Chair

Linda Sacks

Kelly K. Solms

Laura Vose

John Whittle

Mark WrightPsychiatry & Behaviorial

ScienceLee Bowen

Klugh Kennedy Gregory Wilets

Stephen Yost, Interim Chair

Radiology

Robert Anton

Peter Britt

Deborah Conway

Matthew Dixon, Chair

Gregory Federowicz

Gordon Greene

Christopher Hulsey

Kirstin Nelson

Peter B. Romano

Andreas Schilling

Surgery

Anthony Avino

Christina Berenguer

William Boswell

Carl Boyd

Dominique Broccoli

William Bromberg

David Carney

E. Jerry Cohn

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Frank Davis

Michelle Deschamplain

Chetan Deshpande

Alvaro Fonseca

Alexis Gage

James Garber

Patrick Hammen

Jay Howington

Jeffrey Ignatoff

Robert Jones

Robert Kelly

Jeremy London

S. Alan Lord

Heather MacNew

Samuel Murray

Gage Ochsner

Mickey Ott

John Paletta

Yaron Perry

Guy Petruzzelli

Raymond Rudolph

Christopher Senkowski

Christopher Walls

William Wessinger

Oliver Whipple

Christopher Wixon

Michael Zoller

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Richard Allen

Jeffrey Brewster

John Bucholtz

Janine Burgher-Jones

Albert Eaton

Joe Elkelberry

Thomas Ellison

David Flowers

Gregory Foster

Kendall Handy

Demetrice Hill

Jaya John

Paul LoDuca

James Majors

Susan McWhirter

Mahesh Patel

Mike Sims

Timothy Villegas

Michael Walsh

Joseph Zanga

Columbus Campus faCulTy

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Academic RecordsLeft to right: Beverly Little, Linda Muchin, Jina Parrish

Academic Program DevelopmentLeft to right: Dr. David Mathis, Brittany Grant

maCon Campus sTaff

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Office of Admissions & Student Affairs, Student Financial Planning & RegistrarLeft to right: Susan Lumsden, Gail Coleman, Mary Scott, Wendy Gaskin, Chasity Watson, Cathy Groce, Sara Spear

Basic Science Left to right: LaTisha Fountain, Yvonne Anderson, Ernestine Waters

maCon Campus sTaff

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maCon Campus sTaff

CommunicationsLeft to right: Leslie Jackson, Beth Hyde, John Knight

Clinical Development Assessment Center Left to right: Arby Grills, Ann O’Neal, Donna Turner

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Community MedicineLeft to right: Kimbery Eanes, Penny Bunn, Page Kinder, Gail Sheffield

Custodial Left to right: Adrienne Scott, Leila Lucas, Geneva Howard, Kenneth Pew

maCon Campus sTaff

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maCon Campus sTaff

Family Medicine Left to right: Debbie Moten, Melissa Vitale, Jennifer Rayhill

Dean’s Office Left to right: Carole Porch, Chasity Watson, Elaine Arnold

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maCon Campus sTaff

Finance OfficeLeft to right: Ben West, Nell Moore, Charles Duffey

Fundamentals of Clinical PracticePamela Noble

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maCon Campus sTaff

Information Technology Left to right: Michelle Bliss, Jarrett Warner, Sal Pedone, Pat Chatman, Shane Milam, Scott Adams, Kevin Hatfield

Internal Medicine Left to right: Lenora Rogers, Vickie Harris, Kymberli Hillman, Ernestine Cubbage, Tammy Oakes, Patricia Daniel

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MaintenanceLeft to right: Johnny Baggett, Ken Floyd

Library Front (L to R): Carolann Curry, Kristin Howard, Kim Meeks, Brenda Dowd, Karen Bonney, Alisha Miles | Middle (L to R): Tracey Schwartz, Miriam

Hudgins, Richard Marcum, Jennifer Dawson | Back (L to R): Anna Krampl, Josh Smith, David Greenebaum, Stephen Ellis

maCon Campus sTaff

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maCon Campus sTaff

Pathology Left to right: Brenda Gerbert, Shirley Powell

Medical Education Coordinators Left to right: (back row) Carletta Grace, Novetta Reid, Jennifer Rayhill(front row) Lisa Killingsworth, Kymberli Hillman, Debbie Templeton

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PsychiatryFirst row: Karen Hall, Joyce Beebe, Linda Forbes-Rountree

Second row: Beth Hatten, Charlene BoyerThird row: Brandy Johnson, Sandy Jones, Novetta Reid, Janette Carter

maCon and Columbus Campus sTaff

Columbus Campus CoordinatorLaQuanta Brown

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Memorial Library Faculty and StaffLeft to right: (back row) Ashley Brickner, Carolyn Klatt, Eloise Green, Jane Bridges

(front row) Vanessa Wallace-London, Lamar Oliver

savannah Campus sTaff

CoordinatorsLeft to right: Barbara Roundtree, Jackie Robinson, Katie Kawalkiewicz, Sandra Simmons

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Admission and Student Affairs Sabina Badalova

Technical Support Bill Collins

Savannah Dean’s Office StaffBobbie Shelton

Clinical Skills AdministrationMikata Jokkenet

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Clinical Skills Coordinator Elisabeth Vincent

Student Progam CoordinatorLeigh Ann Kirkland

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Doctorate of Medicine Class of 2014

Class of 2015

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Dallas Nicholas

Christina Jayakumar

Kelly Davison

Caitlin Jones

Jacob Werkin

Bowhee Gwak

Brian Watkins Whitfield, VI

Hailey Hembree

Forrest Powers

John Vaughns

Michael Sims

DOCTORATE OF MEDICINEClass of 2014, Columbus

Class Portraits - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

34 matCh Day - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

35matCh Day - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

36 matCh Day - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

37matCh Day - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

38 CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

39CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

40 CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

41CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - Columbus

About the Mercer University School of Medicine:Mercer University’s School of Medicine was established in 1982 to educate physicians and health professionals to meet the primary care and health care needs of rural and medically underserved areas of Georgia. Today, more than 60 percent of graduates currently practice in the state of Georgia, and of those, more than 80 percent are practicing in rural or medically underserved areas of Georgia. Mercer medical students benefit from a problem-based medical education program that provides early patient care experiences. Such an academic environment fosters the early development of clinical problem-solving and instills in each student an awareness of the place of the basic medical sciences in medical practice. The School opened a full four-year campus in Savannah in 2008 at Me-morial University Medical Center. In 2012, the School began offering clinical education for third- and fourth-year medical students in Columbus. Following their second year, students participate in core clinical clerkships at the School’s primary teaching hospitals: The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon; Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah; and The Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital in Columbus. The School also offers master’s degrees in family therapy, preclinical sciences and biomedical sciences and a Ph.D. in clinical medical psychology.

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Sami Belakhlef

Whitney Boland

Emma Bueno

Jonathan Cardwell

Desmond Henry

Scott Holt

Tracy Hunter

Khaled Kashlan

Timothy Kim

John Major

Jeffery Nasworthy

Smeet Patel

Aparna Shreenath

Connie Trieu

Class Portraits - m.D. Class of 2015 - Columbus

DOCTORATE OF MEDICINEClass of 2015, Columbus

43matCh Day - m.D. Class of 2013 - maCon

Doctorate of Medicine Class of 2014 Class of 2015 Class of 2016 Class of 2017

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Ashley Albert

Taylor Cox

Benjamin Albert

Tyler Darnell

Ronnie Gravett

Stephanie Beavers

Omar Hajmurad

Courtney Charvat

Bella Desai

John HendersonHarpaul Gill

Samuel Franklin

DOCTORATE OF MEDICINEClass of 2014, maCon

Class Portraits - m.D. Class of 2014 - maCon

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Brett Karsten Charles LandBradley Kessler

Anna Lee

Taylor McLendon

Jeffrey Luk

Stephen Meyers

Joseph Kwon

Darlington Mazaiwana

Sunaina Nanchahal

Nichole McCollum

Kedric Naylor


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Jordan Newman

Patton Pennington

An Nguyen

Justin Peterson

William Smisson

Lauren O’Grady

Gregory Tanner

Sajal Patel

Kristin Porto

Tyler Rogers

William Roche


Richard Taylor

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Megan Tinnin Zhen Wang Jason Wells

Not Pictured:

Adams, Kyle S

Bates, Mallory C

Borders, Leila T

Hall, Jennifer B

Henry, Heather E

Ilioaia, Madalina

Jackson, Tiffany D

Kagira, Martin K

Mistretta, Anna E

Swafford, Sarah

Wilburn, Joshua J


48 matCh Day - Class of 2014 - maCon

49matCh Day - Class of 2014 - maCon

50 matCh Day - Class of 2014 - maCon

51matCh Day - Class of 2014 - maCon

52 CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - maCon

53CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - maCon

54 CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - maCon

55CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - maCon

56 Class Portraits - m.D. Class of 2015 - maCon


Omotola Ajibade

Antonia Ashade

Whitney Bembry

Bennett Brock

Ryan Budwany

Daniel Burken

Caroline Clary

Martha Cohen

Arthur Daniel

Therese Farmer

Jason Gagnon

Tori Grenade

Angelique Gross

Rebecca Grotewiel-Trotter

John Hebbard

Hannah Hulsey

Spencer Hutto

Lauren Hutts

John John

Andrew King

Aaron Kirby

Atul Kumar

Abigail Lewis

Taylor Maddox

Nicholas Martin

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Matthew McGee

Joshua Myers

Guinevere Redick

Caryn Robertson

Carla Rutherford

Alexander Sapp

Bonnie Sarrell

Anthony Scott

Danielle Shelnut

Tipton Sholes

Carrie Stallings

Shad Stormant

Kacie Sweat

Ayesha Tabassom

Rachel Turner

Dat Vu

Alyssa Walden

Carter Wallace

Marcus Weldon

Jonathan Wood

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Thomas Aiken

Olaseni Ajibade

Neena Alex

Reena Anand

Chelsey Bayer

Andrew Bernstein

Melody Bowen

Byron Brooks

Virginia Brown

Jeremiah Bryant

Jonathan Bulla

Fielding Callaway

Joshua Cash

Clinton Cawley

Mudit Chowdhary

Audra Cochran

Curran Dalal

Katherine Daniels

Ulysses Davila

Trenton Dittmer

Aarti Duggal

Alexander Ericksen

Immaculate Fernandes

Wesley Garland

Mark Hannay



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Christopher Harper

Leslie Hilding

David Holmes

Joshua Hornsby

Steven Hotz

Robin Jacob

Audrey Jernigan

Drew Johnson

Jenny Joseph

Ali Kamran

Jin Lee

Daniel Mathew

Brandy McCorvey

Jonathan Miller

Elijah Mitcham

George Mize

Sean Morris

Morgan Moss

Audrey Mueller

Amit Narayan

Amita Nawathe

Katherine Pate

Michelle Payne

Katherine Price

Catherine Roe


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Erika Sigman

David Sorensen

Patricia Tran

Daniel Turk

Nicole Wischmeyer

Aaron Worth

Tyler Wright


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Jennifer Anhut

Christopher Ballantyne

Taylor Bergman

Jonathan Brock

Robyn Bryde

Brittany Chandler

Lindsey Cochran

Al Conner

Kristen Corcoran

James Corley

Samuel DeVictor

Charles Farmer

Taylor Faulk

Kelly Ferrill

Alexandra Fowler

Constance Franklin

David Garcia

Michael Gower

Kelsey Guerreso

Minh Hang

Kaitlin Harper

Gayle-Anne Hendricks

Curtis Hendrix

Samuel Hughes

Smit Jani



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Gary Jordan

Matthew Kahrmann

Kristen Kettelhut

Chris Kiker

Joseph Kinuthia

Jacob Kirkpatrick

Kyle Lawson

Carmen Lee

Michael Lowery

Laura Lowrey

Jacob Matthews

Leland McCluskey

Chloe Meyer

Dielle Meyer

Nicholas Morrow

Binh Ngo

Torree Nwachukwu

Jennifer Onyirimba

Puja Parikh

Akash Patel

Sheetal Patel

Kelly Redlinger

Edward Robinson

Rachael Saporito

Megan Simmons


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Sugandha Singh

Zachary Skipper

Joanna Smith

Lauren Spradley

George Teaford

Aneesha Thobani

Devon Tobey

Matthew Varn

Matthew Warren

Nyomi Washington

Lauren Weigel

Stephen Wilshire

Annalee Wittmeyer

David Zhu


64 White Coat Ceremony - m.D. Class of 2017 - maCon

65White Coat Ceremony - m.D. Class of 2017 - maCon

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INTEREST GROUPSmaCon CamPus

CHRISTIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

INTERNAL MEDICINE

interest grouPs - maCon CamPus

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MERSERVE

NEUROLOGY

OB/GYN


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ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

PEDIATRICS


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Master of Family TherapyClass of 2014Class of 2015

Master of Preclinical Sciences Class of 2014

Master of Biomedical SciencesClass of 2014Class of 2015

PhD in Clinical Medical PsychologyClass of 2017Class of 2018

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Sophia Crawford

Crystal Gillery

Sarah Deep

Maryn Hanmer

Tedra Parker

Jackie Dunagan

Jameson Ranck

Anum Farooq

Lashawn Harris

Dawn Swiney Ilissa Matthews

Melinda Johnson

MASTER OF FAMILY THERAPYClass of 2014, maCon anD atlanta

Class Portraits - m.f.t. Class of 2014 - maCon & atlanta

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Vaishali Whisler Lawaina Williams Lauren Wright


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Hannah Antley

Elizabeth Atkins

Sarah Atkins

Peter Attridge

James Brunson

Phyllis Campbell

Whitney Causey

Madison Clark

Clinton Cooper

Dav’El Copenny

Amber Draughn

Courtney Hampton

Temitope Hendren

Chesiree Jackson

JaCoyia Jackson

Ericka King

Elexia Kitchens

Claudia Lartey

Claire Loucka

Karilena Meyer

Alden Moore

Alexis Pudlo

Roderick Reese

Alicia Roberts

Amber Shinault


MASTER OF FAMILY THERAPYClass of 2015, maCon anD atlanta

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Nicole Stutts

Aaron Summers

Kyera Swint

Annai Tavira

Cecilia Villagomez

Danielle Welsh

Aurielle Williams

Janelle Woolford

Alison Wright

Faith Yang


Oprah Zeon

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MASTER OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Class of 2014, maCon

Jonathan Daniels Jasmine Fuller Charles Moss Chantelle Young

Jordy Logue

Avani Patel

Derek Smith

Allison Stahl

MASTER OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES


75Class Portraits - m.s.P.C.s. Class of 2014 - maCon

MASTER OF PRECLINICAL SCIENCES


Amanda Bortle John Cravey

Turner Grogan William Henderson

Alayna Dukes

Brandon JonesMaria Theresa Franco

David Fields

Britney Lane Allison Lord James LoutzenhiserShanterian King

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Joshua Masdon Danielle Mumford

Maura Pipkins Ra’Shead Pompey

Ehizele Osehobo

Danyel RowlandAlexander Pham

Aayush Patel

Michael Thomason Chelsea White Brittany WoodsNicholas Schuck

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Maria Anastasiades

Sheree Ash

Vilmarie Báez

Lindsey Bigham

Yvonne Fritz

Olivia Gupton

Kristin Jessop

Laura McKenzie

Christine Mullen

Andrea Pusser

Rachael Rogers

Catherine Tillitski

Charity Tipton

Krystal Tomsky-Jackson

Class Portraits - PhD CliniCal meDiCal PsyChology - Class of 2017

DOCTORATE OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY


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Tyler Brown

Artesia Franklin

Chase Grosse

Cassandra Heimann

Michelle Hunt

Christian Klepper

Lauren Lee

Brendan Remus

Kelsie Romaine

Samantha Scott

Kelsey Winters

Class Portraits - PhD CliniCal meDiCal PsyChology - Class of 2018

DOCTORATE OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY


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Doctorate of Medicine Class of 2013 Class of 2014 Class of 2015 Class of 2016

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Ashlie Alexander-Booth

Stephen Beasley

Bailey Alford

Charles Bodine

Jessica Donaldson

Mary “Kathy” Allen

Daniel Gordon

Hayley Barnett

Charles Brown

Audrey GreenRachel Clark

Ross Bryan

DOCTORATE OF MEDICINEClass of 2014, savannah

Class Portraits - m.D. Class of 2014 - savannah

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Ryan Grunz Christina Huntley NogueraJoseph Harmon

Jasna Ikanovic

Justin Lancaster

Mary Keith

Phillip Lunsford

Johnna Hicks

Oi Lai

Jessica Miller

Matthew Lamb

Scott Morgan


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Stephen Morgan

Trey Ochsner

Patrick Mullinix

Christopher Shuman

Amy Thompson

Linda Nguyen

Stephanie Tootle

Emily Norris

Alison Smith

Kara Stringer

Melissa Steele


Terri Traub

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Kristen Walker James YeckleyJessica Wilder Megan Witrick


Not Pictured:

Justin Fincher

84 matCh Day - Class of 2014 - savannah

85matCh Day - Class of 2014 - savannah

86 matCh Day - Class of 2014 - savannah

87matCh Day - Class of 2014 - savannah

88 CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - savannah

89CanDiD PhotograPhs - m.D. Class of 2014 - savannah

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Gregory Barbier

Joshua Barker

Whitney Barnes

Andrew Bell

Tia Bingham

Kenneth Cail

Richard Callan

Rajashree Chaudhury

Christopher Collins

Tyler Cowart

Heather Ford

Suzanna Harmouche

Chad Harple

Jesse Hinton

Drew Johnson

William Knight

Carolyn Kuhn-Glendye

Maria Kyriacou

Patrick MacEachern

Casey Morris

Megan Papierniak

Maulik Patel

Justine Phifer

Matthew Phillips

Megan Potts



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Keith Reeves

Bryan Renken

Adrean Riba

Alec Ridley

Christopher Rogers

Ted Samaddar

Payton Sellers

Bijal Shah

Ame Walker

Anna White


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Hesham Abukhdeir

Kevin Anderson

Jessica Barnard

Richard Barnes

Cassandra Bartlett

Melanie Bray

Stephen Chambers

Michael Cherry

Ross Christopher

Michael Clark

Emily Clarke

Mark Conant

Michael Genz

Zachary Gohsman

Stephen Green

Edwin Gunn

Erica Harple

Amanda Hoerler

Adam Kase

Miles Love

Danielle Mankin

Lisa McCraw

Maria McGowan

Nada Megally

Laila Moraczewski



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Bradley Newton

Matthew Pearce

Dustin Powell

James Roberts

Walt Roberts

Austin Rogers

Hayden Salts

Jill Sharma

Medha Shukla

Haresh Soorma

Carson Strickland

Amanda Westbrook

Lauren Wood


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Jaime Adams

Jacob Beltz

Ekta Bery

Brooke Bradley

Jared Brown

Zachary Burch

Sheritta Carmichael

William Cheeley

Bradley Corbin

Christopher Dammeyer

Brian Darrith

Lauren DuBiner

Karman Duchon

William Dugal

Blake Duke

Heather Duke

Nader Elkabbani

Richard Farnum

Daniel Foster

Abbie Gottschall

Rhett Grinstead

Bradley Harrison

Dane Hellwig

Katie Jeter

Merritt Kaluzne



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John Keller

Lorien Kim

Kyle Libbey

Benjamin Long

Rebecca Marshburn

Leslie Meredith

Andres Montes

Elizabeth O’Connor

Jason Patel

Misal Patel

Rachel Potter

Owen Richardson

Barney Sadler

Wesley Stroud

Lexie Vaughn

Allison Wood


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The staff of the 2013-2014 Asklepiad would like to express our sincerest gratitude toward our very generous sponsors!

Thank you for helping the Asklepiad become a reality this year.

PlatinumDr. Alice A. House

GoldColumbus Regional Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Tina ThompsonDr. Jerome Tift

SilverDr. & Mrs. Frank H. Bynes, Jr.

Dr. M. Marie DentDr. and Mrs. Michael Leblang

Dr. Robert and Barbara ShelleyDr. Anna Walker

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Congratulations, Dr. Audrey Green!

We love you and are so proud of you! Love, Mom, Dad, and Ethan

Jessica, We’ve always been proud of you! Congratulations on your graduation. We love you. Mom, Dad, and Jordan

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Dear Anna,You are the first doctor in our family and we are sure you are going to treat every patient with all your heart, mind, and body along with God’s blessing. We are so proud that you relied on your faith in God and never gave up during this long journey.

Love,Grandma, Daddy, Mommy, Rosa, and Grace

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In 1985, God gave us a gift, a little 5 pound baby girl. We named her Christina Leigh. She was so special and very smart. She was saying words at 5 months old and has not stopped since that time…

Christina Leigh was blessed with people who loved her, her mother, father, sister, brother, aunts, uncles, and friends. She is still loved by thousands of family and friends because she has a big heart and cares for everyone.

During the years, Christina Leigh loved to read and study. We used to go to the library on Saturday, where she checked out the maximum of 10 books. She had all of them read by Sunday and would ask when we could check out more books.

Christina Leigh is very smart, and we are very proud of her. She is the first medical doctor in our family, and we are blessed that she is our special child.

Congratulations to our beautiful and smart Christina Leigh Huntley Noguera.

We love you baby girl!

Love, Your Mother, Sue, and all of your family

Christina,

I’m very proud of you, sweetheart! The road to graduation may have been the toughest, but the trip was well worth it! I’m very proud of everything you have accomplished, and I look forward to wherever the future may lead us. I love you very much, and congratulations!

Love, Your Husband, Cristian

Christina Leigh Huntley Noguera

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CONGRATULATIONS ,

MELISSA!

With love and support, your family

Born for Medicine Playing Doctor (1992) Emory Grad 2010

White Coat Ceremony Bright Futures 2014

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CongratulationsKristen Walker, MD

We are so very proud of you. Your patients will be lucky to have such an amazing, compassionate physician to heal them.

We love you!!!!!

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Terri Michaela TraubProuder parents we could not be. We knew you would achieve great things, but graduating as a Medical Doctor has exceeded our wildest expecta-tions. Your warm and caring nature makes us love you more and more

each day.

All our Love, Mom, Dad, Carli and all the Family

Congratulations, Class of 2014!

From the Medical Library and Learning Resources Center in Macon and the Health Sciences Library in Savannah.

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Department of SurgeryMercer University School of Medicine at Memorial University Medical Center

Savannah Campus

Congratulations, Mercer Class of 2014!

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Congratulations to the

CLASS OF 2014 from the

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

at theMedical Center

of Central Georgia

Call (478) 301-2382 for an appointment.1327 Stadium Drive • Macon, Georgia 31207

(inside the Drake Field House on the Mercer Campus)

Student and recreational athletes to active senior adults. Weekend warriors to jogger moms and dads. Exercise beginners to advanced competitors. The Mercer Medicine Sports Medicine Clinic offers comprehensive primary, non-surgical medical care for athletes, sports teams and active individuals of all ages—including pediatric and adolescent patients. Staffed by a Sports Medicine fellowship-trained physician board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, the clinic offers:

• State-of-the-art physical therapy and rehabilitation equipment• On-site x-ray, ultrasound and laboratory services• No patient waiting with clinic hours M-Th, 8:30-5; Fri, 8:30-noon

*Mercer students may incur co-pays or other out-of-pocket expenses based on insurance coverage and provider.

MERCERMedicineSports Medicine Clinic

mercermedicine.com

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“Your journey continues. Like good stewards, we tried to give you

roots and wings. Roots to know where the home is,

wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught you. “

Congratulations MUSM Class of 2014!

From your Savannah Deans

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AND

Mark Murphy, MD

Edward Rydzak, MD

Steven Carpenter, MD

Charles Duckworth, MD

Ryan Wanamaker, MD

Mark Nyce, MD

George Aragon, MD

..... are Proud Supporters of the

Mercer University School of Medicine!

1139 Lexington Avenue

Savannah, Georgia 31404

(912) 303-4200

www.Savannahgi.com

4700 Waters Avenue, Savannah, GA 31404

912-350-5620

The Department of PediatricsColumbus Regional Health

Sends its best wishes to Georgia’s newest Physicians!

Enjoy your residencies (especially Pediatrics or the pediatric parts) and come (back) to Columbus to practice when you’re done. We’ll miss you until then.

Congratulations!

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CONGRATULATIONS Class of 2014!

from your Family Medicine Department

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3423 Pio Nono Avenue; Macon, Georgia 31206

478-784-6440Fax: 478-784-6445

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Jim Huntley, Owner, 30+ Years ExperienceCristian Noguera, General Manager

Se Habla EspañolFamily Run Business

Serving Macon Since 2011

We Specialize in Sealy and Stearns & Foster Overstock Mattresses ½ to 2/3 the Price

of Regular Department Stores. We Provide Same as well as Next Day Delivery. Year Round Specials Include 5% Off When You

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Congratulations to my beautiful daughter, Leigh. I am so proud of her accomplishments and of the things I know will come for her.

I love you, your Dad, Jim.

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