wellness today, december 2019, issue 6
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Wellness TodayInternal Medicine Residency Wellness Committee Newsletter
December 2019, Volume 4, Issue 6
Intern Spotlight
KUDOS!!! Birthdays
Name: Nadia SweetHometown: Appleton, WIUndergrad: University of Wisconsin-MadisonMedical School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Name: Sarah FlodenHometown: Mason City, IAUndergrad: Luther CollegeMedical School: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Favorite Madison restaurant: Gates and Brovi.
Favorite sports team: Wisconsin Badgers!
Any hidden talents? I’m good at doing impressions of random TV/movie characters.
What is one thing most people don’t know about you? I have dual Canadian and American citizenship.
Worst job that you ever had: Working in the college cafeteria (I quit after one month).
Favorite Madison-area activity: Trying all of the amazing beer!
What do you do for fun outside the hospital? Cycle with my husband. I’m also working my way through the “America’s Test Kitchen” cookbook.
Worst job that you ever had: Scraping out the fryers while working at the HyVee kitchen.
If your life were a TV show, who which character would represent you? Lizzy McGuire—awkward but has a heart of gold!
Want to recognize a resident? Use the library drop box or email us at:[email protected]
“Kudos to Vishnu Chander for helping John Ebben and his team overnight with bedside ultrasound and performing a paracentesis!”
“Kudos to Tim Zhou for seeing patients late in clinic so that Lindsay Matthews could catch a flight home for Thanksgiving!”
KUDOS and best of luck to our PGY3’s participatingin the match on December 4th! We are so grateful for all the hard work you have done over the past few years and for being leaders of our program! We can’t wait to share and celebrate your success later this week!
Alex McDonald 12/2
Rebecca Stern 12/2
Vishnu Chander 12/9
Sunny Biswas 12/11
Adam Stepanovic 12/11
Ben Clement 12/12
Andrew Davis 12/17
Ankur Prasad 12/29
Wellness TodayInternal Medicine Residency Wellness Committee Newsletter
December 2019, Volume 4, Issue 6
About UsThe Internal Medicine Wellness Committee was
established in 2016. The members this year include
Lauren Banaszak, Nimrod Deiss-Yehiely, Katie Fell,
Stephanie Fricke, Christina Hughey, Shannon Li, Caitlin
Peirce, Callie Plafkin, Anatoliy Nechyporenko, and Amy
Taylor.
Our mission is to bring awareness to the importance of
resident physician well-being and to support resident
efforts to be healthy, build resilience, and find meaning
and joy in our work.
Questions? Interested in becoming a sponsor? Have a
resource you would like to share?
Email us at [email protected]
Remember to assess your well-being regularly:https://www.mywellbeingindex.org/assess
Madison EventsHoliday Fantasy in Lights: Get in the holiday spirit with the annual
holiday lights display at Olin Park. Take a drive through the holiday-
themed LED displays. Lights go on at 4:30 every evening until 1/4/20.
Beer Olympics: 12/7, 2PM, Hop Haus Brewing Company. Bring a
group of friends to compete against or show up solo to challenge
others. Games will include Blink, Tenzi, Popper Basketball, and
Bounce Battle.
Run Santa Run 5K: 12/8, 3PM, Capitol Square. Run as a Santa, Elf,
or Abominable Snowman. Enjoy the North Pole Post-Race party at
local bars!
A Madison Symphony Christmas: 12/13-12/15, $19-95, Overture
Center. A Madison tradition! Join the Madison Symphony Orchestra in
welcoming the holiday season with orchestral arrangements of
nostalgic carols and classics.
Underground Cocktail Lounge: 12/14, 6PM, Cave of the Mounds,
$35. Specialty cocktail tasting, live jazz, and tasty snacks and
appetizers inside the cave!
Photography by Vishnu 2019 Star Baker: Katherine Dalzotto
When and how did you first start baking?I started baking when I was a kid. I would help my mom bake
Christmas cookies. She usually makes a dozen or so different
cookie recipes every year, each taken from our family
cookbook our family has been making since the 1950s. It gets
added to every so often with new favorites!
What is your favorite thing to bake?Macarons are my specialty! They were hard to make initially,
which I saw as a challenge. Now that I’ve got a reliable recipe
and technique, I like to make them for special occasions.
Do you have an example of a bake gone wrong? In
college, my roommate and I tried to make strawberry cake.
We realized mid-recipe that we were out of vegetable oil so
we used olive oil instead. The finished product was horrible—
it tasted more like olives than strawberries!
Congratulations to
Katherine Dalzotto on
winning the 2019 Great
Wisconsin Bake-Off! Her
Birthday Cake French
Macarons were quite the
hit!
All photos courtesy of Vishnu Chander