2009 Resident Focus

December: Karolina Zareba, MD and John Scherer, MD

AOA award recipients
PGY3s, matched in Cardiology (Karolina) and GI (John), University of Pittsburgh
Happily married since 2008
Student Teaching Awards recipients

November: Victor Soukoulis, MD, PhD

Winner of Resident Teaching Excellence Awards
PhD in cardiac biology from Vanderbilt
Will start cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2010

October: Eytan Stein, MD

Howard Hughes Medical Fellow
PGY-3 father of three
Award for one of three best PGY-2 lectures for "Malignant Monocytes: What they are and how you can avoid them."

September: Nisreen Husain, MD

PGY-3 Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio
Specialty interest: Gastroenterology

July: Nick Furiasse, MD

PGY2
Winner of 5 teaching awards in 2008-2009
Medical School: Georgetown University