2011 Resident Focus

November 2011: Philip Schmidt, MD
PGY1
Excellence in Teaching Award winner in first block from junior medical students
Planned to go into orthopedic surgery until third year medicine clerkship
July 2011: Maxfield Flynn, MD PhD
PGY3, PSTP Candidate
PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology (NU ‘07)
Full & Half Marathon Runner
June 2011: Nirav Shah, MD, MPH
PGY3
Created a tobacco cessation clinic at a hospital in Kutch, India.
His must-reads are The Economist, The New York Times, and The NEJM.
May 2011: Nina Sung, MD
PGY1
FSM graduate
A Californian, for whom “nothing beats a long run or walk by the lakefront”
PGY1
Excels at managing her personal life as a wife and professional life as a resident.
PGY1
Winner of several teaching awards as an Intern
A
nimal and gardening enthusiast
PGY2
Career Plans: Academic Gastroenterology
Research Interests: Esophagology, Pancreatic and Biliary Disease