Welcome,
Here you will find the fourth year, third year, faculty, and alumni leaders of Students Advising Students. Please use them as a resource. These leaders came to SAS with a passion for helping fellow students, and will not be bugged by any questions you may have. Listed with their names are a bit of information about each leader as well as a contact email to help you identify someone with a particular area of experience/expertise for any specific question(s) you may have.
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Francis Cocjin Co-Director
Matthew Kroll Co-Director
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Undergraduate School: Washington University in Saint Louis
Non-School Experience: Worked in Public Policy (California Safety Net Insititue), ID Research, Cleaned Pools
Specialty Choice: Internal Medicine
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Where to eat in Oak Park, How to cook in Medschool, building good study habits.
Rebekah Landsman
Hometown: Willowbrook, IL
Undergraduate School: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Non-School Experience: 1 year of cancer research at NIH in Bethesda, MD
Specialty Choice: Emergency Medicine
Contact email: rlandsman@luc.edu
Sarah Mooney MS3
Hometown: Saginaw, Michigan
Undergraduate School: Michigan State University
Non-School Experience: I went straight to medical school after undergrad but I’ve always been heavily involved in a lot of service (Habitat for Humanity, Oak Park Food Pantry, Friends of the Elderly, Veterans Health Partners, etc.)
Specialty Choice: Pediatrics then most likely oncology
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Research!
Taylor Petrusevski
Choumika Simonis
Lauren Steinberg
Hometown: Fremont, California
Undergrad: University of California, Santa Cruz
Non-School Experience: 1.5 years in biotech working on clinical trials for PCR-based diagnostic tests.
Anne Arnason
Hometown: Edina, MN
Undergrad: University of Notre Dame
Non-School Experience: Came to SSOM right after graduating college, but here have been involved with public health research, a local ISI project with Housing Forward and running with a Chicago based non-profit called Back on My Feet.
Specialty Choice: Interested in Internal Med right now, but we'll see what 3rd year brings!
Hometown:Neenah, WI
Undergrad: Wake Forest University
Non-School Experience: Dance for Parkinson's Disease Instructor, Hip-Hop Choreographer
Specialty Choice: Neurology
Hometown: Sammamish, Washington
Undergrad: Washington University in St. Louis
Non-School Experience: EMT, Outdoor Guide, Caregiver, Rock Climber
Specialty Choice: Emergency Medicine
Hometown: Wilmette, IL
Undergrad: Connecticut College
Non-School Experience: In my year off, I worked as a surgical technician and coached hockey
Specialty Choice: Surgery
Dan Peiffer
Hometown: Brookfield, WI (outside Milwaukee)
Undergrad: UW-Madison
Non-School Experience: Took time off for PhD, research tech before school investigating cancer prevention
Specialty Choice: TBD
Hometown: Rowland Heights, California
Undergrad: University of California, Davis
Non-School Experience: Volunteered at various homeless shelters, worked at an assisted living facility and in hospice care during my gap years, also became a mommy to the best shelter puppy ever (Ruv you, Molls!)
Specialty Choice: General Surgery
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Undergrad: Spelman College
Non-School Experience: I lived in South Korea for two years and taught English to elementary students as Fulbright scholar, which was awesome! I also spent a year in Jamkhed, India as a Mabelle Arole Fellow and had the chance to work with the Village Health Care workers inincreasing health access in rural India.
Specialty Choice: pending until further notice...waiting after I am 3/4 into third year to officially decide.
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Hometown: Tracy, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Davis
Non-School Experience: AmeriCorps NCCC (Wildland firefighting! Chainsaws!), Post-Bacc, Telehealth tech startup
Specialty Choice: Undecided
Hometown: Harwood Heights, IL
Undergrad: Loyola University Chicago
Grad School: Rush University Medical Center
Non-School Experience: I worked as a scribe at a geriatrics clinic!
Specialty Choice: Undecided: Neurology, Internal or Family Med.
Camilla Larsen, MD
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Hometown:My hometown was Rathdrum, Idaho growing up.
School Experience:: I attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA for undergrad and University of Washington WWAMI program for med school.
Non-School Experience: Between undergrad and med school I was a volunteer with Lutheran Volunteer Corps and ended up in Chicago working with homeless youth. I met my partner that year and she's stuck with me for the last 21yrs. We now have two awesome kids and a pretty great Rottweiler.
Questions on these? I'd love to answer? I am happy to answer any questions about Advising, Healer's Art, Family Medicine, care of LGBTQ patients (or providers), having kids, career choices, etc.
Contact email: czlarsen@lumc.edu