Audrey Hertenstein
Hometown: Morton, IL
Undergraduate School: Boston University Class of 2013
Specialty Choice: Family Medicine <3
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Physicians for Human Rights, Global Health Honors Program, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Balancing Community Volunteering with class, ISI/GFE, Peer Tutoring, Study Plans
Contact email: ahertenstein@luc.edu
KD Nowicki, former co-director
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Colorado
Contact email: k.d.nowicki@gmail.com
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Kwabuaa Woods
Residency: Emergency Medicine, JPS Hospital- Fort Worth, TX
Contact email: kwoods6779@gmail.com
Michael Cole, former co-director
Residency: Child Neurology
Contact email: mcole@luc.edu
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Michael Teitcher
Residency: Neurology, Loyola University Chicago
Contact email: mteitcher@luc.edu
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Shermin Sayani
Residency: Family Medicine
Contact email: ssayani@luc.edu
Mike Putnam
Residency: Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati/The Christ Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
Contact email: mputnam@luc.edu
Bryan Menapace
Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI
Undergraduate School: University of Wisconsin, 2012
Specialty Choice: Pediatric Orthopedics
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Involvement and leadership, pursuing additional degrees, Step 1, research
Contact email: bmenapace@luc.edu
Heather Bukiri
Residency: Internal Medicine Rheumatology Allergy/Immunology
Contact email: hbukiri@luc.edu
Shamsa Baaj
Residency: Internal Medicine, Northwestern
Contact email: shamsabaaj@gmail.com
Lizzy Harmon
Residency: Med-Peds
Contact email: eaguenther91@gmail.com
Jenny Saluk
Residency: Urology, Ohio State University
Jasleen Singh
Hometown: Naperville, IL
Undergraduate School: Loyola University
Non-School Experience: Cardiovascular Research, Tutoring
Specialty Choice: Neurology, Psychiatry, Pain Management, Radiology
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Studying tips, Mentorship experiences, Commuting, Honors Program in Bioethics and Professionalism and anything else you want to know about!
Contact email: jsingh3@luc.edu
Giselle Sabal, Former Co-Director
Hometown: Frankfort, IL
Undergraduate School: University of Notre Dame Class of 2014
Specialty Choice: Internal Medicine
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Medical Spanish, Global Health Honors, GFE/ISI Trips, Incorporating research into Global Health Projects, Chicago Life, Step 1 Resources, Co-Rec Volleyball, Anything!
Contact email: gsabal@luc.edu
Arnaud Wautlet
Hometown: Scottsdale, Arizona / Switzerland
Undergraduate School: University of Chicago
Non-School Experience: Traveling, skiing, soccer, tennis, hiking, reading
Specialty Choice: Internal medicine, but pretty unsure at this point.
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: bench research and finding a mentor, medical Spanish, Time management, Transitioning to med school after taking time off, Teaching
Contact email: awautlet90@gmail.com
Ryan Bonner, Former Co-Director
Hometown:Westborough, MA
Undergraduate School: Boston College, Class of 2013
Non-School Experience: City Year (AmeriCorps)
Specialty Choice: Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Having a distance relationship in school, tutoring, finding research mentors. Really anything though.
Contact email: rbonner@luc.edu
Maggie Foster
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Undergraduate School: St. Louis University
Non-School Experience: engineering internships, study abroad in France, medical mission trip in Haiti
Specialty Choice: fitness, nutrition, emergency medicine, French
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: Anki and spaced repetition, using FA during M1 and M2 years, seasonal depression in Chicago, meal prepping and BlueApron
Contact email: margaretffoster@gmail.com
Welcome
Welcome to SAS Alumni page. The following are a list of previous SAS members that have provided their residency information. Stritch students, please feel free to contact them if you have any questions!
Dhruv Kumar
Undergraduate School: Univeristy of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Non-School Experience: Worked at a start up/was a lab tech
Specialty Choice: Family Medicine
Contact email: dkumar@luc.edu
Gina Lazzara
Hometown: Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Undergraduate School: Loyola University Chicago, BSN
Non-School Experience: Worked as a nurse for 5 years before starting medical school
Post-Bacc Program: Loyola University Chicago
Specialty Choice: Undecided
Contact email: ginalazzara@gmail.com
Austin McHenry
Hometown: Northville, MI
Undergraduate School: Univeristy of Michigan
Specialty Choice: Undecided
Contact email: amchenry@luc.edu
Elycia Kazemian-Marvi
Hometown: Denver, CO
Undergraduate School: Creighton University
Specialty Choice: Otolaryngology
Questions on these? I’d love to answer:Jazzed to advise about school/life balance and staying happy and sane! Have participated in clinical research, med Spanish, translating at Access To Care clinic, Anesthesiology Preceptorship Enrichment Program, LUC mentors, Bioethics Honors
Contact email: ekazemianmarvi@luc.edu
Valerie Grant
Hometown: Okemos, Michigan
Undergraduate School: University of Michigan BS Biochemistry
Non-School Experience: University of Wisconsin-Madison MS at the Neuroscience Training Program, teaching math and science at St Ambrose Academy, primary (stay at home) parent 2 years
Specialty Choice: Ob Gyn, some kind of surgery
Questions on these? I’d love to answer: having a young family in med school, planning for pregnancy in medical training, Bioethics and Professionalism Honors Program
Contact email: vgrant1@luc.edu
Sarah Brownlee
Hometown: Tampa Florida
Undergraduate School: Yale University
Non-School Experience: Biological anthropology and archaeology, post-bacc, tutoring, orthopedics clinical research
Specialty Choice: Surgery
Questions about these? I'd love to help: Research/ finding a mentor, biostatistics and stats software coding (R, STATA), global health and GFE grants, choosing a specialty
Contact email: sbrownlee@luc.edu
Lindsay Haacker
Hometown: Cary, IL
Undergraduate School: UCLA, 2014
Non-School/Between School Experience: Autism intervention research
Specialty Choice: Pediatrics, but still undecided
Questions I'd love to answer: Finding good physician and research mentors; pediatric volunteering opportunities; studying tips; managing stress
Contact email: lhaacker1@luc.edu
Marissa Blackwell
Hometown: Westerly, RI
Undergraduate School: Oberlin College
Non-School/Between School Experience: AmeriCorps, Tutoring
Specialty Choice: Neurology, Psychiatry
Contact email: marissa.w.blackwell@gmail.com
Esther Etchison Co-Director
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Undergrad: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Between school experience: Teach for America - middle school science teacher
Specialty choice: Tentatively pediatrics
Questions on these? I'd love to answer: Ways to study for M1 and M2 year, study habits/strategies, STEP 1, restaurants to try in Chicago
William Flavin
Hometown: Darien, IL
Undergraduate School: Notre Dame Class of 2011
Non-School/Between School Experience(s): Completion of PhD from 2013-2017 as part of MD/PhD program
Specialty Choice: Undecided
Questions I'd love to answer: Anything about research (MD/PhD, STAR, St. Albert's Day, attending research conferences, choosing mentors and labs, etc), planning a wedding/buying a house/having kids during medical school, city or suburban living, anatomy or neuroanatomy questions, Physician's Vocation Program, how to cope with being in school forever!
Email: wflavin@luc.edu
