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BMD Alumni News, Spring 2003
From: Chad Alexander (BMD '01) ca9@ornl.gov June 4, 2003 I am actually working at Oak Ridge National Lab here in Tennessee. We are doing micro-gravity crystallization experiments on the nucleosome core particle and the p53 tumor suppressor protein. We still have some crystals on the international space station stranded due to the Columbia tragedy. I am starting a Masters program at the University of Tennessee this Fall (hopefully) in Comparative and Experimental Medicine. My family thinks I want to be a mad scientist. Basically I would get my degree working on this molecule I am already working on at work so it works out nicely. Tell everyone I said, "Hello." Oh yeah, Emily [Herbert, BMD '01] says "Hey" as well.
From Susie Wimpee (BMD '01) wimpees@aruplab.com 6/4/03 Dr. Itaya! It's been 2 years now that I have been in Salt Lake and I'm still enjoying it...cold weather and all!! The temperatures are finally reaching the 80-90s! Nothing like Mobile weather. I am still working at ARUP Laboratories as a Certified Laboratory Specialist in Molecular Biology. It sounds impressive, but it's still PCR. I was accepted into USA's PA program, along with George Washington Univ and Utah.....I decided to stay at the Univ of Utah!!! It's a big feeling of relief to finally be accepted. I start this August and will finish in 2005.
From: Tonya Cauley (BMD '03) tonyacauley@hotmail.com 6/4/03 Hey Dr. Itaya! All is great here. [after 2.5 weeks of PA Studies] We had our first Anatomy test on Monday - piece of cake, and Physiology was today. Everything in my Physiology class I have seen before. I'm sure that will change, but it's really nice for now.
Scott Ryland (BMD '94) passed away in Birmingham on May 20, 2003 at the age of 33. The obituary from the Birmingham News is at: http://www.legacy.com/birmingham/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=1035239
Eugene Yeoh (BMD '99) eybc@yahoo.com 5/28/03 I'm pretty busy with work. I am now managing a product called Lantus (insulin glargine). It is a new insulin available in the world. So, I am basically in chage of launching this product in Malaysia. There's a lot of work to be done, e.g. training the sales team, educating the physicians and doctors, conduting public talks, etc. I have been travelling throughout the whole of M'sia. The travelling, and staying in different places everyday is kinda difficult but manageable. Overall, I am enjoying my job very much. I love it.
Date: Sat, 24 May '03 From: Ken Davenport (BMD 2002) RightWingJeep@yahoo.com. Just finished 1st year yesterday....all the BMD people did really well...at least upper 1/3 of class. I got reelected class president for next year so all is well.
From: Steven Gallas (BMD '01) PGallas360@aol.com May 22, 2003 Things are going good here. It is official. I will be attending Nova SouthEastern University to become a D.O.starting August 1. If you ever need anything or if the students need any info about schools and D.O.s please let me know.
May 21, 2003 from Carrie Morris (BMD '99, UAB Med 2003) I will be in Chattanooga June 2003-2004, and then Durham, NC, as of July 2004 at Duke (ophthalmology residency).
USA College of Medicine 2003 Graduates and their residencies: Matt Barber (BMD '98), Orthopedics, USA Nathan Boles (BMD '99), Internal Medicine, USA Jason Crowder (BMD '99), Radiology (2004), USA Nicole Bishop Johnston (BMD '99), Obstetrics/Gynecology, USA Bryan Kirkland (BMD '98), Internal Medicine, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas Shane Pendley (BMD '95), Internal Medicine, USA Jaime Pham (BMD '99), Pediatrics, Greenville Hopsital System, Greenville, South Carolina Beth Miller Rutland BMD '99), Internal Medicine, USA Maxcie Sikora (BMD '99), Pediatrics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Heather Keith (BMD '01) has been accepted to the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and will begin August 2003. She will be in the Health Behaviors and Health Education program. She has been working for AmeriCorps in Nashville with a child health and maternal care program.
From Jerad Gardner (BMD '02): Med school [Tulane] is great! I mean, it's a little harder than BMD , but it's not too bad. BMD really did help me to have a better foundation on which to build my medical knowledge. So thanks. Oh, other news, I'm engaged! Jenny and I are getting married on June 7 of 2003. The wedding will be in New Orleans. The wedding website is at: www.jeradandjennyswedding.ontheweb.com
From Cassandra Stein (BMD '01), who is working at USA Insurance, part time for the eye bank, living in Biloxi, taking Princeton Review course for MCAT, and will apply to U Miss med school for fall 2004. - Emily Hebert enrolled at UTenn MPH program started fall 2002 - Chad Alexander working at UTenn (?) involved in space experiments
Virtaj Singh and Simon Saliba (BMD '02), won two of the three USA Writing Competition Awards for 2003 for their Neuroscience papers from spring, 2002.
Sarah Britt (BMD '00, Tulane MPH '02) is now head of research at the Seattle VA hospital for a program treating diabetics. She reviews manuscripts, writes grants, and supervises a team of workers.
From Michael Glaze (BMD '99): I thought you would like to know. I matched in Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Georgia. Ashley will graduate this coming year as she did a year of research in Pathology, Sabrina, took the year off for medical reasons and will graduate this year, and Carrie matched in Ophthalmology at Duke. Hope all is going well your way. Tell everyone I say hello.
Laura Trout (BMD '97) received her Ph.D. in physiology from the USA Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program during Spring Commencement. She has chosen a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Cystic Fibrosis Lab.
Send alumni news to: sitaya@usouthal.edu, voice (251) 380-2710, fax (251) 380-2711
	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA Department of Biomedical Sciences UCOM 6000, Mobile, AL 36688, sitaya@usouthal.edu (251) 380-2710 voice, (251) 380-2711 fax