Class Note 2011
Issue
Jul - Aug 2016
Hi there, ’11s. This is my second to last column as your secretary and by the time it’s published we will have already had our five-year reunion and selected our next class secretary. An early good luck to her or him! And I hope we all had as much fun and EBAs at reunion as we are talking about now (it’s late April as I write this). Now, onto the updates!
Another academic year has wrapped up, and that means lots of our classmates are headed to or are finishing grad school. That includes plenty of ’11s who recently finished med school and are now off to their residencies. Cathleen Kenary has graduated from George Washington and is headed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for an anesthesiology residency. Laura Goldstein finished up at Mount Sinai and will be doing a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Will Levine also wrapped up at Mount Sinai and has matched for an internal medicine residency at Penn. And Joyce Njoroge graduated from Case Western and will be going to Northwestern for internal medicine. She says she’s excited for Chicago, but will probably stay a Cavs fan. (As a Warriors fan, I can tell Joy she’s making a mistake on that one.)
Among those starting grad school in the fall is Alex Maceda, now in San Francisco, who is headed to Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Someone who can’t seem to get enough school is Shima Dowla, who is an M.D./Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Her Ph.D. is in nutrition and health behavior. “I’m currently designing a randomized control trial to test the effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on metabolic health-related outcomes in obese children,” Shima writes. “I also recently received a Schweitzer fellowship to conduct a living healthy program for patients with diabetes from disadvantaged households.” In her free time (how can an M.D./Ph.D. student have free time?!) Shima likes to blog about sciences.
Susan Matthews (my former boss at The D!) is now the senior science editor at Slate, where she is overseeing all science and health coverage at the site. Before that, Susan was most recently senior web editor at Audubon.
I think this is the first time I’ve reported this kind of update: Verjin Aprahamian has legally changed her name to adopt her stepfather’s surname and, as she says, “to finally have a phonetic name.” So she is now officially Virginia Weeks. And speaking of legal changes, V. is headed to law school in the fall, so, she writes, “Nametags will soon read, Virginia Weeks, Esq.”
And Anne Brown writes that she has a new couch. Congrats, Anne.
—Drew Joseph, 49 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com
Another academic year has wrapped up, and that means lots of our classmates are headed to or are finishing grad school. That includes plenty of ’11s who recently finished med school and are now off to their residencies. Cathleen Kenary has graduated from George Washington and is headed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for an anesthesiology residency. Laura Goldstein finished up at Mount Sinai and will be doing a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Will Levine also wrapped up at Mount Sinai and has matched for an internal medicine residency at Penn. And Joyce Njoroge graduated from Case Western and will be going to Northwestern for internal medicine. She says she’s excited for Chicago, but will probably stay a Cavs fan. (As a Warriors fan, I can tell Joy she’s making a mistake on that one.)
Among those starting grad school in the fall is Alex Maceda, now in San Francisco, who is headed to Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Someone who can’t seem to get enough school is Shima Dowla, who is an M.D./Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Her Ph.D. is in nutrition and health behavior. “I’m currently designing a randomized control trial to test the effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on metabolic health-related outcomes in obese children,” Shima writes. “I also recently received a Schweitzer fellowship to conduct a living healthy program for patients with diabetes from disadvantaged households.” In her free time (how can an M.D./Ph.D. student have free time?!) Shima likes to blog about sciences.
Susan Matthews (my former boss at The D!) is now the senior science editor at Slate, where she is overseeing all science and health coverage at the site. Before that, Susan was most recently senior web editor at Audubon.
I think this is the first time I’ve reported this kind of update: Verjin Aprahamian has legally changed her name to adopt her stepfather’s surname and, as she says, “to finally have a phonetic name.” So she is now officially Virginia Weeks. And speaking of legal changes, V. is headed to law school in the fall, so, she writes, “Nametags will soon read, Virginia Weeks, Esq.”
And Anne Brown writes that she has a new couch. Congrats, Anne.
—Drew Joseph, 49 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144; (510) 418-2244; aqjoseph@gmail.com