UM/Jackson Memorial

By Emily Brauer, MD, FACEP

Greetings from Miami! After another successful interview season, we are thrilled to welcome our stellar new intern class of 2025 to our Jackson family. Our new class will join us from all over the country, and we congratulate them on their success and medical school graduation. We can’t wait to meet you and have you join us in Miami!

The PGY-2 class recently attended AAEM in Baltimore and thoroughly enjoyed the live conference experience and time with their colleagues. Our residents continue their commitment and involvement to social EM, expanding our reach to our local community. Drs. Joshua Goldstein and Naomi Newton continue to tackle South Florida’s opioid epidemic and presented their social EM “Naloxone out of the ED and Into the Community” initiative at the Community Health Leadership Conference at University of Miami. You can read about their work in this edition of EMpulse on page 38. Accolades are also in order for Dr. Juhi Varshney on her Case Presentation Competition (CPC) at the CORD conference in San Diego. We would like to commend them for their tireless dedication, hard work and success.

We are excited to welcome back prior graduates of Jackson and congratulate them on the completion of their fellowships. Our graduating class is bound for greatness, accepting positions all over the country. Several PGY-3s have accepted fellowships in SIM and critical care, and we are excited that several graduates have taken positions within the Jackson system. We are very much looking forward to a live graduation celebration as our seniors take their next steps in their careers. We are so proud of our class of 2022 and wish them luck on their future endeavors! ■

FSU at Sarasota Memorial

Thomas Cox, MD, PGY-3

Greetings from Sarasota! Interview season is done, and we want to congratulate all the medical students that matched into emergency medicine. Additionally, we are excited to once again welcome the next class of interns to Sarasota.

It is hard to believe that in a few short months we will graduate our first class of emergency medicine residents. Due to their three years of hard work, our program has found success in our department, hospital and community. We would like to recognize the third-years who will continue on to fellowship: Dr. Darryl Ray, USF Ultrasound Fellowship; Dr. Melanie Worley, University of West Virginia Sports Medicine Fellowship; and Dr. Thomas Cox, UF Jacksonville Ultrasound Fellowship.

As always, we want to thank the administration, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and house staff that make the FSU/Sarasota Memorial Emergency Medicine Program a special place to learn and grow into emergency physicians. ■

UF Gainesville

By Megan Rivera, MD, PGY-2

Greetings from UF Gainesville!

We closed another virtual interview season and are thrilled to announce that we successfully matched 14 new PGY-1s! From Wisconsin to Virginia to our own backyard here at UF, we are excited to welcome another exceptional class.

With the in-training exam in our rearview mirror, we’re full speed ahead as we close out the academic year. We’d like to give a special shout out to our PGY-1s who navigated through intern year with inquisitive minds and incredible resiliency. This spring, interns will be challenged with signing the never-ending wave of EKGs as they prepare for their PGY-2 senior roles. PGY-2s are eager to start leading the department and guide interns into their new roles as physicians. Lastly, the PGY-3s are busy navigating contracts and preparing for life after residency.

Drs. Benjamin Arnold, Megan Rivera and Ziad Saqr were elected as chief residents for the upcoming academic year. We’d like to thank Drs. Manuel Borobia, Graham Clifford and Pooja Mysore for all the work they put into our program and wish them continued success as they transition into fellowship here at UF.

The weather has been perfect for residents to enjoy various outdoor activities. Our PDs and residents recently volunteered at Habitat for Humanity, and residents have been spending extra time at the new UF baseball stadium. There is never a dull moment here at the Swamp, and we look forward to what the rest of the summer will bring! ■