CLASS CALL
At RCSI, we love to hear news about your career achievements and information about you and your life after college. Find out what some of your classmates have been doing here ... Adanna Steinacker and Helen Zidon
2010s HUSAIN ARIAN (Medicine, 2017) “I have commenced my postgraduate course MSc Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin, and presented my two published posters in the 7th Annual Frontiers in Neurology Meeting in Dublin. I’ve also launched a website for trading the financial markets, and have held a seminar and workshops in trading in Kuwait!” Husain Arian n ADANNA STEINACKER (Medicine, 2015) has been in touch with the good news of her new business venture. “Inspired by my travel adventures as a medical student, and with great help from Helen Zidon (Medicine, 2016), I have established Medics Abroad, an international organisation that provides overseas medical electives and mentorship to aspiring healthcare professionals. Our objective is to provide the most rewarding hands-on clinical/ community experience, as well as cultural immersion and adventure. Our vision is to redefine medical educational travel.” n Taking a year off from his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at McMaster University, DEREK THONG (Medicine, 2015) is currently an Innovation Fellow in Biodesign at Stanford University. “In RCSI, I helped design a minimally invasive pelvic fixation device. The project brought together my background in engineering, medicine, and management consulting, and inspired me to take my career in a direction that would combine all three disciplines.” n AMEERA SAEED HAMED BALHARETH (MRCSI 2014, MSc Leadership, 2016 - RCSI Dublin): “I came to Dublin in July 2013 to join the academic and clinical fellowship programme under the umbrella of RCSI. By November 2016 I had received my masters degree, and in January 2018, I finished my colorectal surgery training in Beaumont Hospital. I have now returned home, to Saudi Arabia, with great experience.” n NOORA ALHAJRI (Medicine, 2014 - RCSI Bahrain) is the first Bahraini physician to be accepted for training at the Pan
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American Health Organization (PAHO) – the regional base of the World Health Organisation Jude Khatib (WHO) – as part Noora AlHajri of its Internship and Practicum Programme. n JUDE KHATIB (Medicine, 2014) “Hailing from Amman-Jordan, I’m currently in my third and final year of Internal Medicine residency at Case Western - UHCMC (University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center - Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, Ohio. Next year, I’m looking forward to my position as one of the Chief Residents of the Internal Medicine residency programme at Case Western - University Hospitals.” n A reunion of 22 alumni spanning three decades of RCSI came together in sunny Lake Garda, Italy for the wedding of JOSH DEMARCHI and SINEAD MAGUIRE (both Medicine, 2012) in June 2017. n 2017 saw SARAH FLANAGAN WESLEY (Medicine, 2012) complete her fellowship in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology at Yale, and commence her role as an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Yale School of Medicine. n Professor
