UPIKE Associate Professor of Accounting and Coordinator of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program Lois White ’04 and her husband Jesse welcomed their first child, Emmett Lee, on January 7, weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces. The couple own and operate a small business, Independent Metal Works, LLC, in Prestonsburg, Ky.
Andrea McCullum Mejia, D.O., Pharm.D., KYCOM ’16 and her husband, Juan Carlos (J.C.) Mejia Garces, M.D., welcomed their son, Sebastian Andrew Mejia McCullum, on June 27, 2020, weighing 5 pounds, 10 ounces. After completing her internal medicine residency, Andrea is now training in a rheumatology fellowship in Hudson, Fla., and J.C. is a primary care physician for VIPCare in Lutz, Fla.
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UPIKE MAGAZINE | SPRING/SUMMER 2021
