Alumni News
Classes of 2001 and On
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2001
Julia Castillo, M.D.Dr. Castillo practices pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in Orange County, California. She lived in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Todd Daynes, M.D.Dr. Daynes practices ophthalmology in Utah.
Peter C. Fisher, M.D.Dr. Fisher has accepted a position at Western Urological Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his wife Nicole have 4 children.
Marion Folkener, M.D.Dr. Folkener completed her residency at the University of Washington and has spent 1.5 years working on the Navajo Reservation for Indian Health Services. She married Lester Keel in 2004.
Michael W. Foutz, M.D.Dr. Foutz is practicing family medicine in Kuna, Idaho. He and his wife Katy have 3 children.
Katy Gesteland, M.D.Dr. Gesteland practices maternal-fetal medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University. She has settled in Oregon.
Jeffrey Hancock, M.D.Dr. Hancock will be starting a fellowship with the University of Utah Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Department in 2007.
Marta Heilbrun, M.D.Dr. Heilbrum finished her residency at Wake Forest and is returning to Salt Lake City in July 2006 to start an abdominal imaging fellowship at the University of Utah. She has 2 daughters.
John Hemmersmeier, M.D.Dr. Hemmersmeier is practicing family medicine in Ogden, Utah.
David Hughes, M.D.Dr. Hughes practices emergency medicine at Mercy Medical Center in Durango, Colorado. He received the Salt Lake County Service Award for avalanche victim rescue in 2003. He sits on the faculty for Advanced Wilderness Medicine for the Upper San Juan Health District Emergency Medical Service.
Christopher Smith , M.D.
Dr. Smith completed a year of internship in Roanoke, Virginia in 2002 and a residency in diagnostic radiology in 2007, followed by a fellowship in cross-sectional imaging in 2007 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also does teleradiology with vision radiology. He is happily married with five daughters and lives in York, PA. He is a member of the US Army Reserve and deployed to Kosovo for three months in 2008 in support of US operations.
Margaret Hope Solomon, M.D.Dr. Solomon completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the Harvard University combined program in Boston. She is currently practicing at the University of Utah Redwood Health Center. She and her husband Chris are the proud parents of 1 daughter.
Mary D. Tipton, M.D.Dr. Tipton is practicing internal medicine and pediatrics at Copperview Medical Center and Jordan Valley Hospital. She has 1 son, Joshua. She trained her dog to be a service and therapy animal while she was in a wheelchair with a broken leg.
Ryan Williams, M.D.Dr. Williams finished a triple board residency in Boston and most to Tulsa for a fellowship in child abuse and neglect. He is moonlighting, covering child psychiatry services for a local shelter that accomodates children in the foster care system. He and his wife, Vanh, have two little girls and are enjoying life in Tulsa.
2002
Scott H. Mumford, M.D.Dr. Mumford continues to practice pediatrics at the Utah Valley Pediatrics office in American Fork, UT. In October 2005 a third Mumford boy, Max, was added to the family.
Casey Cotant, M.D.Dr. Cotant is serving in the Air Force and practicing nephrology at the Wilford Hall Medical Center near San Antonio, TX.
2003
Jason Blackham, M.D.
After finishing his internal medicine residency at Iowa, Dr. Blackham went to East Carolina University in North Carolina for a sports medicine fellowship. He now serves as the team physician for the track and cross country teams at the University of Iowa as well as the team internist consultant for the Hawkeyes. My clinical time is split between a general internal medicine clinic and a sports medicine clinic. Dr. Blackham's sons are eight and five years old and his daughter is two years old. They still enjoy going fishing, camping, and spending time together and his sons are learning to fly fish. He and his wife continue to enjoy running.
Jeffrey David Dillon, M.D.
Dr. Dillon is a practicing anesthesiologist at Willford Hall Medical Center on the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas.
Jill Faatz, M.D.
After finishing a family medicine residency in 2006, Dr. Faatz and her family moved to Heber, Utah. She now works full time for Intermountain Healthcare in urgent care in both Park City and Orem. She also practices family medicine one day a week in Heber. Her husband, Christian, continues to work for the Park City Mountain Resort. They have two girls: Greta, age 3; and Tess, age 1.
Elizabeth M. Thackeray, M.D.
Dr. Thackery is a practicing anesthesiologist at University Hospital in Salt Lake City. Dr. Thackery also completed a fellowship in acute pain (ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks). She and her husband, Will, have a 5-year-old daughter.
Jason Hansen, M.D.
Although Dr. Hansen's reputation as an audiovisual specialist during the first two years of medical school led to lucrative Hollywood offers, he decided to turn down all of the glamour and prestige to pursue dermatology residency and a Mohs Surgery fellowship. He and his family have enjoyed their gradual trek eastward from Utah to Iowa to North Carolina along with the addition of two girls to their family (Annecy, 6; Soleil, 3; Ciel, 1). They are now looking forward to settling back into Utah and practicing in Salt Lake City.
Jennifer Holmes, M.D.
Dr. Holmes finished her obstetrics-gynecology residency at the University of Colorado in June 2007, and then returned to Utah to be near family. Her daughter, Jessie, is now seven years old and just finished first grade.
Christine Johns, M.D.
Dr. Johns completed her fellowship in nephrology at the University of Minnesota in June 2008. Afterward, she moved to Vientiane, Laos to be the volunteer coordinator for the only internal medicine residency in Laos. During her fellowship research time, Dr. Johns spent three months in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dr. Johns has also completed her ASTMH certification of knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Jonathan Edward Martin, M.D.
Dr. Martin is a practicing anesthesiologist and his wife Larissa and he have three beautiful daughters: Madelyn, 6; Aunama, 4; and Kalli, 1.
Anne Perry, M.D.
Dr. Perry completed her residency in internal medicine in 2006 and then went to Nepal for three months as a volunteer for the Himalayan Rescue Association in Pheriche. She started work as a hospitalist afterward, which she has been doing now for a year and a half. This year she went with the group Healing Hands for Haiti to do humanitarian work there.
2004
Tanya Christensen, M.D.
Dr. Christensen completed a residency in dermatology in 2009. She is currently working as a dermatologist with Dermatology Partners of Western New York.
Rachel Garton Depuy, M.D.
Dr. Depuy is currently finishing up her general surgery residency at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Polson, Montana. Dr. Depuy (formerly Garton) married Jon Depuy in November 2006.
Kirk Knowlton, M.D.
Dr. Knowlton practices Cardiology at the University of California, San Diego where he has served as the Chief of Cardiology since 2004.
Angela Thompson, M.D.
Dr. Thompson is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist at Altru Health in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She completed her residency in obstetrics-gynecology at the University of Michigan in 2008. She and her husband, Abram Sauer, have a daughter, Astrial, and reside in Grand Forks.
2005
Richard Gurgel, M.D.
Dr. Gurgel is currently an otolaryngology resident at the University of Iowa.
Scott Larson, M.D.Dr. Larson is currently an anesthesia resident at Georgetown University.
