✨Intern Spotlight✨
Meet Dr. Madison Bagnall!
🔹Hometown: Newton, IA
🔹Medical School: University of Iowa
🔹Favorite part of our program: The people in the program care about you outside the job.
🔹Favorite part of Des Moines: I love to shop at the thrift stores in the area!
✨Intern Spotlight✨
Meet Dr. Ruffin Tchakounte!
🔹Hometown: Ashburn, VA
🔹Medical School: Des Moines University
🔹Fun fact: I am Cameroonian-American and speak French fluently.
🔹If he could be any animal for a day, he would be a dolphin! 🐬
✨Intern Spotlight✨
Meet Dr. Gabe Conley!
🔹Hometown: Cherokee, Iowa
🔹Medical School: U of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
🔹Over the summer, Gabe bought a house 🏡 and spent time traveling! ✈️
🔹Favorite part of Des Moines: It’s fun to be in a place that's growing quickly!
A special congratulations to our top 3, voted on by our esteemed panel of judges:
🥇Dr. Sarah Wyler, “Allele Mysterious: Atypical Presentation of Weakness and Mood Changes”
🥈Dr. Taylor Jones, “Sit Up, Sats Down”
🥉 Dr. Bilal Baig, “A Mysterious Case of Hyperferritinemia”
Huge shoutout to our senior residents who presented their fascinating cases tonight at our local ACP Clinical Vignette Presentations! 🩻
We had a tremendous variety of patient cases (and Dough Co. pizza) that sparked excellent discussion and offered important learning points.
✨Intern Spotlight✨
Meet Dr. Carley Cueva!
🔹Hometown: Kansas City, MO
🔹Medical School: AT Still University - Kirksville
🔹Favorite Des Moines activity: Farmers Market!
🔹Spends her free time with family/friends and playing with her golden doodle Ava
This team puts the CARE in Intensive Care! 🫁 Congrats to all the residents completing their first rotation of the academic year, especially our new interns such as Dr. Tchakounte pictured here.
It is always bittersweet saying farewell to our preliminary residents. Here is the intern class sending off Drs. Andrew Sloan and Hannah Thompson in true fashion. 🏐🌞
The annual Resident Awards Ceremony happened and Congratulations to Internist Teacher of the Year Dr. Jacob Nelson, Subspecialist Teacher of the Year Dr. Sudhir Kumar, and our PGY-3s @lhlisapham @MeganSchreier19 @KatherineSittig! 🎊
Why are cranberries used in cystitis? What to do when you find Candida in urine studies? To find out, tune in for recurrent cystitis & guideline directed management with Dr. Elizabeth Takacs. #GrandRounds#AUA2022
We are delighted to virtually welcome Dr. Timothy McCashland for #GrandRounds. Tune in to learn about what is becoming a young person's disease: Alcoholic Hepatitis and Liver Disease.