EM3

John Anderson, MD

Hometown: Sewanee, TN

Medical School: University of Colorado Denver

Undergrad: University of Montana

Favorite place: The Middle Fork of the Salmon River

Favorite hobby: Ultramarathons

Best concert I've have been to (band/location): Willie Nelson at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. It was pouring, and he opened with "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."

Peter Emiley, MD

Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI

Medical School: University of Michigan

Undergrad: University of Michigan

Favorite book: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Biggest adventure: Jungle trek through Tena, Ecuador

Favorite ice cream: Cookie Dough

Elena Garcia Ewert, MD

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO

Medical School: Stanford University

Undergrad: Colorado State University

Biggest adventure: Road tripping across South Africa

Favorite ice cream: Peppermint

Least favorite chief complaint: "Everything hurts"

Nir Harish, MD, MBA

Hometown: Tenafly, NJ

Medical School: Harvard

Undergrad: Yale

Favorite hobby: Surfing vs skiing

Worst personal injury: Kiteboard to the throat...nasty scar, but I recovered pretty well.

If I weren't an EM doc, I'd be: Playing jazz on my alpaca farm.

Michael Austin Johnson, MD, PhD

Hometown: Mt. Carroll, IL

Medical School: University of Wisconsin

Undergrad: Oberlin College

Biggest adventure: Mountaineering in Southern Peru completely from bicycles

If I weren't an EM doc I'd: Build furniture

Favorite food: Avacados

Christopher Johnston, MD

Hometown: Parker, CO

Medical School: Saint Louis University

Undergrad: University of Colorado

Least favorite chief complaint: "Seems I pooped myself."

Favorite ice cream: Dippin Dots

Worst personal injury: Accidentally shot myself in the head with a BB. The physics still don't make sense...

Michael Miller, MD

Hometown: Madison, WI

Medical School: University of Colorado Denver

Undergrad: Colorado University Boulder

Strangest place I've been: The psych ED

Dream job outside of medicine: Rafting guide

Strangest job: Goat herder/milker in Southern Chile

Kristy Rahimi-Alangi, MS, MD

Hometown: Douglas, WY

Medical School: University of Colorado Denver

Undergrad: University of Wyoming

Favorite ice cream: Hagen Das Vanilla Honey Bee

Guilty pleasure: Sleeping in

Random Talent: I can bake like Betty Crocker

Maegan Reynolds, MD

Hometown: Diamond Bar, CA

Medical School: Oregon Health Sciences University

Undergrad: University of California, Berkley

Favorite caffinated beverage: Grande skinny vanilla latte from Starbucks

Favorite guilty pleasure: Watching reality TV

If I weren't an EM doc I'd be: A PhD in Forensic Medical Anthropology on a dig in Greece

Omeed Saghafi, MD

Hometown: Anaheim, CA

Medical School: University of California-San Diego

Undergrad: University of California-San Diego

Strangest job: I drove a boat on Storybookland, (a ride at Disneyland)

Favorite place: Any beach from San Diego to Huntington

Worst personal injury: Scaphoid fracture that went undiagnosed until a friend pushed on it just enough to induce syncope

Matthew Taecker, MD

Hometown: Yankton, SD

Medical School: Creighton University

Undergrad: South Dakota University

Biggest adventure: Military deployment to the Middle East

Favorite hobby: Scuba diving

Favorite reality TV show: Ice Road Truckers

Lina Tran, MD

Hometown: Atlanta, GA

Medical School: Medical College of Georgia

Undergrad: University of Georgia

Favorite caffinated beverage: Starbucks' grande triple skinny latte

Random talents: I know how to intubate a chicken

Favorite reality TV show: Jersey Shore

Douglas Melzer, MD

Hometown: Grand Junction, CO

Medical School: University of Colorado

Undergrad: Colby College

Favorite hobby: Back-country skiing with my dog

Strangest job outside of medicine: I taught a Guinea Pig raising class

Favorite caffinated beverage: Vietnamese iced coffee

Ashley Menne, MD

Hometown: Richland Center, WI

Medical School: University of Wisconsin

Undergrad: University of Wisconsin

Favorite food: Steak. My parents own a beef farm. I might be disowned if I answered any other way.

Favorite caffinated beverage: White chocolate mocha

Favorite place: My bed