Eric Curran, MD

Home town: Conyngham, PA
Undergrad: The University of Vermont
Major: Biology
Med School: Temple
Hobbies/Interests: Photography rickycurran.com, live music/guitar, skiing.
Favorite movies or TV shows: X-Files, Lost in Translation, Wes Anderson.
Favorite Music: Raised on Bruce Springsteen and the Grateful Dead. Motown, new wave, soul, indie, disco, yacht rock, world, jazz, funk. So many great Philly bands: Low Cut Connie, The War on Drugs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Districts, Dr. Dog.
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Middle Child, Fountain Porter, Ting Wong, Gigi Pizza, Hiro Ramen, Stocks Bakery, Herman’s Coffee, Jim’s.
Five year plan: make a five year plan.   
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? In a band. 

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? One of the Toy Story aliens in the Pizza Planet claw machine.
Random fact: Worked as a DJ from middle school through college.

Megan Daniels, MD

Hometown: Woodbridge, VA

Undergrad: Villanova University

Major: Biochemistry

Med School: Drexel

Hobbies/Interests: Running, hiking, reading, playing board games, crocheting, listening to true crime podcasts, watching Washington Capitals hockey and Villanova basketball, whispering positive affirmations to my houseplants, playing with my cat Monty, spending time with my awesome fiancé Chris

Favorite movies or TV shows: Doctor Who, Killing Eve, Peaky Blinders, Rick and Morty, The West Wing, Succession, Derry Girls

Favorite music: The 1975, Bastille, Walk the Moon, Halsey, AFI, Fall Out Boy, the soundtrack of Hamilton

Favorite foods/ restaurant: Talula’s Garden, Cafe Lift, Honey’s Sit-n-Eat, V Street, Bud and Marilyn’s, Franklin Fountain, Zorba’s

Five year plan: Thrive in residency, get a dog, qualify for the Boston marathon, finally figure out if I want to do community or academic EM

If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing?: Teaching history at some tiny liberal arts college 

What super hero or cartoon character would you be?: Dorothy Zbornak from the Golden Girls (she’s a super hero to me!!)

Random fact: I once got to take a tour of the palace in St. Petersburg where Rasputin was murdered- they have wax figures and everything. 

Otega Esegine, MD

Home town: Brooklyn, NY 
Undergrad: Temple University
Major:  Kinesiology
Med School: Howard University (The real HU!)  
Hobbies/Interests:  Traveling, fashion,  spending time with family and friends, and binge watching TV
Favorite movies or TV shows: Reality TV shows (e.g. Married to Medicine, RHOA, RHOP) 
Favorite Music: Afrobeats (esp. Burnaboy and Fireboy), Reggae, and R&B
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Anything spicy! Seafood, Nigerian, and Caribbean food. 
Five year plan:  Asides from practicing EM, I hope to partake in global medical mission trips, real estate investments, travel the world, and have a family. 
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? Travel vlogger

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Myself 
Random fact: I come from a large family: 7 siblings, 9 nieces/nephews !!!

Alexis Germain, MD

Home town: Jacksonville, Florida

Undergrad: Tufts University
Major: Biology
Med School: University of Florida College of Medicine
Hobbies/Interests:  Hiking, rock climbing, watching stand up and improv comedy, hanging with my pets, thrifting
Favorite movies or TV shows: Zoolander, Booksmart, Catwoman, District 9, Pleasantville. TV shows Bojack Horseman, Feel Good, SNL, Rick and Morty, 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Rec, The Good Place
Favorite Music: You Won't, Oh Wonder, Julia Nunes, Avett Brothers, 80's power ballads
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Chicken Tikka Masala, Pesto anything
Five year plan:  Make it out of residency alive, do NOT acquire more dogs, maybe a fellowship, move to Boise, Idaho (it's the new Portland) and get really into snowboarding
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? I'd be a florist desperately trying to get on the Amazing Race every year.

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Tina Belcher from Bob's Burgers
Random fact:  I was very briefly my undergrad's mascot.

Jason Gonzalez, MD

Home town: Burke, VA
Undergrad: George Mason University
Major: Health Sciences - Community Health
Med School: Temple
Hobbies/Interests:  Road cycling, eating street food, watching the NBA (Sixers) and soccer (Arsenal, EPL, Champions League)
Favorite movies or TV shows: Jeopardy!, The Wire, Shark Tank, pretty much any show on HGTV.
Favorite Music: The go-to is always hip hop/alternative/reggaeton from the late 90’s - early 00’s.

Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Pupusas, $5 burgers at Fountain Porter.
Five year plan:  Planning is one of the few things that stresses me out.
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? Probably still teaching English abroad or a bike mechanic.

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Yakko from the Animaniacs.
Random fact: I have never gotten brain freeze. I've chugged countless Slurpees with no success.

Illiana Gutierrez, MD

Home town: Downey, CA
Undergrad: UC San Diego
Major: Human Biology
Med School: Weill Cornell Medicine
Hobbies/Interests:  Baking, hiking, dogs, food crawls
Favorite movies or TV shows: Friends, Breaking Bad, Greys Anatomy
Favorite Music: Halsey, Drake, Dua Lipa, anything salsa
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: donuts, SweetGreen salads
Five year plan:  become a solid ER doctor, travel again, get a dog (or two)
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? running a dog rescue/ dog walking business 

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Russell from Up 

Random fact: I never learned how to swim despite growing up in california. 

Lydia Koroshetz, MD

Home town: Potomac, MD
Undergrad: University of Notre Dame
Major: Biology
Med School: Georgetown
Hobbies/Interests:  national & state parks, hygge, beer flights, baking, book clubs, live music
Favorite movies or TV shows: Arrested Development, Fleabag, Portlandia, Queer Eye, Rick Steves, What About Bob?, The Truman Show

Favorite Music: anything I can run to, dance to, drive to, or stare contemplatively out a window to 
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Ethiopian, vegetable tempura, Goldie tehina shakes, fancy pizza
Five year plan: fellowship, be a dog mom, do a pull-up
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? In medicine, family med. Outside of medicine, baking apprenticeship in France then open a boulangerie in a mountain ski town

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? superhero: Tan France, cartoon: Louise Belcher
Random fact: In Denmark Danes are so trusting that they leave their babies unsupervised outside in strollers while they go into shops and cafes, even in the thick of winter

Michael Kosofsky, MD

Home town: Nashua, NH

Undergrad: University of Vermont

Major: Biology

Med School: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Hobbies/Interests: Gardening, Skateboarding, Fortnite, Climbing

Favorite Movies/TV shows: Star Wars, Mindfield, Pulp Fiction, Yeah Right, Kill Bill, The Simpsons, The Office

Favorite Music: Freddie Gibbs, Outkast, Cherry Glazerr, Chastity Belt, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath

Favorite Foods: Bagels from Philly Style Bagels and Noodles

Five Year Plan: Working in the community or in academia, having a bigger garden

If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing: Plumber or Electrician

What superhero or cartoon character would you be? Groot

Random Fact: I have a 5-year-old fish named Jim  

Alyssa Lombardi, MD

Home town: Seaville, NJ
Undergrad: Lehigh University
Major: Biology
Med School: #TempleMade MD PhD nerd
Hobbies/Interests: yoga, running, the beach, spending time with my family, listening to stand up comedy
Favorite movies or TV shows: wedding crashers, it’s always sunny in Philadelphia, schitt’s creek, parks & rec
Favorite Music: whatever Spotify recommends, counting crows, maggie rogers, lumineers, bruce springsteen 
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: barbuzzo, spice finch, nomad pizza, anything my aunt millie cooks 
Five year plan: learn a lot of medicine 
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? yoga instructor or that girl who puts feathers in your hair at the Dominical Farmer's Market in Costa Rica 

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? sadly, i'm not well-versed on this topic but ideally i would be moana.
Random fact: two of my cousins are coaches in the NFL so in addition to being an eagles fan, i always have to root for 2 other NFL teams (which change approximately every 1-3 years)

Ruth Lewis, MD

Home town: Brookline, MA
Undergrad: Earlham College
Major: Biochemistry
Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Hobbies/Interests:  Crosswords, jigsaw puzzles, sewing, running, board games
Favorite movies or TV shows: Arrested Development, Parks and Rec, The West Wing, The IT Crowd
Favorite Music: 90's and 2000's Pop-Punk
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Sesame ginger anything, pizza,
Five year plan: Learn to be a great doctor and patient advocate, finish residency 
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? Social work or counseling

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Louise Belcher 
Random fact: Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated

Anya McDermott, MD

Home town: Wayne, PA
Undergrad: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Major: Peace, war, and defense 
Med School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson
Hobbies/Interests: Running, hiking, traveling, cooking, gardening, playing squash, reading, surfing, and watching Carolina basketball win (go heels!)
Favorite movies or TV shows: The Office, The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Gilmore Girls, How I Met Your Mother, Grey's Anatomy, Friday Night Lights
Favorite Music: The Avett Brothers, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Strokes, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, The Temptations, The Supremes, Lake Street Dive, Maggie Rogers, Future Islands, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift

Favorite Foods/Restaurant: I love it all, particularly Thai, Mexican, Mediterranean, and Italian.
Five year plan: Become a thoughtful and compassionate physician and patient advocate

If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? I would be a foreign service officer or restaurant critic.

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Sandy Cheeks 
Random fact: Anya is Dutch for Ann, my mom’s name!

Katelyn Peloza, MD

Home town: San Diego, CA
Undergrad: Occidental College
Major: Biochemistry
Med School: Emory
Hobbies/Interests: Stand up Paddleboarding, Hiking, Cooking, Traveling
Favorite movies or TV shows: Documentaries, Seinfeld, Law & Order SVU
Favorite Music: Oldies
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Pasta, tacos, pho 
Five year plan: Become the best doctor I can, maybe a fellowship, travel
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? Own a flower shop

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Velma from Scooby Doo
Random fact: I have visited 48 US states

Sean Schlosser, MD

Home town: Delaware County, PA
Undergrad: Penn State/Bryn Mawr College Post-Bac
Major: Classics and Ancient Mediterranean History
Med School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hobbies/Interests: Watching a truly concerning amount of TV and movies, travel, reading, video games, board games.
Favorite movies or TV shows: Currently Doctor Who, What We Do in the Shadows, Poirot, Pose, Mrs. America, Watchmen, The Durrells on Corfu, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Venture Bros, Cobra Kai
Favorite Music: Whatever XPN is playing, all kinds of music but I'm probably limited by the fact that I think 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is still a "new" album.
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Pizza, Chinese, Ethiopian, Caribbean, BREAKFAST, Southern, Middle Eastern, Indian, Sushi, Mexican, Italian, Thanksgiving Leftovers
Five year plan:  Live my one wild life! Maybe Palliative Care Fellowship? Sometimes in the still of night I secretly hope they open Infectious Disease Fellowships to EM doctors.

If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? Medical: Med-Peds, Non-Medical: Immigration Law, Alternate Reality: Blockbuster Video Night Manager
What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Just a Magneto trying to be more like a Professor X
Random fact: We are literally stardust

Shannon Wright, MD

Home town: Lewisburg, PA
Undergrad: Lehigh University
Major: biology, minor in religious studies

Grad school: Lehigh UniversityDegree: Healthcare Systems Engineering

Med School: University of Virginia
Hobbies/Interests:  running, hiking, climbing, lifting, yoga, women’s and LGBT health advocacy, ice hockey (Go Pens!), testing the limits of houseplant hardiness, hanging out with my cats Frankie and Hobbes
Favorite movies or TV shows: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Chopped, GBBO, bad TLC reality TV
Favorite Music: 90s pop, top 40 bops to run to, FKA twigs, classical piano when I need to turn down. For what it’s worth, according to Spotify my top song of the decade is White Noise 250 Hz One Hour Loop
Favorite Foods/Restaurant: Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, sushi, breakfast sandwiches
Five year plan:  become an awesome EM doc, advocate for social justice, see a few more national parks, climb some more mountains, maybe sneak a marathon or two in, maintain a stable number of cats, don’t kill my calatheas
If you weren’t doing EM, what would you be doing? In a dream world, adventure tour guide! In the real world, probably a boring ol engineer

What super hero or cartoon character would you be? Wonder Woman
Random fact: I used to be a competitive water skier