Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois  

Hometown: Crescent City, Illinois 

Undergraduate: Governor’s State University, University Park, Illinois, BA with Honors in Liberal Arts 

Presentations

• 2005 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Surgical Association,

‘The Value of Resident Teaching to Improve Student Perception of Surgery Clerkship and Surgical Career Choice’

Spectacular Problems in Surgery: ‘I Turned Around and There He Was…The Spectacular Tale of a Bear Attack’

• 2006 ILACS Meeting, First Place Resident Competition: ‘The Value of Resident Teaching to

 Improve Student Perception of the Surgery Clerkship and Surgery Career Choice’

• 2005 ILACS Meeting, First Place Resident Competition: ‘Laparoscopic Banding: A

Sound Weight Loss Alternative to Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass’

• 2004 ILACS Annual Meeting, First Place Resident Competition

Awards

• 2003 OSF Saint Francis Medical Center ‘House Staff Angel Award’

Research

• Traumatic Vascular Injury Case Report, Faculty, Andy Chiou, MD
• Axillary Venous Aneurysm, Faculty, James DeBord, MD

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