Daisi Choi
Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of Virginia (Neuroscience)
Hometown: Springfield, VA
Dream Job outside of medicine: Food & travel show host like Anthony Bourdain
Favorite TV Show: Real Housewives, Millionaire Matchmaker, Jersey Shore (basically any reality tv show with ridiculous personalities)
Favorite place you’ve visited: Pretty much any warm place with a beach
How you spend your free time: Spending time with family & friends, trying out new restaurants/street food vendors/food trucks, spontaneous road trips, running, swimming, hiking, skiing/snowboarding, doing outdoorsy stuff
Medical/Research Interests: Sports Med, Peds EM, Med Ed
Email: Daisi Choi

Jessica de Jarnette
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Undergraduate: University of Georgia (Microbiology)
Hometown: Lilburn, GA
Dream Job outside of medicine: National Geographic Photographer/Dolphin Trainer
Favorite TV Show: East Bound and Down
Favorite place you’ve visited: Brazil, Indonesia, Croatia
How you spend your free time: Outside, Outside, Outside!
3 things you can’t live without: coffee, camera, ocean
Why DC?: I have traveled a lot of places, and never have I been to a place where there are so many intelligent, passionate people working to change the world. Plus there are some pretty sweet fireworks on the 4th of July.
Email: Jessica de Jarnette

Sonja DeVaul
Medical School: University of New York School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Buffalo
Undergraduate: Cornell University (Biological Sciences)
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Dream Job outside of medicine: Ski Patroller at a Western Resort.
Favorite TV Show: The Big Bang Theory
How you spend your free time: practicing yoga, hanging with friends, getting outside, cooking/eating, scheming.
3 things you can’t live without: fruit, sweets, and ChapStick
Interesting fact: I have ridden from NYC to Riverside, CA in the cab of a tractor trailer.
Why Georgetown?: The Georgetown program offered everything I was looking for in a residency; multiple training facilities (including a high volume center), strong faculty, a PGY-3 format, happy residents, and an approachable and respected PD. The emphasis on Disaster Management and pediatrics exposure impressed me. Additionally, the 1:1 resident to faculty ratio can’t be beat.
Email: Sonja DeVaul

Jay Diamond
Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of Maryland (Operations Management)
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Dream job outside of medicine: Character at Disney World
Favorite TV Show: Seinfeld
Favorite Team: Atlanta Braves
Favorite place you’ve visited: Prague
How you spend your free time: Running, Happy Hour, Tennis, traveling, lounging in front of the TV
Why DC?: Beautiful, friendly, manageable city
Email: Jay Diamond

Geoffrey Froehlich
Medical School: University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Undergraduate: University of Virginia (Biology and Economics)
Hometown: Holbrook, NY
Dream Job outside of medicine: Rock Star Astronaut Superhero
Favorite TV Show: The Wire, Lost, Scrubs, Game of Thrones
Favorite Team: NY Jets and Mets – I Bleed greenish blue-orange
Your theme song for life: Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd
3 things you can’t live without: iPod, flip-flops, and coffee
Email: Geoffrey Froehlich

Alexander Kheradi
Medical School: Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Undergrad: Wake Forest University (Chemistry)
Hometown: Wayne, PA
Dream Job outside of medicine: Starting Striker for FC Barcelona
Favorite Team: Philadelphia Eagles
Your theme song for life: Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
Favorite place you’ve visited: Lugano, Switzerland
Nicknames: Kheradi, K.Rod
Email: Alexander Kheradi

Sawali Sudarshan
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Duke University (Biology)
Hometown: Charleston, SC
Dream Job outside of medicine: Working at a National park or a zoo helping create fun & informative shows/displays for kids
Favorite place you’ve visited: the Serengeti – wildlife rocks!
How you spend your free time: With my kids, cooking, and gardening
Medical/Research Interests: International medicine, health policy, research of all types
Favorite Book: I really do love the whole Harry Potter series
Email: Sawali Sudarshan

Frank Tift
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Wake Forest University (Biology)
Hometown: Macon, GA
Favorite TV Show: Scrubs
Favorite place you’ve visited: Belize
Favorite Team: Atlanta Braves and anything Wake Forest
How you spend your free time: hanging out with friends, reading, watching movies, running, traveling
Interesting Fact: I played trumpet in some form of marching/pep band for 11 years
Why Georgetown?: great people, great city, great curriculum. It’s hard to beat that.
Email: Frank Tift

Kathryn Voss
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: University of Virginia (Religious Studies and Biology)
Hometown: Alexandria, VA
Dream Job outside of medicine: Orangutan rescue worker in Borneo
Favorite TV Show: Modern Family and New Girl
Your theme song for life: Shake Your Love by Deborah Gibson
Favorite place you’ve visited: Mendoza, Argentina
3 things you can’t live without: naps, my family, wine
Nicknames: Traigame
Email: Kathryn Voss

Bonnie Yen
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Undergraduate: Occidental College (Biology)
Hometown: Beaverton, Oregon
Dream Job outside of medicine: A job where I get paid to travel, eat and play video games!
How you spend your free time: I love naps, anything outdoors that will get my heart rate up (especially snowboarding, hiking, and running), playing video games, spending time with my husband and the most adorable puppy in the world (Chewie, our mini goldendoodle), and eating
Favorite TV show: Modern Family, Bizzare Foods, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, SATC
Favorite place you’ve visited: Tie between Costa Rica where there’s lots of fun outdoors activities and Paris, France where my husband proposed under the Eiffel Tower.
Favorite Book: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston – I even own a copy signed by the scientists who discovered the Ebola virus and were featured in the novel
Email: Bonnie Yen