Greetings from Miami! It has been an eventful few months, as life is getting back closer to normal in Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. We had a much too long delayed residency retreat at Oleta River State Park, which was a lot of fun. It was great to get together as a group and spend time with our residents live and in-person. It was also fun to see people without masks; we even realized we had not seen our first-year class without them (except on Zoom)!  

We are excited to have our class of 2024 join us. Initially, like all things in the last year, we spent time on Zoom working through the Bridge to EM curriculum. Although it was a great way to meet our intern class and to get them started in emergency medicine, we were eager to have them join us in Miami and meet them for the first time in person during a fun outdoors BBQ. It is an exciting time to get to know the class and start their training as emergency physicians.

We also had the bittersweet departure of our graduating seniors. It is incredible how quickly time goes by. It feels like it was just yesterday we were welcoming this class, and now we are sending them off to the real world. We had our second Zoom graduation ceremony, which, from a technical perspective, went much better than our first attempt. We really have become Zoom experts in the last year.  We also had an evening event with family and friends, which was a great sendoff for our class of 2021. We wish them the best of luck as they move forward with their EM careers.

Here’s to a warm and breezy and not too wet hurricane season.

Congratulations to the Resident Class of 2021:

Nathan Boin, MD
Attending, West Virginia Univ. Health
WV

Jonathan Brandon, MD
Attending, Univ. of Oklahoma Medical Center
Oklahoma City, OK

Mitchell Evan Brown, MD
Attending, Seven Star Hospital Associates
Hemet, CA

Samuel Thomas Cochran, MD
Attending, Jackson West Medical Center
Doral, FL

Dennis Stephen D’Urso, MD
Attending, St. Peter’s Health
Albany, NY

Christopher “Blair” Gaines, MD
Attending, James Haley VA
Tampa, FL

Brittney Alexis Giuffre, MD
Attending, Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Livingston, NJ

Joseph Paul Greene, MD
Attending, South Miami CritiCare
Miami, FL

Ludwig Koeneke-Hernandez, MD
Attending, Jackson West Medical Center
Doral, FL

Ryan Daniel Lynch, MD
Attending, Holy Cross Hospital
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Athena Areti Mikros, MD
Attending, U.S. Navy
NC

Yijia “Jimmy” Mu, MD
Attending, Ozarks Healthcare
West Plains, MO

Michael Osinski, MD
Attending, Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks
Fort Smith, AR

Shahnaz “Sonya” Rashid, MD
Toxicology Fellowship, Cook County
Cook County, IL

Daniel Felipe Rivera, MD
Toxicology Fellowship at Univ. of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, TX