Match Day 2008

Paula Boback, with son Parker, celebrates the Match Day result for her partner, Katie Imborek, who will do a family medicine residency at UI Hospitals and Clinics.

Calling Match Day "a strange mix of free will and predestination," Christopher Cooper (’87 BA, ’91 MD, ’97 R), associate dean for student affairs and curriculum, opened the festivities revealing the results of this year’s National Residency Matching Program assignments. Within a short time, members of the UI Carver College of Medicine’s class of 2008 knew where they would be going for specialty training beginning in July.

From a graduating class of 137, about a quarter–36–will stay in Iowa to begin specialty training. A majority of these, 23, will train at UI Hospitals and Clinics; the rest will move to Des Moines for residency programs at Broadlawns Medical Center, the Central Iowa Health System and Mercy/Mayo Family Medicine. After Iowa, the states garnering the most UI graduates are California, with nine; Illinois and Minnesota, with seven each; and New York, with six.

Ron and Enid Boeding landed residencies on Match Day at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He will do a family medicine residency; her residency is in pathology.

About 40 percent of class members–55–have chosen to enter the primary care fields of family medicine (22), internal medicine (14), pediatrics (15), obstetrics and gynecology (two) and medicine-pediatrics (two). Other popular specialties include emergency medicine (13), anesthesiology (nine) and general surgery (eight). Twelve graduates will enter transitional programs.

"This has been an outstanding class both academically and in terms of social performance," Cooper said "They are a very caring group, involved in many volunteer and outreach activities. They will make the College proud."

Arizona: Phoenix Children’s Hospital Maricopa, Phoenix
Sarah Cooper (pediatrics)
Carly Davis (pediatrics); Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, Scottsdale
Brandy Ficek (family medicine); St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix
Nicholas Thiessen (general surgery); University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals, Tucson
Benjamin Slane (radiation-oncology)
California: Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland
Elizabeth Grace (medicine-preliminary); University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles
Roberto Diaz (orthopaedic surgery)
Raul Easton-Carr (medicine-emergency medicine); University of California, Los Angeles Semel Institute for Neuroscience, Los Angeles
Shannon Easton-Carr (psychiatry); University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento
Rosalio Rubio (internal medicine); University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine
Daniela Alexandru (neurological surgery and surgery-preliminary); University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
Jason Boehme (pediatrics)
Benjamin Hippen (emergency medicine)
Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura
Amanda Hohmann (family medicine)
Colorado: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
Rebecca Myers (family medicine)
Luis Ochoa Nunez (pediatrics)
Larissa Pisney (internal medicine)
John Scott (pathology)
Georgia: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta
Anwer Habib (internal medicine)
Leah Habib (psychiatry)
Hawaii: Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu
Emmanuel Ramirez-Enriquez (pediatrics)
Idaho: Idaho State University Family Medicine, Pocatello
Paul Lacey (family medicine)
Illinois: Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical Center, Oak Lawn
Christian Den Ouden (emergency medicine); Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood
Matthew Johnson (surgery-preliminary)
Meredith Larsen (orthopaedic surgery)
Zeb McMillan (surgery-preliminary); McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago
Mazen Albaghdadi (internal medicine); Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Daniel Jeong (medicine-preliminary and radiology diagnostic); University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago
Joy Koopmans (pediatrics); University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
Elizabeth Grace (ophthalmology)
Indiana: Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie
Curtis O’Loughlin (family medicine); Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
Jacob Koczman (ophthalmology and transitional)
Kathryn Miller (pediatrics)
Iowa: Broadlawns Medical Center, Des Moines
Rachel Berger (transitional)
Carla Cloos (transitional)
Benjamin Ross (family medicine); Central Iowa Health System, Des Moines
Benjamin Flannery (pediatrics)
Catherine Metz (transitional)
Jill Moore (transitional)
Timothy Noonan (family medicine)
Vishal Patel (surgery-preliminary)
James Quann (general surgery)
Benjamin Schlicher (general surgery)
Benjamin Slane (transitional)
Jaime Vanourny (transitional); Mercy/Mayo Family Medicine, Des Moines
Michael Mosley (family medicine); University of Iowa, Iowa City
Ann Morris (research)
Jason Weiss (research); University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City
Waseemuddin Ahmed (anesthesiology)
Erik Alexander (dermatology)
Bryan Allen (medicine-preliminary and radiation-oncology)
Julia Buchkina (family medicine)
Hilary Buri (internal medicine)
Dominic Cirillo (internal medicine)
Henry Diggelmann (otolaryngology)
Thomas Ebinger (orthopaedic surgery)
Daniel Ferraro (medicine-preliminary)
Kira Fraser (anesthesiology)
Jessica Goreham-Voss (pediatrics)
Nathan Harmon (emergency medicine)
Christopher Hogrefe (emergency medicine)
Brett Hronek (internal medicine)
Katherine Imborek (family medicine)
Christine Jacobsen (medicine-preliminary and radiology diagnostic)
Jessica Kelley (anesthesiology)
Jessica Leinen (anesthesiology)
Raina Lourens (medicine-preliminary)
Samy Maklad (general surgery)
Catherine Metz (radiology diagnostic)
Steven Rippentrop (family medicine)
Paul Van Heukelom (emergency medicine)
Jaime Vanourny (dermatology)
Julie Voelker (family medicine-psychiatry)
Andrew Weiss (emergency medicine)
Kansas: University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
Matthew Herrmann (general surgery); University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita
Brent Owen (family medicine)
Kentucky: University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville
Erik Wayne (general surgery)
Maine: Maine Medical Center, Portland
Andrew Sundblad (radiology diagnostic)
Maryland: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Anne Lewis (general surgery)
Raina Lourens (anesthesiology)
Katherine Steffen (pediatrics)
Kyle Van Arendonk (general surgery); University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
Toni Biskup (medicine-pediatrics)
Katie Book (medicine-preliminary and anesthesiology)
Michigan: Grand Rapids Area Medical Center, Grand Rapids
Daniel Dallon (emergency medicine); Henry Ford Health Science Center, Detroit
Chiraag Dharia (radiology diagnostic)
Minnesota: Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis
Alec Otteman (internal medicine); Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester
Ebenezer Adebara (emergency medicine)
Eric Tibesar (pediatrics)
Charlotte Van Dorn (pediatrics); University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
Amaris Anderson (family medicine)
Scott Bender (family medicine)
Julie Farias (family medicine)
Missouri: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
Aaron Abramovitz (internal medicine)
Daniel Ferraro (radiation-oncology); St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis
Sharon Sung (obstetrics-gynecology); University of Missouri-Kansas City Program, Kansas City
Lisa Kramer (obstetrics-gynecology)
Matthew Sinnwell (emergency medicine); Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
Adam Ostendorf (child neurology and pediatrics-preliminary)
Nebraska: Creighton University Affiliated Hospitals, Omaha
Todd Stevens (pathology); University of Nebraska Affiliated Hospitals, Omaha
Carla Cloos (anesthesiology)
Lindsey Klocke (otolaryngology)
New Mexico: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque
Dustin Briggs (orthopaedic surgery)
Laura Gellhaus (family medicine)
New York: Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn
Ameya Nayate (transitional); New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
LaKesha Randolph (anesthesiology); New York University Downtown Hospital, New York
Katerina Dodelzon (medicine-preliminary); New York University Medical Center, New York
Katerina Dodelzon (radiology diagnostic); SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse
Margaret Riordan (surgery-preliminary and neurological surgery); Stony Brook Teaching Hospitals, Stony Brook
Otar Taktakishvili (emergency medicine); University of Rochester/Strong Memorial, Rochester
Amy Taylor (emergency medicine)
North Carolina: Duke University Medical Center, Durham
Jesmin Ehlers (emergency medicine)
Ohio: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
Natalie Freed (otolaryngology)
Abigail Stockham (radiation-oncology); The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus
Michael Lin (surgery-preliminary); The University Hospital, Cincinnati
Benjamin Davis (medicine-clinical scientist)
Craig Gurney (medicine-pediatrics)
Oregon: Legacy Emanuel/Good Samaritan, Portland
Thomas Rinehart (transitional); Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland
Carey Allen (family medicine)
Heidi Allen (family medicine)
Katherine Iossi (internal medicine)
Thomas Rinehart (anesthesiology)
Pennsylvania: Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh
Rachel Berger (radiology diagnostic); Hershey Medical Center/Penn State, Hershey
Megan Groff (surgery-preliminary); Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Ameya Nayate (radiology-diagnostic/research); University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh
Amanda Little (pediatrics)
Rebecca Mueller (pediatrics)
Christopher Streib (neurology)
Diane Tran (orthopaedic surgery/research)
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
Sarita Dave (ophthalmology)
Texas: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Timothy Moss (medical genetics)
Derek Zhorne (pediatrics)
Leah Zhorne (child neurology and pediatrics-preliminary)
Utah: University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals, Salt Lake City
Benjamin Lewis (psychiatry)
Bethany Lewis (medicine-preliminary and dermatology); Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Provo
Stephen Kirk (family medicine)
Vermont: University of Vermont Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington
Andria Jones (medicine-preliminary and radiology diagnostic)
Aaron Klein (pathology)
Virginia: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Enid Boeding (pathology)
Ronald Boeding (family medicine)
Jennifer King (medicine-primary care)
Washington: Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma
Samuel Peik (transitional and preventive medicine)
Wisconsin: Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, La Crosse
Sarita Dave (transitional); La Crosse-Mayo Family Medicine, La Crosse
Benjamin Hicks (family medicine); Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Sean Sayre (emergency medicine); St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee
Erik Alexander (transitional); University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison
Yashaar Chaichian (internal medicine)

If you’d like to welcome–or simply congratulate–our newest alumni who are relocating to your community for their residencies, the Medicine Alumni Society can put you in touch. Contact us at medicine-alumni@uiowa.edu or (877) MED-IOWA.