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Leslie Armstrong, MD

Undergraduate: Oklahoma Baptist University

Medical School: University of Colorado

Most interesting job outside of medicine: flower presser (aka flower smasher)

Favorite chief complaint: "Little people have invaded my house and won't leave"

Favortie cartoon character: Roadrunner

Christopher Davis, MD (Chief Resident)

Hometown: Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Undergraduate: Colby College

Medical School: University of Colorado

If I weren't a doctor I'd be:.A music history professor

Favorite Cartoon Character: Destro

Favorite Cytokine: cachexin

Margaret DiGeronimo, MD

Undergraduate: University of Michigan

Medical School: University of Colorado

Favorite vegetable: as a rule I don't eat anything green

Favorite cartoon character: Brain from Pinky and the Brain

Most interesting job outside of medicine: Personal assistant to the writer of "Jump!" by the Pointer Sisters

Erica Douglass, MD

Hometown: Louisville, CO (7th Generation)

Undergraduate: Pepperdine/ University of Colorado

Medical School: SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine

Favorite Chief Complaint: Anything involving "these 2 guys"

Hobbies: Volleyball and playing in the mountains with my husband and daughter

Shay Krier, MD

Hometown: Boulder, Colorado

Undergraduate: University of Colorado- Boulder

Medical School: University of Colorado

Most interesting job outside of medicine: chairlift painter

Favorite dessert: key lime pie

Most intering place I've visited: Chugach Range, Alaska

John Houghland, MD (Chief Resident)

Hometown: Wenatchee, WA "Apple Capital of the World"

Undergraduate: Whitman College, WA

Medical School: University of Washington

Favorite Chief Complaint: "emotionally detached"

Favorite Cartoon Character: Wolverine (but I'm not an angry person)

Most interesting job outside of medicine: college DJ

Gabrielle Jacquet, MD

Undergraduate: Middlbury College

Medical School: University of Vermont

Favorite chief complaint: Dandruff

Favorite caffeinated beverage: pumpkin spice latte

Interesting tidbit: climbed Mt. Denali

Ryan Paterson, MD (Chief Resident)

Undergraduate: Denison University

Medical School: University of Vermont

Favorite caffeinated beverage: Indian chai

Best book I've read: Affluenza

Most interesting job outside of medicine: Oil field "roust about" worker in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Michael Prendergast, MD

Undergraduate: Bowdoin College

Medical School: UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Favorite caffeinated beverage: half coffee /half hot chocolate

Favorite vegetable: hamburger

Most interesting job outside medicine: Zamboni driver

David Thompson, MD

Hometown: Louisville, KY

Undergraduate: Brown University

Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Yeshiva University

Favorite chief complaint: corn in my child's nose

Favorite vegetable: lemongrass

Hobby: air guitar aficionado

Tracy Pepper, MD

Hometown: Altus, Oklahoma

Undergraduate: University of Tulsa

Medical School: Vanderbilt University

If I weren't a doctor I would be: a test pilot

Favorite cartoon character: Michelangelo (the ninja turtle)...great nun chuck skills

Favorite vegetable: Peppers

Jody Vogel, MD (Chief Resident)

Undergraduate: Saginaw Valley State University

Medical School: Wayne State University

Favorite Cartoon: Rocky and Bullwinkle

Favorite Dessert: chocolate, chocolate, chocolate

Best book I've read: A Team of Rivals

Gary Witt, MD

Hometown: Thousand Oaks, CA

Undergraduate: U. California Berkeley

Medical School: Univeristy of Colorado

Most interesting job outside of medicine: Zamboni driver

Favorite coagulation factor: Protein C (go Bears!)

Hobbies: Intense light saber battles with my son

Michael Zieske, MD

Hometown: Plentywood, Montana

Undergraduate: University of Montana

Medical School: University of Colorado

Favorite vegetable: tomato (don't even get me started on the fruit/veggie debate)

Favorite dessert: anything from the Cheesecake Factory

Favorite chief complaint: "Uuuhhhhhhhh"