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ARIZONA Maricopa Medical Center University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Carmen Flores General Surgery Sandy Tun (P) Internal Medicine Luke Plumier (P) Pathology Bindu Patel (P) Obstetrics & Gynecology University of California Davis Medical Center University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Ranvir Singh (R) Emergency Medicine in Peoria. So the place you go next will have a big impact on your life." Meanwhile in Urbana-Champaign, 25 students matched, and in Rockford, close to 50 students matched in 15 different specialties. Students in Rockford took the podium one by one to announce where they were headed and placed themselves on a map of the U.S., to boisterous cheers from their classmates. (See footage at http://new. livestream.com/accounts/3169958/matchday2013.) "It's the culminating event of their whole [medical school] career," said Kashima in Chicago. "It's wonderful for us to get their family and friends together." And given that the students had been in clinical rotations for much of the last couple of years, she said, "This is almost like a celebratory reunion. A lot of them hadn't seen each other for quite some time." Angel Desai, who matched in internal medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, said she liked knowing that everyone in the Aon Center room was feeling the same roller coaster of emotions. "You think about this moment when you enter medical school," she said. "Now that it's here, it's kind of surreal." Chad Barnes, who matched in general surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, said he was excited to find out where he would be spending the next several years. "It's been a lifelong goal, since age 13," he said. "I'm just excited because I'm a step closer." Added his mother, Renay, "He's been a doctor, in his mind, for years. … He's a very compassionate person. We're thankful he's been able to do what he wanted to do. He's worked really hard." Twins Ali and Ammar Al-Saraf, natives of Baghdad whose parents now live (and practice medicine) in Rockford, will be staying in Illinois—Ali will do his first year at Loyola and then continue in diagnostic radiology at University of Chicago, while Ammar will begin in diagnostic radiology at Rush and then continue at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill. "It's a blessing that both my brother and I were at U. of I.," Ammar Al-Saraf said. "We get along with each other. We push each other." Added Ali Al-Saraf, "It's been a great educational experience. ... It's an amazing feeling. This is an honor to be here. I'm happy for my family and friends." "They've come a long way," Mona Al-Saraf said of their sons. "This is America. You get yourself on the right track, and you make it." She added that "there never seemed to be any question" about her sons' career choice. "We never pressured them. They just followed it naturally." Teresa Marganski, a college alumna and family practitioner at the Carle Physician Group in Danville, Ill., is happy that her son, Jake, will be doing his residency in emergency medicine nearby at Washington University in St. Louis. "It's an unbelievable feeling of pride and accomplishment for him," she said. "The butterflies in my stomach have settled down." Another proud mom, Susan Hughes, said she felt "total uncompromising joy. I could not be happier. … We're so glad Dempsey has gotten to this point, she and her classmates, who have worked so hard." A professor in the department of community health sciences at UIC's School of Public Health, Hughes added, "They deserve what's coming to them. They're a wonderful class. It's been a great thing to see." Richard Keyme Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Woo Baek (P) Anesthesiology Salvatore Catarinicchia (R) Urology CALIFORNIA Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Ronald Roiz Orthopaedic Surgery Ruta Tesfamicael (P) Internal Medicine Children's Hospital Los Angeles Henry David (P) Child Neurology Shari Vasquez Pediatrics Harbor–UCLA Medical Center Asia De La Torre Family Medicine University of California Irvine Medical Center Kimberly Sokol Emergency Medicine Albert Yang Diagnostic Radiology Lefan Zhuang Pathology University of California Los Angeles Medical Center Thomas Caradonna Internal Medicine Tiffany Kim Anesthesiology University of California San Francisco Ivana Brajkovic Pediatrics CONNECTICUT Stamford Hospital/ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Yury Parra Preliminary Surgery Yale-New Haven Hospital Kali Cyrus Psychiatry FLORIDA Jackson Memorial Hospital Luis Grau Orthopaedic Surgery M4 Matches 2013 Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Janai Carr Internal Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center Jennifer Kim Family Medicine Daniel Yang Internal Medicine Juliet Vento Internal Medicine Saba Saadat (P) Obstetrics-Gynecology University of California San Francisco – Fresno Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center Rashell Reynoso Garza Family Medicine University of Miami/ Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Heather Belcher Family Medicine University of Southern California Loma Linda University Rafael Chavez Emergency Medicine Eric Lee (U) Internal Medicine Victor Nekrasov Preliminary Surgery Olive View – UCLA Medical Center Eugene Park Emergency Medicine Manuel Mojica (R) Internal Medicine Riverside County Regional Medical Center Katherine Tuan Internal Medicine Felix Yap Diagnostic Radiology Cam Tu Tran Family Medicine COLORADO Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital Ryan Chao (P) Diagnostic Radiology Angela Baja (R) Obstetrics-Gynecology Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital St. Anthony North Hospital Gautam Shah Internal Medicine Mara Motley Family Medicine Stanford School of Medicine Programs St. Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Dylan Dodd (U) Clinical Pathology Track Katherine Strack (R) Family Medicine Daniel Choi Ophthalmology University of South Florida Alexander Haas (P) Neurological Surgery GEORGIA Emory University School of Medicine Enoch Kotei Internal Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine Hiroko "Hannah" Furo (R) General Surgery ILLINOIS Advocate Christ Medical Center John Paik (R) Emergency Medicine Ericka Sanders Family Medicine continued illinois medicine | 13

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