Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
I was born 20 minutes from Corpus Christi, but left at an early age for South Carolina, and did not return to the area until my residency interview here at CHRISTUS Spohn. Now I live on the island with my lovely wife Carissa and our Puli-dog "Jolly Mon".
I grew up the second of 5 rowdy brothers in small-town South Carolina. I was an accomplished pole-vaulter and auto restorer in my high school years (restored a handful of old air-cooled VW's). In college for mechanical engineering, I found a second set of brothers on the rugby pitch, and vagabonded around southern and eastern Africa and elsewhere with a few of them. My eyes were opened to the potential of physicians in low-resource environments, and my focus shifted to medicine. I then worked as an engineer and medic in the oilfields of arctic Alaska (the "north coast") before heading to med school in Charleston, SC.
I feel lucky and honored to match here, both because of the location and the program. Being in Texas, a state with meaningful malpractice reform, has benefits that roll down to residents. Corpus Christi has three additional things I needed: Wind and Water and Nice People. I am an active sailor and look forward to trying out the nationally-known kiteboarding and fishing as I get settled in. The program has everything I wanted: our colleagues and attendings are world-class. Our class is tight-knit. We never have to compete for sick patients or procedures. I could not ask for better training or more bountiful opportunity (and motivation) for growth.