Day in the Life Experience
What are you doing for Spring Break 2007?
Consider spending some time with one of your best resources- Pritzker Alumni.
Click here to download the Day In The Life application.
Below you will find a listing of the experiences offered this year by geographic region. Under each alumnus/a offering an experience, there is information about their professional life, lodging and location. The days listed are when the alumnus/a is available to have a student with them at their workplace. If you would like to apply for an experience, but cannot attend all the days listed, please note this on your application and we can work with your schedule.
If you have any questions, please contact alumni staff at alumni@bsd.uchicago.edu or (773) 702-0655.
Chicagoland Experiences
Lampis Anagnostopoulos, SB '57, MD '61
Physician
Northwest Heart Specialists
Arlington Heights, IL
Specialty: Cardiology
Dr. Anagnostopoulos will give the student shadowing him an experience in a cardiology private practice. The student will also meet with other Pritzker alumni at the same office.
March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Student must provide their own lodging.
Diana Chung, MD '92
Partner
Radiation Oncology Consultants
Chicago, IL
Specialty: Radiation Oncology
Dr. Chung will provide her assigned student with experiences in consultation, treatment decision-making, radiation planning, managing side effects and follow up.
March 19, 20, 21, 22
Student must provide their own transportation and lodging.
Fred Jacobs, MD '75
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
Elmhurst, IL
Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Dr. Jacobs plans to give the student shadowing him a taste of both hospital administration and emergency patient care.
March 21 (more days may be available depending on Dr. Jacobs' schedule)
Student must provide their own transportation and lodging.
Carol Olson, PhD '82, MD '86
Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer
Immtech International, Inc.
Vernon Hills, IL
Specialty: Infections Diseases
Dr. Olson's daily activities include managing clinical drug development of DB289. The student will have some short tutorials about the drug development process and discussions with various members of the Immtech team in regulatory affairs; quality assurance; commercial development; licensing and discovery; drug manufacturing and formulation. The student will also learn how chemistry and biology are related to new chemical entities. Students may learn more about clinical activities at www.immtechpharma.com, including clinical trials in African sleeping sickness, Pneumocystis pneumonia and malaria.
March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Student must provide their own lodging and transportation.
Coleman Seskind, AB '55, SB '56, SM '59, MD '59
Physician
Solo Private Practice
Chicago, IL
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Dr. Seskind will provide his assigned student with an experience in internal medicine. The student will see patients and also learn about running a solo practice.
March 19
Student must provide their own lodging and transportation.
Rahmawati Sih, MD '89
Attending Physician
Adventist Midwest Geriatrics Specialists
La Grange, IL
Specialty: Geriatric Medicine
Dr. Sih's practice is community based, clinical geriatric medicine. Practice settings can include hospital rounds, nursing home, assisted living and outpatient clinics. As a geriatrician, she regularly diagnoses and treats various geriatric syndromes, does geriatric assessments and also provides primary care for seniors. The day usually begins around 8 AM and is finished around 2 PM and will involve some local traveling (from hospital to clinical site). The average age of the patients in her practice is 87 years.
March 20, 21, 22
Student must provide their own lodging and transportation.
Jonathan Warren, MD '81
Self employed Physician
Arlington Heights, IL
Specialty: Sleep Medicine
Dr. Warren's office practice includes evaluation and management of patients with various sleep-related complaints and daytime sleepiness. His laboratory practice includes interpretation of diagnostic and therapeutic sleep studies.
March 20, 22
Student must provide their own transportation and lodging.
David H. Whitney, MBA '78, MD '80
Physician
Medical Surgical Dermatology, S.C.
Berwyn, IL
Specialty: Dermatology
This experience is a chance to see an outpatient-based surgical practice in a community setting. Dr. Whitney notes that “we derms cure a lot of cancers!” Some general dermatology and cosmetic work will be mixed in so the student assigned will see the spectrum of work available to this specialty.
March 20, 21, 23
Student must provide their own transportation and lodging.
California Experiences
George Andros, MD '60
Self Employed Private Practice
Burbank, CA
Specialty:Vascular Surgery
The student assigned to Dr. Andros will experience a busy vascular surgery practice - both in the office and in the OR. Additionally, this experience will include accompanying Dr. Andros to the the Diabetic Foot Conference on Thursday and Friday of that week. More information is available at http://www.dfcon.com/.
March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Dr. Andros will host the student in his home and provide transportation to his workplace each day.
Richard Cote, MD '80
Professor
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Specialty: Cancer Pathology
This experience will include three days of observation, including watching a practicing academic pathologist and seeing how a clinical research laboratory is operated.
March 19, 20, 21
Dr. Cote will host the student in his home and provide transportation to his workplace each day. The student will be welcome to stay with Dr. Cote through March 22nd to enjoy some California sunshine.
Martin Fee, MD '88 and Janis Fee, MD (UCH Resident '92)
Infectious Disease Specialist and OB Gyn
Self Employed
Newport Beach, CA
Specialties: Infectious Diseases and OB Gyn
Dr. Martin Fee is in solo private practice as an infectious disease specialist. He spends 80% of his time at a large tertiary community hospital (Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, CA). 20% of his time is spent at his office across the street. The student assigned to the Drs. Fee will have the chance to see how a specialist in private practice operates (both clinical and business aspects). Dr. Janis Fee, will also take the assigned student for one day to see how her OB Gyn practice operates as well.
March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
The Drs. Fee will host the student in their home and provide transportation to their workplace each day.
Sheila Friedlander, AB '75, MD '79
Clinical Professor
Children's Hospital of San Diego/ UCSD Medical Center
San Diego, CA
Specialty: Pediatric Dermatology
The student will shadow a pediatric dermatologist who spends part of her time in the lab and most of her time seeing patients and teaching in an academic environment.
March 19, 20, 21, 22
Dr. Friedlander will host the student in her home and provide transportation to her workplace each day.
Doug Given, PhD '79, MD '80, MBA
Partner
Bay City Capital
San Francisco, CA
Specialty: Venture Capital – Life Sciences
This experience will include a staff meeting, work on a company investments, a possible visit to Stanford or UCSF to prospect for new company formation ideas and discussion of projects being incubated.
March 19, 20
Dr. Given will host the student in his home and provide transportation to his workplace each day. Additionally, Dr. Given will pay for the student's flight to San Francisco.
Lester Jacobson, MD '67
Self Employed
Cardiologist
San Francisco, CA
Specialty: Cardiovascular Disease
The student will accompany Dr. Jacobson to inpatient hospital rounds, and patient office visits.
March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Dr. Jacobson will host the student in his home and provide transportation to his workplace each day.
Norman Leaf, MD '66
Leaf and Rusher Medical Skincare Clinic
Beverly Hills, CA
Specialty: Plastic Surgeon
Dr. Leaf runs his own boutique practice in Beverly Hills practice focusing on cosmetic surgery and non-invasive dermatological treatments. See more online at http://drnormanleaf.com/index.html.
March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
An LA area alumnus/a will host the student in their home. The student may need to provide transportation to Dr. Leaf's clinic each day.
