Iu Ball Memorial Family Medicine Residency Mailing List
Our current group of residents comes from medical schools located across the United States.
Learn more about our residents by reading their consummate bios below.
Starting time-Year Residents
Carly Chapman, DO
Thank you! My name is Carly Chapman. I am from Zionsville, IN, I am one of 8 kids, and I love osteopathic manipulative medicine. Hither is a summary of my life and why I got into medicine in 6 words ... cancer miracle, life transformed, healing others.
I studied Medicinal Chemical science for my undergraduate degree at Palm Beach Atlantic University (in West Palm Beach, FL) and abroad at Oxford University for a semester. It was here where I constitute my honey of libraries and great coffee shops! Although I loved beingness abroad, in that location'south nothing quite like Indiana hospitality, so I moved back to Indiana to attend medical school at Marian University COM and enjoyed every second of my education. Truth be told, information technology was difficult to know what I wanted from a residency until I started interviewing and seeing what each location had to offer. I knew instantly IU Health Brawl Memorial would be a great fit for me for ii reasons: quality leadership and broad-spectrum training in a more than rural setting. I felt genuinely welcomed by every faculty, resident, and staff member I met with throughout the process and was confident I would be trained well equally a family medicine physician.
Exterior of medicine I enjoy spending fourth dimension with my family (particularly my nephew, who'due south 2) and friends, swimming, reading at coffee shops, finding hidden gardens, and singing anywhere and anytime (automobile, church, parking lot, karaoke). Looking forward to meeting yous!
First-Year Residents
Carly Chapman, DO
Thank you! My name is Carly Chapman. I am from Zionsville, IN, I am one of 8 kids, and I dearest osteopathic manipulative medicine. Here is a summary of my life and why I got into medicine in 6 words ... cancer phenomenon, life transformed, healing others.
I studied Medicinal Chemistry for my undergraduate caste at Palm Beach Atlantic University (in West Palm Beach, FL) and abroad at Oxford Academy for a semester. It was here where I found my love of libraries and great java shops! Although I loved existence away, in that location'south nothing quite like Indiana hospitality, and so I moved dorsum to Indiana to attend medical schoolhouse at Marian University COM and enjoyed every second of my education. Truth be told, information technology was hard to know what I wanted from a residency until I started interviewing and seeing what each location had to offering. I knew instantly IU Health Ball Memorial would be a great fit for me for two reasons: quality leadership and broad-spectrum preparation in a more rural setting. I felt genuinely welcomed by every faculty, resident, and staff fellow member I met with throughout the process and was confident I would be trained well as a family medicine physician.
Outside of medicine I enjoy spending time with my family (especially my nephew, who'due south two) and friends, swimming, reading at java shops, finding hidden gardens, and singing anywhere and anytime (car, church building, parking lot, karaoke). Looking forrad to meeting yous!
Blake Ataxia, DO
Hullo! My name is Blake Clutter. I grew upwardly just West of Muncie most Lebanon, IN in a modest town. I attended Bradley University in Peoria, IL for my undergraduate caste in Biochemistry. I took a year off after school to work in the medical field as a scribe in the Lafayette expanse. Subsequently realizing that I wanted to exist more involved in patient intendance, I enrolled in an EMT grooming course. I loved actively helping my customs and the fast pace and excitement that comes with working on a 911 ambulance service. I started my undergraduate degree heavily considering medicine as a career but getting hands on experience in the field solidified my decision to apply to medical school. I was able to stay in Indiana and complete my medical caste at Marian Academy in Indianapolis.
Brittney Dudley, MD
Hullo! My name is Brittney Dudley. My path to Brawl started very traditional as I grew up in Oxford, OH, then stuck shut to home, attending University of Notre Matriarch (undergrad) and University of Kentucky (medical school) And then, information technology was not-traditional, as I completed a surgical internship in order to complete five years of military service as a chief care doctor for USAF pilots. My military assignments were to a tanker base in New Hampshire and an F-16 base in Misawa, Nihon. Post-obit my armed services service, I moved back to my hometown to work at an opioid apply disorder treatment center prescribing both methadone and Suboxone.
Kenzi Holcomb, Practice
Hello! My proper noun is Kenzl Holcomb and I grew up in Winchester Indiana, a pocket-size rule town just 30 minutes from Muncie. I attended Earlham college in Richmond Indiana where I received a bachelors In bio chemical science. After receiving my bachelors I took some time off and married my high school sweetheart, Dylan, who is now a nurse practitioner working at Brawl hospital. I then went on to receive my doctoral degree from Marian University Higher of Osteopathic Medicine. Prior to inbound medical school I already knew my career path as my parents are both Family practice providers. My programme is to render back to Winchester with my husband and serve our community. Outside of medicine I enjoy spending time with my family and planning holiday activities. I grew upwards with nine siblings and now have xviii nieces and nephews. But prior to starting residency my husband and I had our beautiful girl named Blakely. Lastly, I cannot forget to mention Nala, our Weimaraner, who is very spoiled and was not excited when nosotros brought habitation the new baby.
Elizabeth Edwards, Doc
Hello, my proper name is Elizabeth! I grew upwardly in Olathe, Kansas after my family unit moved from Pennsylvania when I was a child. Later high school, I studied Biology and Psychology at Washburn Academy in Topeka, KS. In my higher years, I developed a passion for international service and a want to serve in the mission field in the future. After a few years of working, I began medical school at the Academy of Kansas Schoolhouse of Medicine. I completed my offset two years of training in Kansas City, then moved to Wichita, KS for my last 2 years. Throughout medical school, I came to realize that Family Medicine was the best opportunity for me to be able to serve, both at dwelling and abroad. I loved the full scope of exercise that allows a family medicine doctor to work with people in all stages of life. I became especially interested in women's health and obstetrics, every bit these areas of focus are often defective in developing areas of the world.
I chose IU Wellness Ball Memorial considering I felt that their program would all-time help set up me for whatever surface area of service I find myself in for the future. I loved the strong sense of community that was conveyed in the interview process, and I was then excited to see that both the leadership and the residents were passionate most serving their community!
Outside of medicine, I love reading and cooking, equally well as video and lath games. My hubby and I are eager to get involved in our new church community in Muncie and continue to discover how we tin can best serve God in the future, whether at home in the states or serving around the world!
Andy Pepper, DO
Hello! My name is Andy Pepper. I am originally from a rural town in Northwest Illinois called Dixon. After studying Biology at Northern Illinois University, I came to Indiana to study medicine at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Indianapolis. I take grown to love the Hoosier state over the terminal several years and I am ecstatic to proceed my medical education here.
During medical schoolhouse, I found that I enjoyed many areas of medicine, but near enjoyed my time spent in family medicine. I appreciate the long-term relationships, diverse patient populations, and the ample opportunity for easily on procedures. I had the opportunity to do several rural rotations which cemented my desire to eventually practice broad scope family medicine in a rural setting. I chose Ball Memorial for the supportive civilisation and considering their delivery to training full spectrum family unit medicine physicians aligned perfectly with my hereafter career goals.
Outside of medicine, you will find me spending fourth dimension outdoors with my wife, Catie, doing things like motorcycle riding, camping, hiking, and shooting sports. At home, nosotros enjoy grilling out and spending time with our cat, Reeses (who is terrified of the outdoors). Nosotros are both excited to join the Ball family!
Elliott Van Allen, Exercise
Hey there! My name is Elliott Van Allen. I am a born and raised Montanan who chose Ball Memorial Family Medicine Residency for its splendid training and the kindness of its residents and faculty. I am and so grateful to exist a member of the Ball team!
I grew up in a minor town in the mountainous northwestern corner of Montana, attended the University of Montana for my undergraduate studies, and Pacific Northwest University for medical school after a yr of advancement piece of work in rural communities in the southwest Montana region. As the result of a lifetime in the State of Montana, I have developed an appreciation for life in small places, and some day hope to practice in a rural or frontier environment.
If yous catch me exterior of piece of work, I will probably be hiking, biking, line-fishing, gardening, or birding with my married woman and best friend. I am excited to explore the countryside, forests, and rivers of Indiana!
Mackenzie Wahl, Md
Hey there! My name is Mackenzie Wahl. I grew up on a modest family subcontract most Riley, Kansas. I attended Kansas Land Academy, where I earned a B.A. in Biochemistry. I and so completed medical school at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.
Second-Year Residents
Garin Bergeson, Practise
Hi, Indiana! My name is Garin Bergeson, hailing from Washington where I was raised in the rural fields of Moses Lake. I attended Brigham Young University in Utah and completed my undergraduate in Athletic Preparation. Working for one yr gave me fourth dimension to sharpen my sports medicine skills before moving due east to complete my medical degree at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Medicine opened a world of knowledge for me. I watched physicians assist their patients in making changes, working together to create a plan that would help them become their best selves. It was amazing to me! The wide breadth of knowledge I want combined with the foundation of trust-centered relationships comes together in family unit medicine. IUH Brawl Memorial Family Medicine Residency excels in all of these areas, living their mission of pity and excellence while training their residents in a broad scope of practise. Their family-oriented focus drew me in, and I am ecstatic to be joining such a great team.
I've found that my interests lay across the lath, including but not express to preventative medicine, full-spectrum family medicine, sports medicine, and fifty-fifty obstetrics.
I take many other passions outside of medicine. First and foremost, my family, a beautiful married woman and mother of two children, all who have supported me during this journey! Other hobbies include outdoor enthusiast of hiking, running, climbing, gardening, and getting my hands dirty with yard work. I beloved playing all sports, specially soccer, reading a good book, cooking for others, and sitting downwards to conversation well-nigh life.
Second-Twelvemonth Residents
Garin Bergeson, DO
How-do-you-do, Indiana! My name is Garin Bergeson, hailing from Washington where I was raised in the rural fields of Moses Lake. I attended Brigham Immature Academy in Utah and completed my undergraduate in Athletic Training. Working for i twelvemonth gave me time to sharpen my sports medicine skills before moving east to complete my medical caste at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Medicine opened a world of knowledge for me. I watched physicians assist their patients in making changes, working together to create a plan that would help them get their best selves. It was astonishing to me! The wide breadth of knowledge I desire combined with the foundation of trust-centered relationships comes together in family medicine. IUH Ball Memorial Family Medicine Residency excels in all of these areas, living their mission of pity and excellence while training their residents in a broad scope of practice. Their family-oriented focus drew me in, and I am ecstatic to be joining such a cracking team.
I've found that my interests lay across the board, including but non limited to preventative medicine, full-spectrum family unit medicine, sports medicine, and fifty-fifty obstetrics.
I have many other passions outside of medicine. First and foremost, my family, a beautiful wife and mother of two children, all who have supported me during this journey! Other hobbies include outdoor enthusiast of hiking, running, climbing, gardening, and getting my hands dirty with yard piece of work. I beloved playing all sports, especially soccer, reading a skillful book, cooking for others, and sitting down to conversation nigh life.
Chris Burns, Doc
Hello! My name is Chris and I grew upward along the beautiful Wasatch Mountains in Springville, Utah. After loftier schoolhouse and a two-year church building mission to Norway, I studied Public Health at Brigham Young University and married my married woman, Stephanie. At BYU I became fascinated with homo physiology and discovered a passion for the social determinants of health.
It became clear that a career in medicine would empower me to pursue both my scientific and public health interests. After being accustomed to Indiana University Schoolhouse of Medicine, I was assigned to the school'due south Muncie campus, where I completed the majority of my medical school experience. My family unit and I count this as one of the greatest things that has happened in our lives. We quickly savage in love with Indiana'southward fields, forests, and the friends we made in Muncie. Beingness in Muncie for my entire medical education afforded me multiple opportunities to interact with and piece of work alongside IUH Ball Memorial Family unit Medicine residents and faculty. I felt at home! The friendliness and collegiality of the residents, faculty, and staff and the program's shut-knit, family-like civilisation are truly exceptional. There is a love for teaching, learning and practicing medicine that makes for a positive, supportive surround.
Coupled with this culture and surround, Ball Memorial's total-spectrum breadth of training—especially an excellent outpatient dispensary feel, strong procedural preparation, and many obstetrics and global wellness opportunities—brand me very excited to railroad train at Ball! My clinical interests include social determinants of wellness, lifestyle medicine, habit medicine and patient education.
Outside medicine, I beloved to run, hike, cycle, mountain cycle, snowboard, lookout movies with Stephanie and wrestle our four full-of-life kids Ryan, Paisley, Corinne, and Lochland.
Tate Church, Doc
Hello! My name is Tate Church. I was born just upwards I-69 in Fort Wayne, IN. I was raised in Oakwood, Ohio, a small rural town in Northwest Ohio. I am a land male child at heart every bit I spent many hours on my grandpa's cattle subcontract and my family unit's Boer goat farm. I attended Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and received a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering. Subsequently graduating from Wright State, I was able to stay in Dayton and complete medical school at Wright Land. Throughout medical school, I enjoyed many aspects of medicine which contributed to me choosing family medicine.
I take interests in rural medicine, preventative medicine, and outpatient procedures. I am excited to be role of the Ball Memorial family. During my 4th year of medical school, I enjoyed getting to know the people who make up the Brawl Memorial Family Medicine Residency. The family atmosphere combined with the fantabulous training offered made me excited to be a role of this program. I am looking forward to existence a office of the Muncie customs and to serve the people of Muncie.
Outside of medicine, I enjoy spending time with my wife, Taylor, our daughter, Eva and our two lovely dogs. We enjoy exploring the outdoors, running, biking, playing lath games, puzzling, and recently baking. We love keeping up on sports including college football, the Detroit Tigers, and the Detroit Lions.
Sabrina Cole, MD
Hi! My proper name is Sabrina Cole. I was born in Southwest Michigan and attended higher there. After receiving my Bachelor's, I traveled to New Orleans, LA to nourish Tulane University School of Medicine. I too studied at their Schoolhouse of Public Health & Tropical Medicine while there and received my Master'south of Public Health.
Subsequently medical school, I worked for five years with the The states Navy equally a General Medical Officer in Jacksonville, FL and Chicago, IL. When non at work, I enjoy spending time with my husband, stepson, and ii cats. Nosotros relish reading, gardening and blistering. Nosotros are excited to come to Muncie and to bring together the Ball Memorial family.
Tobin Eicher, MD
Greetings! My proper name is Tobin Eicher, and I am from Berne, Indiana. Berne, a small-scale, friendly Swiss customs, is just an hour northeast of Muncie. Subsequently loftier schoolhouse, I studied biological science at Bluffton Academy, a Mennonite establishment in rural western Ohio. Because of my faith, I have a stiff desire to serve others. This has been one of my chief draws to family unit medicine: non just am I doing something that I love (talking with people all day), simply I have the opportunity to serve and help others along the fashion.
While at Bluffton Academy, I met my married woman. We married afterwards higher and lived in Ohio for a year. During that time, I worked as an EMT. We moved to Muncie in the summertime of 2016, and I began medical school through Indiana University that fall. Spending all four years of medical school at IU'due south Muncie campus gave us the opportunity to become to know Muncie and its medical community quite well. We couldn't exist more excited to stay hither another three years.
When I'm non in the hospital or in clinic, y'all'll observe me running around with our toddler at abode, walking our miniature schnauzer Enzo, playing lath games with friends, or competitively driving my Mustang with the Sports Car Club of America. I take also recently taken to baking, so you'll oft find our house smelling of apple dumplings!
As for my little family, we feel blessed to be here in Muncie. I am excited near spending the adjacent three years with Brawl's Family unit Medicine Residency!
Vassi Hinova, MD
Hello! My name is Vassi Hinova! I was born in the small Eastern European country of Bulgaria. At the age of five, my family unit and I moved to Indiana and prepare up roots. My younger sister and I loved growing upwardly in Fishers, Indiana. While my sister has since left for sunny California, I go on to bask my days in this amazing Hoosier state!
I did my undergraduate degree at Purdue University in Sociology. I felt to treat people I had to first learn nigh people and their obstacles. After that, I went to Indiana University Schoolhouse of Medicine in Indianapolis. While in medical school, I establish myself falling in love with every rotation that I was on and realized Family Medicine was the perfect choice.
I chose IU Ball Memorial because I loved the sense of community. I felt inspired by the enthusiasm and kindness of the faculty and residents at that place. Immediately, I knew that was the identify for me. I bask all aspects of medicine, but am specifically passionate most women's wellness, habit, diabetes management, and rural medicine.
Outside of medicine, I enjoy painting, blistering bread, taking intendance of my orchids, trying to meliorate my French (trying beingness the operative word), and reading mystery novels. I also enjoy spending fourth dimension in nature while biking or jogging.
Chelsea Kolodziej, Practise
Hi! My name is Chelsea Kolodziej, and I am from South Bend, IN. Every bit a Ball Land alum, I am thrilled to exist coming dorsum to the Muncie community. At Ball State, I majored in Psychology, French, and Spanish. I took my first job after graduation at a mental health facility where I discovered my passion for medicine and working with underserved populations.
I attended medical school at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Greensburg, PA. While in medical school, I had the opportunity to live in Mirebalais, Republic of haiti, where I studied narrative medicine and social determinants of health. While at that place, I gained an appreciation for the value of using an integrative approach to patient care. My interests in medicine include preventative medicine, addiction medicine, and behavioral health. I chose IU Health Ball because I actually felt a connectedness with the people and the curriculum allows the flexibility to incorporate my interests into my training.
When I am not at work, I spend my time quilting and reading sci-fi. I alive in Fishers, IN with my boyfriend who is a family medicine resident in Indianapolis and our two cats. I am always trying to larn something new. Most recently, that includes learning to speak Polish and playing the banjo.
Rachel Olsen, Practise
Greetings! My name is Rachel Olsen, and I thrilled to have been blessed to bring together the Brawl Family Medicine Residency Program! I consider myself a well-aged Midwesterner having grown up in the extreme North-East corner of Illinois (I was practically in Wisconsin!) and now having also lived in Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!), and at present Indiana. Spending my babyhood smack dab in-between Chicago and Milwaukee allowed me to appreciate the smaller boondocks I lived in, only still offer many opportunities to gustatory modality the big city life. Muncie is turning out to be amazingly comfortable and affords all the necessities, plenty of extras, and is generally a keen identify to land!
I came to medicine by a more complex route having started out on a path to Academia and Research. I earned my BA in Biological sciences from Monmouth College in Illinois, dwelling house of the Fighting Scots and an incredible display of Scottish influences including our Bagpipe Corp. After graduation I intended to pursue and earn a PhD in some realm of Biological Sciences and started out in Bookish Research. After wandering through labs working in Genetic Toxicology and Biochemistry, I ended upward finding a stiff interest in Microbiology and Immunology. I earned my M.A. in Microbiology from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Dec of 2012 and spent a yr working in Reproductive Endocrinology and Physiology at KUMed. I soon after started teaching "total-time" every bit an Adjunct Professor at a small junior college in Kansas, where I taught through medical schoolhouse and I even so teach today! I had developed a strong itch during my master's work to motility towards a career that provided the opportunity to use the wealth of scientific knowledge I gained over the years to make a more than firsthand and direct impact on patients' lives. All my inquiry had been in areas of health sciences with the goal of discovering new therapies and treatment modalities to help develop solutions for patients suffering from a spectrum of illnesses. Ultimately, the leaner weren't personable plenty only growing in their dishes and I resorted to buying giant stuffed microbes to provide a semblance of social appointment with my "bugs". I felt there was simply too much distance betwixt the piece of work being done and the potential of truly making an touch on for patients. The exposure to medical schoolhouse curriculum and training I witness while completing my master's lead me in the direction of Medicine to bridge that gap and I made the decision to reroute my future. I'm so glad I did!
My clinical interests during medical school at Kansas City University were broad. I found nearly every topic to be of great involvement. I learned I especially loved Obstetric care and Women'south Wellness and predilection for procedures and surgery. Of all the specialties though, Family Medicine quickly stood out as the perfect friction match for me by offer the chance to habitation in on those interests while still allowing me to abound as a practitioner in the many other facets encompassed nether the umbrella that is Family unit Medicine. The residency program at IU Health Ball Memorial stole the show during my interview flavor and I had no doubts this was where I would receive preparation of the highest quality from a group of the about caring, compassionate, and gifted physicians one could hope to accept equally mentors. My hope is to master equally many areas and techniques as possible and to especially grow in the ability to manage OB patients including performing C-sections. I would beloved to somewhen do in a more rural environment where the need for total-spectrum family medicine is so corking and where the ability to provide higher risk OB care and services would assist so many who may not exist able to travel significant distances to obtain the care they deserve.
Aside from my obsessions with science and medicine, I do accept many other outside interests. My mother was an artist and I picked up a love of sketching, painting, crafting, ceramics, etc. from her and continue to love pursuing those when I have the time. I besides sing and play flute and piccolo all generally with church as my husband of 10 years is a Church Music Director. We have ii daughters, Temperance Rós (8) and Céilí Grace (half-dozen), and 2 fur babies Roselyn our Chiweenie and Melody our Miniature Schnauzer. Home is filled with music everyday with someone either on an instrument or singing just because!
Alex Thompson, DO
Hello! My name is Alex Thompson. I am a Hoosier native having been born and raised in southern Indiana and am glad to exist back in my home state after iv years in Colorado for medical schoolhouse. I am so excited to become to be a office of the Brawl Memorial family and look frontward to the next three years of residency training!
I knew early on that I wanted to work in primary care and practice in a rural setting. Subsequently completing my B.S. in biology at IU Bloomington, I took a year to gain experience in the medical field earlier attention medical school in Parker, CO. During medical schoolhouse, I vicious in honey with all the different aspects of medicine, further enforcing the idea that family medicine was the specialty for me. One of the things that stood out to me most Ball Memorial Family unit Medicine Residency was the focus on full spectrum family medicine and additional training in procedures. I plan on returning to southern Indiana at the finish of my grooming and practicing full spectrum family unit medicine in my hometown.
In my free time I enjoy spending fourth dimension with my family and friends and my rescue puppy, Indy. I am always looking for something new to build in my family unit's woodshop.
Rachel Townsley, Doc
Hullo! I grew upwardly on a dairy farm in western Ohio, and my favorite place to be is all the same out in the pasture with the cows. I am a double Buckeye, attending The Ohio State University for higher and medical school. My B.South. is in Food Science and Technology with a small in Dairy Scientific discipline. For many years I planned to be a veterinarian, simply halfway through college decided my talents were better suited for use in homo medicine.
I program to practice broad-scope family medicine in a high need rural surface area, and have item involvement in prenatal care, behavioral health and habit. I was fatigued to the program in Muncie because of the focus on full-spectrum care and the very warm welcome I received from staff, kinesthesia and residents.
Outside of medicine I savour working on my family'south cattle farm, trapshooting, walking with my dog, cooking, baking, grilling (anything to do with food), reading, and singing in church.
Third-Year Residents
Hannah Huff, Practise
Hello! My proper name is Hannah Huff. I am an Indiana native though I've lived on both ends of the land—in Washington state and North Carolina. I am excited to be dorsum in familiar territory for my residency preparation.
I knew since high schoolhouse that I wanted to practise medicine. The field combined my dear of science and my want to serve people around me. Throughout loftier schoolhouse and college my eye for the underserved has grown. I hope to practice full spectrum family medicine for people with limited access to healthcare. The broad scope training model with an emphasis on OB drew me to the program at IU Health Ball Memorial. I knew this program would prepare me well to serve in places that may have limited resource.
Outside of medicine I enjoy spending time with my family (especially my vii nieces and nephews!), gardening, hiking, snowfall skiing and biking. I dear the outdoors but am also a fan of staying in and watching Gilmore Girls or Phone call the Midwife. I dearest DIY projects and accept refurbished most of the furniture in my house. My faith is very important to me, and I love being involved in church and serving the community.
Third-Year Residents
Hannah Huff, Do
Howdy! My proper noun is Hannah Huff. I am an Indiana native though I've lived on both ends of the country—in Washington state and Northward Carolina. I am excited to be back in familiar territory for my residency training.
I knew since loftier school that I wanted to practice medicine. The field combined my love of science and my want to serve people around me. Throughout high school and college my center for the underserved has grown. I hope to practice total spectrum family medicine for people with limited access to healthcare. The wide telescopic training model with an accent on OB drew me to the program at IU Health Ball Memorial. I knew this plan would prepare me well to serve in places that may have limited resources.
Outside of medicine I savour spending fourth dimension with my family unit (especially my 7 nieces and nephews!), gardening, hiking, snow skiing and biking. I honey the outdoors but am also a fan of staying in and watching Gilmore Girls or Phone call the Midwife. I love DIY projects and take refurbished near of the furniture in my house. My faith is very important to me, and I love being involved in church and serving the community.
Adam Davis, DO
Hello! My name is Adam Davis, and I'grand a Hoosier born and raised in the rural boondocks of Argos, Ind. Growing upwards in a rural boondocks with my parents and my younger brother gave me an appreciation for the tight-knit community that small towns can offering and opened my optics to the need for primary care in rural Indiana. I then moved to Indianapolis for my Bachelor of Science at Butler University (Go Dawgs!). Through various service organizations at Butler, I quickly barbarous in dear with the Indianapolis customs. I then received my Master of Scientific discipline at IUPUI and graduated medical school from Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
During my medical schoolhouse journey, I found that nearly every specialty interested me, and I felt most at habitation when rotating with family medicine physicians. I am so incredibly excited to join the IU Wellness Ball Memorial family considering it will let me to proceeds the full-spectrum family medicine training needed to practice medicine in rural Indiana. All of my interactions with the IU Health Ball faculty and residents during interview season gave me the sense of family and camaraderie that I desired. I knew I couldn't ask for a improve identify to train. My medical interests include obstetrics, pediatrics, and outpatient procedures.
In my free time, I take enjoyed exploring Indianapolis with my friends. Other interests include traveling, cooking, watching Butler basketball, playing board games and card games with family and friends, and spending fourth dimension with my Corgi, Barry Allen "The Flash."
Cooper Feild, MD
Hello there! My name is Cooper Feild. I'm a Mountain Due west native excited to be surrounded by the beautiful dark-green fields and friendly people of Indiana. I grew up on a family ranch at the base of operations of the Uinta mountains in tiny Peoa, Utah. Missionary service took me to Texas. After that I finished my degree in Diet at Southern Utah University, where I was also a Rural Health Scholar and volunteered for two of my favorite non-profits, Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership and Camp Kesem. I got my MD at the University of Utah, where I also helped lead the Utah Rural Outreach Plan, a program dedicated to encouraging rural students to enter the health professions. I was likewise fortunate to get trained early on in wilderness medicine, and then traveled all over the world didactics wilderness medicine courses in the Alps, Tetons, and Wasatch likewise as Moab, Utah and Zion National Park.
I am passionate about family medicine and rural healthcare. I was drawn to IU Health Ball Memorial by the talented and friendly faculty and residents. I chose to train here considering I was convinced of their commitment to full spectrum family medicine. My wife and I instantly roughshod in beloved with Indiana and can't await to explore. Our commencement goals outside of medicine include successfully growing a garden (now that we no longer live in the desert) and visiting the Mammoth Caves and the Groovy Smoky Mountains.
Allison Goetz, DO
Hi! My proper name is Allison Goetz, and I am a born and raised Hoosier. I'm from a small town in "The Region" called DeMotte, Ind. In 2015, I graduated from Marian University with an undergraduate degree in biology besides as Spanish and history minors. I loved my alma mater and then much that I stuck around for four more years and completed my medical degree at Marian Academy College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Equally a medical professional, I am blessed with the opportunity to come across patients in a identify of vulnerability and hear their stories. I believe that the best way to intendance for a patient is to meet them where they are and begin to understand their perspective; how what they are going through affects them and who they are as a person. As one of my professors said: "Patients don't intendance how much y'all know until they know how much yous care."
This emphasis on connection and building community is what draws me to become a family unit medico. Furthermore, from the moment I walked into IU Health Ball Memorial, I knew they shared these same values. I am beyond excited to showtime building community with the people of Muncie.
Outside of medicine, I savour hiking, writing for a web log, playing board games, reading comic books, exploring local coffee shops, and spending time with my nieces and nephews.
Warren Lawless, DO
Although I am originally from Columbus, Ohio, I retrieve spending the concluding 15 years in the state of Indiana means I accept to give up the "Buckeye" title! My family unit moved to Indianapolis in 2004 and has remained in the Castleton surface area since then. I completed my undergraduate caste at Indiana University - Bloomington in 2015 where I majored in Human being Biology and minored in Religious Studies.
My involvement in medicine was cultivated at a young historic period by my begetter, an RN who worked in ER and penitentiary settings. Later on shadowing physicians at the end of loftier school, my passion for medicine was set. What drew me to medicine was not merely the breadth of medical cognition, but the people—the relationships built over decades and the intimate conversations with patients. What an incredible honor it is for physicians to witness the stories of those they care for.
I went to medical school twenty minutes from my Castleton habitation at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine. During my time in medical school, I developed an involvement in global health while serving on a mission trip in Haiti subsequently my first twelvemonth. Additionally, through various electives I constitute interests in both addiction medicine and procedures during my 4th year. By the end of my fourth dimension in medical schoolhouse, I knew all of my interests could just exist satisfied by pursuing a career in family unit medicine.
I was drawn to the IU Wellness Ball Memorial Family Medicine Plan considering I knew that I would receive a total-spectrum teaching. Their curriculum checked off everything on my list: opportunities for global health, copious procedures, and addiction training. This programme is proven to produce quality physicians and leaders, including Dr. William Cooke, MD. Voted the AAFP's Family Dr. of the Twelvemonth for 2019, he is an alumnus of the program, and a physician who I had the pleasance of rotating with during my quaternary twelvemonth of medical school. In improver to all these things, the residents, staff, and faculty deed as a strong family and back up organization for ane another. I could not be more excited to spend my next three years at this wonderful plan.
Outside of medicine, I bask running, hiking, hammocking, reading, binging documentaries and comedies, playing video games and board games, and enjoying conversation over a beer.
Kristen Steiner, Physician
Hullo! My proper noun is Kristen Steiner, and I am so excited to be a role of the Brawl Family Medicine Residency Program! I grew up on a pocket-size farm virtually Berne, Indiana, merely an hour abroad from Muncie. My parents taught my 2 sisters and me the values of difficult work, perseverance, and appreciation for our close-knit community. Compared to my hometown, Muncie is the large city! After high school, I headed north to attend Goshen College where I received a B.A. in Biochemistry.
Following my undergraduate studies, I spent fourth dimension with my extended family unit in Switzerland while completing an internship in a infirmary, worked on the family farm, and worked at an optometrist office before attending medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine. I spent all four years at the Muncie campus and am feeling more and more than at domicile in this community.
During medical school, I struggled to decide which surface area of medicine I should become into—I enjoyed every rotation, but realized the aspect I appreciated about was edifice relationships with patients of all ages. Naturally, family medicine was a great fit. I am passionate about preventative medicine and education while dealing with the challenges that living in a rural customs may provide.
Medicine is definitely a passion of mine, but other things I enjoy are traveling and gardening. My friends and family continue to be a colonnade in my life, and I jump at the run a risk to spend fourth dimension with them. You might detect me running around Muncie with my trusty canine companion, Chloe!
Dylan Torgerson, Doctor
Hello! My name is Dylan Torgerson, and I am from the small farming community of Kindred, North Dakota. I have spent all of my life in North Dakota. I went to the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to get my undergraduate B.S. degree in biology. I went to medical school there as well right after graduating from undergrad.
E'er since high school I take wanted to be a doc, and as shortly as I got to medical school I knew I wanted to be a family unit physician. What attracts me to family medicine is the wide scope of exercise and developing long lasting relationships with patients and their families. Being able to exercise in diverse settings with so many different patients is extremely rewarding. Ultimately I plan to return to North Dakota and practice in a rural setting in my home country as a full spectrum family medico.
I am so excited to exist a function of the IU Health Ball Memorial family medicine programme and believe the training I get will perfectly match up with my career goals! Besides medicine, I take many indoor and outdoor hobbies. I love to play video games, listen to music, and rampage watch Tv serial when I want to relax at home. I also enjoy hiking, kayaking, paddle boarding, and shooting sports on nice days and when I want to get outside.
Jason Wallentine, Physician
How-do-you-do Muncie Indiana! My name is Jason Wallentine, and I came from Boise, Idaho to the Midwest in search of great medical training for a future in rural medicine, and the bonus of raising our growing family unit in the fun and friendly community of Muncie.
I received my B.Due south. in practice physiology from Boise Land University and my medical caste from the University of Washington in Seattle. As a Targeted Rural and Underserved Track (TRUST) student with the University of Washington, my medical pedagogy has focused on total-spectrum family unit medicine: a career path I hope to go on through my grooming at Ball Memorial. I am passionate and excited about innovation in healthcare access, and believe that the key to improving access to medicine in rural communities lies in physicians building a wide repertoire of clinical and procedural skill, and look forward to edifice exactly this through grooming at Brawl Memorial!
Also joining the community of Muncie and the residency family unit are my wife, Katie, our daughter, Isabelle, and our two sons, Wyatt and Cash. Nosotros're excited to movement into a community we've come to appreciate during our nationwide search for a program, and to look for a identify to lay down our own roots.
I am an gorging woodworker, sportsman and family unit man, and savor anything that keeps my wife, kids and I out of the business firm whether information technology's water ice fishing, trail biking, the odd carpentry project or occasional road trip. Nosotros're grateful to have matched to Muncie, thrilled at the hazard to connect with people here and excited to become to work.
David Yoder, Doc
Hello anybody! My name is David Yoder, and I grew upwardly Bluffton, Ohio, a small, rural town in the northwest part of the state. I learned to love minor boondocks living every bit a kid and spent a lot of fourth dimension playing sports, attending community and church activities, and working at a local produce farm. After graduating from Bluffton High School, I attended Cedarville University in Ohio for my undergraduate degree, where I studied biology and ran on the rails team.
Afterward graduation from Cedarville, I attended the Wright Land University Boonshoft Schoolhouse of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. During my fourth dimension in medical school, I enjoyed a diversity of rotations and loved building relationships with patients. I was interested in family medicine from the starting time, and my experiences in medical school solidified that involvement. It's difficult to beat the diverseness, challenges, and long-term continuity with patients that family medicine has to offer.
I'one thousand so excited to be at IU Health Brawl Memorial for my residency preparation! I chose Brawl Memorial because of the broad experiences bachelor hither, the amazing kinesthesia and staff, and the friendly residents. My married woman and I love the Midwest and are excited to stay in this expanse of the country for my preparation.
Outside of medicine, I savor spending time with my wife, Anna, who I met back in high schoolhouse! We have a girl, Joy, who, whether or not you know it even so, volition be your new best friend. I love beingness a dad and am fully embracing dad culture (grilling, mowing, falling asleep on the couch, etc.). We are involved in our church and savor spending time with friends. In our spare time, you lot volition discover us exploring the great outdoors, biking, running, having people over, playing lath games, cooking (Anna is a pro), watching Ohio sports teams (go Buckeyes, Reds, and Crew!!) and traveling.
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