Volunteer Profile: Tim Shea, M.S.

by Sean Parrish
SDN Staff Writer

SDN contributor Tim Shea (Therapist4Chnge) is currently in his fourth year of a PsyD in Clinical Psychology and his second year of a MS in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Tim received a BA in Psychology from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MS in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University. When not dividing his time between his studies, providing mentoring to the SDN community or indulging in his love of piano and photography, Tim also hosts a website - Struggling With Food (www.strugglingwithfood.com) - that provides information about eating disorders.

In a recent interview, Tim spoke about his life, the challenges of clinical psychology, and the need for education about eating disorders. Read more »

Volunteer Profile: Quinn Holzheimer, D.O.

Quinn Holzheimer, D.O,By Juliet Farmer
Staff Writer

Quinn Holzheimer, D.O., is a 30-year-old attending physician at Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program (Sonul Mehta, class of 2007), as well as a moderator on the Emergency Medicine forums.

Holzheimer grew up in the D.C. suburbs of Prince George’s County, Maryland, before attending James Madison University, where he graduated in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in health science and a minor in biology, public health, and pre-med.

From there, he went to Nova Southeastern University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in 1999. Read more »

Volunteer Profile: Roxie Twedt

By Juliet Farmer 

Roxie Twedt, SDN user name oxeye, is set to join the ranks of medical students at the University of Nevada School of Medicine come fall 2007. In the meantime, the San Francisco Bay Area native, who spent three years early on living in Tokyo, Japan, is helping the Student Doctor Network as the Assistant Mentor Coordinator, a moderator position in the Mentor Forum.

“I supervise the Promotion and Recruitment Assistants in the Mentoring Forum, and manage the mentors in the forum,” she explains of her role. “I maintain several tables of contents in the forum to make the threads easier for students to navigate and also cut down on some of the repetitive questions that mentors receive.”

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Volunteer Profile: QofQuimica

QofQuimica is currently a second-year allopathic medical student. After college, she went to graduate school and earned her M.S. in medicinal chemistry. She then worked as a lab tech and in a doctor’s office before returning to school to earn her PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry.

In August 2004, Q took the MCAT and scored a 43S. She began giving MCAT advice on SDN when she joined as a member in October 2004. Q joined the SDN staff in June 2005 as an advisor for the MCAT Study Questions subforum and later became MCAT forum moderator. She now oversees all of the SDN premedical forums. Recently, SDN spoke with Q to get her input on preparing for and taking the MCAT. 

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Doctor Dad: Balancing Medicine and Family

DADDYBy Becky Vickerstaff
Staff Writer

Parenting in today’s world requires juggling many competing interests, and dads in the medical professions have their own unique challenges. First there is the reality of the educational investment; studying, rotation, and other complementary activities take up lots of time. After school, there are internships, residencies, fellowships, and of course, being on call. How does Dr. Dad get it all done?

One SDN member, who we’ll call “New Intern,” has just completed medical school and is beginning residency. He has two sons, now 4 and 1, and he and his wife have had to reach out to other medical students to help balance things. “We had no family in the area where I attended school. Occasionally we had some of my school friends baby sit so we could see a movie once or twice. But otherwise, it was just us – with my wife doing the majority of the child care.”

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Member Profile: Dave Swafford

Dave SwaffordDave Swafford, a second year medical student at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City, attended the University of Kansas for his undergrad degree, where he studied biology.

Although he had an interest in the biomedical field, Swafford says he was not sure whether to go into research. After working for the KUMC Department of Pharmacology, Swafford says he realized he didn’t like it quite as much as clinical work (he was also volunteering at an emergency room doing clinical work at the time).

Currently, Swafford has his eye on an emergency room specialty. Read more »

Volunteer Profile: Kimberli S. Cox, M.D.

Kimberli Cox, MDThere was a time when Kimberli S. Cox, M.D., never thought she’d be volunteering for the Student Doctor Network. Then again, there was a time she never thought she’d be a doctor.

After being dissuaded (for such reasons as not having any family in medicine and not being extremely wealthy) by her high school counselor when the discussion of medical school came up, Cox instead pursued what she figured was as close as she’d ever get, a degree in psychology.

Then, while Cox was in graduate school studying psychology, she lived with residents, and everything changed. Read more »

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