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Meet Matt Cheney, PhD, DMS ’10: Syvertsen Fellow
Follow What You Love

Selected as the 2009-2010 Syvertsen Fellow, Matt Cheney is about as green as they come – Dartmouth green that is. Having studied at Dartmouth for almost 12 years now, when he graduates from DMS in June 2010, he will leave Dartmouth with three degrees – an AB, a PhD, and an MD…

Meet Kristen Yurkerwich Telischak, DMS ‘09
Circle of Continuity

With the ink barely dry on their marriage license, Kristen Telischak ’09 and her husband Nick Telischak ’08 are headed for California to begin internship and residency training. But as the newest member of the DMS Alumni Council, representing the Class of 2009, Kristen plans to stay connected to DMS and to her class.

Meet Dan Kaser, DMS '09
Syvertsen Fellow Embraces Exploration and Discovery

Following his first year at DMS, Kaser spent the summer at the DarDar Clinic in Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania. "I went over with a video camera, a microphone and a Swahili dictionary.  The end result was a short documentary about the clinic there, used for fundraising and patient recruitment," he explains. "I had a really fantastic, eye-opening experience in Africa..."

Meet Hanghang Wang, DMS '11
Learning Her Own Way

The story of Hanghang Wang’s journey to DMS begins in the small Chinese city of Yangzhou, where she grew up. “I always wanted to go to different countries and study their languages and culture,” she explains. So at age 11, Hanghang set out to teach herself English.

Meet Duncan Meiklejohn, DMS '10
Finding the Path

"One of the things I’ve been most impressed by here is the job DMS does in building a student body that’s going to support each other, and in all likelihood continue to support each other after graduation,” says Duncan Meiklejohn ’10. “My class is fantastic – far more collegial and collaborative than I ever dared to imagine.”

Meet Andy Saunders, DMS '08
Seeing the Whole Picture

“As overwhelming as residency will be, we need to remember that we’ve won the lottery in life,” says Andy Saunders, DMS’08. “We’re so incredibly privileged to be where we are. I’m really proud of my classmates and the things that they’re headed toward. Dartmouth seems to end up with graduates who really want to help people and make a difference.”

 Meet Mara Rendi, DMS '08
Syvertsen Fellow is both Student and Teacher

Mara Rendi is not your typical fourth year medical student, and not because it will have taken her 10   years to complete medical school when she graduates in June. The Denver, Colorado native describes herself as “a teacher, a mountain climber, a triathlete, a wife, and a mother.” Add to that, PhD.  

 Meet Nick Ellis, DMS '10

Majoring in international development at McGill University, Nick Ellis spent several semesters in Panama and Ecuador. “It was in my fourth year, when I was living in Ecuador, that I decided I wanted to do medicine,” he says.