PGY - 1

Jennifer Sucre, MD

Hometown: Tallahassee, Florida
Undergraduate: University of Georgia, Genetics and Creative Writing, 2003
MD: Harvard Medical School, 2009
Residency: St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2009-present
Outside interests: spending time with my husband and toddler, reading and writing poetry, hiking, kayaking/canoeing
Professional interests: Presently language and language disorders, neuroimaging, behavioral neurology. I look forward to being inspired by the patients I see during residency training in order to develop a more focused research interest.

Stephanie Bosslet, MD

Hometown: Highland, Illinois
Undergraduate: St. Louis University, Biology and Psychology, 2005
MD: St. Louis University School of Medicine, 2009
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2009-present
Outside interests: spending time with my husband, family and friends; cooking almost anything but my favorites include Italian and Mexican
Professional Interests: Could end up being almost any subspecialty at this point!

PGY - 2

Hometown: Gueltlingen, Germany
Undergraduate: Columbia University, Biochemistry, 2000
MD: Washington University School of Medicine, 2008
PhD: Washington University School of Medicine, 2008
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2008-present
Outside interests: BBQing, trees & gardening, family in St. Louis & Germany, VFB Stuttgart and German National Team soccer
Professional Interests: Developmental cognitive neuroscience, functional neuroimaging, cognitive control and its development, cognitive deficits caused by a variety of mechanisms

Hometown: Mentor, Ohio
Undergraduate: Denison University, Biology, 1999
MD: Baylor College of Medicine, 2008
PhD: Baylor College of Medicine, 2007
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2008-present
Outside interests: Trail running, discovering new music (especially live music), and spending time with family
Professional interests: Currently-genetic disorders affecting the nervous system, autism, and mental retardation. I am looking forward to completing my clinical training and discovering if these or other clinical problems interest me the most.

Hometown: Rockwell, Iowa
Undergraduate: Wartburg College, Biology, 2004
MD: University of Iowa College of Medicine, 2008
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2008-present
Outside interests: Spending time with my wife, running with my Italian greyhound, playing and watching sports, reading, grilling, wine tasting

PGY - 3

Hometown: Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico although now, half of my life has been in the USA and thus I also consider it home
Undergraduate: University of New Mexico, Biology, 1996
MD: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 2006
PhD: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 2005
Residency: Pediatrics, 2007-present
Outside interests: I love music, particularly Jazz; enjoy composing at times and playing the piano. I've been also into running for several years and I am beginning to pick it up again after an arduous intern year. I love spending time with my kids and my wife. I enjoy good Chinese and Mexican food. I am a sucker for Americas Funniest Home Videos and Magicians Secrets Revealed (for some reason!). Although I love reading a good intriguing honest book, I must confess I occasionally enjoy a cheesy medical novel.
Professional interests: My professional interests are in the area of epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, and translational neurobiology. As a scientist I trained as a neurophysiologist and thus I am interested in epilepsy and mechanisms of neuronal plasticity as they relate to disease. I hope to join a faculty in an academic institution that nurtures translational medicine.

Hometown: Bombay, India
MBBS: SRTR Medical College, 2002
Residency: Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mumbai, India, 2002-2004
Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2007-present
Outside interests: I love hiking, camping ,cooking and spending time with my family.
Professional interests: I would like to do a neurophysiology fellowship after my residency. I would like to go back to India after finishing my training.

Hometown: I grew up in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India a city by the banks of River Cauvery in Southern India; my folks still reside there and I call Tiruchirapalli my "first" home.
MBBS: I studied Medicine at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India situated about 100 kilometers south-west of the capital, Chennai. Graduated 1997. CMC was begun as a one-bed hospital by an American missionary, Ida Scudder. (The story of how she was inspired to begin a hospital in Southern India is a separate story by itself.)
MS: Graduate School of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Tuebingen, Germany, 2002
PhD: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
Residency: Department of Neurological Sciences, Christian Medical College, 1997-1998
Developmental Pediatrics, Christian Medical College, 1998-1999
Outside interests: In Stockholm, I was part of a creative-writing circle, an interest I am keen to revive again. My favorite activities are biking, ice-skating and alpine-skiing. Saint Louis is no comparison to Stockholm but I am trying to make it my "new" home.
Professional interests: After medical school, I spent two years in Tuebingen, a charming University town in Southern Germany, where I studied Neurobiology. Part of those two years was spent in a Neuroimmunology laboratory, wherein began my interest in B lymphocytes and multiple sclerosis (MS). As part of my graduate studies at Karolinska Institutet, our laboratory studied biomarkers to predict disease course in MS.

I have a nascent interest in neuro-oncology, especially in the area of tumor senescence, and in demyelinating diseases of the CNS. My other areas of interest are in the public understanding of science, sparked by the recent decrease in childhood immunization, and in science writing.

Above all, I hope to be an advocate for children and their well-being.
In the meantime, I wish for a pair of wings.

PGY - 4

Hometown: Atlanta, Ga. (aka Hotlanta)
Undergraduate: Furman University, Neuroscience, 2002
MD: University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2006
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2006-2008
Outside interests: I used to enjoy running, but now I prefer sleeping. :) I enjoy hanging out and having interesting discussions with people (especially non-medical people) when I'm not in the hospital. I like to cook. I also love to watch college football-- my favorite team is the Georgia Bulldogs.
Professional interests: Neuro Critical Care

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin
Undergraduate: Carleton College, Psychology, 2001
MD: Rush Medical College, 2006
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2006-2008
Outside interests: Travel (ideally places that allow me to get stamps in my passport...getting stamps is fun), backpacking/hiking, drawing, and skydiving (does it count as a hobby if I've only done it twice?)
Professional interests: Maybe cognitive/developmental neurology.

Hometown: Lafayette, LA
Undergraduate: The Catholic University of America, Biomedical Engineering, 1998
MD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2006
PhD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2004
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2006-2008
Outside interests: Husband and 18mo daughter, which has lead to my new hobbies of wearing a toddler on my back for walks to the park, reading books aloud, singing ring-around-the-rosy, and going to the zoo
Professional interests: Neuroimaging and non-invasive technologies.

PGY - 5

Hometown: Carlinville, Illinios
Undergraduate: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Psychology, 1999
MD: Washington University School of Medicine, 2005
MS: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2005-2007
Outside interests:
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Hometown: Augusta, Georgia
Undergraduate: Fort Valley State University, Biology, 2000
MD: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2005
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2005-2007
Outside interests: Reading novels, mentoring, volunteering

Hometown: I consider my hometowns to be San Diego, CA and Lake Tahoe, NV, although I've lived many places.
Undergraduate: Pomona College, Neuroscience, 1999
MD: Washington University School of Medicine, 2005
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2005-2007
Outside interests: My extracurricular interests revolve around the outdoors: rock climbing, backpacking, sea kayaking, and traveling.

Professional interests: general pediatric neurology and epilepsy. I am planning to pursue fellowship training in epilepsy and EEG. This year I will be working in the lab with Michael Wong, M.D. Ph.D., studying the effects of rapamycin signaling pathway inhibitors on glial proliferation and the development of epilepsy in a knockout mouse model of tuberous sclerosis. Dr. Wong has already done a lot of exciting work in the field, and I am thrilled to have him as a research mentor. I am also very interested in medical student and resident education, and will be serving as the chief resident for pediatric neurology this year to gain some experience with the administrative side of things.

Hometown: Morristown, NJ
Undergraduate: New York University, Latin American Studies/Literature,1993
MD: University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 2000
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Connecticut Health Center, 2000-2003
Genetics, University of Connecticut Health Center, 2005-2007
Outside interests: My family
Professional interests: The intersection of child neurology and genetics, particularly CNS developmental malformations, and developing treatment strategies for neurometabolic diseases.

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Undergraduate: University of Pittsburgh, Neuroscience, 1993
MD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2005
PhD: University of Michigan, 2003
Residency: Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2005-2006 (Neuroscience Track)
Outside interests: Volleyball, activities with family, swimming, home renovation