Abbas Ali Khan, MD

Abbas Ali Khan, MD

Resident

Hometown: Hoffman Estates, IL
Medical School: VCU School of Medicine
Undergrad: Loyola University - Chicago
Hobbies: Soccer, basketball, new pickleball convert (any sports really), boxing, calisthenics, hiking
Superpower: I have another stomach for dessert
Kryptonite: Spiders (I blame growing up in Australia)

Manoj Arra, MD

Manoj Arra, MD

Resident

Hometown: Fishkill, NY/ Hyderabad, India
Medical School: WashU
Undergrad: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hobbies: Collecting sneakers, yard games, playing and watching sports especially soccer, basketball and Formula 1, watching bad reality TV.
Superpower: Ability to eat pizza every single day for every meal.
Kryptonite: Ghosts

Mark Baldeshwiler, MD

Mark Baldeshwiler, MD

Hometown: Chippewa Falls, WI
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Undergrad: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hobbies: Homebrewing, baseball, football, science, beer/wine tasting, hiking
Super Power: Caffeine consumption and the ability to fall asleep
Kryptonite: My daughter waking up from a nap...the faces she makes are incredible!  And she's just cute

Addie Burtle, MD

Addie Burtle, MD

Resident

Hometown: Seattle, WA
Medical School: Washington State Univ
Undergrad: Univ of Washington
Hobbies: filmmaking, slacklining, bouldering, drinking from the podcast firehose, social justice & advocacy, motorcycling, woodworking
Superpower: doing things at 100% intensity
Kryptonite: doing things in moderation (particularly with regard to ice cream)
Fun Fact: I built my own treadmill desk during med school as a way of keeping active while studying constantly. My pedometer normally only shows 5 digits and I wondered what would happen if I cracked into 6 figures. During one particularly productive study session in my 2nd year, I managed to break 100,000 steps in a day.

Shiraz Cassim, MD

Shiraz Cassim, MD

Resident

Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Medical School: Albany Medical College, Albany NY
Undergrad: Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Hobbies: Cooking, sci-fi, keeping things sharp, archery
Superpower: Spicy food tolerance
Kryptonite: Being bombarded by social media

Emily Cloessner, MD

Emily Cloessner, MD

Chief Resident, 2024-2025

Hometown: Aiken, SC
Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
Undergrad: College of Charleston
Hobbies: Anything outside, slowly working towards becoming a Cicerone, board games.
Superpower: Can nap anywhere, anytime.
Kryptonite: Early morning meetings, snow.

Elsa Cornett, MD

Elsa Cornett, MD

Resident

Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Missouri - Columbia
Hobbies: Cycling, cooking - especially pasta, my doggo, reading
Superpower: Chronically arriving early
Kryptonite: Bomb Pops/novelty ice creams and rewatching the same TV shows over and over again

Taylor Crowell, MD

Taylor Crowell, MD

Resident

Hometown: Effingham, IL
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
Undergrad: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hobbies: Baking (cookies preferably), pickleball, running, reading, watching Illinois basketball or the Pittsburgh Steelers
Superpower: Quoting Vines and old movies
Kryptonite: Anything chocolate

Thailandria Daniels, MD

Thailandria Daniels, MD

Resident

Hometown - Paducah, KY.
Med School - University of Kentucky College of Medicine (Lexington, KY).
Undergrad - Louisiana State University
Hobbies - exploring new restaurants or shops by myself, watching Tiny Desk concerts, annoying my chihuahua Hershey, and learning how to play instruments.
Superpower - remembering directions without a GPS.
Kryptonite - sound of Styrofoam...ugh!
Arthur Forbriger, MD

Arthur Forbriger, MD

Fellow (Ultrasound), Emergency Medicine