Residents
Shashank Somasundaram, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: shashanks@wustl.edu
Katie Stuart, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: stuartk@wustl.edu
Hometown: Farmington, MO
Medical School: Saint Louis University
Undergrad: Truman State University
Hobbies: hiking, playing piano, crochet
Superpower: making small talk with strangers
Kryptonite: anything sweet
Arrianna Thompson, MD
Resident
- Email: k.a.thompson@wustl.edu
Hometown: Irvington, NJ
Medical School: University of Miami Miller SOM
Undergrad: …multiple, I’m old. Most recently UMES
Hobbies: Traditional archery, gaming, cooking random recipes, trying to teach myself to draw, photography
Super Power: MEGA HAIR
Kryptonite: Bacon covered in chocolate covered in bacon. Also, bacon. Also, chocolate.
Prerak Trivedi, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: prerak.trivedi@wustl.edu
Hometown: St. Louis, basically
Medical School: WashU
Undergrad: Saint Louis University
Hobbies: Video games, reading (sci-fi & fantasy), trying new food, hiking
Superpower: Being able to sleep anywhere
Kryptonite: Alarm clocks
Roland Vaca, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: vaca@wustl.edu
Hometown: Kansas City, KS
Medical School: Zucker School of Medicine
Undergrad: Washington University in St. Louis
Hobbies: Cooking, watching the KC Chiefs, biking, trying new restaurants/breweries, video games, history podcasts.
Superpower: Keeping 20+ houseplants alive.
Kryptonite: Sour skittles, Starburst jellybeans, regular Skittles, Swedish fish…all candy in general really.
Kate Vawter, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: vawter@wustl.edu
Hometown: Mountain Home, AR
Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Undergrad: University of Arkansas (woo, pig!)
Hobbies: Hiking, golfing, spelunking, reading, scary movies, rewatching Game of Thrones or Lost, trying new restaurants
Superpower: My poker face; I can be extremely nervous or about to crack up laughing and you'd never know it.
Kryptonite: Anything involving cheese.
Rose Velasco, MD
Resident (she/they)
- Email: rosev@wustl.edu
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Undergrad: Loyola University - Chicago
Hobbies: Aerial circus arts; biking in un-bikeable conditions; 90-00s era video games that I will NOT yet designate as "vintage"; dyeing my hair ridiculous colors,; designing silly tattoos that will eventually end up on my body; bed-rotting with my cat, Puff
Superpower: Insisting that posters can hang only via Command Strips until they spontaneously fall loudly in the night
Kryptonite: "If not friend, then why friend-shaped?" to any pettable creature
John Verhey, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: johnv@wustl.edu
Hometown: Dover, NH
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of New Hampshire
Hobbies: Cooking, Trying New Restaurants, Video/Board Games, Bar Trivia, Drag Race (not the one with cars)
Superpower: Remembering every minor detail about any reality TV show I’ve watched
Kryptonite: First Shift
Sierra Vohsen, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: vohsen@wustl.edu
Hometown: O’Fallon, MO
Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Undergrad: Rockhurst University (Kansas City, MO)
Hobbies: Animal rescue, concerts, blues games, Cardinals games, reading, spending time with friends, volleyball.
Superpower: Saving dogs and cats across MO
Kryptonite: Ulta and sad puppies
Jadee Wagner, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: wagnerjadee@wustl.edu
Hometown: I’ve moved 20+ times in my life so “hometown” is hard to pin down. We'll give Top 3 credit to Grand Forks (ND), Denver (CO), and St. Louis (MO).
Medical School: University of Missouri - Columbia
Undergrad: University of Missouri - Columbia (undergrad), Washington University in St. Louis (post-baccalaureate)
Hobbies: Creating meals out of random ingredients in the fridge (bonus points if someone else would consider the fridge “empty” - I promise, it's not), sharing food (5 foods > 1 food every time), doing anything outside where I can let the feral flag fly (hiking, camping, trail running, amateur rockhounding, just generally being in and around bodies of water).
Superpower: Spotting fossils, picking the best thing on the menu, veering completely off course when following recipes so that the meal is effectively impossible to replicate in the future, organizing as procrastination tool, manifesting the illusion of height (I’m 5’4” but have been told I give off 5’7” energy), oversharing embarrassing stories about myself.
Kryptonite: Animals in the wild who want nothing to do with me (please be my friend, I am not too proud to beg), boredom, finding out exactly how long it takes to get somewhere (a surefire way to ensure that leaving the house is always an absolute frenzy), boredom, nostalgia. Did I mention boredom?