Kate Vawter, MD

Kate Vawter, MD

Resident

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

Rose Velasco, MD

Resident

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

Jadee Wagner, MD

Jadee Wagner, MD

Resident

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?

Tirzah Weiss, MD

Tirzah Weiss, MD

Resident

Hometown: Dayton, OH
Medical School: The University of Cincinnati
Undergrad: The Ohio State University
Hobbies: Reading, true crime podcasts, evening walks, hanging out with my cat, trying new restaurants
Superpower: Befriending every cat that I come across
Kryptonite: Coffee!