Hometown: Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania

Specialty: Primary Care

Fave CHP Memory: Every time I have the opportunity to provide clinical care for kids with the residents at the Primary Care Center in Oakland.

Hometown: Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Specialty: Infectious Disease

Fave CHP Memory: Every day when I walk across the Rainbow Bridge and see our amazing housestaff! A close second is every intern retreat I have ever been to. But also maybe that one time when I said something clever at Zitelli rounds and everyone laughed. 

Hometown: Clifton Park, NY (Between Albany & Saratoga)

Specialty: Hospital Medicine & Child Advocacy

Fave CHP Memory: All of my joyful residency memories, including a jawbreaker eating contest, wearing matching cardigans with 7 other interns to morning report and singing carols to families and staff during holiday night coverage.

Hometown: Morgantown, West Virginia

Specialty: Hospital Medicine

Fave CHP Memory: The Flash Mob at my residency graduation, Llamapalooza, and ALL of the intern retreats.

Hometown: Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Fave CHP Memory: Still Debating!

Hometown: Zelienople, Pennsylvania

Specialty: Child Advocacy

Fave CHP Memory: My residency class, graduating in 2010 - what an amazing group of lifelong friends!

Hometown: Ankara, Turkey

Specialty: Primary Care

Fave CHP Memory: Meeting with the new interns every year, watching them grow and graduate as exceptional pediatricians.

Hometown: Woodbridge, CT

Medical School: Upstate Medical University

Career Plans: Infectious Disease Fellowship

Fave CHP Memory: Watching our co-resident sign her marriage license in the healing garden before a night shift. The whole night shift crew was present and then during our shift we had a party in the resident lounge complete with a toast, speeches, and dancing! 

Hometown: Milwaukee, WI

Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin

Career Plans: Allergy and Immunology Fellowship

Fave CHP Memory: Definitely hard to choose just one, but many of my favorite memories have been on nights. The collaborative and supportive environment created is so reflective of our amazing community at CHP. People are constantly helping one another out. Night float has also been a wonderful time to bond with my co-residents and I love the excitement and commitment people bring Friday night parties. In particular, one of my favorite themes was Taylor Swift night when each of the teams dressed up as a Taylor Swift songs (while Taylor Swift was performing in Pittsburgh) and we had a fashion show at midnight to show off our creative looks. As Purple-Heme/Endo team, our look was inspired by Lavender Haze.

Hometown: Los Angeles, California

Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine

Career Plans: Allegry and Immunology Fellowship

Fave CHP Memory: As it's impossible to pick one, I'll list multiple! Friendsgiving with the entire intern class in one living room; Sledding in Arsenal Park; The community and camraderie of night float; My rural health elective with CHP alumn Dr. Braveen Ragunanthan; and all my time in continuity clinic in Turtle Creek!

Hometown: Dublin, Ireland

Medical School: Trinity College Dublin

Career Plans: Gastroenterology Fellowship

Fave CHP Memory: There are truly too many to choose from! To name just a few - watching the sunsrise with my co-intern before pre-rounding; intern retreat - all the interns getting the weekend off work to bond and get to know each other better; building friendships over night shifts spent together; getting dolled up and dancing the night away at the Holiday Party!

Hometown: Crystal Lake, Illinois (aka the Chicago burbs)

Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine

Career Plans: Cardiology Fellowship

Fave CHP Memory: Way too many!!! Hosting Sunday coffee/bagels and squeezing my residency class into my apartment, the CHP Holiday Party, intern retreat and end of year intern trip to Cancun, celebrating my birthday at midnight with my entire night shift squad! These people know how to turn the most ordinary day into something extraordinary or hilarious - every day is a good day when I get to spend it with my co-residents!

Hometown: Richmond, VA

Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University

Career Plans: Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Fave CHP Memory: cook-outs, bonfires, and movie nights with my co-residents, my wedding shower thrown by my co-resident Michelle, yoga in the middle of night shift

Hometown: Spokane, WA 

Medical School: University of Washington (Go Dawgs baby) 

Career Plans: Still waffling between Emergency Medicine and PICU fellowship!

Fave CHP Memory: As I'm sure everyone has said, it's tough to pick just one...a few that stand out are intern vacation in Cancun, attending one of our co-residents' beautiful weddings in Virginia,  and hosting Bachelor/Bachelorette viewing parties as an excuse to eat, drink and decompress with friends!

Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon

Medical School: American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon

Career Plans: Pediatric Cardiology, Global Health

Fave CHP Memory: Ending the week with "Theme Friday" - Every week, everyone (attendings, residents) dresses up according to a chosen theme; always a fun way to unwind and have a good laugh! (P.S. Ask me about Dr. Tarchichi's epic Taylor Swift wig someday)

Position: Manager of Operations

Hometown: Toldeo, Ohio

Favorite Pittsburgh Weekend Activity: Shopping (online and inperson!) or watching football

Fave CHP Memory: Being locked out of hte office on my first day at work because I didn't have a key! I got to bond with one of the chiefs on our first day as they didn't have a key either!

Position: Academic Support Coordinator

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Favorite Pittsburgh Place: I have to say my favorite place in Pittsburgh is my home. I love being at home cooking and watching reality TV and hanging out with my family. I also love doing crafts and things, so Michaels and Joann Fabrics is my second favorite place to be.

Fave CHP Memory: I am fairly new so I am currently creating memories, but I have to say, my favorite memory is how welcoming everyone was on my first day. I immediately felt like I was part of an awesome team!

Position:  Academic Manager

Hometown: Aliquippa, PA

Favorite Pittsburgh Place: Going down to the North Shore on a Steeler Sunday!

Fave CHP Memory: Everyday is a new favorite memory being able to help the wonderful residents and faculty.

Position: Senior Department Manager

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Favorite Pittsburgh Place: I love walking through Fall Run Park with my dog!.

Fave CHP Memory: Being able to help our residents and faculty make a change in children’s lives everyday is my favorite thing about working at CHP. I’m lucky enough to make amazing memories daily in my position!