Dimensions: Where are they now?

Over the past 10 years Dimensions has had an impressive track record of placing students in medical school and the healthcare field. Following is a list of many of those former students and what they’re doing now.

• Jamie Wallace Smith ’05 earned her M.D. from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and practices family medicine at Unity Point Clinic in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
• Kent Lehr ’06 earned an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business and a Master of Hospital Administration from the University of Iowa College of Public Health in 2009. Lehr works as vice president, strategy & business development for Unity Point Health in West Des Moines, Iowa.
• Tyler Ulland ’06 earned a Master of Science in immunology from the University of Iowa in 2010.
• Belain Eyob ’07 is a third-year M.D. student at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
• Wade Swenson ’07 is completing his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Minnesota. He earned an M.D. from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2011.
• Garrett Feddersen ’08 earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Des Moines University in 2013 and is a second-year resident at Northeast Iowa Family Practice in Waterloo, Iowa.
• Tyler Fick ’08 is graduating from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine M.D. program in 2015 and plans to complete a residency in pediatric cardiology.
• Kevin Lawrence ’09 is completing a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Southern California, serves as a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class, and is scheduled to deploy to Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf in 2015.
• Nate Olafsen ’08 earned his M.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine and is a third-year resident in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Washington in Seattle.
• Joey Resignato ’08 is a fourth-year medical student at New York Medical College. After Cornell he taught and tutored in Harlem, New York, and earned an M.A. in Medical Sciences from Boston University.
• Miki Otis Stevermer ’08 earned an M.D. from the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and is completing a psychiatry residency in South Dakota.
• Katie Ward ’08 earned an M.D. from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and is completing a residency in internal medicine at University of California-Davis in Sacramento.
• Amanda Jepson ’09 attends Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Kristina Pontarelli ’09 earned her M.D. from St. Louis University and is a second-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at University of Illinois-Chicago Hospital.
• Kirsten Gierach ’10 earned her D.O. from Des Moines University and is completing the Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency Program in Appleton, Wisconsin.
• Brian King ’10 earned his M.D. from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and is completing a yearlong internship at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis for his residency in dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
• Jillian Liu ’10 is a second-year student in a combined M.D./Ph.D. program at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio.
• Allie Nappe ’10 earned a doctorate in physical therapy from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013 and works at SSM Physical Therapy, an outpatient clinic outside of St. Louis.
• Beth Von Nothern ’10 earned a physician assistant certification from Lock Haven University in 2012 and works in otolaryngology at the VA Medical Center in Iowa City, Iowa.
• Adam Norton ’10 attends the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
• Mikelle Wortman Secord ’10 is enrolled in the Master of Education program at University of Missouri-St. Louis.
• See-yin So ’10 earned a D.O. from Des Moines University in 2014 and is completing her first year of obstetrics and gynecology residency at Mercy St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.
• Michael “Jay” Welvaert ’10 attends Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, Colorado.
• Brittany Atchison ’10 is the executive director at EmpowHER Microfinance.
• Marvin Holmes-Leopold ’11 is a first-year student in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy program.
• Ellie Hutchison ’11 attends the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.
• Allie Jagielo Nowak ’11 attends the University of Iowa physician assistant program.
• Eric Reese ’11 is a first-year student in podiatric medicine at Des Moines University.
• Annie Rouza ’11 is a third-year medical student at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami.
• Abby Schultz ’11 is a first-year M.D. student at East Tennessee State University-Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City, Tennessee.
• Julia Tanguay ’11 attends Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, Colorado.
• Alisa Vickrey ’11 is in her second year of the physician assistant program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh.
• Victoria Levasseur ’11 is a medical student at the University of Missouri.
• Brandon Crawford ’12 is a second-year osteopathic medical student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton. He begins rotations at Millcreek Hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, in June 2015.
• Megan Dibbern ’12 attends the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
• Denis Jimenez II ’12 attends the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Lawrence, Kansas.
• Amanda Johnson ’12 attends University of Minnesota-Minneapolis Medical School.
• Neal Klauer ’12 attends University of Minnesota-Minneapolis Medical School.
• Matthew McGowan ’12 attends Western University of Health Sciences/College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Lebanon.
• Dixon Xu ’13 attends Des Moines University’s doctor of podiatric medicine program.
• Xinrui Zeng ’12 is a project assistant and M.A. candidate in Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
• Jeff Butke ’12 is the marketing and development coordinator at AmeriCorps VISTA in Roanoke, Virginia.
• Katie Wiens ’12 is a research assistant in the Department of Dermatology at University of Minnesota.
• Kayla Gaines ’12 is a clinical research technician at Quintiles and is attending a 12-month accelerated B.S.N. nursing program in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Federica Ot’alora-Roselli ’12 is a clinical research intern at Boulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates in Boulder, Colorado.
• Samantha de Gannes ’13 deferred admission to the M.D. program at St. George’s University School of Medicine in True Blue, Grenada.
• Leslie Smebak ’13 is a first-year M.D. student at University of Chicago-Pritzker.
• Elle Pope ’13 is a graduate student at Boston University School of Public Health.
• Sharon Lenert ’13 is a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor at Oak Brook Park District in Oak Brook, Illinois.
• Michael Baca ’13 expects to finish a Master’s of Health Administration at the University of Iowa in 2015 and is a graduate assistant at the emergency department at University of Iowa Health Care.
• Kara Middleton ’13 earned a Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award from the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Adam Jones ’13 is a research technologist at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Gibran Nasir ’13 is a post-baccalaureate research trainee at the University of Iowa.
• Christopher Lopez ’13 is an optometry student at the University of Houston.
• Laura Sanchez-Lopez ’13 is a microbiology technician at The Clorox Company in Pleasanton, California.
• Elise Mead Durgin ’13 is pursuing her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota and is a junior scientist in the department of pediatric BMT, oncology, and hematology.
• Kyle Durgin ’14 attends University of Minnesota-Minneapolis Medical School.
• Samantha Sparrow ’14 is a research assistant at the University of Chicago.
• Courtney Elahee ’14 is a production scientist at Integrated DNA Technologies in Coralville, Iowa.