Some Recent and Not So Recent Departmental Grads

Kevin Faber MD ’93 has completed his residency in Neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center, and has begun to practice at Merit Care in Fargo ND (July 2007). His specialty is sleep studies. Kevin was an honors graduate from D’Youville, and his thesis centered on the neuroanatomy of vision.

Joel Sebastien MD ’94 received his MD from SUNY Buffalo in. He completed his residency at Westchester in 2003 and received a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery at U Pitt. He currently practices at the Halifax Health Center in Daytona Beach Florida. He performs General Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery (gastric bypass and Lap Banding). He was featured on September 22, 2008, 7:00 PM EST in a live web cast broadcast by ORLive.com (http://www.or-live.com/).

Matthew Strom ’02 passed his qualifying exams and achieved candidacy for the Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Delaware (Feb 2008).

Todd Rhodes ’03 was accepted (May 2008) into the MBA program at SUNY Buffalo and commences studies in the Fall of 2008

Tracy Guidard ’03 graduated from the Dental School at SUNY Buffalo in 2007.

Michael Gannon ’04 achieved candidacy for Ph.D. at University at Buffalo in organic chemistry (December 2007).

Ryan Maine ’04 has received his DDS (he’s a dentist) from the Dental School at SUNY Buffalo.

Petra Link '04 is a research associate at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

Hoang Nguyen ’05 has received his MD at the University of St. Louis Medical School and will begin his residency in internal medicine at Washington University Medical Center. He will be pursuing a sp[ecialty in pediatrics.

Anna Vuori ’05 is currently attending medical school at the Brighton-Sussex Medical College in the UK.

Lindsay Olsen ’05 Graduated with a BS in biology and then pursued a second degree in PA which she obtained in 2007.

Michael Cole ‘05 Graduated with a BS in biology in 2005 and has earned an MPT from D’Youville (Spring 2008)

Tracy Travis Graduated with her BS in 2005 and earned her Master’s in Education from D’Youville in 2006

Dawn Snider graduated with a BA in Biology and earned her Master’s in Education from D’Youville in the Fall of 2005

Karen Grinnen earned her BS in 2005 and was accepted into Pharm. D. programs at 4 institutions.

Stacy Baumgart earned her BS in 2005 and plans to return to D’Youville in the Spring of ‘06 to begin her studies in Nursing.

Katie Alsheimer ’06 is now pursuing her doctorate in Chiropractic at D’Youville.

Kathleen Over ’06 has graduated (2009) with a doctorate in Chiropractic from D’Youville.

Kwadwo Bediako ’07 was accepted to Pharmacy School (Loma Linda) and was admitted into the Master’s Program in Biochemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (July 2008) He will commence his studies with Johns Hopkins in September of 2008.

Lamin Trawally ’07 has been admitted into the Doctoral program in biochemistry at SUNY Buffalo. and will begin his studies in the Fall of 2008.

Alan Lemanski ’07 Currently pursuing a Doctorate in Chiropractic at D’Youville.

Kiante Hyman ’08 has been accepted (May 2008) into the doctoral program in chemistry at SUNY Buffalo and begins studies in the Fall of 2008.