The Human Touch 2013 - University of Colorado Denver

Biographies
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Charlotte VanDervoort: Charlotte Vandervoort works at the Health Sciences
Library, is halfway through her Masters in Library Science degree, and is married
to the most wonderful and maddening man. She is an animal lover, pet owner,
and hobby junkie. Her favorite hobbies at the moment is making glitter nail polish
and, as always, manipulating words into art.
Travis Vermilye: Travis Vermilye is an Assistant Professor of Scientifi c Media
Design at the College of Arts & Media, University of Colorado Denver.
Terry Shelton Schumaker, MSN, ANP-BC: Terry Schumaker is a member
of a primary care team, practicing as an adult-geriatric nurse practioner in rural
Southwestern Colorado. She is a Mordecai rural health scholar completing her
doctorate of nursing practice.
Shauna Seaman, BS: Shauna Seaman is 4th year medical student and native
to Denver. She is graduating this year and will train in emergency medicine.
Recently engaged she hopes to get married next year, residency permitting! She
is interested in international work and wishes to travel regularly to Vietnam to
practice upon completion of training.
Rachel Skalina: Rachel Skalina is a third-year medical student originally from
Philadelphia. She is not quite sure what she wants to be when she grows up, but
she is certainly enjoying the journey to fi gure it out.
John R. Sladek, Ph.D: Professor Sladek loves nature and photography and has
pursued these passions since the late 1960s. Living in Evergreen provides daily
access to fabulous wildlife, and he has preserved this image for your enjoyment.
John learned photography during graduate school training in Chicago and has
applied these skills to neuroscience research creating beautiful and informative
microscope images of the brain.
Corey Whitley: I am currently enrolled in the UCD Traditional Bachelors of
Nursing Program at AMC. My wife, Renee, and I live in Denver with our loving
and loyal dog, Riley. I have a background as a video editor in news and at a
local production company, but have recently traded in the editing suite for time
spent behind the still camera lens
Lynne Yancey, MD: Lynne Yancey, MD is an emergency physician and medical
educator. She does her best writing late at night, when her kids are asleep, after
a busy shift in the emergency department, over a bar of chocolate and a glass of
red wine.
Sam A. Zakkour: Sam Zakkour is a third year Pharm.D. candidate at the
University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science.
Sam received his Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from
Florida International University in Miami, FL, and has been involved in HIV/AIDS
prevention and care for over eight years. •
Megan L. Stern, BS: As a child Megan spent her free time drawing fantastical
versions of the things around her. After graduating with a BS in Biology she
traveled New Zealand, Japan, Antarctica and the United States during which she
rediscovered her love of drawing and decided to pursue an MFA in Scientifi c
Media Design.
Robert L. Stofac, MD: Robert Stofac graduated from University of Colorado
School of Medicine in 1967, where he was encouraged to participate in
humanities activities outside of medical study by Dr. Henry Kempe & Dr. Henry
Claman. After he returned to Denver, he joined the volunteer attending staff at
the UCHSC, Ophthalmology Dept. Since retiring from private practice, he sees
patients at the Stout Street Homeless Clinic.
Leah Swanson, MD: I grew up in Boulder, CO. I am currently a second year
Internal Medicine resident at CU. My own experiences with grief and loss
have challenged my views of what it means to “help” patients and I hope have
enlarged my capacity to empathize with them in their pain.
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