Faces and Places - Vanderbilt Medicine Vanderbilt Medicine

Joseph Wong, MD’19, right, is serving as one of four chief residents for the Olive View UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Kristin Stevens, MD’15, is engaged to Jason Diehl, and the couple plans to marry in fall 2022.

Ryan Fritz, MD’13, MBA’13, HS’16, and his wife, Cristin Fritz, MD’15, MPH’15, HS’18, welcomed their first child on July 9, a boy, Quinn Carter Fritz.

Members of the VUSM Class of 1963, Howard Rosen, MD’63, HS’64,’65, Bill Downey, BA’60, MD’63, HS’65,’68, Jim Perry, BA’60, MD’63, Murray Smith, BA’60, MD’63, HS’65,’70, FE’69, Henry Butler, BA’60, MD’63, Newt Lovvorn, BA’60, MD’63, HS’67, Ronald Overfield, MD’63, HS’67, along with VU friend Warren Patterson, BA’60, HS’72, reunited in Nashville after receiving their COVID-19 vaccines.

Laura Ballenger, BA’10, MD’14, married David Pratt, MD, on Sept. 5, in Columbus, Ohio.

Nicole McCoin, BS’99, MD’03, HS’06, Med Fac, has taken on the role of chair of Emergency Medicine at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. McCoin and her husband, Patrick, have three children: Catherine, 14, James, 8, and Richard, 5.

Robert J. Wilson III, MD’11, and his wife, Jessica R. Wilson, BS’07, MD’11, MSCI’16, have three sons, Robert, 5, Jack, 2 1/2, and George, born March 19.

Sabrina Poon, MD’12, and her husband, David Marcovitz, MD’12, welcomed their second child, Cole Henry Marcovitz, on Jan. 16, 2020. The couple also has a 4 ½ year old daughter named Maya.

Maria Sturchler, MD’17, and her husband, Emmanuel, have a daughter, Joséphine, who recently celebrated her first birthday.