Hometown: South Bend, IN
Bio: Hello everyone! My name is Evans Lodge, and I am so excited to come home to South Bend to join the class of 2027 at the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency. My siblings and I were born at Memorial Hospital, went through the South Bend Community School Corporation, and all graduated from Adams High School. Through a variety of experiences working in Colorado, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Costa Rica after high school, I developed an interest in primary care medicine and public health as tools to fight for health equity in the United States. I spent the last 8 years in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, studying medicine and epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. Although I haven’t lived in South Bend since 2011, my partner (also from South Bend) and I have continued to come home year after year to visit family, more recently with two small children (and one large dog) in tow. We can’t wait to be back.
Why Memorial: I first met the Memorial family at the AAFP National Conference in 2023 and immediately felt at home and welcomed while chatting about the program and training opportunities in South Bend. As I learned more throughout the interview season about their focus on underserved care in the local community (Street Medicine, rotations at HealthLinc, etc.), it became clear that Memorial was an absolutely amazing place to receive excellent inpatient and outpatient clinical training in a small-town environment with ample opportunity to “create your own adventure.”
Clinical interests: full-spectrum family practice, especially gender-affirming care, OB, POCUS, procedures, and caring for immigrants and refugees
Hobbies: Gardening, birding, biking, backpacking, making music
Favorite books: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, Second Nature by Michael Pollan, Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi
Favorite podcasts: The Ezra Klein Show
Favorite thing to do/place to go in South Bend/Mishawaka: Walk endless circles in the South Bend Farmers Market
