Hometown: Strongsville, Ohio

Bio: Hey! I’m Tom. Ohio native, educated along the East Coast and now happily returning to the Midwest.

It was a book I encountered in college that propelled me into medicine: “Middlemarch” by George Eliot. This book makes the case that it is the dedication and care people put into the lives’ of the people around them that makes the difference in the growing good of the world. Medicine, and Family Medicine above all, encapsulates this philosophy perfectly.

You can usually find me reading the most boring book possible (and trying to get others to read it, too), out in nature hiking, birding, and mountain biking, or driving around to explore the nooks and crannies around wherever I happen to be living.

Why Memorial: I met Memorial at the 2024 AAFP conference in Kansas City. There was an instant connection. This is a rigorous program (and everyone knows it) that is dedicated to teaching the full spectrum of care available to Family Medicine. The emphasis on POCUS, availability for OB care, and above all, the richly supportive culture of the residents and faculty drew me in and captured my passion.

Clinical interests: Full-spectrum care, OB, POCUS

Hobbies: Reading, Hiking, Mountain biking, Birding, Singing, Guitar

Favorite quotes: Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
-Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”

Favorite books: “Middlemarch” by George Eliot; “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon

Best advice: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Will Durant (paraphrasing Aristotle)