Brigham Dastrup Brigham and the entire Dastrup family are absolutely thrilled to be moving back west to enjoy the fabulous sun of Albuquerque!  My wife, Christa, and I are both from Utah originally, where we attended Brigham Young University.  I was a violin performance major, a degree that, while enjoyable, was not helpful whatsoever in getting me through medical school at Johns Hopkins. We’ll miss the beautiful springs and the professional sports teams in Baltimore, but our hearts never fully left the west. My favorite activities are any and all sport activities, running with my wife (if I can keep up), reading dinosaur books to my three-year-old future paleontologist, and wrestling with my butterball of a 19-month-old.     Back          Return to Top        EM Home

Todd Dettmer After a month of hearing that I needed to get out of New Mexico on the residency interview trail, all I could think about is how much I wanted to stay.  I guess I am a lifer.  Born and raised in Alamogordo (a small town in southern NM for those of you not familiar with the area), I have lived in NM all my life.  After high school I moved to Albuquerque and have been here for about nine years now, finishing undergrad and med school at UNM.  What can I say, I love it here!  I have a lot of pride in my state and community and enjoy working with the people.  I truly believe that the EM program being built in Albuquerque is amongst the best in the country and I am excited to be a part of the team.  Academically, I am interested in medical education, pediatrics and critical care.  Outside the hospital, I enjoy snowboarding, traveling, teaching, eating my mom’s New Mexican food, laughing with friends, being with my family, playing with my dogs Dori and Orion, and spending time with my girlfriend, Casey, who I hope to trick into marrying me someday.  I am excited to meet all of you and look forward to all the challenges that the next three years will bring in learning Emergency Medicine.       Back          Return to Top          EM Home

Jon Femling I grew up in Dent, a small town in the middle of Minnesota's lake country. From there I moved west to Moorhead, MN for college where I met my wife, Kim.  Together we moved south to Iowa City where we became Hawkeyes.  As a student in a combined MD/PhD program I earned my PhD studying the innate immune system and Staphylococcus aureus.  I have always loved the outdoors and during my free time I have become a mountaineer in a state without mountains.  Kim and I are excited about our move to the southwest, now we just need to figure out if we prefer green or red chile.       Back          Return to Top          EM Home

Scott Forman I inherited a penchant for adventure that was further nurtured by my father while growing up in the Midwest. My outdoor wandering morphed into intellectual meandering in studying English lit and philosophy at Northwestern and in the small pubs of Southern Britain during a year abroad. It was on the cliffs of Land's End and the peaks of Scotland where I first flailed at rock and alpine climbing (glissading!), respectively. After graduation, I took my nascent love of climbing to Washington, where I trained and was hired as an international mountain guide and climbing instructor; concurrently, I became interested in wilderness medicine, and after completing an apprenticeship, I co-developed and taught a wilderness medicine and technical rescue course. While I could assist medical professionals adapt their clinical skills to a backcountry environment, what I soon realized was that I could not so readily assimilate their medical acumen.  It was on a climbing expedition to Ecuador that I met my wife. We moved to Boulder, Colorado where I began taking the prerequisites for medical school, conducted research in high altitude physiology and worked as an EMT in the emergency department. In keeping with the legacy of conveying an adventurous spirit, we moved with our one-year-old son to the Caribbean for my first two years of medical school where we weathered a category 5 hurricane and I completed a master's degree in diving medicine and epidemiology. We are ecstatic about moving back to rejoin our souls out west and become part of the fantastic UNM community. I am an avid father and spouse, cyclist, climber, diver and free-heeler, and I don't expect that after two years on Grenada, we we'll be pining for kamikaze reggae busses, violent maritime storms, or 95% humidity anytime soon. Continue Next Page  Back          Return to Top        EM Home          Contact Us