Alumni News - Class 2007
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Leah Bevers, MD
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Leah graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she was active in many extracurricular groups including the AAFP, Physicians for Social Responsibility, a program to educate adolescents on AIDS, a summer camp for children with HIV, the Rural Ambassadors program, and Habitat for Humanity. She was the director of the Isaac Coggs Clinic for the uninsured and was instrumental in reestablishing a clinic for these patients when the original one was closed by its sponsors. Leah has done clinical rotations with community-based programs in Belize and Ecuador, and would like to continue working internationally in the future. She was recognized by MCW with the Standing Ovation Award for community service and service to the medical school. Leah is originally from Hilbert Wisconsin and has her undergraduate degree in Rural Sociology and Zoology from the University of Wisconsin. She looks forward to a career in rural family medicine. Her other interests include riding horses, backpacking, ultimate Frisbee and travel. |
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Hanly Burton, DO
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Hanly graduated from the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine and return home to Montana. He grew up in Iowa and later relocated near other family in the Bozeman area. He attended the University of Wisconsin where he received a degree in Natural Resources and Montana State University where he received a degree in Biology. He worked for 5 years as an education coordinator/research associate at the Museum of the Rockies and then taught anatomy and physiology to nursing and premedical students at Montana State University. Hanly volunteered providing medical care to low income residents of Montclair, California during medical school and did an international medicine rotation in Guatemala. He hopes to combine teaching at the undergraduate or graduate level with a medical practice in central Montana after residency. His other interests include fly fishing, hiking and long distance running. |
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John Foster, MD
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John will join the residency in July 2005 after completing four years of general surgery residency at San Joaquin General Hospital in California. He graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 2001. He plans on becoming a missionary doctor after his training and practicing in a rural and underserved setting. He seeks training in Family Medicine to provide him with the broad range of skills he will need to reach these goals. |
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Mike Geurin, MD
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Mike is from Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He earned undergraduate degrees in English and French from Oklahoma Baptist University and a masters degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Oklahoma. He spent some time living in Norway as a child, enjoys travel and has studied geriatric psychiatry in France. Prior to attending medical school, he taught English at Rogers State University and English as a Second Language in the Czech Republic. On his "golden weekends" away from the residency he enjoys downhill skiing, hiking and wilderness photography; see his online photo gallery-- Montana and MFMR photos--at www.kodakgallery.com/mikeg. |
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Donna Givens, MD
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Donna graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. Donna was raised in New York, receiving her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in Biology. During medical school she participated in and coordinated a number of AMSA sponsored screening programs for the local and remote underserved rural populations of Grenada to reach people without other access to health care. She lead student groups during college for community volunteer work during spring breaks, including projects in trail construction, Habitat for Humanity and park construction and cleanup. She volunteered with the Student Conservation Association after college working with the sea turtle conservation project in North Carolina. Donna later stayed in NC, doing asthma research at E. Carolina University. However, after visiting Washington, Oregon and Montana, Donna decided the West was where she was really meant to be. Her other interests include hiking, backpacking, kayaking, playing piano, and fishing. |
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Stephen Halvorson, MD
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From the banks of the American River in Sacramento, California, I moved to Berkeley for college. For the subsequent 10 years, the Bay Area was more basecamp than home as I pursued interests in outdoor guiding and skills instruction, urban and rural youth development, travel and a slacker’s range of odd jobs. Continued intrigue with writing, rural economic development and ecology brought me to the University of Montana in Missoula. However, medicine, then but a small tug on my imagination, came to win out over academia through my experiences in community involvement, continued social service work and volunteering with the local Community Health Center. Memories of road trips through the Southwest and work in alternative education drew me to medical school in New Mexico, from which I was graduated in 2002. After a year of training in emergency medicine, and another toward an MPH, I had the distinct pleasure of returning to Montana in 2004. The people of MFMR are fantastic. I enjoy the supported autonomy to shape my training to the rural practice I envision, while provisioned with the skills and experience to go anywhere. When not at work, I get outside to run trails, climb the alpine terrain of the Northern Rockies, run a few rivers, attempt to pick a guitar and enjoy my south-facing deck. Ultimately, I intend to incorporate my interests in rural emergency, wilderness and international medicine with local community development. |
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