Executive Team
Co-Founder/Advisor: Vivian Wang is originally from Ellicott City, Maryland. She co-founded WISER during her Emory general surgery residency and has enjoyed growing with the podcast from day one. She did a MIS bariatric/foregut fellowship at the Ohio State University, and now lives in Portland, OR. She’s a proud oldest sister of 5, and loves to eat, travel, and eat!
Co-Founder: Caroline Coleman hails from Orlando, FL, and was a mathlete in high school. She enjoys live music, hiking with her dog, ghost stories, and a good IPA. As an Emory medical student, she cofounded WISER and produced the entirety of Season 1 and more… back when we thought we might just do a handful of interviews. Her interests ended up leading her to critical care, and she is now an internal medicine resident at Emory.
Advisor: Jessica Liu originally hails from Toronto, Canada and is now an endocrine surgery fellow @UABSurgery. She loves to eat, travel, hike, and scuba dive. On her honeymoon to a safari, she helped operate on a cheetah – talk about combining interests! She joined WISER in 2019, and with her leadership, we’ve implemented some innovative ideas that we cannot wait to show you in Season 4!
Director: Jessica Keilson is a current Emory general surgery resident, back in the OR after completing impressive research investigating cholangiocarcinoma and gastrointestinal malignancies as a Clinical Research Fellow in the Lesinski Lab at the Winship Cancer Institute. She received her Doctor of Medicine from Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Outside the hospital, she can be found hiking, traveling, and hanging with her family and two dogs, Izzy and Delilah.
WISER/AWS Student Leadership
Co-President/Co-Producer: Shannon Su is an M4 joining us from Shanghai, Taipei, and the Bay Area. She had the fortune of spending the year leading up to medical school in Taiwan where the COVID-19 case counts trended a bit lower than here in the US. Shannon is interested in plastics, orthopedics, ophthalmology, dermatology, and ENT. Her hobbies include playing volleyball, golf, and tennis as well as cooking, making bread, and painting; she also loves to travel to new places and try new foods!
Co-President/Co-Producer: Megan Wasson is an M4 from Kentucky. She spends her free time running, attempting yoga, hiking, baking, and reading. She is interested in a little bit of everything and looks forward to learning more about surgery from our accomplished @WISERpodcast guests who are breaking ground for women in medicine everywhere!
Presidential Advisor: Lizzie Rieger is an M4 from Long Island, NY, and one of the co-presidents of WISER! She loves to golf in her free time, and is currently doing a year of hip and knee joint reconstruction research with the orthopedic surgery department.
Vice President/Event Coordinator: Cynthia Ramazani is an M4 from Bukavu, DR Congo. She enjoys cooking and baking and has developed a penchant for hiking and interior design. She hopes to pursue a career in surgery, possibly pediatric surgery or vascular surgery.
Vice President/Event Coordinator: Rachel Holstein is an M3 originally from Minnesota but has been living in Atlanta for the past 4 years. In her free time, she loves to run, practice yoga, and hike with her partner and their two dogs. Her current medical interests are in pediatric, CT, and vascular surgery.
Chief Editor: Grace Nguyen is an M4 and is a Podcast Host/Editor for WISER! She’s originally from Georgia and enjoys soccer, tennis, cooking, and playing with her puppy. Her current interest is in anesthesiology.
Mentorship Coordinator/Newsletter Director: Julia Byrnes is an M3 and is originally from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. She enjoys running, cooking, yoga, traveling, and is actually training to become a certified yoga teacher! Her current interests include pediatric surgery and general surgery.
Treasurer: Francesca Giraudo is an M3 who joins us from Fossano, Italy. She loves reading, running, and going to concerts. Her daily sweet treat of choice is an ice-cold diet coke! Franci’s current interests include neurosurgery or pediatric surgery
Social Media: Harleen Kaur
M1 Representative: Amelia Fogle, originally from Danville, Kentucky, enjoys reading, gardening, and running in her spare time. She loves a good purple cauliflower, and sometimes grows them in her own garden. Her current interest lies in the field of vascular surgery.
Special Acknowledgments
Logo Design: Priya Rajdev graduated from Emory General Surgery Residency in 2019, then she went to complete a Minimally Invasive Surgery fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University. She is now in Pheonix as a MIS surgeon.
Theme Music: Patrick Postlewait is songwriter and producer based in Atlanta, who also happens to be married to a former Emory general surgery resident, who is now a breast surgeon.
We also like to thank the Emory General Surgery Department, specifically Dr. Thomas Dodson for his inspiration in starting a project, Dr. Keith Delman for creating a supportive, equitable residency, and Dr. Jahnavi Srinivasan who has been a great mentor to WISER.