Grace Breuer, MD
Class: 2024
Hometown: Midland, Mich.
Undergraduate school: Michigan State University
Medical school: Central Michigan University
Professional interests: Primary care mental health integration, rural health care, addiction medicine, women’s health, and health education
Outside interests: Baking, hiking, spending time with family and friends, and board games
Email: grace-breuer@uiowa.edu
Kale Siebert, MD
Class: 2024
Hometown: Deerwood, Minn.
Undergraduate school: University of St. Thomas
Medical school: University of Minnesota
Professional interests: LGBTQ medicine, integrating psychiatry into primary care, addiction medicine, and underserved medicine
Outside interests: Running, traveling, snowboarding, rock climbing, yoga, food, studying Japanese, and tech
Email: kale-siebert@uiowa.edu
Jacob Groen, DO
Class: 2025
Hometown: Shoreline, Wash.
Undergraduate school: Occidental College
Medical school: Pacific Northwest University
Professional interests: Marginalized populations, particularly the underserved, and LGBTQ care.
Email: jacob-groen@uiowa.edu
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Joseph Rattenni, DO
Class: 2025
Hometown: Wilmington, Del.
Undergraduate school: University of Delaware
Medical school: Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine
Professional interests: The social determinants of health, community and underserved medicine, cognitive behavioral therapy, metacognition, the bicameral mind theory and jungian psychology, and neuropsychopharmacology
Email: joseph-rattenni@uiowa.edu
Meha Desai, MD
Class: 2026
Hometown: Naperville, Ill.
Undergraduate school: Illinois Institute of Technology
Medical school: University of Illinois at Chicago
Professional interests: integration of psychiatry into primary care, underserved medicine, global health, immigrant and refugee health, women's health
Outside interests: spending time with friends and family, cooking/baking, reading, painting, caring for houseplants, playing flute, tennis
Email: meha-desai@uiowa.edu
Angella Gyamfi, DO
Class: 2026
Hometown: Kumasi, Ghana & Apple Valley, Minn.
Undergraduate School: Cornell College
Medical School: William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine (WCUCOM)
Professional Interests: Integration of psychiatry and family medicine, global medicine, rural healthcare, underserved medicine, and mentoring pre-med individuals
Outside Interests: Spending time with family and friends, dancing, singing/choir, cooking, Korean cuisine, watching movies and Asian dramas, and learning about different cultures.
Email: angella-gyamfi@uiowa.edu
Emily Trudeau, MD
Class: 2027
Hometown: Sioux City
Undergrad School: University of Iowa
Medical School: University of Iowa College of Medicine
Professional Interests: women’s health, prenatal care, addiction medicine, mood disorders
Outside Interests: thrifting, long treks outside with my husband and/or friends, advocacy work, knitting, sewing, quilting, listening to music (preferably live bands) and relaxing with my cats
Email: emily-trudeau@uiowa.edu
Brooke Byun, MD
Class: 2028
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Undergraduate school: University of Washington Seattle
Medical school: Washington State University
Kacie Griffith, DO
Class: 2028
Hometown: Vinton, IA
Undergraduate school: Iowa State University
Medical school: Des Moines University