Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program

Our Residents

Ethel Weld, M.D.

Class of 2010
Undergraduate: New York University
Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
E-mail: eweld001@umaryland.edu

A little bit about myself...

I grew up in Cambridge, MA, have 4 siblings, and we were all five of us born within a seven year period with no twin gestations. (To a superhero mother ;)). Now I have one highly cute nephew who is fifteen months old and is currently going through a goth phase.

I studied French, Chinese, and History in college at NYU. After graduating I ived in Taipei, Taiwan, for a year and a half, working in a Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic and studying wing-chun kung fu. Then I lived in San Francisco, California working in a steakhouse and studying gap junction channelopathies in sporadic non-syndromic hearing loss in the lab at UCSF that developed the cochlear implant. While in medical school at the University of Chicago, I did a Schweitzer fellowship in pediatrics and surgery at the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, during which my appreciation for Nutella and zouk grew exponentially.

Now a fourth-year med-peds resident at the University of Maryland, I am doing research at the Center for Vaccine Development on the memory B IgA response to an experimental Shigella vaccine and applying for fellowships in Infectious Disease. I recently got a travel scholarship from the (saintly) Department of Medicine to travel to Lake Tanganyika in remote western Tanzania and work on a malaria-net distribution project. I love my med-peds colleagues at Maryland, past, present, and
future!

I have a highly prized and specialized top ten list of restaurants in Baltimore, split up by food genre, which is yours for the taking when you come to visit! Am also interested in: movies, mysteries, rooftop gardening, urban planning/ decay, The Wire, The Corner, fly-fishing, blues (Leadbelly, etc.), anthropology, malaria, public health, yoga, Edwardian literature, art, dim sum, and eating in general.

This page was last updated on: August 27, 2009.

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