RESIDENTS

Class of 2025 (PGY-3)

Lauren Benning, DO

  • College: Duke University
  • Medical School: Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, NC
  • Internship: Family Medicine, North Memorial Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Benning is originally from Florida and comes to us from the North Memorial Broadway Family Medicine Residency in North Minneapolis, following environmental science work as an undergrad at Duke University and medical school (actually osteopathic school) at the Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine in North Carolina. She is very interested in Total Worker Health from the perspective of preventing individual health risks both in and outside of the workplace. Specifically, she is very interested in Lifestyle Medicine, and particularly nutrition, following some significant success she had as a nutrition blogger in college and medical school; I am hoping to leverage some of her social media expertise to help promote our specialty, and she and I are thinking about using TikTok, so be on the lookout there! She has completed about two years of Family Medicine training, but found that some of the system pressures of primary care (e.g., more patients and less time) as well as the inpatient care required in training were not a great fit for her. She was very industrious and connected with our department through Dr. Sellman, and she has been able to spend some time in our clinics already as an observer, so it is possible you may have seen her at least in passing.

James Lo, DO

  • College: University of California Berkeley
  • Medical School: Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine
    , IA
  • Internship: Transitional Year, LewisGale Medical Center Salem, Virginia

Dr. Lo is originally from Taiwan, and his family moved to Southern California when he was in high school. He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley, where he had an interesting minor in Global Poverty & Practice, followed by medical school (actually osteopathic school) at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he became familiar with living in the Midwest. He is currently completing a transitional year residency (this is a one-year residency program prior to physicians entering other specialties, like ours) in Virginia. He has a particular interest in infectious disease following seeing the SARS epidemic primarily in Asia when he was a child, which gave him very interesting perspective with COVID-19, and he is concerned about infectious disease risks in occupational settings. He also has focused interests in emergency preparedness and toxicology. He got introduced to OEM while doing some public health research wherein he got to work with an OEM physician doing firefighter physicals, and I believe he is interested in our department’s focus on first responders and specifically firefighters.

Class of 2026 (PGY-2)

Prapti Kuber, MD, MBA

  • Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine, Barbados
  • Internship: Mount Sinai-Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, NY

Bio coming soon.

Mohamed Mohamed, MD

  • Medical School: Trinity School of Medicine, St. Vincent
  • Internship: University of Louisville School of Medicine, KY

Bio coming soon.