Ben

Willems

MD

Hometown: Galloway, New Jersey

Undergraduate: University of Delaware

Medical School: Stony Brook Medicine

Why did you choose VUMC Emergency Medicine? For the amazing training, the "Vandy fam" and all the fun that Nashville has to offer.

Interests in emergency medicine: Critical care and ultrasound

Five year plan: Finish residency and move onto a critical care fellowship and eventually landing a 50/50 EMCrit spot at an academic institution

If not EM, what? Paleontologist because I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid

Hobbies: Weightlifting, running, playing with my pitbull Duke

Random fact about me: My real name is Bernardus and I'm actually the 4th