WeatherBrains 255: Sit on your Bottom

The WeatherBrains guest panelist is Colleen Coyle. She joined the WFAA weather team in Dallas in July, 2010, coming there from KPSP-TV in Palm Springs, CA. Colleen is originally from Atlanta and received her meteorology degree from Georgia Tech. She enjoys bungee jumping, roller coasters and chasing tornadoes. You can catch Colleen’s forecasts on News 8 Daybreak’s weekend edition.
Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain took her BS in Biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1971 and continued at MSU for her medical degree in 1975. Dr. Mary Ann Cooper completed residency training in Emergency Medicine (1978) at the University of Cincinnati, the first emergency medicine program in the US. During her residency she developed an interest in electrical injuries and progressed to lightning injuries for which she is now considered one of the world’s experts in this narrow field. She remains a practicing emergency physician and senior faculty member at the University of Illinois Hospital. In addition to seeing general emergency patients in the emergency department, teaching medical students, residents, serving as a senior faculty member on university and medical school committees, she directs the Lightning Injury Research Program. Her research interests span prevention to clinical interventions to development of an animal model of lightning injury.
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