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Feature Alum: Roger Pacholka
1980 B.A., 1988 M.D.
Attending Physician, Miami Valley Hospital,
Dayton, Ohio
"When I see people facing their worst, I have to
be my best."
When Roger Pacholka reports to work as attending physician in Miami Valley Hospital's emergency department, he never knows what life and death decisions he'll confront during his 9-hour shift. "It's a specialty where I have to know a lot about a lot of different things. But I love the challenge of emergency medicine. It's a privilege to serve."
Pacholka also volunteers as medical director for the Xenia Fire Department and serves as a medical missionary through an organization he founded, In His Name Ministries.
"I came from a poor family. I never envisioned myself as a doctor. It did not occur to me until I went to Wright State. I did so well in the science classes, even with the professors holding us all to very high standards. That's when I began thinking that I could make it in medical school."
Favorite WSU Memory: The camaraderie I felt in medical school. We came from all walks of life, but we were going through the same ordeal together.
Favorite Quote: "Success is not measured by how far you have gone, but how far you have gone from where you started." Northridge High School coach
Last Book Read: The Cat From Hue, John Laurence
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