Blake Caldwell, MD PhD is a former American

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. Notable results include placing second to

Tyler Hamilton Tyler Hamilton (born March 1, 1971) is an American former professional road bicycle racer. He is the only American rider to win one of the five Monuments of cycling, taking Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2003. Hamilton became a professional cycl ...

in the 2008 US Professional Road Race Championship in a photo finish losing to Hamilton by less than a tire's width. He also won stage 2 of the 2008 Tour of Utah, finishing 2nd in GC. His other professional win was stage 6 of the 2006 Tour of Utah. which was named 2006 Ride of the Year by cycling publication VeloNews. As a junior cyclist, he won 11 Junior National Championships titles in road and track events and competed in the 2001 UCI Junior World Road Championships. In his first year as an amateur in 2003, he had

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rides in 2003 with US professional team Prime Alliance and UCI Professional Team Marco Polo. He joined Team 5280 Suburu (now known as

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) in 2004. As a perennial member of the Slipstream cohort, he continued with team Slipstream into the UCI Pro Tour in 2009. He and several other Slipstream riders have found successful careers after retiring from professional cycling. *

Timmy Duggan Timothy Duggan (born November 14, 1982) is a retired American professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2005 and 2013. Duggan turned professional in 2005 with (Slipstream Sports), which morphed into Garmin. After ...

(Real Estate) *

Steven Cozza Steven Cozza (born March 3, 1985) is a professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for . Cozza helped his father co-found the Boy Scouts equality advocacy group Scouting for All when he was 12 years old, and was the focus of ''Scout's Honor'' ...

(Real Estate) * Will Frischkorn (Business Owner) *

Ian MacGregor (cyclist) Ian D. MacGregor (born April 13, 1983) is an American professional road racing cyclist. MacGregor last rode for UCI Continental team and is the former US Under 23 National Road Champion. In 2006 he founded the ''Just Go Harder Foundation'' wit ...

(Skratch Labs CEO) *

Craig Lewis (cyclist) Craig Lewis (born January 10, 1985) is an American former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2007 and 2013. In 2004, while riding for – then a small team on the US circuit that would later grow to be one ...

(Wine Distributor)

Osteoporosis

During the 2008 Tour of Missouri, he suffered a crash in which he fractured his hip and collarbone sidelining him for the remainder of 2008. After returning to professional competition in the spring of 2009, he again fractured his hip while training in Girona, Spain. The series of hip fractures led to a bone density test and a diagnosis of osteoporosis. In 2010 he stepped down from the higher level

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, for whom he had ridden since 2007, to race at a less competitive level while seeking to reverse the onset of

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Medicine

Having studied medicine as a consequence of his disease in addition to computer science, Blake Calwell, MD PhD finished Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in the class of 2024. He completed a year of surgical internship at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York and began radiology residency at Columbia University in 2024.
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References

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