Dr. Almaz Sara Dessie and Dr. Michael Aaron Moffat are to be married Oct. 7 at the Belle Isle Boat House in Detroit. Kira Neel, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, is to officiate.
Dr. Dessie, 33, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She is also a pediatric emergency room doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. She graduated from Brown, from which she also received a medical degree.
She is a daughter of Toby S. Mannheimer and Alazar Dessie of Miami Beach.
Dr. Moffat, 34, is an attending pediatrician at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal and received a medical degree from Michigan State University.
He is the son of Elaine M. Moffat of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Douglas A. Moffat of East Lansing, Mich.
The couple met in 2012, during their pediatrics residency at the University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Calif.
