Boston, Massachusetts, United States
I am a resident physician (internal medicine) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School with interests in cardiology, epidemiology, CRISPR diagnostics, multi-omics, and translational science.
Elected Sigma Xi
Department of Preventive Medicine Advisor: Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones MD ScM - Ongoing fully funded research year (completing AY 2023-24) mentored by Dr. Lloyd-Jones with funding from the Northwestern RISE Fellowship and American Heart Association (AHA) Student Scholarship in Cardiovascular Disease. Awarded competitive AHA Travel Grant for attendance at Get With the Guidelines data bootcamp. - Spearheading multiple projects in cardiovascular epidemiology that leverage large, prospective, longitudinal, community-based cohort studies (e.g. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults [CARDIA] study) to investigate cardiovascular health, as defined by the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8, in young adulthood and its association with later-life clinical outcomes and incident cardiovascular events. Additionally investigating and refining risk prediction models for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). - First-authored multiple papers and presented many abstracts as first author (including two as distinguished oral presentations at AHA Epi/Lifestyle Scientific Sessions and American College of Cardiology [ACC] Scientific Sessions, one as a moderated poster at AHA Scientific Sessions, and one which received "Top 50 Abstract" honors at AHA Scientific Sessions). - Training in epidemiologic and advanced biostatistical methods
Department of Physiology Advisor: Apkar Apkarian PhD - Leveraged fMRI and computational models to elucidate functional and anatomic mechanisms of chronic pain and prediction of placebo-responsive analgesia - Coordinated and recruited for prospective chronic pain cohort
Department of Surgical Pathology Advisors: Drs. Christa Whitney-Miller MD, David Hicks MD, Ping Tang MD https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30624589/