About Me

I am a laboratory medicine resident at UCSF with my sights set on running my own basic science laboratory one day. My drive for studying neurodegenerative disease began in high school caring for residents of a retirement village in Springfield Virginia. Undergraduate research in the basics of protein aggregation cemented my desire to combine clinical training with basic science in protein misfolding, a driving force behind dementia. I completed medical training at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and PhD training at the NIH and the University of Cambridge through a supplemental training grant. As a resident pathologist-scientist at UCSF, I'm hoping to bring the amyloid-based diagnostics I developed in my PhD from bench to bedside. This site tracks my work and active projects with collaborators.