Program:
Start Year:
2025
Why did you choose Duke for your residency training?
I chose Duke Ob/Gyn because Duke has outstanding clinical training, including a high acuity labor floor with heavy maternal-fetal medicine involvement (and thus great exposure to high-risk pregnancy) as well as excellent family planning services, and excellent and early exposure to gynecologic surgical training, including excellent minimally invasive surgery. I wanted to attend an academic program that would train me to be the best ob/gyn I could be while also working in a program that was committed to advocacy and reproductive justice.
What excites you about the residency program at Duke Ob/Gyn?
Duke has such strong faculty and resident voices advocating for reproductive justice and they continue to share their ongoing, clear commitment to reproductive and health justice, and I cannot wait to join this amazing group of scholars and advocates! Duke was also one of the few programs with readily accessible resident-specific research funding, which showed how they value the scholarly pursuits of their residents, and I've seen that residents have done amazing interdisciplinary research, including leading randomized controlled trials!
What are your career goals?
I hope to become an academic ob/gyn (faculty) at a university-affiliated ob/gyn department one day, either as an MFM, MIGS or generalist (although I'm pretty undecided between these). I plan to also pursue scholarship in bioethics, reproductive justice and health justice as well as clinical research, while ideally being heavily involved in medical education for both residents and medical students!
Describe your research interests/goals:
I am interested in bioethics, reproductive justice and health justice scholarship, including ethics of research in pregnancy, pain during office-based gynecologic procedures, criminalization of pregnancy and ethics concerns related to artificial intelligence. I am also broadly interested in clinical ob/gyn research, and hope to narrow my clinical research focus during residency.
What are your hobbies?
I love playing tennis and now also pickleball, collecting vinyl records, seeing my favorite artists live, trying new food/restaurants, traveling, recreating fun TikTok recipes and doing anything to hang with friends!
Education & Training
Undergraduate school & graduation year:
University of Texas at Austin, 2020
Medical school & graduation year:
Yale School of Medicine, 2025
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