A physician, activist and humanitarian. I've been working in health, advocacy and human rights in New York, Southeast Asia, the Amazon, and Africa since college. I was born in New York City, raised in the suburbs, before going to Amherst College. I graduated magna cum laude with a major in Political Science. I spent a year in Thailand working with Karen refugees from Burma on human and environmental rights issues with EarthRights International. I entered The Mount Sinai School of Medicine through the Humanities & Medicine program, where we started numerous domestic and international public health efforts. Upon graduation was inducted into the alpha omega alpha honors society. I started a not-for-profit Medical Students Making Impacts, which initiated programs in Nigeria and Tanzania, and still organizes annual medical and surgical missions to Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. I'm board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and specialize in Infertility (Board Eligible). I completed my residency training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an Infertility fellowship at Brown University. I also received an MPH from Columbia University while working as an physician at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Scientific accomplishments include cutting edge research in molecular genetics, which led to numerous invited presentations and publications in national and international medical journals. Despite some scientific and academic achievements, I'm most passionate about making health and justice available to more people. I enjoy a unique job that allows me to spend half my time caring for infertile couples in New York and my remaining time to public health and developing programs for women in Africa and the developing world. I currently an assistant professor at The Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. When not in the hospital or traveling abroad, you might find me surfing, writing or listening/dancing to music.