I’m cultivating a career in academic psychiatry, where I can contribute in as many ways as an MD/PhD can: pursuing humanistic and social scientific inquiry, supporting trainees across all levels of higher education—UME, GME, and academia—as a mentor and educator, and above all else, providing humanistically-informed care for underserved populations. Over the next several years of training, I am looking forward to gaining even greater exposure to the many facets of psychiatric practice.

Given my passion for attending to the social and cultural dimensions of illness, I have particular interests in psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders. These are domains of psychopathology that will permit me to use my humanistic knowledge to advocate for vulnerable patients by means of combating stigma and structural inequities in our society and mental health care system. In my practice, I devote myself to carefully considering the social and structural determinants of health, in addition to staying abreast of the latest psychopharmacology.

The way I see it, psychiatry is a field that straddles social science and natural science; theory and practice; intellect and emotion: precisely the interdisciplinary terrain where I feel I can do the most good for patients in all their particularity.