I am a physician-scientist completing a dual MD/PhD program at Case Western Reserve University. My PhD, completed at Stony Brook University, is in Biochemistry and Structural Biology — I spent six years characterizing the atomic architecture of amyloid-β plaques in Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. That work was a path to healing, not an end in itself.
In June 2026 I begin psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. The trajectory — from molecular structure to circuit, from bench to bedside — has always been organized around a single question: how do we preserve the continuity of a self when the brain begins to fail it?
I am drawn to the places where science reaches its limits and the clinical question becomes also a philosophical one. What does it mean to modify a memory? To stimulate a mood? To intervene in the experience of a self?