I am honored to have my abstract, titled Development of Patient-Pathology Specific Aortic Root Model for Potential Risk Analysis of TAVR, as one of the 10 medical student abstracts chosen as a winner of the 2015 National Abstract Competition and deemed a Young Achiever by the American College of Physicians!

Posing with the Father of Internal Medicine: Dr. William Osler.

The conference marked 100 years of it’s kind, and as a medical student it was a pleasure to attend and take in all the knowledge presented. There were so many good talks, that I couldn’t go to all of them because of overlapping of times.  I ended up attending all of the Medical Student specific talks on the MATCH and professionalism, and separate talks on sleep apnea, C. difficile, SLE, EKGs, and much more. It was also a great experience meeting and listening to other medical students from around the country present their work either in poster form or up on stage for an oral presentation like myself. While public speaking is always hard, I am glad that I had the opportunity to prepare and present in front of a crowd. After this conference, I am determined to include research in my future career path. I am thankful for all the research mentorship I have received this past year from Dr. Danny Bluestein, Ted Claiborne, and Matteo Bianchi and for the project I have been fortunate enough to be able to work on.

I have just received my 3rd year rotations schedule! It is very exciting and I’m happy with the people I will be rotating with as well!

Since Stony Brook University has a new curriculum set up for the year under us, we had to choose rotation tracks. I ended up in Track 2 which is:
Pediatrics
OB/GYN
Primary Care
Psychiatry
Medicine
Surgery
I have all of my sites at Stony Brook University Hospital, except for Medicine at the VAMC and Surgery at Winthrop Hospital.

I’m already looking forward to rotations, fingers crossed that I do well on my Step 1 exam!

So I didn’t have this professional blog last summer, so I thought I would post about my amazing experience in Peru.

Last year I was fortunate enough to be a part of a cataract surgery and medical mission. Suffice to say it was a great opportunity and I hope I can help A Promise to Peru in a future mission during my career (Here’s looking forward to you 4th year!). What drew me to this cause was that providing cataract surgeries was a permanent way for helping the indigenous people of Peru and that the organization was committed to involve local doctors and other resources in order to not loose these patients to followups after their surgery. These are, in my opinion, very important factors to support in international missions!

Our friend and Quechua translator.

Here are the stats from the mission in 2014:
1,650 patients were evaluated
1,000 pairs of prescription glasses and sunglasses were dispensed
50 ultrasound exams performed
85 eye surgeries performed
2 studies on health in rural Peru were initiated

Taking patient histories.

As a rising MS2, it was amazing to interact with patients, a skill set I really did not develop in my first year. It reminded me why I wanted to go to medical school in the first place, and I can not thank this trip enough for renewing my motivation in clinical medicine. Plus, I really got to practice my Spanish skills. While I am still not fluent by any means, at least I can get an okay history if I need to!

A Promise to Peru Team Picture 2014

I am currently a 2nd year Medical Student at Stony Brook University. I am creating this website to act as my personal professional blog, place to access my curriculum vitae, and collection of my professional social media accounts. Thank you for taking a look and feel free to contact me!