I am a resident physician completing a preliminary year in internal medicine at MedStar Georgetown, followed by residency in radiation oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I recently graduated from the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where I completed my doctoral thesis in Pathology. My PhD research, funded by an NCI Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F30CA278322), focused on cancer immunology and how the physical characteristics of radiation alter its biological effects.
Working in the laboratory of Dr. Chandan Guha, I investigated the impact of radiation energy on hematopoietic, gastrointestinal, and immunologic injury using orthovoltage X-rays and 137Cs γ-rays, identifying an energy dependence of relative biological effectiveness (RBE). I also evaluated the gastrointestinal toxicity of pencil-beam scanned FLASH proton therapy with the New York Proton Center, and coordinated multi-institutional collaborations with the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory and the Heidelberger Ionenstrahl Therapiezentrum to study the immunologic effects of carbon ion radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer models.
I graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Biology (with distinction) and a Master of Science in Chemistry. My research at Penn, under Dr. Constantinos Koumenis, explored the role of Interleukin-6 in radiation-induced gastrointestinal toxicity using focal, image-guided preclinical models.
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Research
My research has focused on how the biological response to radiation depends its unique physical characteristics.