About Me

My parents moved to the US in 1987, and I was the

first person in my family to be born & grow up here.

As a third-culture kid, I knew how much working hard meant to my family. My dad did residency three separate times – in India, in the UK, and in New York City. They instilled in me a love of reading and learning, and as a child I could often be found in an imaginary worlds of Little Women or Harry Potter. My dad took his first attending job in Fort Myers, FL, and that was where I grew up, and through my involvement in the YMCA Youth in Government program, I became interested in advocacy and how our government works. I chose to pursue dual degrees in biology and political science at the University of Florida.

I began medical training in 2009 as part of the first class as part of an innovative curriculum at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. This whetted my appetite for learning more about medical education. By the time I applied for residency, I knew I would one day pursue a master’s in education.

I applied for residency in general surgery and hoped to pursue a career in both pediatric surgery and medical education, but realized by the end of my first year of surgery that I did not love operating as much as I had hoped. I left my program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital with the well-wishes of my supervisors, and reapplied in pediatrics while I began a master’s program in medical education at the University of Pennsylvania.

As a pediatric resident at Children’s National Medical Center, I continued to cultivate my interest in medical education, and finished my master’s program during that intern year. Pediatric residency sparked my interest in entrustment and mechanisms of workplace learning, and I helped design and study a resident procedure curriculum.

As a pediatric emergency medicine fellow, I continue to be interested in entrustment and am studying how it is experienced by trainees. I love facilitating problem-based learning with first- and second-year medical students, and I continue to plan to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.