Faculty

Transitional Year Program Director

Medical School: Oregon Health & Sciences University 

Residency: University of Arizona, Tucson, Chief Resident  

Professional Interest: My interests in emergency medicine include medical resuscitations, orthopedic injuries, and COVID....and then more COVID, after that COVID. And sometimes influenza, then COVID. Sometimes I also enjoy procalcitonin and lactic acid. 

Outside of the hospital I enjoy breakfast foods, college football, video games, warm weather, and freedom.  My dislikes include water chestnuts, taxes, cold weather, and drivers who don't use their blinkers. 

I am indifferent on cilantro, as I don't suffer from this single-nucleotide polymorphism. I am also indifferent to people with poor spelling, as I do suffer from this affliction. 

Emergency Medicine Program Director/Clerkship Director

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USC

Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT

Fellowship: Medical Education Leadership, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Professional Interests: Medical education

Hobbies: Hiking, gardening, baking bread, spending time with family

Emergency Medicine

Undergraduate: Pomona College

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USC

Residency: Los Angeles County + USC Emergency Medicine, Graduated 6/2019

Hometown: Concord, MA

Time at Joe's: 9/2019-Current.

Hobbies/Interests: Skiing, slow pitch softball (now that my baseball days are behind me), ping pong, traveling off the beaten track, finding the best cheap eats. Somehow, I wound up a huge fan of 3 of the most hated teams in sports- the USC Trojans, New England Patriots, and New York Yankees.

Random/Fun Fact: In order to support myself as a pre-med ski bum, I worked as a Subway mascot. Yes, I danced around in a giant sandwich costume. The highlight of my career was offering a coupon for a buy one, get one free 6 inch sub to former Yankees 1st Baseman and LA Dodgers manager Don Mattingly (he totally declined). Sadly, I got a job as an EMT in Snowmass, CO and had to retire from mascothood.

Director of Simulation

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Residency: Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA

Fellowship: Medical Simulation, UC Davis

Professional Interest: Simulation, medical education, ultrasound.

Hobbies: Sailing/kayaking/canoeing, playing music, spending time with my family.

Medical School: American University of Antigua

Residency: St. Joseph’s Medical Center

Fellowship: Ultrasound at Northshore University/Long Island Jewish

Professional Interests: ocular and lung ultrasounds, QA, and also trying to get better at VexUS.

Hobbies: East coast born, West coast trained. I enjoy the California fresh produce and the lack of humidity, but you will not find me eating a West coast pizza or bagel. If I’m not in the emergency department, I am probably running a half marathon/marathon, at a music festival, hanging out with my cat-dog Koda and fiance Jordan, or napping while watching Netflix/Hulu.

Internist at SJMC

Medical School: Gandhi Medical College Secunderabad, Telangana India

Residency: Internal Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

Professional Interest: Dealing with complex inpatients, love coordinating care with different specialists and work on quality improvement projects.  I am very passionate about teaching and resident education as I believe both med school and residency is a wonderful memorable journey in a physician’s life. It gives me immense pleasure to help students and residents walk through this journey and help them become a compassionate patient’s doctor.

Hobbies: Spending time with family especially with my 2 super energetic boys who keep me busy all the time at home. Other hobbies include cooking, Traveling etc. I have great passion for classical music as well.

Emergency Medicine Physician

Undergrad: University of California, Los Angeles 

Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine

Residency: St. Joseph’s Medical Center

Professional Interest: Graduate Medical Education - I am proud to be part of GME to help train residents into competent and compassionate physicians. 

Hobbies: I enjoy traveling and cooking. My latest adventure was 5 weeks in Italy and ever since have been trying to recreate the amazing dishes with minor success. With work in full bloom and charting for endless hours, an Agatha Christie book poolside is what I’m looking for! 

Research Director: Graduate Medical Education

Education: Ph.D., Statistics Univ. of Wisconsin-Mil/Medical College of Wisconsin