My career started by completing a cum laude degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, a medical degree at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, an Internal Medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Weill-Cornell), Chief Medical Resident at New York Downtown Hospital, and a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Harvard (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). 

I then served as ICU Director at multiple hospitals across the US in both academic hospital centers as well as community and rural hospitals before joining UC San Diego as Medical Director for Critical Care and Telemedicine Outreach. I am now also Medical Director for the ICU at the VA Medical Center, San Diego and has served as Medical Director for a long-term acute hospital partner of UC San Diego.