A different path to medicine
I came to medicine by way of nutrition.
Before becoming a physician assistant, I spent more than a decade running a clinical nutrition practice in the Coachella Valley, specializing in autoimmune conditions and gastrointestinal health.
For eight of those years, I also worked in pain management as a nutritionist. That experience—and the mentorship of a physician assistant—showed me the kind of clinician I wanted to become: one as interested in what may be driving a patient's condition as in treating it.
I earned my Master of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Yale School of Medicine. My clinical training spans concierge primary care, inpatient and outpatient internal medicine, cardiology, pediatrics, women's health, dermatology, orthopedics, sports medicine, and emergency medicine.
My Yale capstone, Rethinking Perimenopause: Why Screening Before Age 45 Matters, reflects my particular interest in prevention, women's health, and the diagnostic gaps that can leave patients without answers.
I am completing my Doctor of Medical Science degree at Butler University, with graduation expected in December 2026.