Residency Appointment:

Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Currently PGY-2

Education

·        Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, US, M.D., 2009

·        Iowa State University, Ames, IA, US, B.S. in Genetics, 2005

Clinical Interests

Awards/Honors               

·        Public Health Symposium 2007, Award for Best Presentation

·        Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and OB/GYN Clinical Honors

       Undergraduate

·        National Merit Scholar

·        Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society

·        Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society

·        University Honors Program

·        Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma

·        Dean’s List

Affiliations

Research

·        “Early MRI changes in Huntington’s Disease.” 

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Summer Research Program, 2006. 

·        “Genetic regulation of the cellular response to hypoxia in C. elegans.”  

 Iowa State University, 2003-2005.

·        “Optimizing T cell uptake of iron-based MRI contrast agents, for use with a mouse model of T cell-mediated cancer therapy.” 

Summer Undergraduate Research Program, 2004.  Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis.

·        “Stage II breast cancer and survival.” 

Summer Undergraduate Research, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. 2003. 

Presentations

Selected Publications

Coauthored commentaries published in Breast Diseases. 14(4) p375-8.

“Induced abortion, miscarriage, and breast cancer risk of young women.”

“Bilateral synchronous breast cancer: a population-based study of characteristics, method of detection and survival”