In medical school, I found myself being drawn to almost every specialty I rotated through. I mean seriously - you name it, I considered it because I truly enjoyed it all. It wasn’t until I rotated through family medicine that I realized how much I loved the breadth that this specialty has to offer. It is also a field that is extremely inclusive, emphasizes prevention, provides a great deal of education to its patients, flexible, and allows me to form deep, long-term connections with the people I will be helping. Whether it's a pregnant woman seeking prenatal care whose baby I can also help deliver, a transgender adolescent with questions about hormone therapy, refugee children needing well-child checks, or a geriatric patient with dementia whose family needs palliative care services, my specialty can and will cater to people of all sexes, genders, races, and ages no matter what medical problems they have.
I chose Emory for several reasons, some of the biggest being location, it being an academic institution (since I want to go into academic medicine), opportunities to rotate through several different hospitals, and most importantly, diversity. I want to really emphasize how important diversity within a program was for me. If you look at our program’s faculty members and residents, we come from all walks of life and all parts of the country, and even the world!
About me
Hometown: Jacksonville, Fl
Medical School: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Clinical interests: Full-spectrum, academic medicine
Hobbies: Reading, bullet journaling, exploring all of the good restaurants that Atlanta has to offer, decorating my apartment, taking/editing pictures (check out our Emory FM IG!)