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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Physician

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I am a third year pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. I am passionate about health disparities, advocacy, narrative medicine, hemoglobinopathies, and implementation science. My research is an effort to understand how we can safely & appropriately expand curative therapy for hematology pathologies to Sub-Saharan Africa (currently supported by a T32 in Infection & Immunity, ASH HIPFA, and P01 funds). My quality improvement work is a health literacy effort - the first of its kind in our division - and supported by AAP SOPT Health Equity Grant. Outside of the hospital, I teach narrative medicine & write poetry, short stories, flash fiction and procrastinate on my emerging novel. In my spare time, I blog: https://stilettosplusstethoscopes.wordpress.com

Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaResidency, Pediatrics, 2018 - 2021
Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical MedicineMPHTM, Tropical Medicine, Tulane School of Public Health Merit Scholarship, Outstanding Student in Tropical Medicine MPHTM-Clinical Program Award, AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science, 2014 - 2018
Tulane University School of MedicineClass of 2018, MD/MPHTM, Greater New Orleans Pediatric Society Herbert Rothschild M.D. Award, Gold Humanism Honor Society, Tulane School of Medicine Merit Scholarship
Princeton UniversityB.A, Molecular Biology & Global Health and Health Policy, Outstanding Work by a Sophomore - Creative Writing Department, 2010 - 2014