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Undergraduate: University of Arizona
Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine
A little bit about myself...
Born in Baltimore, just around the harbor in Canton, but spent most of my years on the west coast. I received three degrees from the University of Arizona before deciding to leave; I will always be an Arizona Wildcat at heart (despite the failures of our last few basketball seasons). I came back to my hometown of Baltimore to experience a faster paced city with more culture and diverse populations. I came to the University of Maryland to experience different ways of practicing and learning medicine, diverse and underserved patient populations, and a wide range of disease pathology. I have found all these things here in Baltimore and at UMMS.
I love the diversity and culture of Baltimore and its people. I live just south of the hospital in Federal Hill and there seems to be some art or music festival in the streets of my neighborhood every other weekend. I especially love all pubs with their own microbrewed beers. I recommend the "Beagle" at Dog Pub in Federal Hill; it is half Peach Dog (light peach beer) and half Brown Dog (smooth nut brown ale). Despite enjoying the city, I am still from the west and love the outdoors. I enjoy snowboarding, running, biking, hiking, and playing ball and Frisbee at the dog park with my girls Abby and Romi.
I plan on pursuing a fellowship in Cardiology and ultimately Interventional Cardiology. If you work with me, you will quickly realize that I get easily excited about every little murmur and I jump at any opportunity to get EKGs on my patients. I find the anatomy and physiology of the heart fascinating and congenital heart diseases really allow me to apply what I learned in my former training (Master's in Physiology).
Now, why should you consider training here at Maryland? The goal of any good residency training program should be to show you the range of disease pathologies. Without exposure to a particularly rare disease process you will never think of it when you are faced with that patient with a perplexing diagnosis. When applying to residency programs my mentor reminded me of the saying, "the eye cannot see what the mind does not know." For example, we have all seen the logo on the side of a FedEx truck a million times, but did you ever notice the arrow in the negative space between the E and the X? If you didn't notice the arrow, you may not have known that it existed. Your eye could not see what your mind did not know. The Pediatrics Residency Training Program at the University of Maryland will show you the diverse range of disease pathology in pediatrics and you will see always see the arrows in the FedEx logos.
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