I was born in Boston and raised in Lexington, Massachusetts and Rochester, New York. I first came to Hawaii to do my internship at Queens Medical Center and returned after finishing my radiology residency in Boston. My father was a professor of medicine and biochemistry, first at Harvard and then at the University of Rochester. My mother taught children with learning disabilities. We traveled extensively and lived in London for a year when my father did a research sabbatical. As I was growing up, my parents taught me to always be kind and to never stop learning.