Throughout my life, I've lived back and forth between the East and West Coasts. I grew up in upstate New York and Northern California. I started volunteering in the local emergency room in high school and haven’t left the hospital since. I stayed in Northern California for my undergraduate studies, studying Spanish and neuroscience at University of California, Davis. I was able to combine my interest in languages with my premedical studies and now speak fluent Spanish. For medical school, I went back east to Pennsylvania State University in Hershey. I returned to Northern California for my general surgery residency in Oakland. For the last stage of training, I completed a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery in Long Island, New York.