Biography

I am a proud New Jerseyan by birth and rearing. I earned my B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania where I got my start in my now career-long focus on insulin and its actions in the lab of Dr. Bryan Wolf. Thereafter I came to Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. I earned my M.Phil. in Clinical Biochemistry as a member of Clare College at the Institute of Metabolic Science under Dr. Robert Semple by modeling syndromes of severe insulin resistance in cell culture models. I next continued my research on insulin resistance in the lab of Dr. Domenico Accili at Columbia University in New York, where I graduated from the M.D./Ph.D. program in 2016. I have since stayed on at Columbia to complete my residency in internal medicine and fellowship in endocrinology. I am currently Assistant Professor of Medicine within the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Columbia University Medical Center. I am the leader of a research group studying the role of insulin in hepatic lipid metabolism in human subjects.

Previous Education

University of Pennsylvania BA, Biology 2008