Medical Student (MS4)
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
I am a 4th-year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and will be pursuing an Internal Medicine residency during the 2021 application cycle with the long-term goal of specializing in Infectious Diseases. As a medical student, my main research interest has broadly been on the intersectionality of infectious diseases and social justice. In addition to studying the PrEP prescribing practices for high-risk youth at my institution, I assisted with a project assessing the impact of a routine opt-out HIV screening and patient navigator-assisted linkage to care protocol in an urban ED on linkage to care outcomes. I also participated in a student-led needs assessment analysis of LGBTQ community centers in Newark, NJ. Prior to medical school, I worked as a research technician at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard on a project investigating the effect of HIV-associated alterations in the gut microbiota on host immunity and inflammation in cohorts based in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa. During that time, I also worked for a startup company that uses whole genome sequencing and machine learning to rapidly identify the species and resistance profiles of bacterial infections. I received a BA in Biology from Wheaton College in Norton, MA, where I studied the movement of antibiotic resistance genes between the college campus and surrounding environment through a connected waste and drinking water system.
