Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
I am currently in my final year of thoracic-track cardiothoracic surgery fellowship in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University. I completed my general surgery training at UCLA, including a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship where I examined how cancer metabolism, specifically autophagy and lysosome function, could be therapeutically targeted in pancreatic cancer. When I returned from the laboratory to my senior clinical rotations, my clinical interest narrowed to thoracic surgical oncology as I developed a love of thoracic anatomy and cardiopulmonary physiology. I feel very fortunate to be training in thoracic surgery at Stanford, and my goal is to leverage my prior laboratory experience with my thoracic oncology practice to establish a productive basic and translational laboratory.