"Good medicine should be grounded in what we know and curious about what we don’t."

I started my medical career in general surgery. I loved the intensity, the technical skill, and the ability to intervene when something was clearly wrong. But I became increasingly interested in everything that happened outside the operating room: why people became sick in the first place, why recovery looked so different from one person to another, and why so many symptoms didn’t fit neatly into a single diagnosis.

 

That curiosity eventually led me to family medicine and osteopathic medicine, where my training ranged from intensive care and high-risk obstetrics to outpatient medicine and hands-on osteopathic treatment. It gave me a much broader view of health, but I still found myself drawn to the questions that conventional training didn’t always answer well.

 

Integrative medicine became the place where those questions could live. I went on to complete fellowship training at Northwestern Medicine’s Osher Center for Integrative Health, along with additional training in functional medicine, mind-body medicine, yoga, and other approaches to whole-person care. Today, I practice within academic medicine, caring for patients with complex health concerns while helping shape how integrative medicine can exist alongside conventional care.