"I attended high school in Westchester County, New York, where I was inducted into the National Honor Society my sophomore year. I received enough Advanced Placement course credits to begin college at Indiana University as a sophomore, and graduated in three years with departmental honors and 1/10 point short of general honors. My degree (2011) was in an individualized major combining bioanthropology and nutrition, including ancillary biology, chemistry, physiology, and statistics courses.

I attended graduate school at the University of Florida where I received a master of science in nutrition (2013). I took graduate-level courses in biochemistry, metabolism, macro and micronutrients, immunology, laboratory techniques, probability, and statistics. For my master’s thesis project I studied the effect of probiotics on digestive and immune health and published my findings in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

In 2015 I took the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) to reapply to graduate school and amongst two tests received a 159 (81st percentile) in verbal, 156 (64th percentile) in math, and a 5.0 (93rd percentile) in writing.

I completed Columbia University's Postbac Premed program in May of 2019.

I currently attend Nova Southeastern University Medical School.

In closing, I try to make a habit of practicing all aspects of my life. In so doing, I notice growth opportunities, academic or not, that I can share with my students for their own improvement." less...