About Me
Mission
Statement
As a 2nd year psychiatry resident at Northwestern University, my mission is to provide hope and care to persons with mental illness. In service to that mission, I engage in personal learning, teaching, and medical education scholarship.
Educational
Philosophy
My educational philosophy has been fundamentally shaped by Carol Dweck's book Mindset (2016) which contrasts a fixed mindset with a growth mindset.
In her words, "The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset...The fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving." (pgs 7; 130).
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Whether in my own learning and clinical practice, in my didactic teaching, or when interacting with other learners, I approach each interaction with the idea that this is an opportunity for growth and learning.
I also believe that the how of education is just as important as the what. Attitudes of care and concern form the bedrock upon which all my teaching takes place.
Clinical Training
2022 - present
Psychiatry Resident, PGY-2
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Education
2022
MD
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2021
MPH (epidemiology)
Graduate Minor: Public Policy & Management
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1998
MA (theology)
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
1998
MDiv
The Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology, Berkeley, CA
Education Goals
My primary goal is to complete my 3rd year of residency in adult psychiatry and then fast-track into a fellowship in child & adolescent psychiatry.
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During the summer of 2024 I will be applying for the M.A. in bioethics at Northwestern University. I hope to specialize in virtue ethics and use that as my philosophical approach to questions in psychiatric ethics.
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I would also like to continue researching how to most effectively teach psychiatry trainees about LGBTQ mental healthcare. As part of that research program, I want to publish a scoping review on creating, implementing, and evaluating LGBTQ mental healthcare didactics for psychiatry residents.