I am currently a research-track psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania. With biostatisticians Drs. Taki Shinohara and Shefali Setia-Verma, I am investigating and developing a risk stratification model to predict postpartum depression before it occurs using comprehensive data from the Penn Medicine Biobank, including clinical, genomic, psychosocial, and geocoded environmental factors. As a resident, I have also done research with Dr. Sheila Shanmugan on sex differences in precision functional mapping and gray matter changes in perinatal depression. 

During medical school, I realized my passion for caring for patients' mental health around pregnancy and menopause and I was drawn to the gaps in knowledge surrounding reproductive psychiatric disorders. Before medical school, I studied neuroscience and biochemistry at the College of William and Mary, and spent two years as a a post-baccalaureate IRTA research fellow in the Section on the Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety at the National Institute of Mental Health, where I studied circuit-based and neuroendocrine therapeutics.

My long-term goal is to become a reproductive psychiatrist and independent investigator focused on risk prediction and early intervention for neuropsychiatric disorders across the reproductive lifespan.