I am passionate about serving my patients, my students, and my community. In addition to earning my MD degree at the University of Pennsylvania, I earned a PhD in Neuroscience for research performed at University of California San Francisco in the Department of Physiology about the role of sleep-in critical period plasticity, learning and memory. Following my Internal Medicine residency training, I served as Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in the Beth Israel Hospitalist Division of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. I have numerous hobbies: I love spending time with my family and friends, cooking, traveling, reading poetry and world literature and enjoy the arts in all of its forms. I love animals (including my two cats), hiking, biking, and love listening to and collecting music and books. I am a former long distance marathon runner and trained as a Vinyasa and Iyengar Yoga teacher and am an active yoga practitioner, with interests in preventative and integrative and holistic medicine (meditation, yoga, nutrition, and movement as therapy).