I was born in Ambler, Pennsylvania but grew up in beautiful Cape Elizabeth, Maine. I returned to Pennsylvania to attend Swarthmore College where I majored in Biology. Prior to attending medical school at Brown University, I lived in Botswana studying cervical cancer in patients with HIV as well as worked in a lab focusing on growth signaling in ovarian cancer. I continued these interests through medical school, dedicating a year as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow to explore the impact of aneuploidy on oncogenesis. I completed my internship in the Department of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Department of Radiation Oncology. My academic interests include global oncology, virally-associated cancers, and palliative radiation.