Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Kennedy Krieger Institute
I am a child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Mental Health Program, and the Pain Rehabilitation Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI), and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSM). After I graduated from medical school where I served as class representative for two consecutive years, I joined the Department of Physiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. There, I worked to investigate the relationship between brain activity, anatomical circuitry, behavior, and chronic pain through functional and structural MRI. My research included studying and identifying brain– derived (by fMRI), genetic and behavioral biomarkers’ involvement in sub– acute and chronic pain. After three years of research at Northwestern University I completed my Adult Psychiatry Training at the University, followed by a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University where I also served as Chief Resident from 2017 to 2018. My professional interests include interdisciplinary care of complex patients, somatic symptom disorders, and pediatric chronic pain.