Resident physician
Columbia University
I am a resident physician in neurosurgery at Columbia University. I am currently in my fourth post graduate year doing an enfolded interventional neuroradiogy fellowship. My research interests include telehealth, virtual reality, and machine learning. I have designed applications for automated spiral analysis on remote devices for patients with movement disorders and written computer algorithms to automate prognostication in intracerebral hemorrhage. Through technology I hope to increase accessibility of healthcare in ways that are easy to use, affordable, and scalable. I have also published on the effect of post traumatic stress disorder to patients who suffer from ischemic stroke. I hope to increase awareness into how mood disorders are a considerable source of morbidity and mortality in neurosurgical patients in addition to being a potential area of improvement in patient care. I feel by addressing the psychiatric ailments that come secondary to many of our necessary acute medical interventions we can improve our outcomes. Telehealth and virtual reality are powerful tools that can be leveraged to address these issues, especially in the midst of a global pandemic, and I have applied my background to create the tools to do so.