Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
Bio: I was born in Phoenix and grew up in McKinney, Texas. Received a liberal arts education at Baylor University and pursued some of my newfound academic interests in the Fellowship in Theology, Medicine, and Culture at Duke Divinity School. Spent six years at Stanford for medical school, taking an extra two years for research in philosophy and biology. Drawn to Family Medicine by a desire to learn how to care for the whole human person as a union of body and spirit.
Why Memorial: The program felt like a family: there was a clear effort to acknowledge and appreciate each person (medical students, interviewees, residents, faculty, and staff alike!), and I saw the residents laughing together during didactics. Alignment of program’s values with my own hopes for my medical practice. Hopes of having unique learning opportunities living in a college town during residency.
Clinical interests: Beginning and end of life, ethics and spiritual care
Hobbies: Tennis, golf, birding, church schola, consuming embarrassing amounts of Bob Dylan’s music.
Favorite quotes: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Favorite books: The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton, A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
