Originally from Washington, DC, I headed west for college, and graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology, with a concentration in the Cellular and Genetic Basis of Disease. At Stanford, I was elected president of my 1,600 person class, worked for 2 years in a Dermatology lab, and ultimately was awarded Stanford's “Excellence in Human Biology Honors Research Award” at my graduation. I went on to earn my medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine, after which I pursued 4 years of post-graduate training in Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery (ENT) at Oregon Health & Science University. I chose not to complete my final year of surgical residency in order to pursue additional training in Functional Medicine. During my medical training, I was involved in extensive biomedical research, publishing seven peer reviewed scientific articles and speaking at numerous research conferences. My research experience over the past 13 years has included positions at the National Institutes of Health, the Departments of Dermatology and Otolaryngology at Stanford University, NYU Skirball Institute for Developmental Genetics, and Oregon Health & Science University’s Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology. I also have a passion for Wilderness Medicine, and have trained at Stanford and the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wilderness Medicine, and have led backpacking trips in Oregon, California, and Wyoming. My four years working on the hospital wards and in the operating room during surgical residency provided me with deep medical experience, but I was very unsatisfied with my role of “managing” disease with surgery or pills. Sure, you can always shut down inflammation with a steroid or ibuprofen, but to me, the most important question is: what is causing the inflammation in the first place, and how can we reverse that? Sure, you can “fix” an autoimmune thyroid problem by removing the thyroid (which I did many, many times…
#QuackMeans has gotten worse since she posted her bio on her personal website in 2019.
H/T @lymescience.org for the link:
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