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I have always recognized and valued the call to serve others. My parents and my Catholic faith and education instilled in me the value of service at a young age. During my
high school years at Sacred Heart Academy (SHA), I was involved in a wide array of volunteer activities, ranging from organizing food drives to tutoring to raising money for
cancer patients. Upon graduation from SHA, I was asked to compose and deliver the
valedictory address. I quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, the nineteenth century American
transcendentalist writer, whose words spoke to my heart. I exhorted the Class of 2000
to heed Emerson’s advice to “leave the world a bit better” and reminded them that
true success involves knowing “even one life has breathed easier because you have
lived.” For me, Emerson’s words, which I first read in my American literature class at
SHA, epitomized the call to service.
The path of service was one I continued to travel in college. I was fortunate to be selected into the Siena College/Albany Medical College joint admissions medical program in science, humanities, and medicine. In college I majored in Biology and minored in Spanish, spending a semester studying abroad in Salamanca, Spain.
I participated in many volunteer activities and spent seven weeks in Oaxaca, Mexico, working at a clinic that
services the poor and teaching English to Mexican children. I graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2004 and was
the recipient of the Biology Major Field Award and the Siena College President’s Award.
My commitment to serving others continued in medical school where I became active as the Community Service Chair of the American Medical Association and the Community and Public Health Action Committee Chair
of American Medical Students’ Association. I enjoyed all my clinical rotations in medical school but ultimately
discovered that my passion was women’s health, and I chose to pursue a career in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
As a junior medical student, I was inducted into the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha and was also
elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society by my peers. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from medical school
in 2008 and received the Kenneth M. Archibold Prize in Obstetrics.
I relocated to Providence, RI for my residency training at Brown University/Women and Infants Hospital and
soon thereafter became a Junior Fellow District Officer in the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). As a resident, I was consistently recognized for excellence in teaching medical students. After
residency I pursued a fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (also known as Urogynecology) at MedStar Washington Hospital Center/Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. I was re-elected as an ACOG Junior Fellow District Officer and was also elected Chair of the American
Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) Fellows Special Interest Group. During my fellowship, I ran the Marine Corps
Marathon, received my first federally funded research grant, graduated with a Master’s Degree in Clinical and
Translational Research from Georgetown University, and became a board-certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist. I
also spent 2 weeks in Kigali, Rwanda with the International Organization for Women and Development (IOWD)
caring for women with obstetric fistula.
Upon graduation from fellowship in June 2015, I returned to New England to join the Division of Urogynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the faculty of Harvard Medical School. I am excited about this next
phase of my career and the opportunities I will have to participate in clinical care, teaching, and research. As a
subspecialist, I feel fortunate to have the knowledge and the skills to help women with urogynecologic conditions.
My time at SHA instilled the value of service in me and laid the groundwork for the success I have experienced
throughout all of the phases of my career. I continue to keep in touch with a core group of my SHA friends and
have many fond memories of the teachers who always challenged me to work towards achieving my full potential.