Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations of Medicine, NYU Long Island School of Medicine

Education:

• PhD - City University of New York, Graduate Center, Neuropsychology, 2002 – 2006
  Dissertation title: "The interaction between brain derived neurotrophic factor and sympathetic dysfunction in perivascular inflammation."
  
  
• MPH - City University of New York, Graduate School of Public Health, 2018 - 2020
  Thesis title: "Gut Microbiome as a Potential Mediator between Colorectal Cancer and Low-fiber Diet."
  
  
• MS - New York Medical College, Microbiology and Immunology, 1999 – 2002
  Thesis title: "The effects of depleting inflammatory cell surface markers in a mouse model of brain angiogenesis."
  
  
• BS - Pennsylvania State University, General Science, 1992 – 1996

Research Interests:
Gut microbiome, Probiotics and Cognition, Cardiovascular disease

Awards and Honors:

• Scientific Teaching Fellow, Summer Institutes 2018 - 2019
• American Federation for Medical Research Scholar Award 2016
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Albright College 2014
• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Queens College 2004 - 2006
• Stereology Resource Center Stereology Fellowship 2005
• City University of New York Science Fellow 2002 – 2004

Other:
Course Faculty - Language Acquisition, Problem-based Learning, Health Systems Science
Medical Student Research Advisor

Current AFMR position: Eastern Section Secretary-Treasurer

Term: 05/01/22 - 04/30/23