I am a Pacific Northwest native, raised in Seattle, WA. Before starting medical school, I worked as a systems analyst at The Boeing Company, obtained an MBA from Seattle University and went to Yale, where I completed their physician assistant program. As a physician assistant, I worked in cardiovascular surgery, family practice and finally in physiatry. I was delighted to be accepted at Oregon Health and Sciences University for medical school and graduated from there in 2001. My residence in physical medicine and rehabilitation (physiatry) was completed at the University of Washington, followed by two years of fellowship training at the Seattle VA Hospital, where I worked both with people who had multiple sclerosis and amputations.