Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics

During medical school, I was selected for the Honors Research Program (Mayo Clinic) and inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. I spent most of my career as a board-certified reconstructive plastic surgeon, continually involved in clinical research, teaching, and electronic record development. I 

received the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) highest recognition for development and integration of a workflow-enabled electronic health record. In 2016, I became the first U.S. physician fully certified by the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to implement BHI’s intensive lifestyle intervention program. I actively contribute to BHI’s research on the gut-brain axis. I am also an associate professor in Natural Sciences at New College of Florida (NCF). Moreover, for the past three years, I have practiced precision medicine while simultaneously developing clinical decision support software that integrates DNA sequence data and gut microbial community profiling.