About

Background and training

My path to neurocritical care began with biology and psychology, moved through physics and biomedical engineering, and found its clinical home in neurology.

Profile

How my background shapes my work

I am a board-certified neurologist and neurocritical care fellow with interests in acute brain injury, multimodal monitoring, and medical education. I care for patients with life-threatening neurologic illness while studying methods that make cerebral physiology easier to understand.

My PhD work in biomedical engineering focused on medical imaging. That quantitative training continues to shape how I approach EEG, cerebral blood flow, optical monitoring, MRI, and other complex data generated in the neurocritical care unit.

I have trained and worked across institutions in the United States and Canada, with research experience spanning neuroimaging, neuroinflammation, neuroethics, oncology imaging, and even astrophysics. Those projects covered very different problems, but they left me with a lasting interest in measurement: what a signal actually represents, what conclusions it supports, and where its limitations begin.

Education

Academic foundation

2021

Doctor of Medicine

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

2017

PhD · Biomedical Engineering

Medical Imaging · University of Calgary

2012

BSc · Physics

University of British Columbia

2008

BSc · Biology and Psychology

Minor in Mathematics · University of Victoria

Professional standing

Credentials & affiliations

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
    Board Certified in Neurology · 2025
  • New York State Medical License
    Active
  • American Academy of Neurology
    Member
  • Neurocritical Care Society
    Member

Contact

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