As Vice President of Scientific Education and Training at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I coordinate and lead the academic, strategic, financial, and operational plans for the five graduate school programs at MSK and with partners at Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University, the large postdoctoral population, and the scientific internship programs for high school and undergrad students. My areas of focus include enhancing the career and professional development opportunities available to trainees as well as designing courses in areas such as statistics, computational biology, and imaging.

My graduate education began at Northwestern University where I studied pulmonary mechanics and mathematical modeling. After completing my doctoral degree in biomedical engineering, I used a Marshall Scholarship to study vascular permeability as a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London.

After my postdoc, I spent two years as a manuscript editor at Nature Medicine, and then joined the Journal of Clinical Investigation as Executive Editor. During my nine years in this role, I led academic editorial boards at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Duke University/University of North Carolina in identifying, soliciting, and peer reviewing high-quality manuscripts. I also oversaw the writing, commissioning, and editing of front matter, including Editorials, News, Commentaries, Reviews, and Perspectives. I continue to serve as Editor-at-Large for the JCI, acting as the chief interviewer for the JCI video series “Conversations with Giants in Medicine .”

I first came to MSK in 2012 as Director of the Office of the President, serving as the Chief of Staff to President and CEO Craig B. Thompson. In this role, I worked closely with Dr. Thompson and other MSK leadership, to shape and manage a strategic agenda.