I hail'from San Diego and completed my MD and a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Genomics at Washington University in St. Louis. A residency in Pediatrics brought me back to California to the University of California, San Francisco, where I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship, a residency in Medical Genetics, and two years as an Assistant Clinical Professor before coming to Kaiser Permanente, where I joined in 2018. I chose Genetics as a profession because our DNA is both deeply personal and yet is a 4-letter language that can be read by a machine, creating opportunities for scientific exploration and human connection at the same time. In the field of Genetics, my interests lie in biochemical and mitochondrial disorders. I am also interested in population genomics and the role of genetic screening in the future of health care