"I am an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. I am a practicing primary care general internal medicine physician. I supervise internal medicine residents during their training and teach medical students clinical reasoning skills. My research is currently focused around the learning environment and burnout in medical students.
This work brings me back to my roots in cognitive science as my team is exploring the psychological constructs that contribute to and influence protection from professional burnout and development of professional identity formation and professional burnout. Cognitive science was great major to prepare me for my career to get some neuroscience background as foundational knowledge for medicine and then philosophy component prepared me for the moral dilemmas that inevitably surface in the practice of medicine."