I’m a fellow pediatric urologist at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, and I hold an appointment as Instructor in the Department of Urology at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University.

I’m also a medical historian and visiting research faculty at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. My research involves a trilingual analysis of 16th-21st century surgical and epidemiological texts regarding the tuli rite (adolescent ritual circumcision) in the Philippines.

I graduated from Vanderbilt University’s Molecular and Cellular Biology program in 2014 and read graduate courses at Baylor College of Medicine before obtaining my Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Texas Tech University in 2020.

Following a postdoctoral fellowship in urologic oncology and research methods at Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, I completed residency in urology (genitourinary surgery) at the Zucker School of medicine at Hofstra/Northwell program at Lenox Hill Hospital. I graduated in 2026 after serving as Chief Resident. During my fourth and fifth years of training, I also served as acting fellow on the urologic oncology service at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

In addition to work as a pediatric urologist, my medical background, and STEM education, I’m working on my second doctorate (PhD) in history and philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where I am currently on visiting faculty with teaching and research duties.

I also serve as a numbered academic of the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language and a corresponding academic of the Royal Spanish Academy. After my duty to surgery and the human body, my duty to language and philology is an immense honor which I take very seriously.