I’m a urologist and current pediatric urology fellow at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. I am also an incoming Instructor in the Department of Urology at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. My interests in clinical research focus on pediatric surgical outcomes and optimization. Aside from my clinical work I am also interested on medical and surgical historiography and am a visiting researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. My current work in this sphere 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 studied at Baylor College of Medicine and at Texas Tech University, where I obtained my Doctor of Medicine (MD). Following a postdoctoral fellowship in urologic oncology and research methods at Weill Cornell Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital, I completed residency in urology (genitourinary surgery) at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell program at Lenox Hill Hospital, with my pediatric urologic training done at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. During my fourth and fifth year rotations, I completed an extended acting fellowship on the urology service for nine months at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center alongside its SUO fellows. I graduated in 2026 after serving as Chief Resident. After graduation, I visited with faculty at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid to arrange a longitudinal analysis of the tuli rite in the Philippines by exploration of medical and surgical texts. I am pursuing this as part of my fellowship research year and will be extending it into a PhD.

I speak English, Filipino, and Ibanag natively, C1 Spanish, B2 French, N3 Japanese, and B1 Portuguese