About

​I’m deeply interested in becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon because of the fulfilling and energizing experience I had shadowing one.  I treasure my time there and am very fond of my experience with encouraging families and working alongside the team to instill hope and confidence in them, as well as learn from a variety of perspectives offered by different members. The experience was both the biggest catalyst of hope and most resonant setting I’ve been in, day-to-day. I observed that some of his biggest strengths were his temperate, advocating, persistent, and optimistic mode of operation. That sustained attitude and conduct, over a 40-year-combined educational and professional career has led to unequivocally astounding patient-results. He set the most humble, confidence-inspiring, and uplifting example.

 

I want to deliver the highest quality of care (in every holistic facet) to my patients one day. I sincerely enjoy treating the people around me with the type of love and help that is the closest to what they need and then some. I derive great satisfaction and energy from deeply engaging with the concepts and calculations I learn in my courses and having stimulating, thought-provoking, innovative, and fruitful conversations with my professors and peers. I want to bring out the best in others and deliver outstanding-quality, perceptive, and impactful output to my communities and the world.

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I’m looking to find a gap year experience for 2024 and 2025. Ideally, it would be working with patients. Working at a teaching hospital may afford me the opportunity to volunteer in research with my spare time. My goals in the role are to gain greater lived experience to ensure the hospital is setting my right personal fit and connect with more perspectives: physicians, surgeons, PAs, NPs, and staff so as to discern the role that both my contributions would be most helpful in, and I most enjoy. Working with patients will provide the key perspective I want before entering a healthcare position — I want to know who and how I am helping. I look forward to encouraging, listening to stories of patients and families and providing a safe presence and physical environment that nurture forward progress in healing. This will undoubtedly support my long-term goal of being an empathetic, effective, and grounded surgeon. It is my goal to begin medical school with the class of 2030 cohort and I am excited for what is to come along the way.