The road from runner to advisor.
Her journey started as a Division I college athlete — a runner — at the University of Notre Dame, where she served as her class secretary. After graduation, she matriculated to Georgetown University School of Medicine, won multiple leadership and mentorship awards, was elected class vice president, and served on the admissions committee.
Despite not matching into orthopedics originally, she earned a competitive internship at Columbia as a preliminary general surgery intern, and later matched at top-ranked Cleveland Clinic for orthopedic surgery residency. The experience of not matching the first time galvanized her desire to mentor other students facing the same setback. She has provided advice to Georgetown students during match week every year since.
In residency, she was selected to serve on the admissions committee for three years — reading the same kinds of applications she now helps students write. She then matched at the prestigious American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama for sports fellowship and started practice in the suburbs of Chicago.
Early into private practice, she missed the regular interactions with students, residents, and fellows, and joined MedSchoolCoach as a physician advisor. Today she runs Pearls & Pitfalls Medical Advising — the kind of physician-led, personally-invested practice she always wished existed.