Assistant Professors of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center / NewYork
Presbyterian Hospital in New York, NY. She specializes in Trauma and Emergency Surgery as well as
Surgical Intensive Care. Her research has focused on three main areas: 1) dispariƟes in outcomes for
underrepresented paƟents in the US, specifically in the trauma populaƟon 2) describing, understanding,
and reducing the firearm morbidity and mortality burden in the US 3) global surgery, specifically
increasing the quality and research capacity of insƟtuƟons. She is a member of the American College of
Surgeons HOPE program, currently working with Lusaka, Zambia to increase its research porƞolio