Born in London and raised in California, I graduated from the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1995 and completed a Hematology and Oncology Fellowship in 2001.I am currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Oncology and Assistant Program Director the Oncology Department’s Fellowship Program. Additional clinical administrative appointments include the Division of Oncology’s Educational Officer and Co-Director of the Liver Cancer Program at USC.

I also serves as an assistant editor for Women’s Oncology Review and sits on the Clinical Investigations Committee and the Pharmacy Review Committee at the Keck School of Medicine. I have several research activities in progress and have received grants for fifteen studies. In addition to my numerous authored articles, book chapters and abstracts, that have published in medical journals and texts, I have been an invited lecturer at conferences across California, as well as cities including Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Dallas and Maui.