Specialty:
General Surgery/ Colon and Rectal Surgery / Minimally Invasive / Robotic Surgery

Focus of Interest:
General Surgery / Colon and Rectal Surgery / Hernia Surgery

Board Certification:
American Board of Surgery (General Surgery)

Hospital Affiliation:
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

Tri-City Medical Center

Palomar Hospital

Medical School: New York Medical College

Degree: MD (2008)

Internship: Stony Brook University Hospital, NY (2009)

Residency: Stony Brook University Hospital, NY (20013)

Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard teaching Hospital, Boston, MA (2014)

Licensure: California, New York, New Jersey

Membership: American College of Surgeons- Fellow
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, (SAGES), Committee member

Honors & Awards:

• San DIego Magazine, 2023, Best 

• Top Doctor 2023

• Exceptional Women in Medicine, 2023

• Castle Connolly Top Doctor, California 2021 Award Winner

• Top Doctor 2020 Award Winner

• San Diego Magazine, Top Doctor 2020

• "Exceptional Woman in Medicine" Castle Connolly, 2020

• Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2020 Award Winner

• Top Doctor 2020 Award Winner for General Surgery

• Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2019 Award Winner

• Top Doctor 2019 Award Winner for Breast and General Surgery

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Committees & Leadership:
Chairman of Robotics Division, Scripps Encinitas

Former Chief of General and Vascular Surgery, TCMC, 2018-2022

Editor for Surgical Endoscopy

Reviewer for Journal of Surgical Research
Member for Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
Member of Robotic Hernia Committee at Tri-City Medical Center