About Me.

Where did I come from and where am I going?  

The short version is, I grew up on Long Island New York and stayed for college. I never knew what graduate school was until a professor in Earth Sciences at Stony Brook noticed how question driven I was. Then he told me "You have the bug and you are going to graduate school." What's that?! Thus started my interdisciplinary pursuit of more information... I grew in side-by-side anatomical and earth sciences programs to become a paleontologist with degrees in Geology and Organismic & Evolutionary Biology. Later I pursued a post-doc where I was given the chance to teach anatomy in addition to conducting my research. That lead to my job as an assistant professor (now Full Professor) of anatomy at a medical school. This  has been a wild fulfilling job that provided me opportunities to lead Graduate Education and Medical Education. I continue to ask questions about how things work  and how can we make them work better. See my timeline below.