JOMI

The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI), is a peer-reviewed surgical video journal that produces high-quality surgical videos and animations. I sparked a collaboration between JOMI, Yale School of Medicine residents and attendings, and Quinnipiac medical students. We filmed Prostatic Artery Embolization by Dr. Ayyagari and Pulmonary Arteriovenous Embolization in the setting of HHT by Dr. Pollak. These videos help medical students, residents, and patients learn about the details of these procedures.

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Netter's Clinical Skills

Once I entered medical school, I thought I had to forsake my passion for art. Fortunately, Dr. Ilene Rosenberg revealed one of her dreams to me: creating a pocket guide on physical exam skills for medical students. She needed an illustrator and I was instantly intrigued. During the summer of 2016, Dr. Rosenberg condensed Dr. Todd Cassese’s Clinical Arts and Sciences curriculum, while I drew over 100 illustrations for the guide. With the help of our Dean, Dr. Bruce Koeppen, we pitched the book to Elsevier Inc., who agreed to publish our work.

Netter’s Clinical Skills: Pocket Guide available on Amazon

Teaching Image Guided Procedures on Human Donors

In 2015, I began shadowing Dr. Ramon Gonzalez at Connecticut Orthopedic Specialists: ultimately performing over 200 arthrograms and assisting with ultrasound-guided injections. I used my newly-acquired technical skills to develop an Interventional Radiology (IR) Procedure Day in collaboration with Dr. Douglas Silin of Yale, where medical students learned imaged-guided procedures on human donors. I presented the post-intervention data, which indicated improved knowledge about IR, at the Society of Interventional Radiology 2018 Annual Meeting.

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Check out the abstract on the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Yale Hackathon

My drive for innovation led me to the Yale Health Hackathon, where I spent a weekend with forty other students from around the US using artificial intelligence to solve problems in healthcare. My team designed a smart speaker that answered patient’s questions. My time with this team inspired me to learn to program so that I may serve as the link between medicine and programmers. I want to continue pursuing machine learning to improve productivity in radiology.

Trigeminal Nerve Illustration

Illustration of the Trigeminal Nerve, with divisions and ganglia.

Conscientious EKG Use During Annual Screening Physicals

During my primary care clerkship, I learned about Choosing Wisely, a national initiative to increase awareness of wasteful or unnecessary medical tests. Thus, I teamed up with six classmates to ask a pertinent question: are primary care physicians in Connecticut ordering EKGs conscientiously during annual physical exams? Each of us looked back at the last ten physical exams at our practices and collected data on cardiovascular risk. We realized that many of the surveyed practices order EKGs on patients with low cardiovascular risk. Ultimately, the EKG is a cheap test, but there are myriad downstream costs if a low-risk patient returns an “abnormal” EKG, such as cardiac consults, echocardiograms, stress tests, or nuclear stress tests.

These findings were presented at the 10^th Annual Primary Care Summit, hosted by the Connecticut Center for Primary Care

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Anomalous Adrenal Vein Anatomy Case Report

A fellow classmate and her principal investigator approached me to illustrate a strange case. During adrenal vein sampling, used to diagnose primary hyperaldosteronism, they discovered an anatomical variant to the left adrenal and gonadal veins. In this case, the left gonadal vein was draining into the left adrenal vein, instead of directly into the left renal vein. The gonadal vein diluted the aldosterone draining from the adrenal vein, thus making adrenal vein sampling challenging.

Read the full case report at Radiology Case Reports

Surfer's Ear Case Report

External auditory exostoses are benign bony growths within the ear canal in response to repeated exposure to cold water. They are commonly found in cold water surfers and kayakers, thus earning the term, surfer’s ear. I write up a case about a cold-water surfer that develops hearing loss due to his hobby.

Read the full case report at Cureus

XLH Day Logo

X-Linked Hypophosphatemia (XLH) is a rare genetic disorder where patients waste phosphate into their urine, resulting in poor bone mineralization. Children develop rickets, thus present with bony deformities, such as bowing of their lower extremities. When I was approached to redesign the logo for XLH Day 2017, I was asked to emphasize the host state: Connecticut. Therefore, I merged the radiographic findings of XLH with the legend of the Charter Oak in Connecticut. At the center of the logo, you find a radiographic representation of a bowed leg surrounded by a silhouette of an oak tree.

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Kommerell Diverticulum Illustration

A close friend was recently diagnosed with a kommerell diverticulum, a congenital anomaly of the aortic arch. We sat down together and she showed me all the ultrasound findings and CT angiographs. It was challenging to understand all the imaging and she needed my help to render her findings into a single 3D illustration. After referencing her images and other reports, I illustrated her diagnosis. Subsequently, she presented her story alongside this illustration during Rare Disease Day 2017.

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