About

I am a physician-historian in training (PhD 2011, MD 2025).  I am currently an intern (PGY-1) in the Internal Medicine residency program at Johns Hopkins Bayview.  I am working toward being a primary care physician, with an interest in serving immigrant and senior patients.  As a historian who originally trained as a classicist I research widely the premodern European tradition of medicine.  I have broad academic interests in medical humanism, narrative medicine, and medical ethics.  In my medical practice and scholarship I try to enact the proposition that historical humanism provides intellectual resources for a holistic view of patient flourishing.  My past historical research explored how the cultural practices of gift-exchange, reading, and performance shaped scientific communities and scientific ideas in Greco-Roman antiquity.  My current historical research combines historical and biomedical knowledge in studies of early modern Neo-Latin medical writers.  This site tracks materials relevant to ongoing academic projects.