I am a physician-scientist who completed my MD/PhD training at Washington University in St. Louis and neurology residency and behavioral neurology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. I am currently an assistant professor of neurology at UCSF. My research resides at the intersection of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. I study the contribution of microglia to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, and I am developing innovative methods to capture disease-associated cellular states of glia. To this end, I use a cross-disciplinary approach involving iPSC models, functional genomics, proteomics, and protein engineering. With a background in neuroscience and clinical neurology, my goal is to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic platforms for neurodegenerative diseases.