Without a blueprint,
she became the physician
she once needed.

I have cared for women through these transitions.
I have also lived through many of them myself.

As a breast cancer survivor who experienced medically induced early menopause — and who was not a candidate for systemic estrogen therapy — I understand these conversations from both sides of the examination table. I searched for answers as a patient. I know what it is to feel dismissed by the very system you work within.

That experience shapes how I listen, how I teach, and how I care. My patients are not cases. They are women navigating some of the most consequential chapters of their lives — and they deserve a physician who has done more than study those chapters in a textbook.

Symptoms don't become less real because they've been minimized.