Current Residents—The MedStar Health—Franklin Square Residency Program in Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine

Georgetown University School of Medicine
University of Maryland: College Park

I am so thankful for the opportunity to return to Franklin Square Family Health Center and serve its community. I was raised on a farm in Westminster, Maryland. Although physicianship is new to my family, compassion, empathy, and intentional listening were instilled in me throughout my childhood. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to attend University of Maryland: College Park for undergraduate studies in Physiology and Neurobiology. During this time, I became interested in health equity and understanding our communities' systemic causes of diseases. I continued this work during medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine- finding my passion for primary care during a 6 month rotation at Franklin Square Family Health Center- and finding my passion for advocacy with various population health, justice-involved health, and racial justice initiatives. I hope to learn from each and every patient during my time here and look forward to becoming a part of the Baltimore community.

Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

I am a first-generation, Ghanaian American, born and raised in Northern Virginia. I attended Virginia Tech and majored in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise. There, I became passionate about the field of public health and health disparities, through my major and research with the Translational Obesity Behavioral Research Lab. As part of the lab, I planned, implemented and evaluated an 8-week, group dynamics-based healthy lifestyle program for racial minority students at my institution. These experiences led me to pursue my MPH at George Washington University during my gap year to learn more about attaining health equity, social determinants of health and program planning and evaluation. I then attended Rowan SOM for medical school where my love for primary care and preventive medicine grew. I was fortunate to serve as a leader in initiatives and clubs that aimed to address racial health disparities and support marginalized communities like SNMA, and co-founded IMPACT Week and The Black Collective. I was also a research intern at the Neuromusculoskeletal Institute at Rowan, where I was able to develop CME’s and toolkits as part of initiatives to reduce opioid overdose deaths in South Jersey. 

I spent a month at MedStar Franklin Square as a 4th year student and I am so ecstatic to return to serve the community and learn from the amazing faculty, residents, and patients. The combined program was an ideal fit for me because it will provide me with opportunities to strengthen my knowledge and skills to improve the health of marginalized communities. As a person who stutters, I am also passionate about improving the health and well-being of people with disabilities.

In my free time, you can find me watching sports and rooting for my DC teams, playing basketball, listening to music, trying plant-based restaurants, and going to amusement parks.

Georgetown University School of Medicine
University of Tennessee

I grew up in a multi-generational family in rural Tennessee where I learned how to love and take care of my neighbors. I then moved to Knoxville to attend the University of Tennessee where I majored in microbiology and minored in public health. Interested in public policy and public health, I moved to Washington, D.C.  to attend medical school at Georgetown. During medical school, I was a Health Justice Scholar which provided me the opportunity to advocate for harm reduction and healthcare equity at the local and federal levels. During my 3rd and 4th years of medical school, I was lucky to complete rotations at the Family Health Center. I could not be more thrilled to be returning to Franklin Square for residency!

Indiana University School of Medicine
University of Louisville

I was born and raised in Southern Indiana in a home that placed a strong emphasis on service and community. I always saw myself becoming a physician, but it was during my undergraduate studies at the University of Louisville that I was introduced to public health. I spent the following two years in Norway pursuing a graduate degree in this field through a Rotary Global Grant, during which I began to realize the vital connection between medicine and public health. This was further emphasized during my subsequent year of AmeriCorps service, through which I saw real-life examples of physicians simultaneously engaged in both fields.

I returned to my home state to attend Indiana University School of Medicine, where I pursued opportunities to combine my interests through work with our student-run free clinic, rotations with county and state health departments, and global health experience in Kenya. Family Medicine always felt like the right fit for me due to its emphasis on longitudinal and broad-spectrum care. I believe that family physicians are uniquely equipped to serve as leaders and advocates due to their position in and direct contact with the community.

I am thrilled to continue my training in both Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine at MedStar Franklin Square and Johns Hopkins. The uniqueness of the combined program was the initial draw for me, but the warmth and engagement I experienced during the interview process convinced me that it was the ideal fit. I look forward to further exploring the social determinants of health and health disparities while receiving training that prioritizes both individual and population-level care.

My clinical interests include women’s health, preventive care, behavioral health, and care for underserved and marginalized populations locally and abroad. In my free time, I enjoy listening to podcasts, travelling with my spouse, cooking, and spending time outside hiking and backpacking.