I grew up in beautiful and perpetually damp Seattle, Washington where I spent much of my youth bouncing between the mountains and the Salish Sea. After high school I spent some time in NYC, followed by a few years going to school and working as an EMT in New Orleans. After realizing that I was more of a mountain person than a bayou person, I moved to Park City to work as a ski patroller. Following my time in Park City I spent a season doing search and rescue in Yosemite National Park where I learned to stifle my fear of heights, bears, and improper refrigeration. I returned to Seattle to finish my undergraduate degree in philosophy, and was lucky enough to be accepted as a member of the inaugural class at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. During medical school I was able to bridge my love for medicine and the outdoors by spending two seasons doing search and rescue in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and getting involved with a student run wilderness medicine conference. I could not be more stoked to be returning to Utah to continue my training!
