What first attracted you to the field of medicine?
Growing up, I never dreamed of being a doctor. I did not believe it could fulfill my need to achieve social justice, which was driven by my experience as an immigrant child from a war-torn nation. As I learned about the discipline, I realized I could change the course of a pathology that was inherited, at least in part, due to socioeconomic factors. In doing so, I could right a wrong. This…