I am a physician scientist in gastroenterology with a longstanding interest in understanding how tumor heterogeneity develops and impacts on phenotype (therapy resistance and metastasis), with an emphasis on pancreatic cancer. I completed my undergraduate training at the University of Michigan with a bachelors degree in computer and electrical engineering followed by a masters degree in biomedical engineering. I obtained my medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine during which time I was also was selected for the Howard Hughes Medical Scholars fellowship program where I conducted research at the National Institutes of Health. Upon completion of my research fellowship and medical degree, I began my internal medicine training as part of the ABIM short track program for physician scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital. I subsequently entered my gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania where I also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship under the mentorship of Ben Z. Stanger and Anil Rustgi. I was recruited to UT Southwestern in 2019 as an assistant professor in internal medicine and CPRIT scholar in cancer research. My laboratory applies fundamental developmental biology tools, such as lineage tracing and genetically engineered mouse models, molecular screening tools, and bioinformatic approaches to study the functional consequences of tumor heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer with the goal of translating these findings into new therapies and clinical trials.