I would like to join the Hong Kong Laureate Forum to make connections with researchers from across the world. The Forum is a hub for international collaboration, and as an aspiring physician scientist, I am highly interested in the opportunity to find mentors and peers from varying academic communities at the Forum. I am also interested to see how women's health may be incorporated in many of the disciplines discussed throughout the event. As women’s health becomes a burgeoning field in many aspects of medical research and biotechnology development, it is critical that researchers in this area engage in discussions pertaining to many areas of science. I hope to become a leading researcher within women’s health, and I know that my experience at the Hong Kong Laureate Forum would play an integral role in my trajectory as an early career researcher. At the Forum, I will seize the opportunity to gain exposure to a multitude of perspectives and can share my own experiences as a researcher in the United States and at Cambridge in the United Kingdom as part of these discussions.

University of Cambridge

My research investigates the outcomes and experiences of cardio-obstetric patients. I am engaging in a number of projects, including leading a team at Cambridge University Hospitals to address how women can be better engaged in high-risk cardio-obstetric care. Through this avenue, I have submitted two systematic reviews about the experiences of cardio-obstetric patients. I am currently collecting data from our local pregnancy heart clinic on the experiences and outcomes of our patients to draw correlations between them. I have also launched a national project to assemble the first comprehensive dataset of women who become pregnant after a cardiothoracic transplant, a rapidly expanding demographic for whom the data will facilitate gold standard care. Further, I am analyzing data from a maternal medicine center in Uganda to incorporate a comprehensive view of cardio-obstetric care in countries of varying economic levels. I am also collecting data on patient recruitment for preconception studies, as this is a relatively new patient group within research.