About Me

I am a physician, anthropologist, and writer on faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine, where I see patients, teach medical humanities, and lead efforts in patient-centered care.

I was born and raised across three continents: from Kolkata, India, to Wellington, New Zealand, then Houston, Texas. I received my B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College and my M.D. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University. I completed medical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and fellowship in hospital medicine at Harvard Medical School.

My work has been supported by a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship as well as awards from the National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, and Mellon Foundation. I received the Society for General Internal Medicine’s Mary Horn Scholar Award (2025), and I serve as a Faculty Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford (2025 - 2026).

My essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Yale Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Journal of the American Medical Association, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Catapult, and elsewhere. My short stories have appeared in Anthropology and Humanism and The Panacea Review. My original research related to health in its social context has been published in Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of the Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Hospital Medicine, and JAMA Network Open. I frequently give invited talks on the medical humanities and on trauma-informed care.

My nonfiction debut, Sita’s Lament, about culture and domestic violence in India and lessons I learned as a doctor-in-training encountering women’s heartbreaking stories, will be published by Princeton University Press.

I live in the Bay Area with my family.