Triple Board Residency Program

Paula received her MD/PhD in May 2019 from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS in Biology and Psychology from Stanford University. She earned her M.Ed. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University. She is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She was awarded an individual fellowship through the National Institute of Child Health and Development National Research Service Award to support her PhD research on brain health in youth perinatally-acquired HIV. Paula served as a director for the MSTP Promoting Inner-City Youth in Science and Medicine program where she helped to design the curriculum of clinical cases and experiments for inner-city Chicago high school students at the Boys & Girls Club. She served as a neuroanatomy teaching assistant for medical students and mentored graduate students. She was awarded the Dr. John N. Nicholson Fellowship for outstanding PhD students by Northwestern as well as the Young Investigator Award from the Conference on Retroviruses and Infections in recognition of her research. For her teaching as a resident, Paula has received a Positive Champion of the Learning Environment twice, the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Doctoring Community Mentor Award. She has also been inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha.