I grew up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and moved to the United States alone at 19. Community college in Brooklyn, then PA school, then five years of clinical practice, then medical school at NYU. Patients trusted me before I had all the answers. Immigrant families reminded me of my own. Both changed how I practice.

I matched into Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and am moving to Dallas. I'm leaning toward cardiology. Heart disease hits the communities I come from especially hard, and it's the work I'd like to spend my career doing.

Men Toshkentda tug'ilganman. 19 yoshimda AQShga yolg'iz ko'chib keldim. Bruklindagi kollejdan shifokor yordamchisi maktabigacha, besh yillik klinik tajribadan NYU tibbiyot maktabigacha. Bu yo'lda meni ishongan bemorlardan sabr, o'z oilamni eslatgan muhojir oilalardan esa hamdardlikka yaqin narsa o'rgandim.

UT Southwestern tibbiyot markazida ichki kasalliklar rezidenturasiga qabul oldim va Dallasga ko'chib o'tyapman. Kardiologiyaga moyilman — yurak-qon tomir kasalliklari men kelgan jamoalarga ko'proq ta'sir qiladi, va bu men karyeramni bag'ishlamoqchi bo'lgan sohadir.