Current Resident

Dr. Nistal received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University.  Upon graduation, Dom spent a year as a corps member for City Year Boston tutoring and mentoring eight underperforming fourth grade students, providing whole classroom support and after-school tutoring in math and English. He graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he received the Neurosurgery Scholar Award and developed a multi-institutional protocol for the collection, analysis and interpretation of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke clots

A native of Washington and USTA ranked tournament competitor, Dr. McAvoy earned her combined BS/MS in Biochemistry with highest honors at Brandeis University.  She earned her MD through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program where she did research studying drug-embedded coatings for medical devices in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT under Dr. Robert Langer and Dr. Daniel Anderson.  In 2011, Malia was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biology fellow at UW.

Dr. Abecassis graduated from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering with a BS in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences & Economics in 2011. Before deciding to pursue medicine, Zack worked as a management consultant in the healthcare space analyzing complex processes in an effort to maximize procedural efficiency.  He completed his medical training at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern.