PGY-5 Resident, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, Dr. Krupa Patel graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, with a major in English literature. There, she was awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship and James O. Freedman Presidential Scholarship.
She subsequently attended Weill Cornell Medical College, where she was awarded the Rockefeller University pilot project grant from the National Institutes of Health's Clinical and Translational Science award program to investigate the risk factors, therapeutic management, and survival outcomes for squamous cell carcinoma in Fanconi anemia patients under the mentorship of Drs. Agata Smogorzewska and David Kutler.
During medical school, she also conducted several research studies related to head and neck and skull base oncologic outcomes under the guidance of Dr. Marc Cohen at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was awarded the Arthur Palmer Prize for Efficiency in Otorhinolaryngology.
Education
Undergraduate School
Dartmouth College (English and Biology)
Medical School
Weill Cornell Medical College