Third Year Fellows

Dr. Desai completed her Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency training at the University of Minnesota where she was a resident representative, member of the resident clinic curriculum editorial board, co-lead for Women in Medicine, and co-lead for Heart of Medicine. Her research focus during residency included: Interactions of adolescents and their primary care physicians, PFAPA presentation in children, and use of Vitamin C in Sepsis. Dr. Desai was also awarded the best poster presentation at MN AAP, MN ACP, and University of Minnesota Global Health Symposium. She has spent the last year as a chief resident for the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics program at the University of Minnesota. Her passions include health equity, health advocacy, medical education, and medical humanities. In addition, she spends time working with a medical education podcast (COREIM) and has been featured on Clinical Problem Solvers. In her spare time, she enjoys dancing, exploring a new place through its food scene, and yoga.

Allen was originally from the windy city of Chicago where he cultivated a great passion for its sports along with an equal hatred of the Packers. Allen has many clinical interests including ECMO, pulmonary hypertension, and advanced lung disease and hopes to narrow down his clinical focus during fellowship. He is currently loving life here in San Diego where it is always sunny and where he will never have to de-ice his car during a polar vortex again.

Originally from the Bay Area of California, Dr. Luoma ventured south to San Diego to attend college at Point Loma Nazarene University, where she earned a BS in Biology. After college, she spent a year working and traveling before heading to the mountains for medical school at the University of Colorado. In medical school, her academic interests included global health and behavioral interventions for Type II Diabetes. Next, she migrated further east to pursue internal medicine residency at NYU School of Medicine, where her academic interests included medical and surgical interventions for non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infection, and early mobility in the ICU. After completing residency, she stayed at NYU as inpatient chief resident for an additional year. Some of her general career interests include ICU-acquired weakness, mycobacterial infection, and physician burnout. Outside of work she is obsessed with running, hiking, yoga, dancing and travel, and will accept any excuse to be outside. She is also a dedicated dog and cat mom.

Dr. Sullivan grew up outside of Atlanta, GA and then went to medical school in New York City where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She made her way out to the west coast for residency and a chief resident year at UCLA, where she was also a two-time regional champion on the ACP Jeopardy team. She is interested in interstitial lung disease and lung transplant.