Elise is an active duty Air Force officer and a current General Surgery Resident. She is a 2014 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy as an Academy Scholar with a major in biochemistry. The highlights of her time at the Academy include free fall parachute training, combat survival training, her research into carcinogens at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and her summer immersion experience in Israel with the Israeli Defense Forces. Following this, she attended medical school at the University of Iowa, where she spent a summer in The Gambia, volunteering at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital and participating in the World Breastfeeding Conference in Banjul. She has spent her last three years at the combined Travis Air Force Base-UC Davis Medical Center General Surgery Residency Program, where she serves as the head of the Socially Responsible Surgery Research Institute. Her current projects include an NIH funded grant studying the effect of COVID-19 on cancer related healthcare disparities, peripheral nerve regeneration strategies and targeted muscle re-innervation for amputees. She looks forward to the experience and expertise she will gain from the MPP  program and plans to utilize those skills to reduce healthcare disparities in the future. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, playing Cornhole, and re-reading Harry Potter.