Chana is an outgoing Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a former editorial fellow at the New England Journal of Medicine. 

My interest in nephrology started when I was a second-year medical student. My physiology class piqued my interest and made me fall in love with nephrology. During my clinical years, I had great opportunities to take care of patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney diseases and end-stage renal diseases requiring dialysis. These experiences motivated me and pulled me deeper to want to study nephrology in order to improve patients' quality of life and outcomes. I soon found that I was well-suited to this field. The progress in transplantation fascinates me and strengthens my desire to select this discipline. I have been fortunate to meet many wonderful people. During residency training, my mentors and role models strongly encouraged and guided me to pursue this career.

I am a 24-year-old medical student at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. I am currently attending my 6th and final year. During these long and engaging 6 years I came across a huge quantity of medical fields and situations: from nephrology to pediatrics, from emergency medicine to general surgery. I enjoyed them all, but last year I began an internship in our neurology department. Well, that internship hasn't ended yet! I found out that neurology holds my interest the way nothing else has. So, besides my medical student career (with daily lectures, exams and rotations) I everyday run to the neurology department, trying to learn as much as possible, both from my mentor (Prof M. Inghilleri) and from my patients. I am indeed attending the neuromuscular diseases division where we take care of patients with complex and cruel pathologies. These patients' strength and the way they appreciate the smallest things in our lives, wonders me everyday!