Esther has 15 years of experience in clinical medicine and leadership roles driving advancements across a wide range of disease areas including neurologic, ophthalmologic and dermatologic conditions. Immediately before joining Alkahest she served as Medical Director of Stroke at the University of Washington NW Hospital and Regional Medical Director at Neurotech NW, merging effective medical treatment with the needs of business strategies to streamline practices for maximizing the impact of program efficiency and resource optimization. She has a passion for collaboration, leveraging her clinical research skills and broad professional background, for the ultimate purpose of enabling people to live healthier. After earning her MD at New York Medical College, she completed her internship at Tulane University, her neurology residency at Yale, and fellowship at the University of Washington. She is an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Washington.