
Ayesha Dholakia
Cognoscenti contributor
Dr. Ayesha Dholakia is a resident physician in pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. She grew up in Sandy Hook, Conn., before studying neuroscience and public policy at Dartmouth College. She briefly worked as a foster care caseworker in New York City before going to medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She is passionate about child injury prevention and is an advocate for reducing health inequities.
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The lessons I learned at Sandy Hook Elementary
My elementary school's motto is written on a small sign in my bedroom: “Think you can, work hard, get smart, be kind.” I'm a doctor now, but Sandy Hook is...