Internal Medicine Residents

Dr. Sophie Roe grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Pomona College near Los Angeles where she majored in Public Policy Analysis with a concentration in Biology. As a student community engagement coordinator, she developed a student-run supportive employment program at a local homeless shelter, an experience that deepened her interest in public health, medicine, and working with individuals experiencing homelessness.

Before medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth SoM, she worked as an EMT and community health fellow, received grant funding to expand a supportive employment program, and became involved with the Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition (SMISC). In medical school, she served as Community Service Chair on student council, founded a Girls on the Run program, and was SMISC Chief Coordinator. She took a gap year to earn an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow.

Dr. Roe views the disproportionate burden of chronic medical illness among individuals with serious mental illness as a significant public health problem. She hopes to improve health outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness, individuals experiencing homelessness, and individuals with substance use disorders through integrated clinical care, street outreach, and health policy change.

Dr. Umozurike grew up in Elizabeth City, NC as a first-generation Nigerian American. In Igbo culture, names carry meaning, and her name, “Godgive,” reflects the faith, resilience, and sense of purpose that continue to shape both her life and approach to medicine. At East Carolina University, her interests in public health, community engagement, and whole-person care first took shape. Before medical school, she served two years as an AmeriCorps MedServe Fellow at a rural health center where she developed K-12 health programs, co-founded a Produce Prescription Program, and helped design and launch mobile health services for underserved communities.

Godgive was drawn to Internal Medicine/Psychiatry because it allows her to care for patients whose medical, psychiatric, social, and spiritual needs often intersect. As a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, she values building meaningful relationships with patients and believes healing is strengthened through cultural humility, meaningful human connection, and care that honors each patient's unique experiences and values. Her professional interests include behavioral health integration, community outreach, health policy and advocacy, addressing the psychosocial factors that influence health, and innovative approaches to expanding access to care.

Outside of medicine, she enjoys hosting game nights, exploring new restaurants with her husband, weightlifting, going for walks, trying new recipes, and discovering her next favorite anime or thriller series.

Hometown: Columbia, SC

College: University of South Carolina

Major: Biology, Public Health, and Sociology

Campus Involvement: In addition to my role as a Lead Ambassador, I serve as the Rural Outreach Coordinator of the CARES Clinic.

Specialty Interest(s): Cardiology is at the top of my list. However, I am still open to that changing!

How do you best study? I’m a “big picture” guy. I love to use concept maps and textbooks to get a broad understanding of the material, then I fill in the smaller details with flashcards.

Favorite study spot: The library here is amazing, so I use it whenever I can!

How do you get to and from campus? Though I live very close to campus, I still drive.

Any advice to your younger self? Just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Focus on serving well wherever your feet are and that will lead you to what’s next.

What surprised you about medical school? I was surprised at how manageable school is. Once you get the right habits and routines in place, it becomes very straightforward, and you can find so much enjoyment in it.

Dr. Drotman grew up on Long Island (Commack, NY), where she began volunteering with her local ambulance corps and obtained her EMT certification in 2015. After graduating from The College of New Jersey in 2019 with degrees in Biology and Religion, she earned her Paramedic certification from Stony Brook University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she had the unique opportunity to work in New York City as a nurse under her paramedic certification at Weill-Cornell Medical Center. These early experiences gave her a firsthand view of the fragmented care patients with psychiatric illness, substance use disorders, and complex medical conditions often face. She was drawn to the osteopathic philosophy of treating the body and mind as equally important components of overall well-being and attended medical school at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM). She is especially passionate about advocating for vulnerable patient populations and was honored to receive the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award at her medical school graduation.

Her academic interests include substance use disorders, consult-liaison psychiatry, Med-Psych inpatient units, and leadership development. Outside of medicine, she enjoys playing golf and pickleball, going to live music events, and keeping up with reality television and pop culture. She feels incredibly grateful to be at MUSC and is so excited for all the combined training opportunities that will allow her to bridge the gap between medical and psychiatric conditions to ensure her patients receive the equitable care they deserve.

Dr. Nikalina O’Brien grew up in Austin, Texas. She majored in Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M Corpus Christi and credits the time she spent working abroad in marine tourism and scuba diving with drawing her into medicine, science, and conservation. While completing medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, she found joy in writing poetry, sharing fun facts about soil and plants during community garden tours, and helping create and lead a course on ecological perspectives of health and social justice. Nikalina has always been interested in exploring the connections between the mind, body, and environment and how these connections can be used to effect change for individuals and guide us in creating a better world. Pursuing training in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry felt like a natural progression following this interest. Her professional interests include hospital medicine, brain stimulation and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and narrative medicine. Outside the hospital, she loves to road bike, spend time on the beach or in the mountains, and experiment with arts and crafts.

Dr. Ghabash is from Salt Lake City, Utah. She completed dual degrees in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Utah and pursued tropical ecology research after graduating. She loved working in the rain forest, but experiences with loved ones and the sense of purpose she found while working at a free clinic caused her to change course. She completed medical school at the University of Utah. She was fascinated by the interactions between physical and mental health but was frustrated by what felt like the unnecessary and sometimes harmful separation of these aspects of health. She is excited to have found a residency program that nurtures a broad skill set to address the varied needs an individual has. She is grateful to be a part of a program that embraces the interactions between physical, mental, social, and environmental factors that impact wellness and disease. She is interested in providing a medical home for those with severe and persistent mental illness.

Dr. Abby Truitt is originally from Columbia, SC. She attended Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC where she majored in Biology and added an Art History minor after a sophomore trip to Rome, Italy. During medical school at MUSC, the connection between physical and mental illness became apparent and she was inspired by the unique patient care approach of dual-trained residents and faculty to pursue combined training. Her professional interests include addiction, CL psychiatry, general hospital medicine, brainstem, and medical education. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys baking, crafts of all kinds, trying new brunch places, and going on walks in downtown Charleston.