CV and Recent Work
I am a researcher in the field of health outcomes, health economics, and health policy. I am currently a senior health outcomes scientist at RTI Health Solutions. Beginning in the fall of 2010, I will be a doctoral student in Clinical and Population Health Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
I have experience building decision-analytic models, conducting large-scale database analyses, developing utility instruments, and performing comprehensive literature reviews. Current research interests include healthcare access and affordability; the economics of prevention, screening, and early detection; and risk modelling. I have experience in a broad range of disease areas, including oncology, nephrology, neurology, ophthalmology, and immunology.
- My master’s thesis was an exploration of out-of-pocket expenditures among people with cancer using 10 years of data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a nationally representative database.
- A portion of the analysis was presented at the 9th Annual Health Services and Outcomes Research conference in Houston, TX.
- In May 2009, I was the lead author and presenter of an oral presentation at the 14th Annual International Meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) in Orlando, FL, concerning an analysis of the predictors of enrollment in Medicare Part D.
- I have recently co-authored a review of the short-term economic and clinical effects of smoking cessation.
- I have recently co-authored several papers on lifetime and phase-specific treatment costs, survival trends, and trends in healthcare utilization among patients with colorectal cancer.
- In 2006, I wrote a paper for PUBHLTH 524 at UMass Amherst on school nutrition policy.
- Inspired by research conducted for that paper, in January 2007 I conducted an independent study of local wellness policies in Massachusetts. The research was presented as an oral presentation at the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 3-7, 2007, in Washington, DC.
