I tell stories with data.
My recent focus has been on understanding the complex relationships among our individual characteristics, where we get care and from whom, where we live, and our health outcomes.
My background includes education and experience in health economics and outcomes and health policy, as well as the core public health disciplines of epidemiology and biostatistics.
Many of my publications are available through PubMed Central (open access), Google Scholar, ORCID, and ResearchGate. A full list is available on my CV (see below).
You can see an interactive dashboard of some of my recent work at RTIRarity.io.
- Assistant Professor in the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
- Member of the Medical Care section of the American Public Health Association, having formerly led both the communications workgroup and the Health Equity Committee. I’m also an Editorial Board member for the section’s journal, Medical Care, and a founding co-editor of The Medical Care Blog.
- Appointed to the Neurology Standing Committee of the National Quality Forum in 2015, for a three-year term, to provide quality measure development expertise and input to The Neurology Project of the National Quality Forum, addressing stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological conditions.
- Received my PhD from the Clinical and Population Health Research doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester. Under the direction of my advisor, Arlene Ash, my doctoral dissertation research focused on measuring and predicting emergency department utilization. I also hold a Master of Public Health from UMass Amherst and a Bachelor of Science in Scientific and Technical Communication from Northeastern University.