I am a practicing adult hospitalist, health services researcher, educator, and advocate for systems change. My work is grounded in my belief that health care is a human right and that medicine is a vehicle for pragmatic solidarity in the fight for health equity and social justice. I have previously worked as a community health fellow at a clinic in rural Haiti and as a research intern with Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante, collaborated with colleagues at Cambridge Health Alliance as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow to pilot culturally informed cooking classes as part of chronic disease management for elderly Haitian individuals, served as the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine’s interim Director of Social Medicine (Spring 2023), and interned with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center.

My research and advocacy interrogate how the ‘business of medicine’ (i.e., the incentives created by financing healthcare through a market-based system) exposes individual patients to financial hardship (i.e., medical debt), erects barriers to addressing individual’s health-related social needs, and provokes moral distress among physicians constrained in their ability to provide patient-centered, evidence-based care by corporatized imperatives (e.g., prioritization of wealth extraction over health promotion). I employ quantitative and qualitative research tools to investigate these topics and enjoy writing about them for both the general public and medical audiences. My peer-reviewed research and writing have been published in the BMJ, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Network Open, Journal of General Internal Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, The Oncologist, and Journal of Palliative Medicine (among other outlets, as well).

In my spare time, I enjoy cooking Indian and Thai food, visiting National Parks (25 so far), reading books (almost 200 since 2022), spending time with my partner's cat, watching futbol, and collecting colorful tote bags.