I am a general internist who specializes in health outcomes and population health research with the goal of improving the health of older, vulnerable adults. Specifically, my research interests include:

1. Measuring axes of vulnerability (physical, cognitive, social) to determine how vulnerability affects health outcomes
2. Improving complex clinical decision making for older adults (atrial fibrillation as a model condition)
3. Implementing research insights into care delivery to improve population health

Following clinical training and chief residency, I completed a General Medicine research fellowship and a Population Health fellowship within an ACO. During these fellowships, I developed an interest in improving the health of older, vulnerable adults. For example, colleagues and I described how poorly-connected primary care patients perform poorly on measures of population health (e.g., cancer screening, blood pressure control). Subsequently, I worked with the Partners ACO to automate the identification of poorly-connected primary care patients. Using this automated platform, I then lead a randomized controlled trial of a targeted intervention to improve their adherence using behavioral economics-based patient navigation.

I am working to identify social determinants of health unique to older adults using novel computation and causal inference methods to create an index measure of at-risk older adults. The goal is to identify an at-risk population, implement data collection at scale, and target care management resources -- all in an effort to prevent decrements in health.

Through my clinical work, I became interested in complex, shared decision making. Using atrial fibrillation as a model condition, I study how we integrate complex and, at times, conflicting data so patient and physicians can make personalized health decisions.