About Me

I'm an emergency physician and health services researcher whose goal is to the improve the quality, equity, and patient-centeredness of emergency care. I have led nine grants as Principal Investigator or Co-PI since 2014 totaling over $1.5 million in direct costs. I recently joined the faculty at Stanford after starting my career in New York City.

I am a leading expert on acute care within alternative payment models: I led one of the first studies on the role of emergency departments within Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and found that most have invested in alternatives of ED care, with little attention to coordination of care once patients inevitably arrive in the ED. The failure to partner with ED providers to improve care transitions represents a missed opportunity to improve value—especially since admissions from the ED are the primary driver of U.S. hospital-based spending and is driven by modifiable factors such as availability of post-ED follow-up care.