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New York, New York, United States

Advise diverse healthcare clients on issues pertaining to data strategy, evidence development and scientific evaluation, product design and development, commercialization, and federal regulatory policy.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

- Responsible for setting vision and strategy related to organization-wide use of data and analytics for division of CMS responsible for improving quality of care for 150M Americans. This included modernizing technology and data infrastructure and developing new platforms for advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural.

Greater New York City Area

- Built and led 40 person incubator team of engineers, data scientists, implementation scientists, and clinicians responsible for rapid experimentation and innovation at the intersection of Oscar’s technology, data, and human capabilities for Oscar’s 420k member population- Led Oscar’s population surveillance and intervention strategy for COVID-19 pandemic.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

- Designed and led numerous evaluations relevant to US health policymaking that focused on the relationships between variation in practice patterns, healthcare utilization, and health outcomes and behaviors- Developed new datasets that integrated insurance claims, national surveys/patient-reported sources, clinical registries, and geographic information.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Appointed by President Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, to first commission in U.S. history charged with examining accessibility of instructional materials for postsecondary students with disabilities - Received public testimony from American citizens in multiple regions of the United States- Contributed to the development of recommendations.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Analyzed data from multiple federal agencies and sources to draft talking points on prevention, wellness, chronic disease, and disparities for Presidential and White House town halls on healthcare reform- Researched and wrote an economic position statement on the merits of healthcare reform for middle class Americans for the Middle Class Task Force.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Co-directed the integration of Lean Six Sigma methodologies into the management of a 16-operating room surgical suite, created a portfolio management system to track over 100 quality improvement projects, leading to.
• Created the concept of in-situ simulation as a mechanism for safely pilot-testing new surgical programs; this led to the integration of 3 new revenue-generating surgical services at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of.
• Drafted the business plan to create a hospital-wide Difficult Airway Response Team (DART) Program, secured $500,000 of startup funding from The Johns Hopkins Hospital Patient Safety Department, and eliminated.
• Created and directed an educational program in quality improvement, risk management, and patient safety for Johns Hopkins undergraduates that trained a dozen students and became a model for training residents

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Selected after competitive application process (>500 applicants from around the world)
• Led literature review process and conducted data analysis for technical reports for the First Global Patient Safety Challenge, a global WHO initiative to improve infection control and hand hygiene in hospitals in over.
• Created a statistical model to estimate the global burden of healthcare-associated infections and drafted a grant to support a project to implement this model

London, United Kingdom And Baltimore, MD

• Conducted interviews with National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) staff and clinicians, pharmacists, risk managers, and executives at UK hospitals as part of qualitative assessment of the largest and most advanced.
• Developed natural language text-searching algorithms of unstructured error description free text to reclassify reported medical errors into a clinically meaningful taxonomy to improve learning from past medical errors
• Prepared extensive summary and co-authored final project report submitted to the World Health Organization

Doctor Of Medicine (Md), Medicine

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Health Policy And Economics

Dissertation: “Medicare Spending and the Health and Health Behaviors of Older Americans” Committee: Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD; Albert Wu.

Industrial And Product Design

Msc, Social Policy And Intervention, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Marshall Scholar

Ba, Public Health, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow