My research interests developed around pain, serious illness, and the systems that determine whether effective care reaches patients.
Selected Work
Research on barriers that can limit hospice patients’ access to palliative radiation, including reimbursement incentives and professional boundaries. The project pushed me to think about why evidence alone is not enough to change care.
A policy-focused investigation into the opioid crisis and the incentives, prescribing practices, and public-health consequences surrounding pain management.
A data-science project using gradient-boosted trees to predict near-term pain and detect high-pain events in intensive-care settings, exploring whether earlier signals can support more responsive care.
What Connects Them
I am interested in what evidence says can help a patient—and how confidently we know it.
I look at reimbursement, regulation, and professional structures that can shape whether useful care is actually delivered.
Across projects, the endpoint I care about is not the model or policy itself, but what changes for the person receiving care.
Reflection
I began by asking whether a treatment worked. I became more interested in the harder follow-up: if it works, what still prevents patients from receiving it?