Career Highlights
•Current MIT Sloan Fellow and FemTech founder
•Former Chief Medical Officer for 14-center operation and $100 million budget
•Massachusetts Medicaid medical director for three years
•Co-designed $1.8 billion reform in Medicaid for value-based care
•Co-chair for PCORI Healthcare Delivery and Disparities Research Advisory Panel for >$300m research budget
•Expertise in medical AI and in use of large healthcare database analyses
•Certified executive coach with expertise in curriculum design
•Top Voice on LinkedIn in 1% of influencers for healthcare
Education
MBA (anticipated)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Sloan School of Management
Enrolled in a mid-career MBA with an innovation and entrepreneurship focus. Learned latest methods in AI for healthcare, digital health, and human resource management. Took leave to develop a FemTech start up inspired by own patient journey. Anticipated completion in May 2024.
MPH
Harvard School of Public Health Program in Clinical Effectiveness
MPH was funded by a federal grant as part of the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research (HSR) Fellowship Program with dedicated data science and program administration training to address key issues of health equity such as access, quality, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of care.
MD (MBBS)
Aga Khan University
Medical College
Medical degree from a leading global health institution with curriculum and assessment tailored to international standards, with the aim of developing excellent clinical competencies in community settings and hospitals.
Projects
Portfolio of Work
(Selected)
Clinical Lead, $1.8b successful bid to Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services to create Accountable Care Organizations in Medicaid in Massachusetts.
Patient Centered Medical Home
Multiple projects ranging from curriculum design for clinicians to behavioral health integration to back end HIT design for data transfer to support integration.
Social Determinants of Health HIT Solution
Design a novel Health Information Technology (HIT) solution using AI/NLP to capture Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) data from medical records for clinical quality and population health outcomes.
Design of public health text messaging for Maternal-Child Health (MCH) to expecting and new mothers to improve maternal and child health outcomes in a Medicaid population.
Operating Hours Rightsizing
Used combination of quantitative and qualitative data to assess operating hours for outcomes of patient access, clinical revenue, and staffing ratio. Proposed new operating model approved by board.
Quality improvement to increase postpartum visit rates within Medicaid to improve a metric tied to higher maternal mortality and drive improved maternal health outcomes.
Curriculum Design and Evaluation
Design and evaluation of four curricula on Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
Oversight of first Advance Practice Nurse fellowship in New York with doubling of size and expansion of practice scope
Holistic Heart
Principal Investigator for Culture of Health model interfaith community health grant for six, diverse underserved communities in Chicago to deliver cardiac health resource and education
MedTech Patnership
Relationship management and strategic design of anticipated $500m international MedTech collaboration between Harvard-affiliated innovators and low to middle income countries