About me

I am an epidemiologist and public health researcher with an interest and expertise in evaluating medication adherence. My research focuses on exploring ways to identify behaviors that help us predict non-adherence and design effective, timely, and targeted interventions. More broadly, I am interested in ways to leverage underutilized healthcare workers - pharmacists, nurse practitioners, social workers - to understand and improve their role in engaging patients in their health and well-being. I am currently a Staff Scientist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, a multidisciplinary research group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 2015-2017, I was a co-investigator for a grant from the PhRMA foundation to evaluate the impact of medication synchronization programs, a pharmacy-based intervention that lines up patients' prescription fill dates, on adherence and cardiovascular outcomes. 

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