Welcome

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where I’m jointly appointed in the Division of Healthcare Delivery Science and the Division of Medical Ethics. This joint appointment reflects my interest in empirical research that describes the world as it is and normative scholarship that makes a case for how it ought to be.

Most of my research looks at how health care is governed beyond formal law, with a focus on the institutional and market structures, delegated authority, and organizational practices that shape access to care, practical freedom, and democratic accountability. I study how hospitals, health systems, and organized stakeholders do not simply implement policy but actively make and remake it—through governance design, political influence, and routine managerial decisions that expand, restrict, or mediate people’s access to care. I am especially interested in the blurry boundary between public and private authority in health care: what makes a hospital meaningfully public, how organizations create durable guarantees of access, and what ethical obligations arise when ostensibly private institutions exercise public power. Taken together, my scholarship asks who actually governs health care, through what mechanisms, and with what consequences for communities’ ability to obtain care and contest institutional decisions.

I earned a PhD from Harvard Business School (2020), a Masters from Harvard Divinity School (2015) and a Masters from Yale School of Public Health (2009). I am a former Academy Health Trust Scholar in Residence and a Class of 2026 Greenwall Faculty Scholar.

Outside of work, I spend my time with my three small children and trying to assure our newfoundland – Maui – that delivery drivers come in peace.