Specialty Division

Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Medicine & Therapeutic Pathology

Expertise

I am a transfusion medicine physician and clinical informaticist with a strong interest in, and experience with, the application of clinical informatics to clinical pathology.  My primary interest is improving communication between the laboratory and front-line clinical care. More than any other specialty, pathology makes its clinical impact based on how effectively we communicate with front line providers, and increasingly, that communication is through the electronic medical record. I am passionate about the use of technology as well as change management principles to ensure that the work that we do in pathology is ordered and interpreted effectively for patient care, and to engrain the use of data to drive operational decisions and needs
 
In practice, this translates into work in clinical lab operations, specifically lab harmonization, test utilization, results display, and clinical decision support, and requires active collaboration with other clinical departments.

Education

BS (Community Health, Biology), Tufts University, 2010
MS (Narrative Medicine), Columbia University, 2016
MD (Medicine), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2017

Specialty Certification

American Board of Pathology, Clinical Pathology, 2020
American Board of Pathology, Transfusion Medicine, 2021
American Board of Pathology, Clinical Informatics, 2023

Postgraduate Training

Resident in Clinical Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2017-20
Healthcare Leadership in Quality Residency Track, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2018-20
Chief Resident, Clinical Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-20
Fellow, Transfusion Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2020-21
Fellow, Clinical Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2021-23
Certificate, Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, 2023

Awards and Honors

Memberships and Professional Organizations

American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), 2015-present
Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB), 2017-present
Pathology Society of Philadelphia, 2017-present
College of American Pathologists (CAP), 2017-present
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2019-present
Association for Pathology Informatics (API), 2021-present

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Selected Publications