I’m an Epidemiologist and Certified Data Nerd who is passionate about helping people live their best (and active) lives no matter where they started. I lead projects and teams from idea generation to project implementation and evaluation.

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Meet Me!

Doctoral level epidemiologist with a variety of expertise including sports injury, chronic disease, data linkage, anthropometry, and social determinants of health. I believe everyone should be in the position to live well. Good data is the key to knowing how we make this happen and how to continuously evaluate what work comes next. We are the stewards of the future!

Currently an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Virginia Tech in the Department of Population Health Sciences. Founder and PI of the Injury in Sport and Physical Activity Data Analysis and Training Advances Laboratory (I-SPY DATA). Director of Epidemiology for Truveta Inc.

Areas of Expertise


 

Social Determinants of Health

Health Disparities and Health Equity

Injury Epidemiology

Physical Activity

Project Design and Management

Community Health

Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Biostatistics and Statistical Programming

Disaster Preparedness and Disease Surveillance

Sickle Cell Disease/Sickle Cell Trait

Recent Projects


 

Health disparities in sport and recreation injury.

Acute care utilization in Sickle Cell Disease.

Deterministic linkage of administrative data for health surveillance.

Methodology for assessing and including social determinants of health in clinical care.