Director of Clinical Informatics at Dandelion Health since July 2022

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• Answering clients’ clinical data questions, especially the questions they wished they had asked!
• Doing data deep dives with 4 different health systems’ subject matter experts.
• De-identifying, cleaning, normalizing, harmonizing, and modeling multi-modal clinical data while building and learning tools to increase speed and improve quality.
• Teaching colleagues about clinical data and medical context.

Data Tools

Snowflake, AWS Redshift and Sagemaker, Hex, dbt

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EMR and HIT Experience

Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, GE Muse (ECG), DICOM data

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Terminologies, Vocabularies, and Ontologies

ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED CT, CPT Codes, Human Phenotype Ontology

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Clinical Informatics Fellow

Boston Children’s Hospital

Boston, MA

2022 - 2020

• Consulted for Division of Developmental Medicine to create clinical-care-to-research data pipeline that pulled directly from free text notes generated at point of care
• Updated newborn history data collection system and developed reusable data elements for clinical use as well as future research use
• Explored and advised on applications of NLP with Business Intelligence group
• Helped create BCRP Residency Handbook using the R bookdown package
• Conducted workflow analysis of complex transfer process of ICU patients
• Implemented optimization project of Cerner’s Launchpoint within Primary Care Clinic to improve patient flow, staff communication, and rapid order entry
• Part of Organizing Committee for R/Medicine Conference in 2020 and 2021

Pediatric Chief Resident

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York City, NY

2020 - 2019

Pediatrics Internship and Residency

Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

Oakland, CA

2015 - 2012

• Diagnosed measles and alerted CDPH for first identified case in the 2015 US (Disneyland) outbreak within minutes of presentation and having never seen an in-person case previously

Master of Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School
NLM Biomedical Informatics Research and Data Science Fellow

Boston, MA

2022 - 2020

Masters of Public Health

Interdisciplinary
University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

2016 - 2015

MD

Teaching Distinction Track
University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

2012 - 2008

BS in Biochemistry

Summa Cum Laude
Iowa State University

Ames, IA

2008 - 2004

• Minors in Mathematics, German, and Russian Studies
• Attended on full ride scholarship as a National Merit Scholar

Urgent Care Pediatrician

Boston Children’s Hospital Primary Care Clinic

Boston, MA

2022 - 2020

• Provided in person and virtual visits for pediatric patients of all ages

Field Physician for School District 22 in Brooklyn

NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

New York City, NY

2018 - 2017

Outpatient Pediatrician

Hawaii Permanente Medical Group

Wailuku, HI

2017 - 2016

• Successfully managed critical airway in outpatient setting
• Identified extremely rare hematological condition and managed case with multiple subspecialists in O‘ahu
• Diagnosed Kawaski Disease despite uncommon presentation without initial fevers

Medical Licenses

New York State Medical License since 2017, active

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Certifications

ABP Board Certification in Pediatrics since 2015
ABPM Board Certification in Clinical Informatics since 2023

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Gold Humanism Honor Society 2012

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Iowa City, IA

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Robert Stupka Memorial Scholarship 2007

Iowa State University
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
For leadership and research excellence

Ames, IA

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Personal Tidbits

Enjoy cooking — ask me about my SQL recipe database
Voracious reader
Amazing SET player
Over 7 year streak on Duolingo
Grew up on a working farm
Traveled to 48 US states; missing AK, MI
Favorite gift ever: a set of cordless power tools
Met my future husband at Canada/USA Mathcamp

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