https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3334-9877
Overview
Pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgeon, taking care of children with cleft lip/palate and other facial differences.
Dedicated to the improvement of multidisciplinary team-based care, especially by way of standardized, prospective outcomes measurement ("If you don't measure it, you can't improve it.")
Passionate about causal inference for real-world data (RWD) in observational studies.
Dedicated to the improvement of multidisciplinary team-based care, especially by way of standardized, prospective outcomes measurement ("If you don't measure it, you can't improve it.")
Passionate about causal inference for real-world data (RWD) in observational studies.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Surgery
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2022 - Present
Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery,
Surgery
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
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2022 - Present
Population Health Sciences,
Basic Science Departments
Affiliate Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
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2024 - Present
Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Scholarly Works
Visualizing the Timeline of Care: Development of a Graphical Approach to Better Understanding Complex, Longitudinal Surgical Care of Cleft Lip/Palate.
Journal article Cleft Palate Craniofac J · October 2026 ObjectiveDevelop and apply novel data visualization techniques to analyze longitudinal cleft surgical care and to identify patterns in treatment timing and procedural burden across 2 cleft teams.DesignRetrospective cohort study of operative data using nove ... Full text Link to item CiteLinguistic Fidelity and Classification Performance of Large Language Models for Generating Synthetic Operative Notes: Evaluation Study.
Journal article JMIR Form Res · July 3, 2026 BACKGROUND: Machine learning models for surgical applications require large, diverse datasets; however, data scarcity remains a critical limitation due to privacy regulations, institutional variability, and the rarity of many surgical procedures. Large lan ... Full text Link to item CiteA 5-Step Simplification of the Fisher Anatomical Subunit Cleft Lip Repair.
Journal article Plast Reconstr Surg · June 1, 2026 Unilateral cleft lip repair methods have evolved from straight-line repairs to geometric procedures, rotation advancement, and contemporary hybrid techniques. The Fisher anatomical subunit repair is a versatile, effective, and highly reproducible technique ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Optimizing Pain Management in Infants and Young Children Undergoing Cleft Palate Repair
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Gerber Foundation · 2026 - 2028Computational modeling of the mature unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity for objective assessment of patient nasal function and treatment outcomes
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025Directing Stem Cells to the Adipocyte Lineage in Infantile Hemangiomas
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024View All Grants
Education
University of Texas Medical School, Houston ·
2003
M.D.