Overview
My work is a reflection of a core value in social justice and a passion to increase health equity. Most of my academic career has been as an educator, serving as a family medicine residency director for 10 years prior to joining Duke. Having started my career in Massachusetts, where universal coverage started in 2007, I have had a focus in primary care transformation and value based care, with special attention to doing so in residency clinics. I’m eager to use my position as Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Development in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health to coordinate efforts across its five divisions and growing research group to build “learning systems” that adopt continuous improvement culture in all that we do.
Research interests: health equity, team based care, primary care transformation, leadership and improvement science and group based opioid treatment.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Identification of barriers at the primary care provider level to improve inflammatory breast cancer diagnosis and management.
Journal Article Prev Med Rep · December 2023 The purpose of this study, based in the United States, was to evaluate knowledge gaps and barriers related to diagnosis and care of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), a rare but lethal breast cancer subtype, amongst Primary Care Providers (PCP) as they are ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteCasting a Wider Net: Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Searches.
Journal Article J Physician Assist Educ · March 1, 2023 Full text Link to item CiteScoping Review of Restorative Justice in Academics and Medicine: A Powerful Tool for Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion.
Journal Article Health Equity · 2023 PURPOSE: Restorative Justice (RJ) as a practice and mindset is growing within academic medicine and health care. The authors aim to categorize the extent to which RJ training and practices have been researched, explored, and applied within health care, med ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Reproductive Health Service Line Development in Family Medicine
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Montefiore Health System · 2024 - 2025Duke Primary Care Transformation Fellowship Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2018 - 2024Duke Family Medicine Rural Residency Track - Planning and Development
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2020 - 2023View All Grants