Research Interests
My clinical and research experiences embody a holistic approach to cancer and blood disorders that aims to understand and maximize the therapeutic potential of interventions and utilize health policy to improve quality of life and outcomes for underserved patients.
My research in hematology began with a medically complex case of a young girl with polycythemia vera. As I managed her medically complex care and reached out to national experts to help guide her care, I was able to collaborate nationally with several institutions on a retrospective review of pediatric patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms treated with interferon. My interest in hematology has expanded and my current clinical position entails me seeing benign hematology in the outpatient setting specifically focused on hemostasis and thrombosis at Duke University Medical Center. I served as the pediatric director of the Arizona Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center-Tucson, the Women’s Bleeding Disorder Clinic and the pediatric Sickle Cell program at Banner University Medical Center Tucson and the University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics for three years from 2021-2024. During this time, I was the site principal investigator on the Health Resources and Services Administration grant with the Pacific Sickle Cell Regional Collaborative that strives to improve the health and quality of life of individuals with sickle cell disease and also developed institutional guidelines for sickle cell disease. I have worked on initiatives to improve quality of life for patients with sickle cell disease, hemophilia and women with bleeding disorders. I am passionate about utilizing health policy to improve quality of life and outcomes for underserved patients. I have written several case reports and review articles in the field of pediatric hematology-oncology and presented my work both nationally and internationally.