Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine
·
2025 - Present
Medicine, Infectious Diseases,
Medicine
Recent Scholarly Works
From bedside to broadband: Evaluating outcomes of telehealth infectious diseases consultations.
Journal article Clin Infect Dis · September 2, 2026 BACKGROUND: Telemedicine is increasingly used to expand access to infectious diseases (ID) specialists but data on patient outcomes are limited. We compared patient outcomes of inpatient in-person ID consultations and tele-ID in a community hospital. METHO ... Full text Link to item CiteFrom bottlenecks to better practices: systemwide electronic clinical decision support for blood culture stewardship.
Journal article Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · September 2026 A systemwide electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool for blood culture ordering reduced utilization by 12% across three hospitals (IRR 0.88, P < .01), but the effect waned over time. Low-yield ordering persisted, and contamination rates increased. ... Full text Link to item CiteUsing Encounter-Level Data for Risk-Adjustment of Antimicrobial Use Comparisons: Feasibility and Variable Selection.
Journal article Clin Infect Dis · July 8, 2026 BACKGROUND: External comparisons of hospital antimicrobial use (AU), risk-adjusted using encounter characteristics, may better inform antimicrobial stewardship program strategy. Barriers to encounter-level modeling include feasibility of data collection an ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
MSGERC Registry of Patients With Invasive Fungal Infections, A Prospective Multi-Site Study
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of Alabama at Birmingham · 2026 - 2026RFTOP 2022 Domain 5-E003 Strategic Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Determinants of Health Data in National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Measures to Promote Health Equity
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2022 - 2025Leveraging National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use Option to Inform, Implement and Assess Antibiotic Stewardship Activities
ResearchBioinformatician I · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2022 - 2023View All Grants
Education
Duke University, School of Medicine ·
2020
M.M.
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine ·
2014
M.D.