Overview
Areas of expertise: Epidemiology and Health Services Research
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
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2026 - Present
Population Health Sciences,
Basic Science Departments
Recent Publications
Climate Change and Disparities in Extreme Heat Exposure for Socially Vulnerable Areas in the Contiguous United States
Journal Article Earth S Future · February 1, 2026 Socially vulnerable communities within the contiguous United States (CONUS) face disproportionate heat exposure, yet how these disparities will change under future warming remains unclear. Although socially vulnerable communities already experience higher ... Full text CiteHigh-dimensional multiple imputation for partially observed confounders including natural language processing-derived auxiliary covariates.
Journal Article Am J Epidemiol · January 8, 2026 Multiple imputation (MI) models can be improved with auxiliary covariates (ACs), but their performance in high-dimensional data remains unclear. We aimed to develop and compare high-dimensional MI (HDMI) methods using structured and natural language proces ... Full text Link to item CiteStructuring Collaboration Between Researchers and Operational Innovators: Diffusing New Practices Across the Veteran's Administration Healthcare System.
Journal Article Learn Health Syst · January 2026 INTRODUCTION: To support a learning health system, we aimed to develop processes and tools to enable collaboration between the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operations and research sectors in the implementation of promising healthcare innovations. M ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
UrogynCREST Program
ResearchCourse Faculty · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2019 - 2029Data Services for the Coordinating Center for PCORnet®"
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute · 2025 - 2028Preventing Myocardial Events of Aging: A PREVENTABLE Ancillary Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cornell University · 2024 - 2028View All Grants
Education
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2011
Ph.D.