Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Surgery
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2021 - Present
Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery,
Surgery
Interim Chief, Division of Plastic, Maxillofacial & Oral Surgery
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2024 - Present
Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery,
Surgery
Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
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2020 - Present
Orthopaedic Surgery,
Clinical Science Departments
Recent Scholarly Works
A rapid point-of-care test for vancomycin monitoring at the clinical bedside.
Journal article iScience · August 21, 2026 Vancomycin requires individualized dosing guided by therapeutic drug monitoring, but current laboratory assays are slow and centralized. We describe a competition-format microarray assay on a poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate-co-glycidyl methacrylat ... Full text Link to item CiteIntervention-Free Survival Analysis Following Corticosteroid Injection in First Dorsal Compartment Tendonitis.
Journal article J Hand Surg Am · August 2026 PURPOSE: First dorsal compartment tendonitis is a common cause of radial wrist pain. Initial treatments include corticosteroid injections, bracing, and anti-inflammatory medications, with surgical release reserved for persistent symptoms. This study invest ... 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 CiteRecent Grants
Human Fresh Tissue Lab Educational Program Agreement
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Noah Medical Corporation · 2026 - 2026Human Fresh Tissue Lab - Corporate non-CME Educational Program Agreement
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Medartis, Inc. · 2025 - 2026Human Fresh Tissue Lab - Corporate non-CME Educational Program Agreement
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Threshold Medical LLC · 2025 - 2025View All Grants
Education
Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine ·
2003
M.D.