Building safer healthcare AI at the point of care.
Emergency physician and clinical informaticist at UNC Health. My work sits at the intersection of EHR design, AI in clinical practice, and the daily reality of caring for patients in a busy Level I trauma center.
I’m a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine with additional fellowship training in Clinical Informatics. I work as an attending in the Emergency Department while taking part in informatics initiatives across UNC Health.
Before medicine I spent three years as a bilingual third-grade teacher in Denver through Teach For America — which still shapes how I think about education, equity, and the craft of building something that actually helps the person in front of you.
Attending EM physician at a Level I trauma center while leading informatics work across UNC Health. EM clinical lead for clinical pathways now live at 10+ UNC Health entities statewide, and a member of the Responsible AI workgroup evaluating vendor tools.
Completed the Clinical Informatics fellowship at UNC while practicing as an attending in the Emergency Department, holding a Clinical Instructor appointment in Emergency Medicine throughout training.
Actively-practicing clinical advisor for a vendor-neutral healthcare-AI platform. I translate between clinical workflow and technical architecture so AI tools behave correctly against messy, real-world EHR data.
US-based clinical consultant for a French health-tech company building safe-prescribing tools. Advised on US prescribing workflows and market dynamics, reviewed clinical content, and ran clinician-facing vendor evaluations.
Administrative Chief Resident (voted by faculty + peers). Built an EHR clinical decision support tool for critical-care documentation (presented at Epic XGM). Honors: EM Research Award (2024), Cefalo House Officer Award (2023), Golden Glove most-valuable intern (2022).
Taught bilingual (Spanish) math & science at a Title I school as a TFA corps member for three years.
Things I'm into outside of the hospital.
2,353-day run streak · 20,476 streak miles · 25,045 all-time miles (since I started tracking) · Zero rest days since 4/9/20 · Most recent run on 9/17 · 9 miles at 7:23 pace
Ultras, trails, backyard ultras, and timed events. And one Taco Bell 50k.
Strava ↗ ↻ auto-syncs daily
Hario V60 as my daily driver, with the occasional Aeropress.
Roasters I like: Sweet Bloom ↗Little Waves ↗Brandywine ↗S&W Craft Roasting ↗
Over 50 houseplants. Growing citrus in North Carolina! Currently working on a miracle berry plant.
Kombucha, kimchi, tepache — you name it.
My top three:
Recently out of the oven: rustic sourdough, banana chocolate-chip cookies, shokupan, and a spoof of Levain chocolate-chip walnut cookies.
Open to conversations about informatics research collaborations, AI in EM, vendor consultation, speaking, and mentorship.