About
I am a fourth year PhD candidate in Health Policy with a specialization in Decision Sciences at Stanford University, primarily advised by Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Joshua Salomon, Doug Owens, and Sherri Rose. My research is supported by the Marvin A. Karasek Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.
My interests lie in the areas of health policy modeling, data science, and clinical policy interventions to improve chronic disease healthcare delivery.
Prior to Stanford, I graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Statistical Science and a minor in East Asian Studies. I also earned a MS in Information Science for Health Tech from Cornell Tech based in NYC. After my Master’s degree, I worked as a business analyst for the Research Informatics Division at Weill Cornell Medicine.
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[November 2023] I was invited to present my work on the health and economic consequences of screening for chronic kidney disease at the 2023 American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week conference in Philadelphia, PA.
[October 2023] I presented research in progress at the Society for Medical Decision-Making conference in Philadelphia, PA. My abstract When to start population-wide screening for chronic kidney disease: a cost-effectiveness analysis was a finalist in the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize competition.
[May 2023] Our paper Population-wide screening for chronic kidney disease: a cost-effectiveness analysis was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
[May 2023] I was awarded the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.
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