About Me

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

As a social and behavioral scientist by training, I have a strong interest in understanding and facilitating organizational and system change. My background is in public health, specifically in injury and violence prevention, as well as qualitative methods. I support the Family and Community Medicine Department in evaluating and improving clinical operations and in expanding clinical-research partnerships.

As a part of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Population Health, I co-lead an intercampus collaborative grant to build a process for evaluating population health management strategies and guide future research and operations priorities in this area. Shared leadership across groups, sectors and disciplines is critical to success in improving health and well-being, as is community and stakeholder engagement.

To help advance scholarship in the area of collaborative leadership, I serve as a senior advisor to the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program at the University of Minnesota.

I received my bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina and my master’s degree and doctorate at Johns Hopkins University.