I am the Manning Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and a member of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research (CGHCR). My work focuses on drawing causal inferences from observational data with appliations to older adults health, traffic safety, and pharmacoepidemiology. In addition I am interested in advancing methods for generalizing findings from cluster randomized trials to a new target populations, with a focus on applications for nursing home research. I am the founder and director of the Causal Inference Working Group (CIWG), an interdepartmental group at the school of public health focused on causal inference.