Overview

As a board certified family medicine physician who has worked in academics most of my career, I have taught, led research teams, served as a department chair and other administrative roles, and worked internationally. I have spent most of my time in Minnesota + Ohio. Currently I teach undergraduate pre-health students and medical students, Gateways MSc, and serve as an advisor to the Brown student run asylum initiative. 

• Former US Fulbright Scholar (2019-2022) in the Occupied territories of Palestine  facilitating faculty development in a young department of Family Medicine and teaching qualitative research skills. 
• Teaching: medical school, rural medical school tracks, and Family Medicine residencies. 
• Research: Qualitative and Mixed Methods approaches in intimate partner violence, rural medical education, guideline implementation in primary care, medical professionalism and facilitating research activities in Palestine. 
• Global Health: Community health assessments, Medical aspect of community response to domestic violence, Women's health cervical cancer screening, family medicine capacity building.  Experiences in Central America, Russia and Former Soviet Union and Middle East.
• Advocacy: Understanding my patients’ challenges has inspired me to advocate on their behalf to the national and state legislatures and to local leaders.
• Creative writing: Reflection is an important skill in medicine. I have edited collections of stories about doctoring, helped students write/publish stories, write novels, and maintain a blog. 

Brown Affiliations

• Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Family Medicine

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