Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. As a health services researcher, I have two primary areas of interest: long-term care and rural health.

Within long-term care, I am interested in understanding how public policies impact the patients and the long-term care workforce, including unpaid caregivers of people with complex medical needs. I have developed expertise in program evaluation and use a variety of empirical approaches used in both health services research and economics. My recent work focuses on the supply of and policies impacting formal and informal caregivers.

Within rural health, I am interested in understanding how public policies impact access to health care facilities and the workforce. My recent work in this area has described the emergency medical services workforce and examined the effects of rural hospital closures on access to emergency medical services, outpatient primary care, and ambulatory surgical centers. These foci are reflected in my post-doctoral fellowship where I am evaluating policy approaches to enhance (1) long-term care services to improve the experience of family caregivers and patients and (2) access to care in rural areas.