I love finding new ways to approach complex problems. I recently co-founded Polaris Family Medicine, an independent, insurance-based primary care practice in Massachusetts built around relationship-based medicine. We designed a clinical model and business infrastructure that allows our providers to know their patients well, think comprehensively about their health, and place a strong emphasis on prevention, continuity, and coordination across the healthcare system. I practice virtually, seeing patients across Massachusetts and nationwide, alongside my partner Leigh, FNP, who runs our clinic sited in Franklin, MA. Before Polaris, I worked with Carbon Health to develop and grow their Virtual Primary Care program based in Massachusetts. I also have experience working with Maven Health, Grand Rounds (now Included Health), and was a Primary Care Leadership + Innovation Fellow with Iora Health.

After medical school at UCSF and residency in Boise, Idaho, I served as a family medicine/obstetrics physician in an integrative primary care practice in Portland, Oregon. I worked alongside midwives to explore how we can provide a more gentle and woman-centered transition into motherhood. We provided clients with pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and pediatric care with a focus on care continuity within a small team and a safe alternative to a home birth experience. My practice was guided in part by time I spent during residency with an experienced physician running a natural birth center in Guadalajara, Mexico. I also provided comprehensive primary care to patients of all ages.

I left that practice to join a project to re-design how we measure and think about modeling future impact in reproductive health and family planning with the Institute for Disease Modeling at the Gates Foundation. We designed and published the first open-source, individual-level, woman-centered model of family planning, available for use by the public health, policy, and research communities. I am fluent in Python, Pandas, and GitHub.

I hold ten state licenses including CA, TX, FL, NY, OR, ID, PA, MA, NH, and ME and am certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. I hold a certificate in Futures Studies and Speculative Design from Parsons School of Design.