I am an Assistant Professor with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. My research explores ethical and regulatory issues associated with sharing health data more widely, efficiently and securely across computing systems. I am interested in how the scientific community maximizes the value of big data while instilling public trust in science to advance human health.
After earning my Bachelor of Science in Microbial Biology from the University in California Berkeley, I pursued graduate studies at McGill University where I completed both my MSc, followed by a PhD with a specialization in biomedical ethics. My dissertation work was supported by a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2016-2019) and earned me both a Governor General’s Gold Medal and Gordon A. MacLachlan Prizes for top dissertation in the biological and health sciences in Canada. I then joined the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics as a Postdoctoral Fellow with support from a National Human Genome Research Institute’s Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Program training grant.
In addition to my published research contributions in journals such as JAMA Pediatrics, American Journal of Bioethics and European Journal of Human Genetics, I co-chair theRegulatory and Ethics Work Streamof the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health where I contribute empirical policy research on harmonization and standards-development for health data sharing. I also advise federal agencies on science and ethics governance as a member of the NASA Bioethics Advisory Panel, and through committee service to the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
