About Me
I am a hospitalist and addiction medicine physician at Johns Hopkins, where I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Addiction Medicine. I care for hospitalized patients, see patients on the substance use disorders consult service, and I teach medical students and residents. I am board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine.
My research focuses on improving hospital care for people with opioid use disorder in the fentanyl era: how we manage withdrawal, how we start and dose methadone and buprenorphine, why patients leave the hospital before treatment is complete, and what systems-level changes help them stay connected to care. My work has been supported by an NIH KL2 career development award through the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, a Center for Innovative Medicine Next Generation Scholars Award, and the Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars program. Earlier in my career I used real-world data to study emerging issues in COVID-19 and mpox, including the safety of Paxlovid in pregnancy and risk factors for severe mpox.
I am originally from Durham, North Carolina. I graduated from Yale, earned my MD and MPH at the University of North Carolina, and moved to Baltimore in 2016 for internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. In 2024 I completed an MHS through the Graduate Training Programs in Clinical Investigation (GTPCI) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
You can find more about my research and my CV on this site. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss potential projects.