I’m a small library of contradictions. I started off life in a one-stoplight town in a corner of Kansas and now call Los Angeles home. I spent a decade as a words guy, wrangling wild sentences as a journalist before transforming into a numbers guy, analyzing healthcare data.

My Work

Publications

• A Tender-Loving-Care Volunteer Program to Provide Non-Clinical, Supportive Interventions to Older Adults in the Emergency Department
  Annals of Emergency Medicine
  Oct. 17, 2022

• An Emergency Department-Based Care Coordination Program for Underserved Patients
  Academic Emergency Medicine
  May 17, 2022

• 30 Characteristics of Patients Restrained in the Emergency Department and Evaluation for Disparities in Care
  Annals of Emergency Medicine
  Oct. 22, 2021

Talks

• Fairly biased: Health equity through a journalism and data science lens

• Making the Case for Cedars’ Community Resource Coordinators

• Bracketball: Let’s Explore March Madness with ncaahoopR (slides)

Hobby Projects

• Kansas Basketball 2021-22 Season Dashboard (repo)

• Predictive Analytics with College Athletics Financials

• Examining Article Shareability from Text-Mined Data

Education

Cedars-Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Los Angeles, CA
Candidate for Masters in Health Delivery Science
Sep 2021 - Apr 2023

Merrimack College
North Andover, MA
MS in Business Analytics
Jan 2018 - July 2019

University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
BS in Journalism
Aug 2005 - May 2009

Experience

Business Intelligence and Quality Improvement Analyst, Emergency Medicine
Stanford Medicine
Oct 2023 - present

Business Data Analyst, Emergency Department
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Sept 2019 - Oct 2023

Digital Editor
Circa.com
Oct 2018 - March 2019

Web Producer, Sports
The Dallas Morning News
July 2013 - Oct 2018

Copy Editor
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Aug 2010 - May 2013

Copy Editor/Designer
The News & Advance
June 2009-July 2010

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