Experience

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  Visby Medical

  • California, United States

  • Senior Director, Scientific Affairs and External Partnerships

    • Nov 2023 - Present
    • California, United States

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  eMed Digital Healthcare

  • Miami, Florida, United States

  • Director of Scientific Affairs

    • Jan 2022 - Nov 2023
    • Miami, Florida, United States

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  Color

  • Remote

  • Program Operations Lead

    • Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
    • Remote

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  Harvard University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Program Manager

    • Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

    Launched and managed the Aviation Industry Public Health Initiative: a 7-month, fast-paced project offering evidence-based, scientific and behavioral recommendations to the American aviation industry (airports, airlines, and aircrafts) on how to minimize COVID risks to travelers throughout the 'curb-to-curb' journey.

  • Co-Investigator

    • 2016 - Aug 2020

    'Leadership Qualities of Business Leaders for Improving Health' is one of the six projects within our Culture of Health program. We perform qualitative research with trailblazing CEOs to explore why they prioritize health/well-being in their business strategies/operations, and what other CEOs can do to learn from them. I have played a central role in designing, conducting interviews, and analyzing data for this qualitative research.

  • Program Manager

    • 2015 - Aug 2020

    Designed and managed a joint initiative between the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Business School focused on helping businesses find sustainable long-term practices that can improve consumer, community, employee, and environmental health through their business practices. Our four-year, six-part program focuses on convening public health and business thought leaders, conducting quantitative and qualitative research measuring business practices that promote wellbeing, and training executives on how to implement these learnings into their businesses.I offer strategic direction, content development, and cross-program synthesis to a team of 52 faculty and staff and serve as program ambassador with business executives, C-Suite leaders, and heads of foundations and NGOs. Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by Principal Investigator Dr. Howard Koh, former Assistant Secretary of Health during the Obama administration, our team of 19 HBS/HChan faculty, 12 staff, and 14 advisory council members have benchmarked 1000 U.S.-based businesses on their involvement in improving health, developed two C-Suite executive education training programs and a free MOOC, and conducting qualitative and quantitative research around the potential role business can play in improving health and well-being.Check out our website at cultureofhealth.harvard.edu.

  • Teaching Assistant, Design for Social Innovation

    • Jan 2019 - May 2019

    This course is built on Professor Patrick Whitney's design methodology tool, the 'Whole View Model', and explores the role design can play in public health. Students worked directly with the companies to find innovative solutions to public health challenges by examining their strategies, products, operations, and users.

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  General Dentist

  • Cambridge, MA and New York, New York

  • General Dentist

    • 2009 - 2020
    • Cambridge, MA and New York, New York

    I worked as a dentist full-time for 7 years, treated over 10,000 patients and gained clinically informed knowledge of health systems and health care delivery.

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  MakeSense

  • Mediterranean

  • Systems Researcher, Social Entrepreneurship

    • 2013 - 2014
    • Mediterranean

    I co-designed the Mediterranean Social Entrepreneurship SenseTour as a pilot project with Makesense. We spent five months mapping the social entrepreneurial (socent) ecosystem around the Mediterranean, framing challenges with start-up socents, hosting design thinking workshops, and training employees at local incubators and accelerators to facilitate their own design thinking workshops for local social entrepreneurs. In total, we landscaped 16 countries, conducting 34 workshops for social impact start-ups, presenting results at 7 global conferences, and inspired 25 other issue-specific SenseTours globally. PRESENTATION AND PANELSAmerican Public Health Association, Oral Health Panelist (Boston, MA) Nov 2013 Eurasian Social Business Forum, Presenter (Istanbul, Turkey) May 2013 Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Speaker (Fes, Morocco) May 2013Tunisian Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Panelist (Tunis, Tunisia) Apr 2013American University of Cairo, Speaker (Cairo, Egypt) Apr 2013ArabNet Conference (Beirut, Lebanon) Mar 2013

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  American University of Beirut

  • Beirut, Lebanon

  • Consultant, Public Health Systems

    • Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
    • Beirut, Lebanon

    Program: Eastern Mediterranean Regional Academic Institution Network (EMRAIN)Joint initiative between the American University of Beirut and The World Health Organization EMRO Health Systems office, launching first public health teaching cooperative in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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  The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Public Health Fellow

    • 2008 - 2009
    • Cambridge, MA