Experience

RAND Corporation

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 700 & Above Employee

• Policy Researcher

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  Santa Monica, California, United States Lead research as Principal Investigator and subject matter expert in return on investment of health care interventions for disadvantaged populations, mental health policy, homelessness, innovations in health care, hospital expenditures and quality, and social network analysis. - Advisor to national, state, county, and city policy makers, and foundations. - Expert in program evaluation, return on investment, econometrics, geographic information systems, Medicare, Medicaid, Private… Show more Lead research as Principal Investigator and subject matter expert in return on investment of health care interventions for disadvantaged populations, mental health policy, homelessness, innovations in health care, hospital expenditures and quality, and social network analysis. - Advisor to national, state, county, and city policy makers, and foundations. - Expert in program evaluation, return on investment, econometrics, geographic information systems, Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance, surveys (e.g. ACS, NHIS, NSDUH, CAHPS), quality (e.g., hospital IQR, PRQS). - Top 5 most-read Health Affairs author. - Data scientist with expertise in managing complex data using SAS, Stata, R, ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, and metric and dashboard development.

• Associate Policy Researcher

  • Dec 2013 - Jun 2018

  Santa Monica, California, United States

• Senior Research Programmer & Data Analyst

  • Oct 1999 - Dec 2013



Pardee RAND Graduate School

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professor of Policy Analysis

  • Dec 2019 - Present

  Santa Monica, California, United States Mentor PhD Students; Course taught: Using health care claims in research

• Faculty Member

  • Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

  Santa Monica, California, United States



Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Jan 2012 - May 2015

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Courses Taught: Health Economics (graduate), SAS for Public Policy (graduate)



PwC

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Associate

  • 1996 - 1999

  New York, New York, United States Economic analysis for employment litigation.