I’m an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods at the MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP). My current research integrates health services and population health methods to examine healthcare utilization, service delivery, and dose-response relationships in post-stroke aphasia. I also collaborate on studies advancing aphasia assessment, treatment efficacy, and generalization. My background as a speech-language pathologist in neurorehabilitation shapes this work, which spans efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation approaches. My long-term goal is to improve the effectiveness and implementation of complex interventions in neurorehabilitation, particularly related to treatment dose and recovery in post-stroke aphasia.
I’m also one of two core statistical faculty in IHP’s PhD program and teach courses in statistics, measurement, and reproducible research, and provide statistical and methodological support to graduate students and faculty across the institute. I serve as a statistical co-investigator, consultant, and mentor on studies ranging from randomized controlled trials to observational and quasi-experimental designs. I have expertise in multilevel modeling, multivariate methods, and longitudinal analysis across clinical and social-behavioral research in both frequentist and Bayesian frameworks. On the methods side of the house, I’m highly motivated to refine the psychometrics underpinning assessments using tools like generalization theory and item response theory and improve the rigor and reproducibility of statistical approaches used to analyze data common to rehabilitation research.
Outside of my day job, you can find me and my wife Amanda exploring the outdoors with our two dogs, Murphy and Willa.