I am a physician, writer and playwright in New York City. I work as a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Born in Boston and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I attended Harvard College, graduating with a BA in Biology (1997). I received a master's degree in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2002), and a medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine (2003). I completed an anesthesia residency and critical care fellowship at Columbia University where I was on faculty for six years. I then moved to the University of Toronto where I held a Canada Research Chair, before moving to Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC in 2023.

I hold research funding from the NIH, US Department of Defence, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. My research focuses on the delivery and outcomes of critical care using large databases. My work has been published in The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ and many specialty journals.

I have a long-standing interest in writing and theater. In college I worked as a costumer at the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth, MA, and designed costumes for shows at the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club and Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players. More recently (2021-22) I completed the John Burgess playwriting course in London. I am the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. My writing has also appeared in The Globe & Mail, The Literary Review of Canada, McSweeney's, and other journals. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan  and in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.