I am a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Cornell University's Brooks School of Public Policy, with research topics in policy analysis and health economics.
I'm working on a location choice model to assess funding implementations for rural physician shortages. My other projects include the use of electronic cigarettes in smoking cessation, the teaching function of hospitals, and the application of natural language processing in care delivery.
Works in Progress
Can Rural Funding Fix Rural Shortages? A Location Choice Analysis of US Physicians (Job Market Paper)
I compare rural-focused initiatives in addressing rural shortages with practice environment components, such as Graduate Medical Education programs and positions, in influencing the choice of practice location. The paper presents a new approach to evaluating the effectiveness of policy in influencing healthcare personnel's decisions and addressing challenges in rural care through near-rural implementations. ASHEcon 2025 Session
E-cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation in Consumer Data
with Alan Mathios
Teaching Function and Quality of Care
Although teaching sites and CMS hospitals are recorded extensively, I couldn't find a dataset linking teaching activities and hospitals, so I created a dataset (accessible here) that maps all major hospitals with teaching sites from publicly available sources (HCRIS and ACGME). I use this dataset to study teaching function and outcomes.
Using Provider's Note to Predict Length of Stay: Evidence from ClinicalBERT
Clinical NLP Project
Contact
MVR Hall, Cornell University
116 Reservoir Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850
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