Making medical research readable for everyone.

My research career began in undergraduate, where I worked as a research assistant in physical organic chemistry before finding my footing in epidemiology and population health. That work, examining mortality trends across conditions including stroke, firearm violence, pulmonary embolism, and unintentional injury using national death certificate data and Joinpoint regression, became the foundation of eight peer-reviewed publications. It also gave me a way of reading the literature that I have not been able to turn off since: look at the methods before the abstract, ask what the absolute numbers say, and be skeptical of headlines that move faster than the data.

During two years at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, I continued research alongside clinical training, contributing to work centered in oral disease manifestation and diagnostics as well as oral implant stability and dynamics, while carrying a full patient roster across adult, pediatric, and specialty clinics. A book chapter contribution in a clinical dental textbook came out of this period as well. The oral-systemic connection deepened my commitment to medicine as a discipline and eventually brought me back to pursue it directly.

I am currently a Graduate Research Associate in Epidemiology and Population Health, continuing work with undergraduate mentors who have now become colleagues, and we continue to refine our analyses of national mortality trends. I have also expanded my research lens to contribute to initiatives in interventional cardiovascular care at a large NYC hospital, and build clinical skill as an EMT with a local fire department.

CliniScope Weekly exists because of a gap I kept noticing. The peer-reviewed literature is free, open, and more accessible than most people realize, but a free full-text article is still a dense and specific document written for specialists causing most people, including many people in medicine, to never open one outside of what their training requires. I wanted to build something that met readers where they are, be it a single paper, reviewed carefully, explained plainly, with the editorial honesty to say what the numbers actually mean and what the study cannot tell you. My objective is not to be a summary service nor a press release; rather, I hope my reviews are something that respects the intelligence of the reader and the complexity of the evidence at the same time.

The website covers clinical medicine, epidemiology, global health, and emerging research, once every Sunday, free of charge.

If you want to learn more about my work, feel free to access my peer-reviewed publication record through my ORCID profile. Stay tuned for the next issue posted on Sunday. Happy reading!

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