Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, I attended college at the University of Washington, then ventured off to medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, back to University of Washington for internship then completed Anesthesiology residency at Penn State Medical Center.
My quality improvement journey includes Virginia Mason Production System certified leader training in 2014, then completing a research fellowship at the Virginia Mason Healthcare Improvement Sciences Center in 2017. I have published QI papers for projects organizing difficult airway carts, streamlining the equipment acquisition for awake fiberoptic intubation, redesigning a pancreatic stone removal process lithotripsy and ERCP for, and a quality initiative to improve monitoring recovery from neuromuscular blockade (paralysis). I was also co-chair for the national guideline for neuromuscular management. I am currently serving as the Assistant Vice Chair for Quality Improvement research in the Anesthesiology Department.
