Ideas & Research
My writing and research explore a practical set of questions: What helps people receive better care? What allows clinicians and other professionals to thrive inside complicated institutions? And how can leaders turn evidence, ideas, and lived experience into meaningful change?
Better Care and Health Systems
Better Bottom Lines: Patient Satisfaction Associated with Addressing Sexual and Gender Minority Health
Why addressing LGBTQ health is not only an equity issue, but also an important part of patient experience, healthcare quality, and organizational performance.
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2025
A Legacy of Cruelty to Sexual and Gender Minority Groups
An examination of how medicine pathologized LGBTQ people, legitimized harmful practices, and helped perpetuate discrimination—and why acknowledging that history remains essential to rebuilding trust.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2024
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Journal
Part of the New England Journal of Medicine’s historical reckoning with the ways medical publishing has shaped—and sometimes distorted—understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2025
How Should Physicians Refer When Referral Options Are Limited for Transgender Patients?
An ethical case for harm reduction, informed consent, continuity of care, and helping primary care clinicians provide gender-affirming care when respectful specialists are difficult to find.
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2016
Medical Education and the Healthcare Workforce
Academic Physician and Trainee Occupational Well-Being by Sexual and Gender Minority Status
A national study of nearly 11,000 academic physicians and trainees documenting higher burnout and lower professional fulfillment among sexual and gender minority clinicians.
JAMA Network Open, 2024
Medical Education Satisfaction and Change of Intended Specialty Among Graduating Students
Research showing that sexual minority medical students—particularly those with multiple marginalized identities—report lower satisfaction with medical education and are more likely to move toward specialties they perceive as more welcoming.
Health Equity, 2025
Sexual and Gender Minority Content in Undergraduate Medical Education
A national assessment finding that reported LGBTQ health instruction has more than doubled since 2011, while remaining inconsistent and below recommended medical-education competencies.
BMC Medical Education, 2024
Career Progression in Academic Medicine: Perspectives from Junior Faculty Women of Color
Research identifying the personal and institutional factors that support—or impede—the advancement of women of color in academic medicine, with recommendations for building more equitable pathways to leadership.
Center for Gender in Organizations, 2014
Leadership, Culture, and Innovation
Breaking Down Silos to Accelerate Innovation in LGBTQ+ Health
A call for researchers, communities, entrepreneurs, healthcare organizations, and funders to work across traditional boundaries to develop and scale better LGBTQ health solutions.
American Journal of Health Promotion, 2024
LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion and the Great Resignation
What the experiences of LGBTQ employees can teach organizations about belonging, trust, retention, and creating workplaces where people genuinely want to stay.
American Journal of Health Promotion, 2023 — named to the journal’s Best of the Year list
Optimism: A Building Block for Organizational Change
A reflection on optimism as a practical leadership tool for sustaining people and moving institutional change forward.
Medical Care, 2018
Mentoring Relationships of Professional Indian Women
An exploration of how mentoring supports professional Indian women as they navigate career ambitions, family expectations, cultural norms, and multiple identities.
Mentoring Diverse Leaders, Routledge, 2017
Mentoring as a Connecting Competency Builder
How mentoring across differences can strengthen relationships, develop leadership capacity, and help organizations build more inclusive cultures.
Positive Organizing in a Global Society, Routledge, 2016