I am a general pediatrician who has achieved recognition for excellence in both clinical care and organizational leadership.  I have been recognized with increasingly impactful leadership roles within the Department of Pediatrics, the Yale New Haven Health System, and the greater New Haven area.

I have exceptional skill in leading innovation by building teams around a framework of mutual respect. One example of this has been my role as the Pediatric Lead for the creation of the New Haven Primary Care Consortium, a $37 million dollar project to improve healthcare in the greater New Haven community, in collaboration with local Federally Qualified Health Centers. My work on this novel project began in 2016, and I have been an integral member of the team that conceptualized, designed, and has operationalized this model of care. This work required multiple weekly meetings with key stakeholders until opening our doors in October 2020 amid a pandemic.

The Pediatric Primary Care Model I have established at the New Haven Primary Care Consortium includes a faculty and resident continuity practice, a refugee clinic, specialty clinics in adolescent medicine and pediatric dermatology and an integrated behavioral health service.

My effectiveness in this role led my Department Chair to appoint me Interim Section Chief of General Pediatrics in 2019, based on my reputation as a leader who is fair, equitable, and makes sound operational decisions.  Clinically, I have cared for the children of greater New Haven since 2002 and have a well-established reputation among my colleagues for outstanding pediatric care. In addition, I have completed a mini-fellowship offered by the REACH Institute: Patient-Centered Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care, which has qualified me as a member of a small group of pediatricians across the country trained to handle mental health issues in the primary care setting in an evidence-based manner.

Recently, through work with pediatric and child psychiatry colleagues, I was able to bring this same training to many community pediatricians in our area with the assistance of our Children’s Hospital leadership. I welcome this wonderful opportunity to become more involved in the CT-AAP and hope that my skills in organization and outreach would be beneficial to the role of Secretary.