Impact
Professional Development in Academia
- Trained academics in personal branding, at over a dozen national forums
- Served on national committees to improve recruitment and retention of researchers from marginalized populations in academic medicine
Genomic Medicine
- Evaluated the medical and behavioral impact of genomic testing healthy and pediatric populations
- Quantified genetic test utilization for pediatric patients and their family members
- Compiled evidence on health-related quality of life and family well-being across pediatric genetic conditions
- Improved measures of key patient-centered outcomes of genomic medicine
Pediatric Ophthalmology, Social Epidemiology, and Health Services Research
- Developed a socioecological framework to investigate the social determinants of vision health
- Established that racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in visual function are evident by early adolescence
- Identified gaps throughout the pediatric vision screening pathway
- Described risk factors for diagnostic delay and poor visual outcomes following ocular surgeries
Best Practice Recommendations
- Developed best practices for conducting cost-effectiveness analyses for nutritional interventions
- Contributed to standards for the disclosing genomic information, particularly in healthy populations
- Contributed to best practice recommendations for economic evaluations of genomic technologies
- Contributed to best practices recommendations for using behavioral economics to improve decision making for cardiovascular health