My research has moved from clinical injury epidemiology toward population-level questions about equity, access, and the systems that decide who gets seen.
I began in clinical trauma research, working across neurosurgery, critical care, and emergency medicine on injury patterns, trauma system performance, and the determinants of injury and recovery. My doctoral work narrowed to traumatic brain injury, first asking where TBI happens, where I found that area-level deprivation was the strongest predictor of risk, and then asking what happens after, where sociodemographic factors again shaped who accessed mental health care in the post-injury period. The deprivation signal that kept surfacing in that work pulled me toward a broader question: who gets seen by health systems at all, and do the predictive tools we're building reproduce or correct existing inequities? That question is the foundation of my postdoctoral work.
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My research reveals intriguing spatial patterns in TBI prevalence, indicating that the distribution of TBI cases is not random, but instead exhibits geographic clustering.
Mental Healthcare Utilization in TBI
Individuals who have experienced a TBI are more likely to seek mental health services compared to those without a history of TBI.
New onset Psychiatric Disorders after TBI
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients constitute a highly heterogeneous population, with varying risks for New-onset Psychiatric Disorders (NPDs).
Depression affects approximately 30% of individuals after traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet long-term depression trends and their determinants are poorly understood.
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