I am a postdoctoral associate within the Department of Pediatric Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Building on my experience evaluating the epidemiology of congenital heart disease (CHD) and heritable arrhythmia syndromes, I additionally spend time within the Epidemiology and Population Sciences Program at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center investigating the genetic epidemiology of CHD and its co-occurrence with cancer.

My research focuses on 3 things: 1) understanding the genetic architecture of CHD, 2) identifying early diagnostic and screening strategies for children at risk of cardiac arrest who remain undiagnosed, and 3) developing risk stratification tools for children with heart disease once diagnosed.

I completed my Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology in 2019 and later my PhD in Epidemiology from UTHealth School of Public Health in 2024. My doctoral dissertation investigated outcomes among children with CHD in the United States, which included the development of a novel classification system devised for outcome association studies using birth defect registry data. This enabled us to publish one of the most comprehensive reports of population-based, lesion-specific mortality estimates to date.

Keeping in mind that CHD remains the most common birth defect, my long-term goal is to 1) improve the public health of children with cardiac disease and 2) advance effective scientific communication and data dissemination to communities. With this in mind, I co-founded the iHOPE-Kids Registry (Improving Health Outcomes and Pediatric Evaluation in Kids with Heart Rhythm Disorders), an international research collaborative designed to both identify new arrhythmia disorders while simultaneously implementing public health strategies teaching communities about CPR and AED usage in the case of a cardiac arrest.