Population Health Epidemiology | Informatics | Climate & Health
I build epidemiologic and informatics tools that link clinical, environmental, and geospatial data to measure health risks and support better decisions for patients, communities, and climate-vulnerable workforces.
Pulmonary & Critical Care Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Computational Medicine and Clinical Artificial Intelligence, University of Chicago
About
I am a pulmonary and critical care postdoctoral fellow in the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago, a prior American Heart Association predoctoral fellow in Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University, and co-founder of Straia Health.
My work focuses on electronic health record linkage for population health surveillance, dynamic risk prediction, and machine learning methods that make clinical and environmental data more useful. I have built computer-aided detection and geolinkage tools that use protected health information in HIPAA-compliant workflows to improve individual and community health outcomes.
Through Straia, I am helping develop climate-health intelligence products, including HeatScope, to quantify environmentally driven health risk and help organizations act earlier. My dissertation evaluated the impact of climate change-related extreme heat in Chicago through community-level assessment and individual-level computational phenotypes integrating EHR and ecological data.
Extreme heat exposure, cardiovascular vulnerability, and public health surveillance.
Phenotyping, risk prediction, and automated tools for clinically meaningful measurement.
Privacy-preserving workflows connecting health encounters with place-based context.
Applied tools that translate environmental hazard forecasts into timely health-risk action.
Projects
Company & Product
As co-founder of Straia Health, I help develop intelligence tools for environmentally driven health risk. HeatScope combines climate data, observed health outcomes, structural risk factors, and modeling to help teams understand where extreme heat may drive excess deaths, emergency visits, and EMS calls.
Climate Data Tool
A Docker-based geospatial linkage tool for connecting geocoded patient encounters with Daymet surface weather and climate variables at 1 km resolution.
Computational Phenotyping
An exposure-anchored framework for identifying cardiovascular vulnerability during extreme heat using linked environmental exposures and EHR-derived outcomes.
Civic Data
An interactive Shiny app mapping Chicago crime reports for northern wards, built for neighborhood-level exploration by type, date, and location.
Publications
2026 | Journal of Biomedical Informatics
2026 | Journal of the American Heart Association
2024 | GeoHealth
2024 | JAMIA
Media & Mentions
CBS News Chicago | 2025
Coverage of heat-vulnerability research and tools for identifying communities most at risk during extreme heat.
Read coverageInside Climate News | 2025
Reporting that cites heat-risk evidence in the context of systemic vulnerability, housing, and public-health preparedness.
Read coverageChicago Sun-Times | 2025
Coverage connecting Chicago heat planning and policy discussions with Northwestern research on extreme heat and health risk.
Read coverageCity Bureau | 2026
Public-service reporting on cooling resources and extreme-heat response during dangerous summer conditions.
Read coverageSmartCitiesWorld | 2026
Coverage of Chicago's heat adaptation investments and the use of heat-vulnerability evidence to guide public infrastructure.
Read coverageWTTW | 2023
Public-media discussion of unequal heat exposure, neighborhood vulnerability, and the health implications of extreme heat.
Read coverageWBUR Here & Now | 2023
National radio coverage of mapping heat risk and using spatial evidence to understand where climate hazards become health hazards.
Read coverageNIH Research Matters | 2020
NIH coverage of imaging-AI research using routine CT scans to predict cardiovascular disease risk.
Read coverageMedical Imaging Coverage | 2018-2020
Additional coverage of CT-based biomarkers for cardiovascular events, fatty liver disease, and aortic calcification.
Beyond Work
Outside of research, I spend most of my time being active, coaching or playing sports, and with family and friends. I played collegiate soccer and was an internationally recognized ultimate frisbee player with multiple national championships. I now compete in fitness races such as CrossFit and Hyrox, with my sights set on a sub-9H Leadville 100 MTB race.
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