I'm a physician at Stanford University and an award-winning science journalist. I hold my M.D. from Harvard Medical School and my B.S. from Yale University. I completed residency and fellowship at Stanford, where I’m now a board-certified oncologist, hematologist, and internist on the faculty.

As Co-Medical Director of Stanford’s Primary Care for Cancer Survivorship program, I built an innovative model focused on transitions between oncology and primary care. My clinical expertise lies in cancer survivorship and "previvorship" — caring for individuals at high risk for cancer due to inherited mutations such as BRCA and Lynch syndrome. I lead a research team designing new approaches to survivorship delivery and evaluating their implementation in practice. I also maintain a separate practice in general primary care. As Associate Medical Director of Stanford's Internal Medicine Clinic, I oversee initiatives to train the next generation of physicians.

Through journalism, I bridge medical systems and real lives. I serve as the inaugural Physician-Journalist in Residence at Stanford. My science writing career began as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Scientific Magazine and continued through an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, where I reported on science and health for The News & Observer, followed by Science Progress. During medical school, I wrote a blog column for Scientific American and later created the award-winning "Hard Questions" column at MDEdge, earning a Folio Award for best healthcare column.

Today, I freelance widely, focusing on long-form, deeply reported stories about the complexities of medicine and the systems that shape them. My writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, TIME, Undark, STAT News, Smithsonian Magazine, Aeon, and Health Affairs. My work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and shortlisted for the Cancer Journalism Award. My first book, Fragmented (W.W. Norton, 2023), was praised by The New York Times, National Review, Undark, Publishers Weekly (starred review), Library Journal, and Kirkus.

I am also the co-founder and chair of the Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine conference, which convenes interdisciplinary thought leaders to confront the most urgent challenges facing healthcare. My academic work in bioethics has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Penn Bioethics Journal, and Ivy Journal of Ethics.

Across all domains, my work is guided by the same principle: to break down complexity, rebuild systems to meet real needs, and care for people humanely.