Research

Portfolio

Our work spans health services research, causal inference, clinical trials, and machine learning — all focused on improving outcomes in obstetrics, gynecology, and oncology.

Selected Projects

Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids

Using quasi-experimental methods to study the impact of new evidence on the use of antenatal steroids in obstetric practice

Modeling Endometrial Cancer Disease Progression

Using microsimulation to synthesize what we know about how endometrial cancer develops

Obstetric Care through Telemedicine

Studying how telemedicine has changed the provision of prenatal and postpartum care and its effects on patient health outcomes

Minimally Invasive Surgery for Ovarian Cancer

Randomized trial investigating whether laparoscopic or robotic cytoreductive surgery is non-inferior to open surgery for advanced ovarian cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Postpartum to Primary Care Transition

Randomized controlled trial of a behavioral science-informed intervention to improve care transitions after delivery

Adoption of Innovation in Surgical Oncology

Describing variation in the uptake of new surgical technology in the US and harnessing this variation to study outcomes

Recent Publications

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