I am a general surgeon, with fellowship training in complex general surgical oncology. My clinical practice focuses on the care of soft tissue sarcoma and melanoma, along with other cutaneous malignancies. I serve as the Associate Chair for Investigation and Discovery for the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at Dell Medical School, leading departmental efforts to evaluate and improve delivery of care for surgical conditions. In addition to my medical degree from Wayne State University, I holds a Masters of Public Health from Columbia University and have used this to inform an academic practice that combines research and implementation. My research focuses on the delivery of surgical care, with a research portfolio spanning surgical epidemiology, teamwork and communication in the operating room, surgeon behavior, and scaling of interventions to improve surgical care delivery. I also work to better describe the impact of cancer care on patients' lives, using passively collected digital data combined with patient reported outcomes to assess the burden of and recovery from varying treatment modalities in order to provide more granular patient-centered information that can help in decision-making, expectation setting, patient-provider communication, and in optimization of recovery. I was part of the team that helped develop the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist and have been involved in efforts to spread, refine, and evaluate this tool. I have participated in some of the earliest and seminal studies that described the global volume of surgery and assessed the relationship of surgical care to health outcomes on a population level. This work helped to inform the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and subsequent efforts to increase access and quality of surgery on an international basis. The bulk of my research activity has been conducted in a highly collaborative fashion. I have an interest in creating interdisciplinary teams to focus on important questions and develop implementable solutions that can be deployed at scale.