About Me
Designer x Research x Healthcare.
At Natera, I lead UX for lab operations and enterprise tools, bridging research and product in a space where that gap is rarely closed. At AthenaDAO, I shape which women's health research gets funded and why. Through my Substack, “Women's Health, Computed,” I write about femtech, perimenopause, and the distance between what science knows and what products actually do with it.
That thread runs back to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where I worked with investigators on NIH-funded clinical research (1, 2, 3), and through my PhD, which included a collaboration with Clue on perimenopause symptom tracking.
I’ve spent ten years watching healthcare technology fail people in predictable ways. That shapes how I work.
AI should augment clinical judgment, not simulate it. The handoff between algorithmic confidence and human decision-making is the central design problem in health, and it’s almost always designed poorly.
Compliance and good UX are not opposites. Regulated environments constrain the solution space, not the quality of thinking.
The best health interfaces disappear. The worst cause harm. The difference is a research decision that happened, or didn’t, before the first wireframe.
Design is a political act. Who gets centered, who gets left out: those are choices whether you make them consciously or not. I try to.
When I'm not working, I'm cycling the Bay, hiking, dancing, traveling somewhere new, or deep in a book.