Beyond the
Compass

My interest in health care began on Mount Damavand in Iran, where I passed a boy my age carrying heavy stones up the steep slope. In that moment, it became clear how profoundly circumstance, and the systems that surround it, can shape opportunity and, by extension, health.

 

Journalism trained me to investigate complex institutions from the outside: evaluating competing claims, synthesizing large amounts of information, and communicating the human consequences of institutional decisions. My peer-reviewed cardiovascular genetics research at Yale School of Medicine, health policy and legal analysis at Boston University School of Law and Northeastern University School of Law, and experience drafting health care policy memos for Senator Blumenthal on Capitol Hill deepened my interest in the structural forces shaping access to care.

 

Through graduate study in health administration, I’m building the operational, financial, and strategic foundation to understand health systems from within: how care delivery models, staffing constraints, reimbursement and incentive structures, financial pressures, and institutional priorities shape system performance and patient outcomes. Close exposure to academic medicine has also given me an appreciation for the tensions providers navigate among financial sustainability, clinical autonomy, and equitable access to high-quality care.

 

That tension has become my through line. I’m interested in the operational, financial, strategic, and regulatory decisions that shape care delivery, whether from inside a system or alongside one.