I study how addiction treatment programs and community recovery groups can work together to support people over time.
NIDA K01 · 2026–2031
My NIDA-funded project asks where people can access both medications for opioid use disorder and mutual help groups, and what helps them use both. I use national facility data and perspectives from patients and providers to inform the design of a tool that helps people navigate both systems.
Principal investigator · K01DA067040
I study how primary care clinics adopt medications for opioid use disorder and how treatment programs make care easier to start and continue.
Read the primary care studyMy colleagues and I use viability theory to ask how resources and constraints shape a person’s ability to sustain recovery as their circumstances change.
Read the Recovery Viability Theory preprintMy colleagues and I interviewed older adults and providers about how opioid treatment programs can meet patients’ harm reduction needs.
Read the interview studyI lead a NIDA-funded career development project in Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with mentorship from Keith Humphreys and Mark McGovern. I completed Stanford’s NIDA T32 fellowship in Pain and Substance Use, where I studied how primary care clinics start and sustain treatment for opioid use disorder.
Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
I earned my PhD through the joint doctoral program in interdisciplinary research on substance use at UC San Diego and San Diego State University, and my MPH at San Diego State.
I co-founded Aztecs for Recovery, a collegiate recovery program at San Diego State University. At Stanford, I mentor CARE Scholars who study Asian American and Pacific Islander health using national survey and hospital data.