I joined the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in 2003, as a statistician with the Statistical Consulting Service. After completing my PhD in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, I joined the faculty in Fall 2011. My primary research collaboration is with the Pediatric Emergency Division at Northwestern University and Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL in which I provide biostatistical support to faculty, fellows, residents and attendings with their research. Some notable projects include identifying discriminating characteristics of abused children in the pediatric emergency setting and deriving clinical decision tools for the detection and management of pediatric pneumonia. My methodological research primarily focuses on methods for clustered data under informative cluster size and informative within-cluster covariate distributions. I also have interest in the areas of survival analysis and multistate models. Previously, I conducted collaborative research with the Department of Neurological Surgery in the UofL School of Medicine.