Hello! I joined the Lehigh Valley Health Network family in 2003, inspired by relationship-centered care and the “tools of turtlecraft” practiced within the department of family medicine, creating community health care that makes a difference. I have always believed in the power of stories to change lives, and, in medicine, our stories are the source of healing.

I earned my bachelor’s degree in English and African studies from Yale University. During medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, I focused on community health, where I learned powerful life lessons about healing environments from community activists and role models in the Bridging the Gaps program, back in 1991.

I stayed in Philadelphia to complete the Family Medicine Residency Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, then moved to New York for love and joined an urban family medicine program with a practice in Bedford-Stuyvesant. In 2001, I uprooted again with my husband Andy and baby Anna to Michigan to the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program to learn about community-based participatory action research in Flint and Detroit.

Since coming to the Lehigh Valley, I have had the honor to help create the Lehigh Valley’s first community health center, the Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley. I am a member of the Community Exchange, Lehigh Valley’s Time Bank, and am deeply passionate about building strong, healthy communities.

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