- Former executive director of the Washington State Board of Health
- Established Governor’s Interagency Council on Health Disparities and supervised staff
- Member of executive team implementing health care reform in Washington State
- Chair, Prevention Council, Mental Health Transformation Grant Project
- Co-author, Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, second edition, (JBLearning, July 2014)
- Contributor, Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Global Casebook (Jones & Bartlett, 2012)
- Wrote and edited several reports and other publications on public health issues
- Completed all coursework toward a masters in public administration with a health concentration from the University of New Mexico School of Public Administration
- Bachelor of arts in biology (pre-medicine) from Wesleyan University