Writing
Personal stories. Systemic arguments.
My writing explores the intersection of medicine, leadership, public policy, and society.
Drawing on experiences from the bedside to the executive suite, I examine the systems, decisions, and assumptions shaping healthcare—and the human consequences too often overlooked.
Through personal stories and evidence-grounded commentary, I challenge conventional thinking, elevate overlooked perspectives, and invite conversations that matter.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Selected)
Columnist since 2018
Physician attrition isn’t a result of lack of commitment
Doctors aren’t walking away from medicine. Leadership failures and private equity are pushing them out.
Read → The Philadelphia InquirerFemtech has emerged as both a corrective and a catalyst to close the knowledge gap in medicine
How women’s health startups are filling the data gaps medicine left behind.
Read → The Philadelphia InquirerIt’s time for Gen X physicians to exert themselves as stewards of our profession
Healthcare is at a generational inflection point, and the middle generation has to lead.
Read → The Philadelphia InquirerWhy I’m leaving the ER
An emergency physician on what the Great Resignation looks like from inside medicine.
Read → The Philadelphia InquirerMedicine has changed. As an emergency doctor, I have too.
On advocacy, harm reduction, and why physicians shouldn’t “stay in their lane.”
Read →Selected National
Essays, commentary and reports
I’m an emergency physician turned corporate leader. Here’s how I led our team after an employee’s suicide.
Leading a corporate team through grief with a clinician’s instincts.
Read → Fox NewsSimone Biles’ courageous actions will have a lasting effect on medicine
What one athlete’s choice signals for mental health in the medical profession.
Read → NEJM CatalystGrassroots efforts led by emergency physicians to mitigate the escalating opioid epidemic
How emergency physicians organized to curb unsafe opioid prescribing.
Read → Population Health MattersJefferson Emergency Opt-Out Program: Working to address public health within acute care
Building an ED opt-out HIV screening program that tested some 43,000 patients.
Read → Annals of Emergency MedicineAcute HIV discovered during routine HIV screening with HIV antigen-antibody combination tests in 9 US emergency departments
White DAE, Giordano TP, et al., including Mammen PE. A multisite study of what routine ED screening reveals.
Read → USAID / SEATS ProjectStrengthening reproductive health service delivery in Cambodia
Final program report on rebuilding reproductive health services after conflict.
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