Publications

My Brother’s Keeper, New England Journal of Medicine, 2025

Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) 2009-2025: Broad Scope and Implementation – A Progress Report, Neuro-Oncology, 2025

DEIA in Neurology – Reaffirming our Commitment, Neurology, 2025

Renewing the Commitment to Diversity in Neurology: Resisting the Backlash, Pediatric Neurology, 2025

Financial Challenges of Being on Long-Term, High-Cost Medications, Neuro-Oncology Practice, 2025

Cancer and the Nervous System, Neurology for the Non-Neurologist, 2024

Enhancing Neuro-Oncology Care Through Equity-Driven Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Oncology, 2024

Definitions and Descriptions, Achieving Equity in Neurological Practice, 2024

Practical Guidance for Direct Oral Anticoagulant Use in the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism in Primary and Metastatic Brain Tumor Patients, Cancer, 2024

My Dad’s Cancer Taught Me Why Health Disparities are so Deep – And so Stubborn, Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Magazine, 2024

2023 DEI Year in Review, Neurology, 2023

Defining Interventions and Metrics to Improve Diversity in CNS Clinical Trial Participation: a SNO and RANO effort, Neuro-Oncology, 2023

Disparities in Neuro-Oncology, Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2023

Food is Medicine, so Health Insurance Should Cover It, The Hill, 2023

Affirmative Action Decision will Worsen Health Disparities, The Emancipator, Boston Globe, 2023

Considering Social Determinants of Brain Health, Neurology, 2023

I’m a Doctor. Greedy Health Care Failed My Father, Newsweek, 2023

A Call to Advocacy: The Role of the Neurologist and Neuro-Oncologist, Neurology Blogs, 2023

Bright Ideas: The need for Affirmative Action in Medicine and Beyond, NewThinking, 2023

Forced Hospitalization is the Wrong Approach to Mental Health, CityLimits, 2023

Incorporating Health Equity in the Neurology Curriculum: Our Experience, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2023

My daily walk through Boston’s suffering and wealth, WBUR, 2022

Structural barriers to healthy lifestyles, Neurology Blogs, 2022

If academic medicine is serious about diversity, its institutions need to pay up, STAT, 2022

Maximizing inclusiveness and diversity through virtual residency applications and interviews, Neurology, 2021

Medicine doesn’t stop at the beside, Medpage, 2021

Tips for giving medical updates to families, Closler, 2021

How “excited delirium” is misused to justify police brutality, Brookings, 2020

COVID-19 means I only call patients’ families, and my aunt’s doctor could only call me, NBC News, 2020

Police keep using ‘excited delirium’ to justify brutality. It’s junk science. Washington Post, 2020

Coronavirus has made me a better physician, Elemental, 2020

COVID-19: A grim reminder of my roots, Neurology, 2020

I’m protecting my patients from the Coronavirus. Will you do your part to protect me? HuffPost, 2020

Who suffers when hospitals close, Daily News, 2018