Dual-certified psychiatric-mental health and family nurse practitioner with 16+ years in advanced outpatient practice and a former hospital Medical Ethics Committee chair. I evaluate clinical and mental-health AI for safety, ethics, evidence basis, and real-world fit — the point where automation meets consent, clinical judgment, controlled-substance stewardship, crisis risk, and patient trust. A daily hands-on user of ambient AI documentation in live practice, I translate frontline clinical and ethical reality into governance guidance, evaluation criteria, and policy. I'm interested in advisory and governance work shaping responsible AI in healthcare — adjacent to clinical care rather than within it.
Areas of Focus
- Clinical AI Safety & Evaluation — model-output review and grading, red-team-style stress-testing, prompt and response evaluation, hallucination and error detection, human-in-the-loop and escalation design, multi-turn conversation risk, safety-protocol review.
- Ethics, Governance & Policy — clinical ethics (autonomy, consent, capacity), informed consent, privacy/PHI, controlled-substance stewardship, risk management, standards-of-care and documentation review, responsible-AI principles (safety, human oversight, fairness, transparency).
- Behavioral Health & Addiction Medicine — psychiatric assessment and DSM-5 formulation, psychopharmacology, suicide/crisis assessment and safety planning, OAT/MAT, harm reduction, withdrawal management, trauma-informed care.
- Holistic Primary Care & Operations — lifespan family medicine, chronic-disease, preventive, and access workflows, telehealth and secure messaging, EHR optimization and documentation integrity, care coordination across systems.
Current Practice
I'm the founder and lead provider at North Branch Health, an integrated outpatient practice in Montpelier, Vermont, spanning primary care, psychiatric medication management, treatment-resistant depression care, telehealth, and secure messaging.
Background
Previously, I chaired the Medical Ethics Committee at Gifford Medical Center (2016–2018), provided OAT/MAT addiction medicine at Treatment Associates, and practiced rural family medicine in Vermont and Maine. I hold a Post-Master's Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner studies from Regis College and an MSN in Family Nurse Practitioner studies from the University of Southern Maine.