I am an Associate Professor and Clinical Research Investigator at NUNM, where I serve as the Dean of Biomedical Sciences within the School of Naturopathic Medicine. My teaching spans the across the University and includes pharmacology, biochemistry, evidence-informed practice, immunology, genetics, and minor surgery. I am also the Co-Lead of our institution’s Ed Tech & AI Committee.

I completed my ND and MS in integrative medical research at NUNM in 2018, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmaceutics at the University of Washington under Yvonne Lin, PhD, supported by an NIH/NCCIH T90 BRIDG training grant.

Before moving to full-time academic work, I spent several years balancing industry, clinical practice, and academic responsibilities. I served as Chief Scientific Officer and Director of Manufacturing at Thaena, Inc., a Portland-based, female-owned, microbiome therapeutics company, from 2022 to 2024. I also practiced in an integrative gastroenterology clinic called Flora Medicine which specialized in fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent, treatment-resistant Clostridioides difficile infections.

My published research spans microbial metabolomics, pharmacokinetics and natural product-drug interactions, the microbiome, nutrition and immunosenescence, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. The connective thread is a stubborn preference for quantitative evidence, no matter the topic area.