I am an internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician. I doctor, teach, write and advocate at the intersections between health, the criminal justice system, and human rights.

My clinical work is primarily with homeless and justice-involved elders, especially people who are recurrently incarcerated in the final decades of their lives.

From 2023-2024, I sat on the New York City Board of Correction. I also do some work in politics. In 2022 I founded and ran an organization that supported the pro-choice side of state ballot initiatives. Currently, I’m helping State Senator Zellnor Myrie run for mayor of New York City.

I grew up in Toronto and now live in Brooklyn with my husband and two kids. I studied History at Brown University and completed medical training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SELECTED WRITING & INTERVIEWS

How to Handle Kennedy as America’s Top Health Official, The New York Times

What to Expect if RFK is Promoted to Power, The New York Times

The Struggles of President Biden and the Truth about Aging, The New York Times

What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?, New York Magazine

What Would It Mean for Scientists to Listen to Patients?, The New Yorker

A History of Incarceration by Women Who Have Lived Through It, The New Yorker

A Culture of Repression and Neglect, The New York Review of Books

On Death Row, He is Grasping at Grace, The New York Times

The Disillusionment of a Rikers Island Doctor, The New Yorker

When the clinic becomes part of the carceral state, Jewish Currents

Retrospective study of jail incarcerated elders, Health Affairs

Kathy Boudin's Radical Life, The New Yorker

What my grandmother knew about dying, The New Yorker

The Most Incarcerated Generation, CUNY Law Review

On Rikers Island, a doctor for older detainees, The New York Times

Facing Omicron feels like when a patient has relapsed, The Washington Post

Treating Unfreedom, Inquest

A new Alzheimer’s drug may just be false hope. Will our patients pay the price?, The Washington Post

I'm a doctor on Rikers Island. My patients shouldn't have to die in jail, The Washington Post

Where social distancing is impossible, an interview with Mary Harris of What Next, a Slate podcast

A Rikers doctor speaks out to save her elderly patients, The New Yorker

When dying alone is too harsh a sentence, The New York Times