I’m a PhD student in Information Systems and graduate research assistant at the Health Data
Lab. I started my career as a physician in Saudi Arabia but thanks to a lifelong drive to
understand how to provide better care for patients, I’m now pursuing research opportunities
where technology is being used to facilitate improvements in health outcomes, cost-
effectiveness, and patient/provider experiences. Along the way, I earned masters’ in public
health, business administration, and health information technology and certificates in data
science, design thinking, health communication, and systems engineering. I continue to carry
the principal lesson I learned from my time as a research associate collaborating with frontline
staff to design quality improvement initiatives: data and technological tools can be as much a
hindrance as they can be a lever. I value the opportunity to work under Prof. Stockwell’s
mentorship, underpinning his lab’s efforts to make real world advances is an awareness of the
direct human impact of these projects.