I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. My work primarily focuses on improving patient-centered education for underserved patients with chronic disease and limited health literacy through novel interventions in the hospital setting targeted at both patients and clinicians. During my Hospitalist Scholars fellowship, I led the development and implementation of the Chicago Breathe Project that provided inhaler education for 5 Chicago residency programs and 2 community sites serving minority patients with asthma, funded by the American College of Physicians Foundation. As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Finding Answers Disparities Research for Change project, I led a systematic review of interventions that aimed to improve health disparities and care for minority populations with asthma. I completed work funded by an institutional KM1 on the comparative effectiveness of educational strategies (intensive “Teach to Goal” vs. brief in-person or video education) designed to improve hospitalized patients' ability to self-manage their asthma and COPD through promoting correct use of respiratory inhalers. I am now in the final year of an NIH K23 examining the utility of a virtual teach-to-goal adaptive learning program I developed. This is a technology based self-management education program for patients who use inhalers to manage their chronic respiratory diseases. In addition to this work, I also lead our hospital’s COPD Readmission Reduction Program and have been studying factors that lead to 30-day readmission. I was part of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s COPD Expert Panel, which developed a COPD toolkit and implementation guide for national dissemination. I served on the American College of Physicians Hospitalist Taskforce.