About

Healthcare is entering a new era—one shaped not only by clinicians, but by data and algorithms.

As a nurse, I’ve seen firsthand how the details of care are translated into documentation, datasets, and eventually the systems that guide clinical decision-making. Increasingly, those systems include artificial intelligence.

But if healthcare AI is trained on the patterns that already exist in medicine, we have to ask an uncomfortable question:

Are we building tools that improve care—or simply automating the same inequities more efficiently?

My work sits at the intersection of women’s heart health, nursing practice, and equitable healthcare AI.

I am particularly interested in the ways women’s cardiovascular symptoms are misunderstood, dismissed, or diagnosed late in traditional healthcare models. These gaps don’t just affect individual patients—they also shape the data that future healthcare technologies learn from.

Nurses play a critical but often overlooked role in this process. Every shift, nurses translate patient experiences into the clinical documentation that becomes the foundation of healthcare datasets. That means the way we chart, interpret symptoms, and communicate patient stories can ultimately influence how future systems “understand” health and disease.

Through my writing and research, I explore how nurses can move from being passive contributors to healthcare data systems to becoming active leaders in shaping more equitable ones.

I write about these ideas in my blog, Nurse In The Loop, where I explore:

• the role nurses play in training healthcare AI
• how clinical documentation becomes training data
• why equity must be intentionally built into healthcare algorithms
• how nurses can influence the future of digital healthcare

Patient education is also a core part of my work. I believe education is the beginning—not the end—of improving health outcomes. To support meaningful change, education must be paired with behavioral science and coaching approaches that help patients build confidence, agency, and the ability to navigate complex healthcare systems.

Ultimately, my goal is to help ensure that as healthcare becomes more technologically advanced, it also becomes more equitable, more thoughtful, and more responsive to the patients it serves.