I am an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University. I study the politics of health policy with a focus on consumer access. I study things like provider networks, shared governance programs, and policy implementation. I also recently graduated from the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, a national leadership development program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to equip teams of researchers and community partners in applying research to solve real community problems.