Clinician first.Everything elsefollows from that.

I started in 2014 as a nurse in the trauma ICU at a Level I trauma center, working as a staff and charge nurse, and from 2015 on the rapid response team. Those six years taught me how quickly patients deteriorate, and how much depends on the systems and people around them.

In 2020 I moved into practice as a nurse practitioner at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, covering the burn, cardiovascular, COVID ECMO, medical, neuro and surgical ICUs, and later worked in the cardiovascular ICU at Methodist Hospital in Houston. Today I'm in the Heart Failure ICU at Memorial Hermann, caring for patients with advanced heart failure and heart and lung transplants, many of them supported by durable or temporary LVADs and VA or VV ECMO.

Day to day, that means working alongside cardiovascular surgery, transplant, pulmonary critical care, nephrology and cardiology. It means placing central, arterial and dialysis lines under ultrasound, and managing ventilators, hemodynamics and mechanical circulatory support. It also means teaching: I lecture for colleagues and nursing staff, and I've presented at our monthly morbidity and mortality conferences.

I started Thrash Solutions to put that experience to work beyond the bedside. That means education that makes complex critical care clearer, and advisory work for the companies, investors and teams building the devices, software and services clinicians will rely on next.