She has maintained a clinical practice and research program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital since 2009. For the last decade, she cared for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and those on dialysis. She has a special clinical and research interest in renal palliative care and has written and spoken in national forums on this topic. Though much of her time is dedicated to scientific writing, her passion is narrative nonfiction writing. She’s taught “Writing For Change,” narrative writing from a health policy perspective to medical students and practicing clinicians since 2011. She recently published her first book, Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers.