Selected Work

I’m sharing this selection of my work not to promote myself, but to offer transparency about what an academic career can look like—especially for early-career researchers, clinicians, or faculty trying to figure out where (or if) they fit.

Every article, talk, and appearance here has a backstory—about the process, the missteps, the timing, or the luck. I’ll share those stories in future posts, not as advice, but as a reflection of one person’s experience moving through academia, science communication, and public scholarship.

My goal isn’t to prescribe a formula. It’s to open up the system, just a bit, for people trying to do good work within it.

Below is a selection of pieces that connect with the themes explored in Beyond the Abstract.

Writing for General Audiences

Bridging science, culture, and public understanding beyond the academic bubble.

• STAT News: RFK Jr.’s synthetic dye bans miss a much bigger problem

• Chronicle of Higher Education: The Great Transgender-Mouse Debate

• Ars Technica: Is the NFL making progress in tackling its concussion crisis?

• Ars Technica: Fake grass, real injuries? Dissecting the NFL’s artificial turf debate

• RealClearScience: Is the 'Swift Effect' on Kelce and the Chiefs Real?

Peer-reivewed scholarship

Selected publications across translational medicine, sport science, and academic integrity. My full list of 80+ peer-review publications is available in my Google scholar profile.

• The BMJ: Addiction to Exercise

• JAMA Neurology: Interpreting biomarker data after concussion and repeated subconcussive head impacts: challenges in evaluating brain protection

• JAMA Pediatrics: Kids on the Run—Is Marathon Running Safe for Children?

• The Lancet Neurology: Pseudomedicine for sports concussions in the USA

• Sports Medicine: Premature Death in Bodybuilders: What Do We Know?

• Sports Medicine: Is It All in Your Head? Placebo Effects in Concussion Prevention

• FASEB Journal: Translating dosages from animal models to human clinical trials—revisiting body surface area scaling

Media Features & Expert Commentary

Quoted or featured in science, health, and public-interest stories

• NY Times: Will This Device Protect Athletes’ Brains, or Only Make Them Think It Does?

• USA Today: How many muscles are in the human body? The answer may surprise you.

• The Telegraph: The miraculous ingredient in red wine that could help prevent bowel cancer

• Wired: Football’s Concussion Crisis Is Awash With Pseudoscience

• American Kennel Club: Fitness For Handlers: Getting Yourself In Shape For Dog Sports

• CNN. Red Wine Researcher Said to Falsify Data.

Talk show and podcast appearances

Conversations on science, physiology, and the realities behind the headlines.

• Wharton Moneyball Podcast. Sports Physiology with James Smoliga.

• NPR: 1A. The voracious world of competitive eating.

• The Real Science of Sports Podcast. Woodpeckers do get concussed, and what this means for the Q-Collar and brain injury prevention.