Tenure

First elected to the Maryland Senate in 2018. Member of the Senate since January 9, 2019. Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 2015-2019.

Current Assignments

2023 Vice Chair, Executive Nominations Committee (Member 2019)

2023 Finance Committee

2019 Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight

2020 Senate Chair, Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee

2019 Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness

2019 Chair, Senate Select Committee No. 5, Howard County Delegation

2023 Secretary, Maryland Legislative Asian-American and Pacific Islander Caucus (member, 2019; 2nd Vice-Chair, 2019; 1st Vice-Chair, 2019-2021; Chair, 2021-2022)

2024 Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus, Associate Member

Past Senate Service

Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2019-2023; Chair, Environment Subcommittee of the Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2020-2023; Alcohol Subcommittee of the Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee, 2019-2020; Health Subcommittee of the Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (Co-Chair, 2019), 2019-2023; Joint Covid-19 Response Workgroup, 2020; Senate Vaccine Oversight Workgroup, 2021-2022.

Past House Service 2015-2019

Appropriations Committee, 2017-2019; Health and Social Services Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, 2017-2019; Oversight Committee on Pensions of the Appropriations Committee, 2017-2019; Environment and Transportation Committee, 2015-2017; Environment Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee, 2015-2017; Motor Vehicles and Transportation Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee, 2015-2017; Land Use and Ethics Subcommittee of the Environment and Transportation Committee, 2016-2017.

Public Service

Workgroup to Study Issuance of Alcoholic Beverage Licenses to Tobacconists, 2024-; Rare Disease Advisory Council, 2023-; Commission to Study the Health Care Workforce Crisis in Maryland, 2022-; Maryland State Council on Cancer Control, 2020-; Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers, 2019-; Comptroller's Task Force on Electronic Smoking Devices (E-Facts), 2019-2020; Standing Advisory Committee on Opioid-Associated Disease Prevention and Outreach Programs, 2016-2019; Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council, 2015-2019; Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, 2015-2019.

Biographical Information

Born, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Emmaus High School, Emmaus, Pennsylvania; Case Western Reserve University, B.A., Political Science-Honors, Biology (Phi Beta Kappa), 2003; University of Maryland, School of Medicine, M.D. 2008; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, M.P.H., 2011; Legislative Assistant to Delegate Dan Morhaim, M.D. , Baltimore County, 2009-2013; Preventive Medicine Physician, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009-present; Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2014-present.