Michael “Doc” Moates, Ed.D.
Journalist. Educator. Doctor of Education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. And now, a nursing student. Each was a choice, from White House press briefings to college classrooms, from clinical practice to policy tables, from open-source code to a hospital floor. Six disciplines, one stubborn intention.
The Short Version
Journalist. Communications director. Doctor of education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. College educator. And now, a nursing student. The through-line was never a job title, it was curiosity, and a need to be useful.
Writing
Public assistance programs are meant to support people as they build toward stability, but abrupt eligibility cutoffs can punish the very progress they are designed to reward. The benefits cliff is a design problem worth taking seriously.
The quality of our decisions tends to erode as the day goes on, and understanding why can help us design our lives so the choices that matter most do not land when we are least equipped to make them.
Health news moves fast and rewards certainty, but the science underneath is usually slower and more tentative. A few habits can help you read the headline without being ruled by it.
If your work lives where a few different worlds overlap, we'll probably get along.
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