Depending on the county’s districting plan, represents their single-member or at-large geographic district and overall countywide interests, as part of the legislative and policy-setting branch of county government. County government is typically responsible for: fire rescue; disaster relief; county jail; constructing and maintaining county buildings, roads, and bridges; providing programs for housing and land conservation, as well as approving the Comprehensive Plan (for development). Unless otherwise provided by county charter, serve staggered 4-years term, with term limit of 8 years, or 2 consecutive 4-year terms. Salary is based on the population of the county set by Florida Legislature or by county ordinance. 2026 Hillsborough County Commissioner salary: $127,320.Each candidate for a seat on the Board of County Commissioners shall be a citizen of the United States of America, a registered voter of the district for which the candidate qualifies at the time of taking office, and a resident of Hillsborough County.Districts 1 - 4 are single member.Districts 5 & 7 are countywide.Term: 4 Years, beginning November 17, 2026
Education
Graduate, Hillsborough public schools. Bachelor's degree, University of South Florida. Doctor of Medicine, USF Morsani College of Medicine. Urology surgical residency, USF, with patient care and research at the Haley VA and Moffitt Cancer Center.
Professional Experience
Board-certified urologist serving my hometown of Brandon and East and South Hillsborough County, with surgical care at five area hospitals. Beyond the operating room, I advocate for patients and have defended the county's health care safety net.
Public Service
123rd President, Hillsborough County Medical Association. Member, Health Council of West Central Florida. Former Member, Hillsborough County Health Care Advisory Board. Member, American Planning Association. Lector, Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Campaign Phone
(813)530-6313
The two biggest challenges are affordability and traffic from growth that outpaced our infrastructure. Families work hard and still fall behind on rent, insurance, and transportation, while the county approves development before roads, stormwater, and utilities are ready. I'll restore the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and protect the county's health care safety net. I'll require infrastructure funding before development is approved. Growth must pay its own way. Fixing traffic is the center of my campaign. Commuters deserve relief: fixing the roads we have and adding practical multimodal transit options that work better than highway widening alone. A budget is a moral document. Ours should make growth work for the families who live here.
First, restore and strengthen the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, using local dollars to leverage the federal grants and private investment that facilitate actual affordable housing development. Second, use county land and public-private partnerships to build workforce housing near jobs, transit, and schools. Third, fund eviction prevention, because keeping a family housed costs taxpayers far less than responding after they lose their home. And we must stop subsidizing sprawl, which drives up infrastructure costs that get passed to renters and buyers. I'm a physician, and my faith and my practice teach me the same lesson. Housing is health. Teachers, nurses, and first responders should be able to afford to live in the county they serve.
Our fatality numbers are a design problem, not bad luck. Too many county roads are wide, fast, and dark, with no sidewalks and crossings a half mile apart. I'll direct funding to the corridors where people are dying, using crash data to set the list, and fix them with better lighting, protected crossings, and sidewalks that connect. Backlogs near schools and bus stops come first, because that's where people have no choice but to walk. As a physician, I've cared for crash victims and sat with their families, and most of what I've seen was preventable. These fixes cost a fraction of what crashes already cost our community. Every road project should be judged on whether it moves people safely, not just quickly.
Fund the stormwater backlog and maintain our ditches and ponds before a storm exposes the neglect. Prevention costs far less than rebuilding. Overdevelopment paves over the greenspace that absorbs our rain, so protecting that land is flood control. We should be thoughtful about using parks and ELAPP lands as buffers in an integrated, nature-based network for runoff, instead of relying on artificial drainage alone. On evacuation, we need honest planning around road capacity, hardened shelters, and attention to residents who can't simply drive away. Fire rescue must be fully staffed and equipped for disasters. And no silos. County departments and every municipality must plan together, because hurricanes don't respect political boundaries.
Fixing traffic is a major reason I'm running, and I'm proudly pro-transit. We spend billions expanding interstates while congestion keeps getting worse, because highway expansion alone is not a viable fix. The county must give people real alternatives: increased HART funding for frequent, reliable bus service, better regional connections, re-exploring CSX tracks for passenger service, use of waterways, and transit-oriented zoning reform so people can live near routes. If you never plan to leave your car, mass transit still works for you, because every rider is one less car in front of you. Transit investment keeps our region competitive. Every reliable route saves families money and saves taxpayers the cost of fruitless highway widening.
I'm a product of Hillsborough public schools, and my infant daughter will grow up in them too. We have to get this right. Kids get to school or their bus stops on foot and bikes, on roads not built for them, and the school board doesn't control those roads or approve development around them. The county does. I'll expand the county's mobility safety programs, from continuous sidewalks to raised crosswalks to beacons, ranking projects with the district and TPO so gaps near campuses come first, with parents helping set the list. When sprawl is approved without sidewalks, lighting, and concurrent infrastructure, it stretches our district thin and puts kids at risk. Safe school access must be a default part of residential development approval.
