The editorial team

Each member has a defined beat and a disclosed background. Credentials, bylines, and areas of expertise are public on every author page. Our rankings are written by our editorial reviewers; clinical and statistical claims are checked separately, so the verification stays independent of the recommendation.

Editor-in-Chief

Priya Haverford, MS, RD

Beat: Nutrition & health apps

Priya Haverford is a registered dietitian (RD) and the editor-in-chief of Independent App Reviews. She holds an MS in Nutritional Sciences and spent eight years in outpatient clini…

Clinical Reviewer

Daniel Okonkwo, MD

Beat: Clinical accuracy & health claims

Daniel Okonkwo is a physician (MD), board-certified in internal medicine, who reviews the clinical and health claims made by the apps we cover. He reads the underlying validation l…

Data & Methodology Lead

Marisol Vance, MSc Biostatistics

Beat: Benchmarking & statistics

Marisol Vance leads benchmarking and statistics for Independent App Reviews. Her background is biostatistics — she designs the test protocols, runs the bootstrap confidence-interva…

Senior Reviewer

Theo Liang

Beat: Fitness, wearables & productivity

Theo Liang reviews fitness-training apps, the wearables that feed them, and productivity tools. His background is exercise physiology and applied sports science; he favours multi-w…

Reviewer

Nadia Ferreira

Beat: Finance, AI tools & mental wellness

Nadia Ferreira covers personal-finance apps, consumer AI tools, and mental-wellness software. She writes with a deliberately skeptical eye toward subscription dark-patterns and tow…