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.
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 ReviewerDaniel 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 LeadMarisol 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 ReviewerTheo 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…
ReviewerNadia 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…