brief professional bio
Updated: December 2018
Assistant Professor
Health Management and Informatics
University of Central Floria
I am a data scientist with background in quantitative methods and interest in data-driven, longitudinal models of health.
I received my Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods from Vanderbilt University in 2014, studying under Dr. Joe Rodgers. We read about design of graphical displays of information, statistical modeling, and reproducible research. In August of the same year I joined the Integrative Analysis of Longitudinal Studies of Aging (IALSA) network at the University of Victoria (UVic), directed by Dr. Andrea Piccinin and Dr. Scott Hofer. With IALSA, I work on developing reproducible analytics (R + GitHub), particularly for implementing coordinated statistical analyses among multiple longitudinal studies of human aging.
Interest in data-driven narratives of human aging lead me explore the use of electronic health records (EHR) for research and improvement of patient care. Since October 2015 I work with Dr. Kenneth Moselle, the director of the Applied Clinical Research Unit (ACRU) of Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA). The focus of our work during this time was on rendering VIHA's EHR into analyzable form and creating opportunities for academic and clinical researchers to work with these data in responsible and reproducible way. We designed a Clinical Context Scheme (CCCS), establishing a semantic layer for expressing patients' trajectory in time through the space of health services.
In August of 2017 I was awarded Health System Impact Fellowship with BC Observatory for Population and Public Health of the BC Centre for Disease Control.
My program of work proposed to develop a system for population health surveillance that would focus on chronic diseases, with particular focus on mental health and substance use (MHSU) conditions, which tend to have high comorbidity rates, polysubstance use patterns, and slowly progressing pace of development.
In December 2018 I have joined the faculty of Health Management and Informatiocs at the University of Central Floria in Orlando. My current interests include automation of longitudinal modeling in multi-study context, statistical modeling of service utilization over time, and their analytic applications for linked population data.