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pgarlap/README.md

Hey, I'm Poojitha! 👩‍💊 → 📊

From prescribing medications to prescribing data solutions - I bring a clinician's eye to every dataset I touch.

I'm a Doctor of Pharmacy turned Data Analyst - which means I don't just clean data, I understand why that patient readmission metric matters, what that drug code means, and who is affected when the numbers are wrong.

I recently completed my M.S. in Health Informatics @ Indiana University Indianapolis while working as a Research Data Analyst at IU School of Health & Human Sciences.


🧠 My Unfair Advantage

Most data analysts learn healthcare from the outside. I lived it for 6 years as a pharmacist - that's 6 years of reading ICD-10 codes, understanding drug-drug interactions, and caring about data accuracy because wrong data = wrong patient outcomes.


🛠️ Tools I Use

Languages: SQL · Python · R
Visualization: Power BI · Tableau · Excel
Healthcare Standards: FHIR · HL7 · ICD-10 · SNOMED CT · REDCap
Research: IRB Compliance · HIPAA · Statistical Analysis · lavaan


📂 Projects

# Project Tools Description
1 Hospital Readmissions Analysis SQL · Python CMS dataset analysis uncovering readmission patterns
2 FHIR ETL Pipeline Python · FHIR · HL7 End-to-end ETL pipeline - FHIR APIs, SNOMED CT mapping, HL7 v2 generation
3 HINTS Path Analysis R · lavaan ·SQL · PowerBI Path analysis of HBM constructs predicting physical activity (N=6,590)
4 CKM Physical Activity Study R · REDCap · Excel Active clinical study - 50 enrolled, accelerometer + survey data collection

📜 Certifications

🏅 Google Data Analytics - Coursera
🏅 CITI Human Research - Social/Behavioral & Biomedical
🏅 GCP Clinical Research - CITI


⚡ Fun fact

I can spot a data quality issue and tell you which enzyme pathway that drug affects. Not many analysts can say that.


📫 Find me here

LinkedIn Email


📍 Indianapolis, IN · Open to Data Analyst & CRC roles · Open to relocation

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