Mar 2023 – May 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Strategic analytics leader and subject matter expert in real-world data (RWD) and healthcare claims, delivering actionable insights for life sciences organizations, healthcare systems, and payers. Specializes in strategic analytics, real-world evidence (RWE), epidemiology, health outcomes, and business development analytics.

May 2022 – Mar 2023 · 10 mos

• Led design and execution of real world evidence research studies in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and academic industries. Completed a range of study designs including the use of electronic medical records (EHR) and claims data, retrospective and prospective surveys, and patient preference surveys. Developed research protocols, statistical analysis plans, final reports, and all publication materials (abstracts, posters, and manuscripts).

Feb 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Responsible for managing RWE research studies in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries using electronic health record (EHR) data. Worked with clients to develop their research questions and focus to be answered by our dataset, created and applied inclusion/exclusion criteria to develop cohorts for research studies, applied statistical methods and theory for project analysis, and assisted with publications.

Apr 2020 – Feb 2021 · 10 mos · Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Hospital epidemiologist embedded within a large pediatric health system, translating clinical data into operational and strategic decision-making.

Aug 2018 – Sep 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo · New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Creating, evaluating, and calibrating a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) using data from residents who were exposed to PFNA water contamination for 3 decades and show blood serum concentrations in the 99th percentile. Extrapolating this model to simulate other PFAS in the human body, as well as exploring reverse-dosimetry to explore actual exposure scenario.

Jul 2018 – Aug 2018 · 1 mo · Chesterfield, Missouri

• Created programs to collect and organize data for different departments within the virtual care center.
• Created program in R to abstract interesting attributes from the VersionOne API. Within the program the data would then be uploaded to HIVE so that the team could run queries on VersionOne data using HADOOP. Program was set with a task schedule to automatically update daily.

Jun 2017 – Oct 2017 · 4 mos · Greater St. Louis

• Conducted one of the first research studies done on baseline prevalence of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia. Created study design, extracted all data, and built and analyzed model. Found prevalence for the hospital as well as risk factors associated. Now helping create future intervention projects based on this research.
• Lead study focusing on Vancomycin resistant enterococci reflex testing within hospital. Created research question, study design, conducted all data management, and analyzed results. With this research, I am leading our hospital into saving time and money by terminating reflex testing, but maintaining surveillance on future incidence.
• Built model and analyzed data on a Spinal SSI study within hospital, which is leading to new practice interventions.

Sep 2014 – May 2015 · 8 mos · Olathe, KS

• Supervised research assistants in a laboratory that valued academic quality and enrichment. Reviewed all experiments and maintained progress logs to present to the director. Maintained a laboratory that complied with all current regulations.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Using organic chemistry skills, created new solution to stabilize protein derivative.
• Worked in microbiology and cellular and molecular chemistry labs to spice and grow protein within E. coli.