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I’m a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. My research interests include applications of biomedical informatics in the public and population health fields. I work in the Boland Lab on projects that develop novel data mining methods to extract pregnancy-related information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and study the relationship between environment and disease. Learn more about my research interests in publications.
Certificate in Biomedical Informatics ∙ University of Pennsylvania ∙ 2019
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering ∙ Purdue University ∙ 2018
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering ∙ University of Minnesota ∙ 2012
Lately…
I’ve been enjoying using R to optimize my research workflow and have noticed it making guest appearances elsewhere in my life. I’m certified as an RStudio Tidyverse Instructor and am passionate about R education as a way to build power in communities. Keep up with my R tinkering in my blog and teaching in talks.
Tidyverse Instructor Certification ∙ RStudio, PBC ∙ 2020
Meeting People Where They R
Hello Umami: Deploying a Privacy-Friendly Open Source Tool for Web Analytics
A use case for adding Umami web analytics to a blogdown site and deploying using Railway.
Projects
Professional, Polished, Presentable
A three hour intermediate xaringan tutorial created for useR!2021
Publications
Design and Evaluation of a Postpartum Depression Ontology
Study describing an ontology created for the identification of patients with postpartum depression.
Talks
Exploring Traumatic Brain Injury Mechanisms and Severity Using Electronic Health Records
Flashtalk and poster presenting preliminary results for a study on TBI among female patients at Penn Medicine
Featured categories
R (19) Research (16) Education (15)curious about all intersections of data and society.
