I am an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Assistant Professor of Information, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan. My research combines psychometrics and machine learning to support process improvement in health, education, and health education systems. A key element of my research involves working within quality improvement networks and collaboratives. I currently engage in data-intensive improvement research across two networks: the Society for Improving Medical Professional Learning (SIMPL) and the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC). For SIMPL, I serve as chief data scientist, and for MUSIC I am the program director of askMUSIC, a team focused on creating and disseminating clinical prediction models. Working at the intersection of psychometrics and machine learning, I have developed novel analytical approaches for combining system log data from digital learning environments and traditional assessment data as well as patient registry data with patient reported outcome measures. Previously, I was the Director of Learning Analytics Research at Digital Promise and a Senior Education Researcher in the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International where I directed the Improvement Analytics group.
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[01/19/2024] Artificial Intelligence–Based Decision Support: What’s Possible in Urology Now?
[11/14/2023] Presented how surgery education can be like a computer adaptive test at the Michigan Institute for Data Science
[08/01/2023] SIMPL OR included as a practical measure by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [overview, blog]
[06/06/2023] Proud to support algorithmic transparency with colleagues across the country
[01/13/2023] Excited to be selected as a part of the Wellcome Leap SAVE program
[11/10/2022] Learning from Large Scale Data Workshop
[11/01/2022] Collaborative data-intensive improvement chapter highlighted on SEERNet
[10/20/2022] New blog post on CBME
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