Research Experience

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant - June 2021 to September 2022

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University

Supervisor: Leslie A. McClure, Ph.D

Description: Worked as part of the data coordinating center for a CDC funded grant entitled understanding risk factors and burden of COVID-19 related thrombosis and bleeding complications. Contributed as a data analyst for EHR data by performing data quality checks and developing an analytic data set to be used in future analyses.

Graduate Research Assistant - September 2018 to September 2021

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University 

Supervisor: Leslie A. McClure, Ph.D 

Description: Worked collaboratively on the Diabetes Lead Network, a CDC funded collaboration between Drexel University, Geisinger-Johns Hopkins University, New York University School of Medicine, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The network examines contextual level factors that influence the prevalence of diabetes in the United States. Contributed by developing a census tract level composite measure describing the land use environment for the contiguous United States.

Research Assistant June 2017 to Aug 2017 

Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania 

Supervisors: Jason Moore, Ph.D and Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Ph.D 

Description: Worked on a project to extend a feature selection algorithm in the hopes of being able to identify what parts of our genetics may cause a certain disease.