Statistician And Health Care Researcher
Canuck place is a non-profit and is the leading center for medical care and research for palliative children in Western Canada. As statistician and health care researcher for Canuck place, I work with medical director Dr. Hal Siden, Gail Andrews and their team to investigate ways to improve pediatric palliative care. During my time at Canuck place, I managed several projects working with:- Charting the Territory - A longitudinal study taking place over 5 years trying to assess the functional level of children with progressive, non-curable diseases. High dimensional time series patient data was collected and prepared (dynamic time warping, autoencoder, gaussian mixture methods) to help understand the lived experience of children with non-curable illnesses and families experiences.- BC population data - A study evaluating the provinces needs for further children's palliative care. Data was collected from 8 BC medical bodies to evaluate the future need for further palliative care support. High dimensional time series patient data. - Assisting the Siden lab team with additional statistical analysis/programmatic solutions as necessary for their projects.- Presenting on a statistical analysis of Charting the Territory at Child Bright 2023, as well presenting on "AI's place in Healthcare" an internal presentation for physicians, nurses, researchers and health care team members at Canuck Place.As part of my role, I am responsible for the:- Cleaning, formatting, and analysis of time series data for quantitative statistical analysis.- Implementation of clustering, dimension reduction and prediction of patient out comes (using autoencoders, dynamic time warping, optimal kmeans clustering, and RNNs)- Visualization, presentation and reporting on statistical findings.- Recommending future direction of research projects under my management.
