experience
Centralized Research Data Repository
Modern, American (1893-present), medical research has a rich tradition in re-purposing medical record
data to investigate anecdotal observations and latent predictors of disease, disease severity,
and treatment success. As clinical care recording moves from paper to digital, the sea of clinical data
becomes relatively accessible for clinical care research endeavours. However, these data were collected
and organized in a manner to support clinical care. The access of these data to support clinical research
represents a complicated problem with many facets: data transformation, data quality, data governance,
and patient privacy. Under the guidance of
Dr. James McKiernan, I focused on the issue of data transformation supporting secondary medical data
use for Urologic Outcomes Research. We have published on the impact of implementing a centralized
research data repository, which provided increased quality and quantity of scholarly articles,
check it out here.
In addition to implementing the foundation for quality, high throughput research,
my role facilitated the department's academic mission through faculty, resident, and
medical student research project management: study design, dataset creation, analysis and manuscript
preparation. This work also established a strong collaboration with the Memorial Sloane-Kettering
Cancer Center's CAISIS team.
