Quantitative Research Analyst Resume

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Quantitative Research Analyst

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Leveraging healthcare system electronic medical record data to identify disparities between racial and ethnic groups on over 50 metrics via age and gender controlling generalized linear models in SAS, visualized via ggplot2 forest plots and automated latex R markdown tables. Reported key disparities to organizational cultural competency committee for strategic planning.
Developing a theoretical statistical model using SAS PROC CALIS path analysis that encompasses various measures of patient symptomatic measures and demographic characteristics that contribute to patient quality of life.
Creating R scripts for automated patient quality of life summary reports using REDCap API and R Markdown for Confidential ’s heart failure clinic to inform treating cardiologists of effect of heart failure support group on quality of life.
Evaluating a state - wide quality improvement program to reduce skilled nursing readmissions using Medicare claims derived from readmissions metrics in conjunction with self-reported facilities data.
Coordinating transfer of protected data from Sutter and non-Sutter entities in accordance with federal and state regulations in order to proceed with analysis of data.
Preparing, submitting, and amending clinical documents for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of studies.

Research Assistant

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Created, updated, and maintained research databases using MS Access, MS Excel, and SQL to track and report participant recruitment efforts for multiple studies. This streamlined existing processes which were largely based on manual calculations and paper tracking. This resulted in reduced time of the report from several hours to several seconds, in addition to increased reproducibility.
Coordinated recruitment and data management of study participants across multiple studies, successfully meeting recruitment goals 3 months ahead of schedule.