A little About me
The Medical Years
I began my professional career as a Family Doctor. My first job was in the Brazilian Army (recent graduated M.D.s can be drafted to serve) where I learned a lot about Search and Rescue operations and a bit about Psychiatry. Also in those days I participated in many “boots on the ground” public health initiatives like helping vaccination campaigns, HIV prevention lectures and helping fight Dengue Fever and other endemic diseases.
That planted the seed that later would make me have an increased interest not only in the one on one interactions of the medical practice but in the supra individual type of vision of public health and health systems, like value based care, healthcare delivery methodologies and the opioid and mental illness epidemic.
Additionally, I always enjoyed read and study about the Intersection of Medicine and Computer Science (the now recognized fields of Data analysis, Computational modeling, Digital health. Medical decision-making, Electronic medical records and Telemedicine)
The Analytical Years
I started my analytical years during my time studying applied statistics for a post graduation diploma. Not long after concluding the course, I started to work at the largest private insurer of my state with 1.2 million clients.
There I had the opportunity to work with one of the largest healthcare datasets in the country and apply several “classic” statistical methods like linear regression, logistical regression, clustering and time series analysis to get insights that would help higher management make important decisions.
After a few years I started to hear about the new methodologies being used to deal with Big Data like Machine and Deep Learning. That motivated me to come to the US and start my Masters in Health Data Science at Dartmouth which I concluded at the end of 2019.
In 2020 I had the opportunity to work in a Startup in the Twin Cities that focused on the Six Dimensions of Wellness: emotional, occupational, physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual. The objective to was to improve peoples lives by lessening the negative excesses of social media.
Currently I am working in a project that aims to materialize the promise of Big Data in Health Care. This will be accomplished by implementing the OMOP common data model (maintained by OHDSI) in a health system that will greatly facilitate intranational and international cooperation in observational studies using real world data such as the National COVID Cohort Collaborative.
