A little About me
The Medical Years
I began my professional career as a Family Doctor in Brazil. My first job was in the Army (recently graduated M.D.s can be drafted to serve) where I learned about Military Medicine, Search and Rescue operations and a bit about Psychiatric care. In those days I also participated in many “boots on the ground” public health initiatives like vaccination campaigns, HIV prevention lectures and help in fighting Dengue Fever and other endemic diseases.
Those activities planted the seed that later would make me have an increased interest in public health and health systems, specially subjects related to value based care, healthcare delivery methodologies and the opioid and mental illness epidemic.
Additionally, I always enjoyed reading and studying about the Intersection of Medicine, Statistics and Computer Science. That naturally brought me closer to the fields of Data Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Digital Health, Medical Decision-Making and Electronic Medical Records.
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.
