Career Profile
I am a hybrid retail pharmacist, product manager, analyst, and web developer. Starting out with 5 years of experience in community pharmacy, I decided to follow my passion for technology and earned a Masters in Health Informatics while working as a product manager for a custom e-prescribing software. I helped Vanderbilt University Medical Center through a big bang go-live with Epic, and throughout it all, I have been working on several personal healthcare-related web development side projects.
Education
Experience
- Participate in planning sessions with key stakeholders to determine future clinical workflows
- Build procedure order and user records within Epic based on requirements from clinical subject matter experts
- Assist with analysis of other major topics relating to the transition, such as knowledge management and application rationalization
- Customize and design clinical decision support (CDS) in the form of panels, preference lists, order sets, and best practice advisories (BPAs)
- Build inpatient order sets with a focus on increasing standardization while promoting patient safety and end user satisfaction
- Manage a variety of technical and clinical projects using agile methodology with a team of developers and analysts
- Oversee complete UI overhaul of RxStar (VUMC’s e-prescribing application), including an improved clinical decision support (CDS) interface
- Improve overall quality and consistency of e-prescribing through user training, terminology standardization, and duration defaulting
- Develop a point-of-prescribing high risk medication alert for elderly patients within RxStar based on the Beers Criteria
- Perform data mining and analysis using SQL queries and Tableau visualizations
- Create a custom source of free drug information by parsing and normalizing OpenFDA data with Python and SQL
- Develop a toolbox of solutions for rapidly obtaining comprehensive pharmaceutical and supply catalogs from a variety of sources (Excel functions, PDF conversions, Python scripts, SQL queries, web scraping)
- Strategically load over 50 complete supplier catalogs comprising over 21,000 products into the database
- Work closely with leadership to reconfigure data structure of supplier / product relationships to greatly reduce maintenance and duplication of products
- Maintain catalog metadata and periodically perform data analysis within Salesforce to clean up and standardize the catalog database
Projects
With the spare time I have left in the day, I am constantly working on projects. These are a few I have worked on the most.
CodeRx - A website with guides, resources, and posts about pharmacy-related health tech topics, as well as a Slack community of pharmacy and technology experts.
ParseRx - A free text medication sig parser which extracts individual components (dose, frequency, duration, etc) from medication instructions and converts them into a standardized FHIR data structure.
Fill View - An interactive data visualization model for opioid fill data to help clinicians visualize risk of diversion of controlled substances by highlighting potential risk facts at a glance.
Local Lineup - A web app that integrates with several APIs to generate a playlist of Spotify songs for artists playing in a city, as well as a Mailchimp newsletter.
Topular - A web app that scrapes RSS feeds of local blogs and news sources to find interesting articles locally in your city and ranks them based on social impact.
Publications
A few papers I have had the privilege of co-authoring and having published over the past several years.
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacy
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, July 2020
Is the Climb Worth the View? The Savings/Alert Ratio for Reducing Vitamin D Testing
Applied Clinical Informatics, December 2019
Clinical Decision Support for High Risk Medications at the Point of Prescribing
AMIA Annual Symposium Proccedings, November 2016