Precision Health graduate certificate program

Winter 2022 Cohort

Ozioma Edokobi
College of Pharmacy
Doctor of Pharmacy/Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy Translational Sciences
PharmD Candidate/PhD Candidate

Ozioma is in her second year in the Clinical Pharmacy Translational Science program. Her current interests include using metabolomics data to expound biomarkers for disease and bringing that relevance to aid health equity. In addition, she is also working to expand her knowledge base of data analytic techniques and machine learning to find unique ways of visualizing data.

 

Cameron Eutsey
School of Information
Health Informatics
MS Student

Cameron is a first-year master’s student in the Health Informatics program. His interests in the precision health certificate stems from his career pursuits in data science, focusing on data engineering and emphasizing different concepts such as visualization, mining, algorithms, and machine learning. Obtaining the Precision Health certificate will help improve his skills in data visualization, predictive analytics, and data cleaning/mining.

 

Venkata Naga Sai Pratap Gude
School of Information
Health Informatics
MS Student

Pratap is a first-year master’s student in Health Informatics (MHI). He received his bachelor’s in dentistry in India and worked for two years as an associate dentist before coming to the MHI program. He is interested in clinical decision support tools and machine learning (ML) models. Additionally, Pratap is interested in the exponential growth in unstructured data in EHRs and how to use ML models to help clinicians achieve their goals.

 

Reema Hamasha
School of Information
Health Informatics
MS Student

Reema is a first-year master’s student in Health Informatics with interests in health literacy within electronic health records (EHR). Her exposure to precision medicine began when she worked as a clinical research associate in the Rogel Cancer Center, where she consented and collected patient health information for various clinical trials. She also worked with the Prostate Cancer Precision Medicine Multi-Institutional Collaborative Effort (PROMISE) Consortium where she collaborated with many institutions to create a repository of clinical-genomic data for prostate cancer therapies. By working with treatment data, Reema realized the importance of patient-centered health information to compare available treatment plans, predict adverse events, and create future prospective studies.

 

Brigit McDannell
School of Information
Health Informatics
MS Student

Brigit is a first-year master’s student in Health Informatics who is interested in finding ways to pursue both biomedical research and public health work. She entered the informatics field with the long-term goal of delivering sustainable and consistent medical care to the underserved. Brigit is interested in using electronic health record infrastructure to foster health information exchange within the correctional system and to use personalized screenings to reduce the disproportionately high rates of disease among inmates. She is also interested in building informatics applications for clinicians and researchers to ethically use patient data to strengthen disease prevention and diagnostic practices in the correctional system.

 

Evie Phillips
School of Public Health
Health Services Administration
MS Student

Evie is a first-year master’s student in Health Services Administration. After graduating from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in healthcare management and policy, she worked at Epic Systems as a Team Lead in Quality Assurance. Upon graduation, Evie’s career objective is to provide leadership in healthcare systems by evaluating and optimizing technology to help clinicians provide better medical care through improved patient care and safety.