BRAIN & SLEEP RESEARCH @ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
January - May 2019
In 2019, I worked at the New York University Department of Public Health within their medical school. During this experience, I was more focused on user experience and project management.
When I first joined the team, my research professor assigned me a project with the goal of increasing clinical trial participation among NYU Hospital patients.
Given that the NYU medical system already has a pre-existing health and wellness app, we wanted to build a machine learning based customized news feed for patients that would promote new clinical trials suitable for them.
The project was focused in three phases:
Phase I - Conduct patient and provider focus groups to assess scope of project
Phase II - Build out the feature according to phase I specifications
Phase III - Run usability and heuristic testing
Overall the purpose of this study was to get a better understanding of how to provide patients with a more informed view of clinical trials.
Alongside that project, I worked on writing papers on the possible uses of machine learning to help alleiviate bottlenecks within the health service workflow.
During my time at NYU, I also restructured the department’s workflow to an agile-based one, where it was easier for the principal investigators to see what tasks were being worked on for the week and what issues need to be addressed.
As a small side project, I worked on a web scraper that would take recent brain and sleep health articles on NCBI and send it to interested heads of the department.