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Catherine Blandon

Miami,FL

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Biostatistician

University of Miami, Hepatology
Miami, FL
09.2023 - Current
  • Designed an objective Accelerated Failure Time model to predict survival time in patients with recently diagnosed HCC to calculate a survival benefit score for these potential transplant candidates
  • Extracted and analyzed clinical and longitudinal BMI data from over 1 million patients in the VHA SQL Server with group-based trajectory modeling to examine the association of BMI trends on colorectal cancer survival
  • Employed VHA developmental server to increase processing speed of analysis and rewrote package coding to eliminate redundancy, which reduced analysis time by 75%
  • Simulated transplant outcomes under different liver allocation policies using LSAM's Markov modeling with SRTR data from 2011 to 2016
  • Developed statistical analysis plans for clinical trials and calculated necessary sample sizes
  • Authored and created figures and tables for various gastroenterology and hepatology publications
  • Presented key findings from LSAM in the American Transplant Congress
  • Advised and educated clinicians using different statistical analysis techniques (e.g., R, Stata, and Excel)
  • Aided colleagues with technical software (e.g., Velos, REDCap, and Excel) and device issues

Biostatistician

University of Miami, Cardiology
Miami, FL
01.2021 - 09.2023
  • Conducted survival analysis in SAS and R with multisite data from 6,700 patients to examine the effects of beta-blocker dose after myocardial infarction in populations with other comorbidities
  • Analyzed electrogram characteristics of 27,000 observations to identify overlaps between different heart mapping techniques and characteristics that can help predict ablation success
  • Drafted statistical analysis plan and sample size calculations for NIH and pharmaceutical company grants that were FDA regulated
  • Communicated preliminary results and study progress to investigators in easy-to-comprehend terminology
  • Designed electronic data collections forms on Velos and REDCap for research and clinical intake
  • Managed data collection process, including proper physical storage, electronic warehousing, quality checks, and data manipulation
  • Identified over 4,600 potential patients within EPIC and created VBA code that automated the matching process for the control group which made the coordinator’s search more efficient

Research Intern

University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, IL
07.2020 - 04.2021
  • Analyzed 12 years of pediatric ICU data with discrete-time survival analysis in R to find a correlation between critical event and outcomes in other patients to bring awareness to a possible issue
  • Interviewed stakeholders using REDCap for insight on critical event protocol and foreseen issues with the current system or physiological status measurements
  • Host weekly meetings to update Scientific Advisory Committee on the project via Zoom and Slack

Research Intern

New York University
New York, NY
02.2019 - 09.2019
  • Conducted computational experiment, using R and Linux, to measure homology in Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti to repurpose the Drosophila CRISPR library onto Ae aegypti
  • Represented the Stapleford Lab at Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences’ open house to showcase my experiment to recruit potential students
  • Reaffirmed computational collaboration findings concerning Zika evolution by different methods of infection (by injection and mosquito) and found non-structural genes affected

Education

Master of Science - Biomedical Informatics

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
03.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Biology

New York University
New York, NY
05.2019

Timeline

Biostatistician

University of Miami, Hepatology
09.2023 - Current

Biostatistician

University of Miami, Cardiology
01.2021 - 09.2023

Research Intern

University of Chicago Medicine
07.2020 - 04.2021

Research Intern

New York University
02.2019 - 09.2019

Master of Science - Biomedical Informatics

University of Chicago

Bachelor of Arts - Biology

New York University

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