Raghava Danwada
Wildwood,FL
Summary
Results-oriented analytical professional equipped with technical expertise and critical thinking skills, excelling in data-driven environments. Demonstrates a proactive approach to overcoming challenges while delivering exceptional outcomes. Collaborative team player with a proven track record of exceeding expectations.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Education
Master's - public health, Epidemiology
University of North Texas Health Science Centre
Fort Worth, USA12.2015
Post graduate diploma - Bioinformatics
Osmania University
India01.2013
Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery -
NTR University of Health Sciences
India12.2010
Work History
Sr.RWE Consultant
Clinovo LLC
07.2023 - Current
- Develop RWE strategies to support the clinical and commercial development of innovative therapies, driving data-driven decision-making
- Analyze health care claims data using advanced statistical methods to generate real-world insights, improving patient outcomes and optimizing treatment strategies
- Collaborated with stakeholders including clinical, regulatory, and market access teams to integrate RWE into strategic planning and product development
- Present key findings to internal and external audiences, effectively communicating the value of RWE in influencing policy, practice, and product positioning
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to enhance RWE methodologies and tools, keeping the company at the forefront of innovation
Assistant Director, RWE Data analytics
Amerisource Bergen (Xcenda LLC.)
11.2022 - 07.2023
- Serve as the analytics lead for RWE and outcomes research studies - from study initiation to final reporting - in collaboration with the project engagement lead
- Lead all tasks associated with data validation, data management and statistical analysis for RWE studies within the retrospective data analysis team
- Ensure the accuracy of study results and participate in quality check processes to maintain the highest quality output
- Contribute to the development of template programs and establishment of SAS, SQL, R and Stata programming standards, to ensure consistency and efficiency across the department
- Develop content for study protocols, study reports, slide decks, abstracts, posters, publications, and other presentation of scientific findings
- RWE analytics expertise to the prospective studies team (e.g., GHEOR, Reimbursement Strategy and Tactics, Strategic Market Insights)
Sr. Manager, Epidemiology Data analytics
AbbVie Inc
Chicago
03.2021 - 10.2022
- Company Overview: Chicago
- Accountable to a real-world data and analytics leadership within the Global Epidemiology function in Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety (PPS) organization
- Achieved successful collaborations with regulatory authorities, international bodies, and key scientific opinion leaders as a representative of AbbVie
- Initiated and managed external collaborations globally to enhance vaccine research and community studies
- Presented epidemiological findings at national and international meetings, contributing to the scientific dissemination of epidemiology data
- Independently managing data/statistical analysis plan and analyze specific epidemiology databases to prepare relevant tables and figures
- Clearly communicate the results and findings to epidemiologists and cross-functional members as needed
- Leveraged programming techniques to convert sales data into exposure data, enabling comprehensive analysis and stratification by key factors such as age groups, gender, and indications
- Contribute to the design of observational studies, including registries, providing critical appraisal of observational study protocols through participation in inter-departmental and cross-functional committees as needed
- Provide epidemiology data to core safety and regulatory documents including, but not limited to, RMPs, PSURs, and Briefing Books
- Do comprehensive literature review for analytics methodology and coding algorithms related to real-world data
- Chicago
Sr. Specialist Epidemiology services
AbbVie Inc
Chicago
11.2016 - 02.2021
- Company Overview: Chicago
- Perform Independent analysis of data from epidemiology studies including critical appraisal and in-depth reviews of scientific literature
- Work with Real World Data such as electronic medical records, Health Insurance claims data
- Providing Epidemiology inputs in regulatory documents including Periodic Safety Update Reports, Risk-Management plans, and responses to regulatory queries
- Able to manage and manipulate real world data and its architecture, clear understanding of ICD-9, ICD 10 and CPT codes
- Ability to build analytic cohorts from large insurance and electronic medical records databases and perform descriptive and advanced statistical analysis of data
- Assist in writing and publishing of scientific articles, presentations, and posters
- Assist in protocol development, questionnaire design and statistical analysis plan for primary research
- Developed and validated secondary database visualization tools
- Chicago
Clinical Statistician 1b
Inventiv Health Clinical
03.2016 - 10.2016
- Company Overview: (Client: AbbVie Inc)
- Applied advanced machine learning techniques for propensity score estimation and doubly robust estimation to control for confounding variables and estimate treatment effects in a cohort study involving drug exposures and adverse outcomes
- Evaluating the Mini Sentinel's Cohort Identification Descriptive Analysis tool developed by FDA
- Pilot exposure project to automate Exposure calculations for AbbVie products
- Built complex macros in SAS to reduce the estimation error for the exposure calculations
- Worked on a study to characterize the epidemiology and risk factors of AbbVie Phase 1 clinical pharmacology research unit healthy volunteers' subjects using data captured in ACPRU clinical studies
- Involved in comprehensive quality checking and data validation process
- Gained experience in organizing, manipulating, and analyzing large datasets (Market Scan and CDM)
- (Client: AbbVie Inc)
Research Assistant
University of North Texas Health Science Center
07.2015 - 12.2015
- Involved in the HIV project
- Demonstration of project data forms involving HIV patients which are received from project sites
- Data entry of forms into online database
Student Intern
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
06.2015 - 08.2015
- Company Overview: Dallas
- Become familiar with data and program objectives, prior activities, related literature, and overall purpose of Mission camp CHAMPS
- Learn and understand the importance of community based and driven research regarding out of hospital diseases like diabetes, hypertension and asthma among children, ages 7 -16 in Dallas County
- In reporting results from Camp CHAMPS surveys and biometric activities, describe results with appropriate respect to time, place, person and magnitude
- Reviewing pre-post survey data from previous years of Camp CHAMPS summer camps
- Participated in data collection during these summer's Camps and observed educational activities at the Camps
- Carrying out data entry in Excel and perform quality checks such as double entry and valid range review
- Demonstrate proficiency in SAS analytical procedures for appropriate statistical analysis using Camp CHAMPS data, by performing the steps of logistic regression modeling and Poisson and other appropriate modeling of the survey data chosen for analysis
- Assist with administration of pre-post surveys and biometric data collection at Camp CHAMPS, and with the subsequent advocacy training class, for older camp attendees using the USDA Empowering Youth curriculum, following established procedures and protocols
- Protect personal health information with regard for basic ethical principles, and in compliance with Parkland confidentiality requirements, by adhering to policies for safeguarding data in paper or electronic formats
- Dallas
Clinical SAS Programmer
CMS Solutions (Clinovo)
, India
04.2011 - 11.2013
- Company Overview: India
- Generated tables, listings and graphs according to Protocol and SAP using Proc means, Proc Freq and Proc Transpose Procedures
- Gained understanding and managed RWD structure
- Created and employed data analytic tools such as SAS, R to analyze RWD such as health insurance claims data, electronic health records and pharmacy transactions
- Effectively and timely contacted data management head of the respective study about the various Data Issues and resolved the queries through meetings
- Gained good knowledge of Data warehousing and Business intelligence
- Gained understanding of different literature searching engines, systematic literature review, and medical terminology to contribute to the study design and measurements of exposures and outcomes
- Gained experience of complex SQL queries and reports using any reporting tool using SQL server BI
- Worked on a project related to US health care utilization data writing SQL queries, performing joins, adding filters, utilizing skills in coding systems such as ICD, CPT, HCPCS, NDC, etc
- Revenue codes, place of service (POS) codes, procedure, and diagnosis codes
- India
Skills
- Real-World Evidence (RWE) & Epidemiology
- Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR)
- Healthcare Claims & EMR Data Analysis
- Regulatory & Safety Reporting
- Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics
- Data Analytics & Statistical Modeling
- Scientific Writing & Publications
- Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Programming Languages: SAS, SQL, R, Stata, Python
- Data Visualization: Tableau, Power BI
- Big Data & Cloud Platforms: AWS
- Database Management: Snowflake, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Publications Presentations Research
1. Soumya Kavuluri, Raghava Danwada. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Oral Cancer Detection: A Scoping Review of Modern Diagnostic Approaches and Future Frontiers in the Detection of Oral Cancer. J Res Med Dent Sci, 2024, 12(2):01-05
2. Liang, H., Danwada, R., Guo, D., Curtis, J. R., Kilpatrick, R. D., Hendrickson, B., & Islam, S. S. (2019). Incidence of inpatient venous thromboembolism in treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the association with switching biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in the real-world setting. RMD open, 5(2), e001013. doi:10.1136/rmdopen-2019-001013
3. Islam, Syed, Danwada, Raghava, Ganguli, Minoti & Espaillat, Ramon Jarvis, Michael Bacher, Peter. (2017). Evaluation of Lipid Profile and Residual Cardiovascular Risk in Patients Prior to Initiation of Niaspan Therapy. Journal of Pharmacy Technology. 34. 875512251774565. 10.1177/8755122517745650.
4. Oleske DM, Danwada R (2018). Active disease surveillance in an Electronic Health database using a Common Data Model based tool. J Epid Prev Med 3(3): 138.
5. Raghava Danwada, Huifang Liang, Chen Chen, Brian Waterhouse, Dianlin Guo. A practical approach to achieving person-years needed in post-marketing long-term safety studies. (Presented at Conference of Statistical Practice (CSP) Feb 20-22 Sacramento, California organised by ASA).
6. Huifang Liang, Raghava Danwada, Dongmu Zhang, Rachel Duan (2019). Incidence rate of serious infections in patients with ulcerative colitis with or without systemic therapy in the US. (Presented at ISPE).
7. Chris Schneiderman, Robert Gregg, Seema Atre, Raghava Danwada, Nancy Liu, John A Saunders, and Brian Stavlo (2019). Development of The Abbvie Automated Commercial Exposure System (ISPE).
8. Huifang Liang, MD, PhD, Raghava Danwada, MPH, Dianlin Guo, MD, PhD, Syed Islam, MD, DrPH (2018). Incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients treated with biologic and non-biologic DMARD for rheumatoid arthritis in the real-world setting.
9. Machine Learning and Conventional Covariate Adjustment Methods for Control of Measured and Unmeasured Confounding. Syed S. Islam, Raghava Danwada, Minoti Ganguli, William Finkle and Gregory Ridgeway. (Presented at ISPE)
10. Exploring the Association Between Screen Time and Obesity in Children of Ages 10 to 15 Years, Parkland Health & Hospital Dept. of Population Medicine CHAMPS (Choosing Healthy Activities, Meals and Positive Self-esteem), Raghava Danwada MPH Candidate, Dr. Witold Migala PhD, UNTHSC SPH, and Brad Walsh MPH, UNTHSC MPH Practicum (PHPE) Poster, December 2015.
11. Survey questionnaire and research proposal to assess the knowledge of heart disease among adolescents (sent for IRB approval), University of North Texas health science center.
12. Research study to evaluate difference in death rates resulting from the HIV disease between Blacks, Hispanics and Whites, in both males and females between the age groups of 24 to 49, in the time period from 1999- 2009, in all Texas counties. Analysed the difference in death rates using geo-spatial applications, UNTHSC, Fort Worth, TX.
Peer review & Editorial Contributions
- Reviewed 15 abstracts for peer-reviewed conference submissions, assessing quality, methodology, and relevance to the field.
- Served as a peer reviewer for 25 manuscripts, evaluating research quality and contributing to scholarly discourse.
Certifications And Memberships
- Base SAS certified Programmer from SAS institute.
- Advanced SAS certified Programmer from SAS institute.
- Clinical SAS certified Programmer from SAS institute.
- Certified in Public Health from National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE), USA.
- Member of American Statistical Association (ASA).
Accomplishments
- Received 30+ Excellence Awards for outstanding performance, innovation, and contributions in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Achieved three promotions within 7 years, recognizing leadership, expertise, and impact on business and scientific outcomes.
Languages
English
Professional
Hindi
Professional
Telugu
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Sr.RWE Consultant
Clinovo LLC
07.2023 - Current
Assistant Director, RWE Data analytics
Amerisource Bergen (Xcenda LLC.)
11.2022 - 07.2023
Sr. Manager, Epidemiology Data analytics
AbbVie Inc
03.2021 - 10.2022
Sr. Specialist Epidemiology services
AbbVie Inc
11.2016 - 02.2021
Clinical Statistician 1b
Inventiv Health Clinical
03.2016 - 10.2016
Research Assistant
University of North Texas Health Science Center
07.2015 - 12.2015
Student Intern
Parkland Hospital
06.2015 - 08.2015
Clinical SAS Programmer
CMS Solutions (Clinovo)
04.2011 - 11.2013
Master's - public health, Epidemiology
University of North Texas Health Science Centre
Post graduate diploma - Bioinformatics
Osmania University
Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery -
NTR University of Health Sciences
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