Physician-trained, public-health-shaped, data-driven — twenty years of patient care distilled into a search for better evidence.
I've spent two decades in clinical medicine and public health, and I'm now applying that ground-level experience to health analytics — using data to understand disease patterns, health inequities, and what actually moves outcomes.
01 · Healer & Learner
Medicine, public health, and data science aren't three separate careers — they're one line of inquiry, followed wherever it led.
I began as a physician, trained for clinical excellence and service — but the patients I treated kept pointing me toward questions medicine alone couldn't answer.
More than two decades of clinical work — across emergency care, otorhinolaryngology, gastroenterology, and general practice — gave me a close view of what patients actually face: delayed prevention, limited access, socioeconomic barriers, and gaps in health information that no prescription can fix.
That observation pulled me from treating individuals toward understanding populations. A Master of Public Health took me into community health initiatives, chronic disease programs, and surveillance-informed decision-making — and showed me how directly good data shapes policy and outcomes, especially in resource-limited settings.
As my interests sharpened around cancer epidemiology, chronic disease, and health equity, I realized I needed a new set of tools — so I added a Master of Science in Data Science (Health Analytics) to the foundation, working with large datasets like NHANES, the Jackson Heart Study, and the All of Us Research Program, and building fluency in R, SAS, Python, SQL, and GIS.
My path has also crossed countries and health systems. Navigating extended transitions as a single working mother during my spouse's doctoral training in the United States built a resilience and cultural perspective that never interrupted my academic growth — if anything, it deepened my understanding of health disparities and sharpened my commitment to academic medicine and public health.
Today my data science work stays grounded in clinical and public-health relevance. I don't see analytics as a purely computational exercise — it's a way to identify risk patterns, sharpen prevention strategies, and make evidence legible to researchers, policymakers, and communities alike. My current research centers on cancer epidemiology: the intersection of chronic disease, metabolic risk, mental health, and health inequities, including work with breast cancer cohorts from the All of Us Research Program.
I'm now looking for an academic home where clinical experience, public health training, and data science expertise are valued together — through teaching, collaborative research, mentorship, and service, ideally at an institution committed to health equity and evidence-driven care.
02 · Learner
A working history that moves from bedside to population data — clinical care, public health fieldwork, and now research support at UWF.
Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida
Leads community health events including 3D mobile mammography, collects and analyzes screening data, and develops outreach materials.
University of West Florida
Supports HRSA-funded research — designing IRB protocols and Qualtrics surveys, cleaning and analyzing data, and presenting findings at public health conferences.
Baptist Health Care, Florida
Collaborated on a non-randomized clinical trial of 502 patients with cardiac implants and atrial fibrillation — managing IRB, EHR data collection and cleaning, and co-authoring a poster presented at the Heart Rhythm Society, 2023.
University of West Florida
Teaches Human Physiology & Pharmacology to classes of 30–100 students, designing assessments, projects, and data-based health research assignments.
Florida Department of Health, Escambia County
Served as Principal Investigator on two community-based surveys assessing food access and the neighborhood food environment — from IRB drafting through GIS-based visualization and manuscript development.
Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital Research Center, India
Principal Investigator on a prospective study of salivary gland tumors, managing regulatory compliance and statistical analysis while running high-volume outpatient clinics (~60 patients/day) and ~16 inpatient procedures a week.
03 · Analyst
A running set of research and analytics projects spanning clinical data, public health, and geographic health patterns. Each links out to the full write-up.
Analysis work centered on cardiac electrophysiology data and clinical decision-making.
View project → Public HealthCommunity-level public health research applying epidemiologic methods to real population data.
View project → OncologyClinical research into salivary gland tumor presentation, patterns, and outcomes.
View project → Data EngineeringStructured querying and data-wrangling work applied to health datasets.
View project → Spatial AnalysisGeographic visualization of food access, environmental factors, and community-level health disparities.
View project → Program EvaluationPlanning and evaluating a health education program from design through outcomes.
View project →04 · Teacher
Teaching and mentorship sit at the center of how I think about my work now — translating methods into tools students can actually use.
My teaching emphasizes clarity, application, and inclusivity — helping students see how epidemiologic methods, statistical models, and health data translate into solutions for real-world health challenges.
— On teaching philosophy05 · Credentials
The paper trail behind the work — peer-reviewed publications, conference posters, formal training, and academic degrees.
06 · Creator
Gardening, cooking, and sewing keep the same curiosity alive in a quieter register — creativity as a form of lifelong learning.
Azaleas, hibiscus, jasmine, and chrysanthemums alongside a working vegetable patch — tomatoes, turmeric, ridge gourd, and more, grown for the simple reward of fresh produce.
See the garden →
A running log of what's on the table — from multigrain dosa and khaman dhokla to Indo-Chinese chilli paneer documented step by step.
Browse the diary →
Another quiet, hands-on outlet — small sewing projects made in between everything else.
See the projects →
