Projects & Experiences

Postdoctoral Fellow – Health Services Research
Ontario Tech University & Ontario Shores Mental Health Centre (Oshawa, ON, Canada) — Jan 2021 – April 2024

• Led IRB submissions, managed cross-site collaborations, and ensured regulatory compliance.

• Conducted causal inference analyses (e.g., regression discontinuity, DiD) using large healthcare datasets.

• Evaluated intervention effects on clinical outcomes and service utilization using SAS, R, and SQL.

• Designed geospatial visualizations in ArcGIS and Tableau to highlight access disparities.

• Authored peer-reviewed publications and mentored graduate students in quantitative research.

Volunteer Research Fellow – Media and Innovation Lab (MIL)
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine (Remote) — Jan 2025 – Present

• Collaborate on technology-driven health equity research supported by NIH- and PCORI-aligned initiatives.

• Support mixed-methods research design, quantitative data analysis, and literature synthesis.

• Assisting in onepager and proposal preparation and community engagement strategies for translational health projects.

Research Fellow Visitor
University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation — May 2018 – Dec 2018

• Conducted policy analysis using Ontario’s administrative health datasets.

• Synthesized qualitative and quantitative findings from key informant interviews for system-level recommendations.

Data Analyst
Majorel, Waterloo, ON, Canada — May 2019 – Dec 2021

• Led IRB submissions, managed cross-site collaborations, and ensured regulatory compliance.

• Conducted causal inference analyses (e.g., regression discontinuity, DiD) using large healthcare datasets.

• Evaluated intervention effects on clinical outcomes and service utilization using SAS, R, and SQL.

• Designed geospatial visualizations in ArcGIS and Tableau to highlight access disparities.

• Authored peer-reviewed publications and mentored graduate students in quantitative research.

Research Project Coordinator – NESTORE (EU H2020) Polytechnic University of Milan — Nov 2017 – Apr 2019

• Coordinated multi-country data collection and analysis for active aging and digital

  health monitoring.

• Led survey design and cross-site communication with European partners.

• Managed financial and technical reporting to the European Commission.

Research Assistant – FARB Project (Region Lombardy) Polytechnic University of Milan — Nov 2015 – Apr 2017

• Cleaned and analysed administrative claims data for 200+ hospitals to assess care quality and patient outcomes.

• Applied multilevel logistic regression to identify hospital- and patient-level

  determinants of readmission and mortality.

• Presented findings internationally and contributed to four publications.