Occasionally, the things that I am working on get picked up and shared in the media. I’ve tried to capture a few of those here so you can get a sense of my areas of focus.

Training tomorrow’s business leaders

One of the courses I designed and teach in Duke’s Fuqua School of Business was listed by Fortune as one of the “10 data science and business analytics courses that should be on every executive’s radar.”

Building a top-ranked analytics team

Our work in building UNC Health into one of only two organizations that have “earned the top rank of the Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity” was profiled by HealthcareIT News.

Data Wranglers Pursuing Health Innovation

My team’s work in finding ways in which “big data” analytics can be used to improve health care was reviewed by WRAL’s Techwire.

Driving Better Care Delivery

HealthTech magazine describes how value-based care and new opportunities for leveraging data are transforming healthcare.

Leveraging Analytics for Population Health

Becker’s Hospital Review profiled five health systems “using data analytics to drive population health and the patient experience.” 

Talking with Strata

Strata invited me to share with their leaders and employees how data sciences and analytics are shaping the industry.

Being Appointed Chief Analytics Officer

I was fortunate to be able to serve for several years as the founding leader of UNC Health’s analytics and data sciences organization.

Innovation Centers in Healthcare

This article from Becker’s Hospital Review outlines the top 25 health systems have made a commitment to innovation by establishing their centers for innovation (including mine at UNC).

Developing Value-Based Analytical Solutions

Healthcare Finance wrote a nice piece about how my team at SAS partnered for developing case rate analytics supporting bundled payments and accountable care delivery models.

BCBSNC and SAS Partner

My team joined forces with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to help health plans provide better, more personalized care.

Hiring SAS’ First Chief Medical Officer

I had the opportunity to build and run an amazing innovation think tank at SAS, including hiring Dr. Graham Hughes.

Fighting Cancer with Analytics

UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and our teams at SAS teamed up to harness all the data about a patient and their cancer’s characteristics and treatment to improve outcomes.

Building an Innovation Center

WRAL TechWire wrote a nice piece announcing the innovation center I had the opportunity to build while at SAS.