Over the years, my research interests have evolved, following my overall passions related to medicine and academia. Within the field of medicine, I am particularly interested in cost-effective healthcare delivery. The United States has some of the finest physicians and facilities in the world. However, access and utilization of healthcare is often complicated by financial constraints. These challenges, which may begin within the hospital, are often passed to patients. While can afford world-class healthcare with insurance support, many cannot. The result is a higher disease burden and complication rate through the loss of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.

Starting from the time I was an EMT, and throughout my tenure in medical school, I have enjoyed helping improve medical education. My initial experiences in making improvements arose from small-scale, non-scientific surveys as a member of the student council. I have also participated in peer-reviewed research studies in medical education. While sitting on a number of committees during my tenure as Vice President of Administration, the size and scope of these endeavors grew.

At present, I have several ongoing projects as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Rush University in Chicago, IL.

You can read more about my past and present work below:


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Next-gen transcriptomics on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL)

Note: this post has been updated to reflect upgrades to CUDA 12.6 Upgrade RHEL 9 to 9.3 EPEL Extra packages for Enterprise Linux are required …
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Accordion Folder

Get Datalad Paths

Datalad is a tool that wraps around git and git-annex. It allows (and recommends, see YODA) nesting “subdatasets” inside of parent “datasets”. The root level …
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STAR Methods: Key Resources

A living document with the goal of improving research reproducibility. Detailed listing of the key resources required, adapted from Cell Press STAR Methods
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Building a bioinformatics lab from scratch, in Debian 12

Create a workbench to analyze next-generation -omics (e.g. single-cell RNA sequencing) using Debian, Python, R, CUDA for NVidia GPUs, Docker, and VSCode.
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Using Quarto for documentation and publication

Quarto describes itself as “an open-source scientific and technical publishing system”. With the work that I have been doing in the lab, I’ve been hoping …
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REDCap Trick 1: Jump directly to a particular record with this bookmarklet

A single line of code can help you jump directly to a record in REDCap. This helps you save multiple clicks just to get to where you need to be.
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PGP Encryption: Add My PGP Public Keys

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is one of the most widely used encryption methods used in the world. It was created by Philip Zimmermann in 1991 …
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COVID-19 Dashboard

This dashboard is sourced and automatically updated from Dr. Pranav Mishra’s Github at https://github.com/pranavmishra90/COVID-19.
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SARS-COV-2 / COVID-19 Virus

A deductive approach to modeling the spread of COVID-19

Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), previously known as 2019-nCoV, is responsible for the atypical pneumonia pandemic designated as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). …
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Invasive Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Nasopharynx and Cranium in a 21-year-old male

Winner – 1st Place – Oral Presentation at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
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Preventative and Social Medicine Research

Research Summary Through the Department of Community Medicine (Preventative and Social Medicine), two studies done between August 2014 and May 2015. Medical students with the …
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KMC Student Research Forum

The Student Research Forum (SRF) is a committee assignment as part of the larger KMC Student Council. We coordinate year-round academic sessions and research workshops. …
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Pyk2 and Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis

In the summer of 2010, I was awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at Washington University in St. Louis. The fellowship is offers 10+ …
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