HOMETOWN
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, German
THESIS MENTOR
Dr. Erika Moen
FAVORITE ALGORITHM
Clinical Workup & triage
FAVORITE GENE
APOL1
UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION
Tufts University
Bachelor of Arts in Biology & German
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Medical Student Radiology Triage Program
Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
Medical Student Peer Tutoring Program
City University of New York
Research Technician - Dr. Jayne Raper
THESIS TITLE
Network analysis of novel treatment adoption and cancer care coordination
CAREER TRACK(S)
Clinical Medicine & Research
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Python, R
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Member of Students for a National Health Program (PNHP/SNaHP)
Member of Physicians for Human Rights
Member of Dartmouth Epidemiology Students Club (EpiC)
Electives
QBS 136: Applied Epidemiological Methods I, QBS 137: Applied Epidemiological Methods II, QBS 135/PH 125: Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Public Health & Healthcare Studies, QBS 144/PH 115: Finance and Strategy in Value-based Public Health and Healthcare, QBS 140/PH 121: Decision & Cost-Effective Analysis
Publications
- “Inducible Natural IgMs Bridge Trypanosome Lytic Factor Assembly and Parasite Recognition” Joseph Verdi*, Ronnie Zipkin*, Elani Hillman, Rahel Gertsch, Sarah Pangburn, Russell Thomson, Nina Papavasiliou, Jeremy Sternberg, Jayne Raper. * - co-first authors Cell Host & Microbe (2020)
Poster Presentations
- “Contextual Differences in Cancer Care Provider Networks & Adoption of Novel Innovations” Ronnie Zipkin, Andrew Schaefer, Thomas White, VS Subramanian, Erika Moen International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, San Diego, CA (2020)
- “Influence of Physician Peer Network Properties on Diffusion of a Novel Cancer Technology” Ronnie Zipkin, Andrew Schaefer, Thomas White, VS Subramanian, Erika Moen Northeast Regional Institutional Development Award Conference, Bretton Woods, NH (2019)
Oral Presentations
My Interests
"My research interests center on studying variation in care delivery and its impacts on patient outcomes. In my work with Dr. Moen, I work to develop statistical approaches for examining the association between adoption of new therapies and physician patient-sharing network characteristics."
RESEARCHER I ADMIRE
Tu Youyou
FAVORITE RESEARCH PAPER
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin (1859)
Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Why QBS?
"QBS provides a unique opportunity to expand upon my medical training with multidisciplinary skills for statistical and computational analysis in health data science."
FAVORITE QBS CLASS
QBS 130: Foundations of Epidemiology I
Life @ Dartmouth
WHEN I AM NOT IN LAB
"I am playing music, cooking, hiking, biking, and discussing global affairs with friends."