Amol Bhalla 10769 North 104th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85259 (480) 319-1260 amol.bhalla@gmail.com Clinical Post Doctoral and Research Specialist at Arizona State University’s Biomedical Informatics Department To obtain a position that will enable me to use my strong educational, clinical, management background and my development and analytic skills to further the market share and growth of the organization. The skill sets that I provide are: • Extensively educated graduate student offering a strong academic skill set. • Consistently recognized for troubleshooting skills and effectively resolving challenging issues. • The ability to quickly learn, master and integrate new technologies. EDUCATION Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ Expected Graduation May 2016 PhD in Biomedical Informatics Davenport University – Grand Rapids, MI Expected Graduation December 2014 Masters in Business Administration Via Online Correspondence Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ Graduated August 2014 Masters in Biomedical Informatics St. Josephs College – Standish, ME Graduated December 2012 Masters in Health Science Administration St. Matthews University School of Medicine – Grand Cayman Island, BWI Graduated May 2010 Medical Degree Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ Graduated May 2004 Bachelors in Science in Computer Science WORK EXPERIENCE Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center Scottsdale, Arizona Research Specialist and Project Leader November 2012 – Current Developed a clinical database using Microsoft Access, MySQL, Visual Basic, C#, .NET and Microsoft Server IIS that will help to further the understanding of longitudinal patient outcomes in Alzheimer's Disease. Research goal is to understand how and why they transition from normal cognition to a dementia. Other dementing illnesses included in the study were Mild Cognitive Impairment, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Primairy Progressive Aphasia. Collect raw and disparate clinical data which encompassed over 700 variables and 5,000 patient visits on the clinical manifestations and course of illnesses from 7 regional hospitals, including Dignity Health Care and Mayo Clinical. Amol Bhalla 10769 North 104th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85259 (480) 319-1260 amol.bhalla@gmail.com Amol Bhalla 10769 North 104th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85259 (480) 319-1260 amol.bhalla@gmail.com Conducted routine and non-routine analyses of clinical data in order to maintain 99.7% error free. Interpret Clinical Data, compared them to established patient outcomes, and make recommendations on appropriateness of data for research. Develop and deploy update research modalities to improve data collection and treatment protocols. This included tasks such as developing a Statistical Machine Learning approach for predictive modeling of patients 4 year in advance. eHealthTrust Scottsdale, Arizona Product Developer and Integration Specialist Produced solutions to issues such as product demonstrations, and online tutorials. November 2010 – April 2011 Innovative thinker that kept the product on the leading edge of the medical health records industry. Effectively communicated the eHealthTrust product line to both internal management as well as to external clients in the medical community of Phoenix, Arizona. North American Telecommunication and ISP (N.A.T.I.P.) Glendale, Arizona Lead Project Manager January 2000 – December 2002 Designed and deployed one of the first PDA enabled medical billing software for private practice use. Established several internationally based divisions located in Guangzhou China, Tianjin China, Ghaziabad India, Chandigarh India, and Pune India which further recognized the product line within the international medical community. Produced and directed an over the phone medical transcription software which was cost effective for small business usage. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE Predictive modeling of disease including but not limited to Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementing illnesses. Lawrence Weed Problem List Application Development Clinical Decision Support and Electronic Health Records development using Languages such as C, C++, C#, JAVA, and Python. Using Statistical tools such as R, SAS, Matlab, and Octave. Database schema’s and tools such as SQL Manager, MySQL, Mongo DB, Maria DB, and Neo4j. Clinical patient modeling such as Phenotype Portal, I2B2, CME, QDM, Drools, Epic and Cerner. Patient Health Data Banking and Aggregation through the usage of open source software such as OpenEMR, OpenMRS and OpenEHR. Data Mining and Statistical Analysis of Patient and Drug Data using WEKA, Orange, R, SAS, Matlab, and Octave. Reduction of Medical Errors through use of Technology such as the development of event driven clinical decision support tools and improvements to human computer interfaces with current medical devices and electronic health care tools. Amol Bhalla 10769 North 104th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85259 (480) 319-1260 amol.bhalla@gmail.com Amol Bhalla 10769 North 104th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85259 (480) 319-1260 amol.bhalla@gmail.com PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Medical Informatics Association 2012 Society of Biomedical Informatics 2012 Student Advisory Committee of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University 2012 AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Presented with the TGen Helios Scholars Award in the field of Bioinformatics. Assisted in the development of a novel approach to generate, curate and validate computationally derived and experimentally derived gene regulatory networks. 2013 2004 Presented membership with the American Chemistry Society. Was one of the first computer science engineers to ever be presented with such a scholarly membership. Presented runners up position in Arizona States University’s business plan competition. Team’s idea was to develop an application which converted medical bills from various software into one standardized format. 2003 Presented with the Motorola Ambassador award. This award is presented to select individuals who have demonstrated ethical practices above and beyond the scope of normal engineering protocols. 2000 LANGUAGES English – Native Language Hindi – Speak Fluently Spanish – Limited Working Proficiency Punjabi – Full Professional Proficiency PERSONAL REFERENCES UPON REQUEST Amol Bhalla 10769 North 104th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85259 (480) 319-1260 amol.bhalla@gmail.com