David Landsman
David worked with the lab from 2018 to 2021, during this time as an undergraduate student in the Computer Science program at the University of Toronto. David started working at the team as a computer programmer via the University of Toronto Work-Study Program. He developed and implemented an algorithm for assigning clinicians to on-call service for the Infectious Diseases department at St. Michael’s Hospital. He collaborated with the head of the Infectious Disease division to develop and test the algorithm. Since 2018, David’s application has been used to generate the clinical schedules in the department. His tool is publicly available alongside the manual for use, and his first-author paper from the work is posted as a preprint.
David then worked with the team as a computer programmer and research staff from October 2019 to September 2020, to lead the development of a retrospective and prospective clinical cohort using structured and unstructured data from clinical and electronic health records. Specifically, David led the Tuberculosis Database project in collaboration with Dr. Jane Batt (clinical director of the St. Michael’s Hospital Tuberculosis Clinic). The database collects retrospective patient data from electronic health records, including medical history, test results, diagnosis, and medications. A novel component of the database involves extracting useful variables from unstructured clinician dictations. The Tuberculosis Database will be a resource for scientists conducting research into clinical epidemiology, quality improvement, and implementation science research. His first-author publication from his work is available here.
David also worked on several projects related to COVID-19, including conducting web scraping for data collation, and spatial analyses of COVID-19 data, and has contributed as a co-author on two publications from these team projects.
David is now a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Vanguard.
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