Neil Kamdar, MA, University of Michigan, USA
Neil Kamdar, MA, is the lead and managing methodologist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI), Data and Methods Hub. He is also a consulting methodologist at Stanford University’s Center for Population Health Sciences and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Mr Kamdar has served as a co-investigator on several large federal and foundation grants and contracts, including the Department of Defense (DOD), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Institute for Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), the FDA, and the CDC. While he is an applied mathematician by training, his interests have been at the intersection of understanding the clinical mechanisms of disease, policy implications, and the application of appropriate methodology to attend to these diverse lines of inquiry. His focus has been primarily within three specific domains of research: women’s health, disabilities, and surgical outcomes. He has conducted work on large observational and administrative datasets, namely within OptumInsight, Medicare, Marketscan, Medicaid, the American Family Cohort, institutional electronic medical records, and large abstracted clinical registries in roles as a lead of analytic teams and via hands-on analysis. Mr Kamdar lectures courses in population health analytics and epidemiology. He has contributed to more than 100 co-authored peer reviewed publications and has spearheaded a team-based academic partnership model at the University of Michigan that has encouraged stronger ties between researchers and data scientists for grant development and scholarship.
Rodrigo Rizzo, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Rodrigo Rizzo is a Medical Research Future Funding (MRFF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and the School of Health Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW). Dr Rizzo has conducted randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and process evaluations of interventions in pain, digital health, and evidence-based practices. Dr Rizzo's innovative research has been applied in several allied health teams to manage chronic pain and informed the development and implementation of a prescribable digital health intervention in primary care funded by the MRFF 2021 Primary Health Care Digital Innovations.
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