The WDS-ITO has hired Alyssa Foote to fill the new Health Data Research Associate role. Alyssa is a graduate of the Master of Data Science program from the University of British Columbia. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Science and Computer Science from the University of Victoria.
During her master’s, Alyssa developed a data pipeline that extracted key information from unstructured clinical notes, creating analyzable tabular data. Alyssa has also worked in numerous analyst and research-focused roles in health informatics and is looking forward to bringing her healthcare domain knowledge and data management expertise to this new position with WDS-ITO.