After graduating from college I moved to San Francisco and worked as a consultant. I worked for the actuarial firm Towers Perrin.
I was in the Health and Welfare line of business. Our
clients used our skills to manage, develop, expand and test their
benefits packages (e.g., medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD and life).
I worked in the Specialty Practice (sub-LOB in H&W), charged
with creating intellectual capital for the firm in several developing
areas. My particular area of expertise was in Care Management and
Wellness. I did several projects on disease management, eHealth, care gap analysis and risk management.
I was the lead associate on Stanford Student health plan (commonly referred to as Cardinal Care).
During my time at Towers Perrin I worked closely with one of TP's student health
experts. I had hands-on experience developing premium rates, performing renewal negotiations
and creating special projects related to student health
centers. I also have experience working with
Aetna Student Health (formerly Chickering - they are the carrier for many universities).
I am a member of the Student Health Insurance Advisory Committee
(SHIAC) here at Penn. We are the student/faculty committee
charged with analyzing the Penn Student Insurance Plan (PSIP). You can
read my two cents on PSIP and student health here.
One of the best features of being a Statistician is you can indulge a
wide range of interests, while attaining a high level of
technical mastery. Everything produces data; the trick is to be good at understanding data.
Turns out that the analysis techniques used to
study the movement of markets are applicable to studying the
motion of particles in the air. Techniques used in
agriculture can be used to understand the development of molecules in
the body. (That's weird if you think about it.)
I'm particularly interested in problems related to Health Care
Delivery - both clinical outcomes research and health systems analysis.
Want to hear me talk in more depth about my reasearch interests? Go here.
