Hi there! For the coming weeks, our blog will be dedicated to our Young SIOP Award winners!
Please meet Mark Zobeck, YI from the United States, in his own words.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and provides clinical care at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) in Houston, Texas. I serve as the clinical leader of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Team for the TCH Global Hematology-Oncology Pediatric Excellence (HOPE) program, an organization that partners with national governments in seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to deliver pediatric hematology-oncology care.
I lead a team responsible for designing and maintaining an international clinical data management system, developing dashboards and other reports for Global HOPE leadership, and providing analytical and statistical support for projects across the organization.
My primary research focuses on improving healthcare delivery in resource-limited countries using data science and informatics tools. My past projects include forecasting patient volumes for the Global HOPE treatment centers, analyzing the determinants of successful M&E data pipelines and informatics technologies that support them, implementing the free and open-source informatics tools into data collection and quality control workflows, and improving the accuracy of key performance metrics through scripted, reproducible, and automated reporting methods.
My current projects include a variety of quality improvement initiatives that integrate the M&aE data into rapid-cycle feedback loops, developing tools to analyze referral patterns for patients that come to the treatment centers, and implementing the M&E framework at other pediatric hematology-oncology treatment centers.
I also conduct clinical epidemiology research as a member of the Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences Program and Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers. I am an active statistics educator for my fellow medical providers and trainees. I have received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology for my research and education activities.
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