Biostatistics/Health Outcomes/Program Evaluation
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Dr. Bruce is a Senior Research Data Scientist with Somatus. Research interests include chronic disease prevention and management, veterans’ and military health, scale development in pain and social functioning, biostatistics, health economics, patient safety, and value-based decision making.
Passionate about data, she uses SAS, R, SQL, Python, Teradata, and Tableau, along with reproducible research and automation techniques in Agile teams, to wrangle, build, curate, visualize, report, and document data warehouse resources for translation into actionable insights.
Dr. Bruce earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Services Research at the Cecil G.
Center, University of North Carolina. She has a Masters of Health Policy and Administration and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dedicated quantitative researcher in population health outcome measurement with over 20 years' experience in study design, epidemiology/risk, analytics, and publication. My career goal is to inform actionable decisions that improve value, equity, access, and financial prosperity for individuals, families, and employers.
Fellowship Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Award
08/2008 Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill NC, USA
PhD Epidemiology, Health Care Epidemiology Concentration
08/2006 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Dissertation: Longitudinal epidemiology of pain severity and interference among women with metastatic breast cancer
MSPH Health Policy and Administration
05/2000 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC, USA
BA Psychology - Honors and French - Honors
05/1998 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC, USA
