I am the Associate Director of Data Science at the Critical Path Institute, where we enhance the value of rare disease patient-level data through curation, standardization, integration across diverse data sources, and the development of drug development tools. My work focuses on leveraging my expertise in ontology development, data standards, and annotation to lead a team of data scientists in building and implementing a data curation pipeline using the organization’s knowledge graph.
In addition, I am the Owner and President of Rose City Data Science LLC, specializing in consulting on biomedical ontology development and curation. I contribute to the Mondo Disease Ontology, a semantic standard for disease classification and definitions. I am also involved in educational initiatives, promoting best practices in data management and data science, including through the OBO Academy.
Projects:
Service
- Co-Chair, GA4GH Rare Disease Community of Interest
- OBO Foundry Operations Committee member
Ontology development
- Monarch Disease Ontology (Mondo)
- Human Phenotype Ontology
- Cell Ontology
- Phenotype and Trait Ontology
- Environmental Exposure Ontology
- Unified Phenotype Ontology (uPheno)
- Contributor Role Ontology
Educational Materials
- OBO Academy - Self paced ontology engineering training
- Ontologies 101 Presentations (see Workshops page)
Select Biocuration projects
- Monarch Initiative: a system that allows for cross-species disease discovery
- Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource: a data resource portal containing data about pediatric cancers and structural abnormalities
- CRAFT corpus: The Colorado Richly Annotated Full Text Corpus (CRAFT) is a manually annotated corpus consisting of 67 full-text biomedical journal articles.
- Center for Cancer Data Harmonization: The CCDH worked with the National Cancer Institute Cancer Research Data Commons to make cancer research data more useful and accessible.