Name (pronouns):
Simran Kanal (she/her)
Department/Division:
Epidemiology and Biostatistics/Graduate Division
Years at UCSF:
2
Role in technology:
Health Data Scientist
What technology project(s) have you worked on that you are most proud of?:
I have worked as a GSR to work towards checking the Feasibility of Automated Annotation of Pain Chronicity in Electronic Health Records of Chronic Low Back Pain Patients.
How has technology helped you achieve a goal within your role or department?:
By utilizing the statistical tools in R, I could identify socio-economic factors that affected the demographic that suffers from chronic low back pain and automate the process so that this information can be extracted from EHRs.
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?:
I enjoy visiting the multiple San Francisco Public Library branches and reading there.
If you could learn anything, what would that be?:
I would love to learn dutch and swedish!