Resume for Valmeek Kudesia

1. Valmeek Kudesia, MD
near Boston,
MA
vmkudesia@gmail.com
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Executive Summary
Physician, engineer, and clinical informatician who drives improvements in healthcare quality, safety, and operations by:
● Forging effective collaboration between clinical, administrative, and technical stakeholders in healthcare
● Guiding interdisciplinary teams to implement clinical analytics for improved clinical outcomes and CQI needs
● Equipping healthcare networks with platforms, tools and processes that support a learning healthcare system
● Developing clinician and patient-friendly applications of clinical informatics and Health-IT
Certification and License
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Medical Practice
Board Certified Internal Medicine 2011
Board Certified Clinical Informatics 2014
Massachusetts Medicine License 2011
Lean Certification, Yellow Belt 2011
Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Status
○ Credentialed for VA clinical data access
● Staff Internist, Aug 2013­present
○ VA Healthcare System, Boston, MA
○ Attending physician for general medicine teaching service
● Urgent Care Provider, Oct 2011­present
○ Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, Dorchester, MA
○ Provided medical care to adult men and women in urgent care
● Residency Training, June 2008­July 2011
○ Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA
Skill Sets
Interests
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Interdisciplinary collaboration
Interdisciplinary team leadership
Learning Healthcare Systems
Clinical Analytics and Big Data
applications
● Health-IT, Clinical UI/UX
● Healthcare LEAN
Technical
Major:
R, Java, EHR,HL7, CIE/HIE, Clinical NLP
and machine-learning, python,
information visualization, Linux,
Android, SQL
Minor:
NOSQL, Perl, C++/C#, HTML5, jQuery
Familiar:
Hadoop, Storm
Operations
● Building collaborations between
clinical stakeholders and
interdisciplinary technical teams
● Direct clinical and operations
applications of Health-IT, Clinical
Informatics, and Clinical Analytics
● Structured analysis of healthcare
systems
● LEAN, PDSA cycles, root-cause analysis
Education and Training
Boston Informatics Research Training Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Masters of Medical Science in Biomedical Informatics, focus in Clinical Informatics
Candidate for Board Certification in Clinical Informatics, 2013
National Library of Medicine fellow in a two-year interdisciplinary postdoctoral program in informatics. Training
from Harvard Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Business and MIT via Harvard-MIT HST.
July 2011June 2013
Boston University Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency, Boston, MA
Board Certification in Internal Medicine
Rigorous & broad clinical training. Inner-city tertiary care academic setting with large underserved population.
Appointment as Clinical Associate Instructor in Medicine; supervised and educated 3rd & 4th year med students.
July 2008June 2011
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Combination of Biomedical Engineering & MD (ENG-MEDIC). Received Gold Foundation Award for Humanism in
Medicine. Nominated by peers to embody the ideas of humanism in Medicine.
Sept 2004May 2008
Boston University College of Engineering, Boston, MA
BS Biomedical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude (GPA 3.77)
Combination Biomedical Engineering & MD (ENG-MEDIC). Senior thesis “Control of Simulation Fibrillation in
Networks of Model Cardiac Cells” awarded 2nd place at the Boston University Engineering industry fair.
Sept 2000May 2004

2. Projects and Experience
Director of Clinical Informatics, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology, Research and Information
Center (MAVERIC)
● Guide interdisciplinary informatics teams at one of the largest VA intramural research and development groups
● Focus on understanding clinical care needs and how to navigate significant “touch-points” between
informatics infrastructure and ongoing clinical operations
● Gain and maintain “buy-in” from clinical, administrative, and technical leadership
● Align project development and execution so compatible with and value-add to clinical needs and care
workflow
● “Project Owner” of Clinical Informatics portion of VISN 1 Precision Oncology Program
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Northeast VA network initiative to expand routine use of cancer genomic tests in oncology care
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Maintain “buy-in,” cooperation, and change management at all Northeast VA clinical labs
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Guide interdisciplinary team to
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Develop new process and informatics infrastructure to manage new genomic information
in VA’s clinical laboratories and EHR
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Deliver clinical business intelligence platform to measure utilization and
clinical-effectiveness of cancer genomic tests in routine Oncology care
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Incorporate natural language processing and machine learning techniques to
automatically discern significant clinical events and overall trajectory of cancer care
(planned)
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Develop platform for integrated view of Oncology care and connect specialist
molecular-oncology e-Consults to interpret cancer genomic findings at local treatment
clinics (planned)
July 2013present
Post­Doctoral Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC)
● Clinical lead and development member of clinical analytics platform that utilizes NO-SQL data repositories, NLP
and machine learning, and information visualization. Forged new collaboration with VHA Boston Hospital
Infection Control department for healthcare improvement.
● Focused on Patient Safety national requirements regarding healthcare-acquired infections (HAI). Mapped
workflow of Infection Control clinical operations. Produced initial design of informatics solution that integrates
with clinical workflow, extends capacity of Infection Control staff, and delivers actionable information to reduce
burden of HAIs. Nominated for Distinguished Poster, AMIA Symposium, 2012
● Natural Language Processing to Identify Foley Catheter–Days. Valmeek Kudesia, MD; Judith Strymish, MD;
Leonard D’Avolio, PhD; Kalpana Gupta, MD, MPH. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Vol. 33, No. 12
(December 2012), pp. 1270-1272.
Boston Medical Center, Medical Information Systems Unit
● CIE/HIE utilization for quality outcomes for influenza and pneumonia vaccination for higher-risk populations
● Android App developer for mobile DASH diet and Premier lifestyle changes for treatment of pre-hypertension
June 2011June 2013
Internal Medicine Residency: Informatics & QI Experience, Boston University Medical Center
ITS Clinical Governance Committee
● Member of multi-departmental board that directs IT resources for clinical care and systems
● Introduced new EHR functionality to residents and provided resident concerns regarding IT systems
Clinical Software Developer and Clinical Adviser to Clinical Application Development
● Provided clinical insight and perspective to internal clinical software development teams
● Designed UI for trends of influenza infection and vaccinations and clinical population health tools with CMIO
Patient Safety Resident
● Rotation with hospital CQI team, focused on process to alert Anesthesia services for emergency airway
● Mapped current state, identified deficiencies, and developed streamlined & robust solution
Sept 2009July 2011
Biomedical Devices Consultant, Boston University Healthcare Entrepreneurship Program
● Market research and feasibility of new biomedical and diagnostic medical devices to aid small bio-tech startups
July 2006July 2008
Clinical Software Developer, 10Blade, Inc
● Developed user interface for Boston MedFlight Air Ambulance custom EHR solution
● N Hashmi, D Corwin, D Myung, M Gaynor, V Kudesia, W Tollefsen, S Ganesan, S Moulton. "Embedding Rules in
a Pre-Hospital Mobile Database," aiccsa, pp.1175-1179, IEEE Intl Conference Computer Systems and
Applications, 2006.,2006.
June 2005Sept 2005

3. Academic Duties
Lectures given, Various locations
● Clinical Informatics and Quality Improvement: A Brief Clinical Primer
● Introduction to Big Data: A Primer for Clinical Informatics
June 2008Present
Clinical Associate Instructor in Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
● Supervised and educated 3rd & 4th year med students, taught clinical reasoning and procedure skills
June 2008June 2011
Professional Societies
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AMIA, MMA, AMA, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Eta Mu Beta
Personal
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Half-marathons, married