Pallav Sharda | Resume

I have an unconventional interdisciplinary background in medicine, technology and business. I’m passionate about keeping up with emerging paradigms in technology & Healthcare. Being an effective liaison between technical and clinical teams is my key strength.

Summary

Axolotl Corp.
02/11 – present: Director, Product Management

Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies
01/08 – present: Faculty Instructor, M.S. Medical Informatics Program

Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
06/10 – 02/11: Director, Medical Informatics
08/09 – 06/10: Director, Advanced Analytics

GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions
01/08 – 08/09: Clinical Product Manager, Global Engineering
06/06 – 01/08: Senior Clinical Informaticist, Global Engineering
07/05 – 06/06: Lead Clinical Analyst, Systems Engineering
01/03 – 07/05: Clinical Application Specialist, Services & Implementation

Experience

Informatics: Developing healthcare IT applications- defining workflow/content/functionality/user interface, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE), Clinical Data Visualization, Clinical Information Retrieval, Healthcare Data modeling and knowledge representation, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Analysis, Usability Testing, Computerized Clinical Decision Support in Healthcare, Data Mining and Reporting, Evidence-based medicine applications, Advanced Analytics in Healthcare
Technical: Access, SQL, Pascal, Perl, VB, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, CMS Platforms
Process: Six Sigma Methodology, Patent Evaluation and Application, Emerging Technology Evaluation, Software Engineering Cycle, Scrum (Agile) Methodology

Skills

Medical Informatics, Controlled Terminologies, Ontologies, Web 2.0, Health 2.0, Semantic web, Knowledge representation, Healthcare vocabularies, User interfaces, Healthcare IT, Usability testing, Clinical decision support, Clinical Information Systems, Electronic Medical Record, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Prediction Markets, Patents, Intellectual Property, Chronic Disease Management, Remote Monitoring, Wellness Monitoring, Home Health, Consumer-oriented health monitoring and associated services, advanced analytics (predictive modeling, text mining, location-based analytics)

Interests

1. Author, “Retail Healthcare Service Model: Is it Applicable in India?” India@Kellogg: 76-77, Publication of the India Business Conference 2008, Kellogg School of Management.

2. Co-Author, “Synchronizing Patient, Provider and Payer Relationships”. Unpublished 2008 whitepaper with Dipak C. Jain (Dean, Kellogg School of Management).

3.. Author, “Customizing clinical narratives for the electronic medical record interface using cognitive methods” International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2006 May;75(5):346-68.

4. Contributor (non-author), “A tool for abstracting relevant classes of concepts: the Common Ancestry Summarizer.” Medinfo. 2004;11 (Part 1):449-53.

5. Author, “Specifying design criteria for electronic medical record interface using cognitive framework”. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Ann. Symp. Proc. 2003:594-8. Invited as speaker to present it at AMIA 2003 Symposium, Washington D.C.

6. Co-author, “An experimental system for comparing speed, accuracy & completeness of physician data entry using electronic & paper methods”. AMIA Ann. Symp. Proc. 2003:812.

Publications

1. Awarded 2010 NIH Phase one SBIR grant for research application titled ‘Rapid and Cost Effective Primary Care Medical Data Input System’.

2. Keynote Speaker, Predictive Analytics & Data Visualization Conference at Garfield Center for Innovation, Kaiser Permanente (March 2010).

3. Founding Member, Varna Research- A clinical data and trials outsourcing company that won second place at the 2007 Business Plan Competition, along with ‘Mitsubishi International Award’ ($15,000) at the 11th Annual Edward L. Kaplan New Venture Challenge hosted by University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

4. Intellectual Property Lead for GE Healthcare Enterprise Solutions business (2007-2009)

5. Business lead for ‘Healthcare Information Markets’ spring 2007 project with EdgeLab. (a GE collaboration with U. of Connecticut Business School, www.edgelab.info)

6. Primary inventor on USPTO patent applications number 20080255875, 20080255428 filed by GE Healthcare in 2006-2007. Co-inventor on 3 other applications.

7. Finalist in the 2003 American Medical Informatics Association Paper Competition.

8. Six Sigma Green Belt, GE Corporate Certification, 2003.

Honors

2011: M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2002: Masters in Medical Informatics, Columbia University
2000: Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (M.B.B.S*), Delhi University
*M.B.B.S degree is equivalent to M.D. qualification in United States