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Melody K. Schiaffino, PhD, MPH

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Melody K. Schiaffino, PhD, MPH

Co-Investigator, Health Data Analytics Group and Measurement Methods Group

Dr. Melody K. Schiaffino is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Management and Policy at SDSU. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Health Services Research at the University of Florida and Master of Public Health in Epidemiology with a focus on HPV and cancer epidemiology from the University of South Florida. Her research areas of interest are the study of how health care is delivered to diverse older adults with cancer using massive administrative and medical record data and delivery of care, and systems science to address population and spatial context at multiple levels. At the SDSU HealthLINK Center, Dr. Schiaffino serves as a Co-Investigator of the Health Data Analytics Group.

See Dr. Schiaffino’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Julie Pickrel, MPH

Julie Pickrel, MPH

Center Research Manager

Ms. Julie Pickrel has over 20 years of experience of research administrative leadership with the SDSU Research Foundation. For most of those years, she worked as a Project Manager with the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health, providing research leadership on several large NIH-and CDC-funded studies. Her expertise includes overseeing scientific activities (e.g., intervention development and implementation; measurement development and implementation; recruitment of hard-to-reach populations), training and supervising large teams, ensuring compliance with human subjects regulations, and management of budgets. For one study, Ms. Pickrel established and maintained an Advisory Board of highly qualified experts in both health and food retail industry.

Ms. Pickrel is a graduate of Pomona College, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, and Society. She received a Master of Public Health from SDSU, with a focus in health promotion. Ms. Pickrel is currently the Center Research Manager at the SDSU HealthLINK Center, a title she has held since 2018.

See Ms. Pickrel’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Christopher Paolini, PhD

Christopher Paolini, PhD

Co-Investigator, Sensor Methods Group and Health Data Analytics Group

Dr. Christopher Paolini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at SDSU. Dr. Paolini is the recipient of grants from the Department of Energy and NASA, and five NSF Office of CyberInfrastructure awards, most recently the current NSF CC* Storage Grant 1659169 Implementation of a Distributed, Shareable, and Parallel Storage Resource at SDSU to Facilitate High-Performance Computing for Climate Science. Dr. Paolini’s doctoral and post-doctoral research has been in the areas of combustion engineering, computational thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics. His current research interests include Internet of Things device development, machine learning, embedded systems, cloud computing, big data analytics, deep learning, software engineering, numerical chemical thermodynamics, numerical chemical kinetics, numerical geochemistry, high performance computing, scientific computing and numerical modeling, high speed (100gbps) networking, cyberinfrastructure development, and cybersecurity. The SDSU HealthLINK Center has granted Dr. Paolini a pilot research project award to design and manufacture a prototype of a wireless, wearable, low power, fall prediction and detection device for at-risk older adults. The device uses a small field-programmable gate array that executes a machine learning model to detect when the device wearer has fallen. Dr. Paolini received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 1991, an Master of Science in Computer Science in 1998, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Science in 2007, all from SDSU. See Dr. Paolini’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Yusuf Ozturk, PhD

Yusuf Ozturk, PhD

Co-Leader, Health Sensor Methods Group

Dr. Yusuf Ozturk is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at SDSU. His research focus is on wearable and ambient sensors, human centric sensors, medical informatics and mobile computing. He is the founding member of the Smart Health Institute. Dr. Ozturk leads the engineering and development of wireless wearable sensors for research projects and pilot projects within the SDSU HealthLINK Center. See Dr. Ozturk’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Lance Norita

Lance Norita

Server and Database Administrator

Mr. Lance Norita is a Server and Database Administrator at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. He has a Bachelor of Science from San Diego State University. Mr. Norita oversees the Center’s physical and virtual server infrastructure including implementation, security, and management of the Center’s data analytic infrastructure and associated databases for the Center’s programs and affiliated projects.

Atsushi Nara, PhD

Atsushi Nara, PhD

Co-Investigator, Health Data Analytics Group

Dr. Atsushi Nara is a Co-Investigator and a member of the Health Data Analytics Group at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. He is an Associate Professor of Geography at SDSU and the Associate Director of the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age. He has expertise in geographic information systems, data mining, and spatial statistics to research on health in geographic space. He provides guidance and leads efforts on spatiotemporal database management and geospatial data analytics, and geovisualization methods. Dr. Nara also contributes to the development of an open data center and health science knowledge repository for the SDSU HealthLINK Center. See Dr. Nara’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Kee Moon, PhD

Kee Moon, PhD

Kee Moon, PhD

Co-Leader, Health Sensor Methods Group

Dr. Kee Moon is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU. His current research activities include the development of ultrasonic recharging technology for implantable medical devices as well as brain-computer-interface technology. Dr. Moon is a Co-Leader of the Research Infrastructure Team’s Health Sensor Methods Group at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. He guides researchers on the development of portable, wearable health sensor technologies that can provide real-time health monitoring. His primary research interests are in smart sensor and actuator technology. See Dr. Moon’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Shih-Fan “Sam” Lin, DrPH

Shih-Fan Lin, DrPH

Shih-Fan “Sam” Lin, DrPH

Co-Leader, Measurement Methods Group Co-Leader, Health Data Analytics Group

Dr. Shih-Fan “Sam” Lin co-leads the Center’s Measurement Methods Group and Health Data Analytics Group at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. He is also a Research Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at SDSU. He has ample experience in data analysis, data management, and statistical programming. Dr. Lin works closely with investigators holding research projects and pilot projects within the SDSU HealthLINK Center to ensure methodological and data quality and integrity. See Dr. Lin’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Chii-Dean “Joey” Lin, PhD

Chii-Dean Lin, PhD

Chii-Dean “Joey” Lin, PhD

Co-Leader, Health Data Analytics Group Lead Biostatistician

Dr. Chii-Dean “Joey” Lin is the Associate Chair in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at SDSU, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Language and Communicative Disorders, and the Co-Director of the Statistical Consulting Center. He is the Lead Biostatistician and Co-Leader of the Health Data Analytics Group at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. Dr. Lin provides statistical expertise for health-related research on study design, data management including management of missing data, statistical data analysis, and protocol development for research projects and pilot projects within the SDSU HealthLINK Center. His research areas include statistical computing, longitudinal data analysis, spatial-temporal statistics, mixed modeling, statistical methodologies in clinical trials, and global optimization. See Dr. Lin’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Scott Kelley, PhD

Scott Kelley, PhD

Scott Kelley, PhD

Leader, Biomedical MethodsΩGroup

Dr. Scott Kelley is a Professor in the Department of Biology at SDSU. His research focuses on the study of environmental microbiology. He has extensive experience analyzing microbial and viral diversity, including that of humans as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a research initiative to improve understanding of the microbial flora involved in human health and disease. Among other subjects, Dr. Kelley has investigated the role of the gut microbiome in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the relationship between heart disease and periodontal disease and whether saliva bacterial profiles may be useful as biomarkers for pancreatic cancer. For the SDSU HealthLINK Center, Dr. Kelley leads biomedical research methods, bioinformatics data analysis, and provides direction to the Center’s biomedical laboratory. See Dr. Kelley’s profile for details on publications and projects.
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