I have been a senior data scientist at the healthcare transformation institute since July 2023.
The Healthcare Transformation Institute is part of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. My appointment falls in the Medical Ethics & Health Policy domain.
My main task is to improve the accuracy and equity of the risk adjustment algorithm used in Medicare Advantage programs. The goals are to incentivize care for medically vulnerable individuals and create parity between Medical Advantage and traditional Medicare programs.
In this role, I work with Drs. Ezekiel Emanuel, Ravi Parikh, and Daniel Shenfeld.
Speaking at a panel on the use of AI in data science. I was the School of Medicine representative among the panelists. The event was hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI).
Snippet from an article in Penn’s Omnia Magazine:
Warrenburg joined Penn in July 2023 and learned about DDDI through a talk held at the Erdős Institute, a data science career development program of which Warrenburg is associate director. She saw the value of DDDI’s efforts to connect data scientists and reached out to Twomey. “In this type of setting, people are pretty siloed,” Warrenburg says. “They don’t even know that other data scientists really exist and how to find them.”
The DDDI meetups help to break down those silos, she says. “Different disciplines can use slightly different methodologies,” she says. “So, you not only learn perhaps a new way of approaching a problem, but it creates a more holistic understanding of what data science can be.”