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Meet Juan

Research Fellow. Data Scientist. Educator.

Hello

About Juan

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University, Washington DC.

Data Scientist

Research Fellow

Online Courses

YouTube Lectures

Students

Trust

Achievements

For my work in the development of educational resources I was privileged to be recognised by the Open Education Consortiumas Educator of the Year in 2014.

Examples of my passion for training program development are my three successful courses on the world’s leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, Coursera.  My course on Understanding Healthcare Statistics is ranked No.1 in its category on Class Central, the definitive repository on Open Courseware and has been ranked in the top 50 of all courses in the world for the last three years.

In support of these three very successful examples, I have created four additional courses on the popular Udemy platform, training healthcare workers on a variety of statistical and mathematical software packages. In addition to this I have published more than 1,400 lectures on YouTube and most of my open-source code is available on the GitHub repository.

 

Winner of 2014 Open Education Consortium Educator of the Year

Class Central Top 50 Classes for 3 Years Running

Author of Statistics Using The Wolfram Language Textbook

14 Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals

Research Supervisor for 50+ Masters & Doctoral Degrees

Faculty Representative on Senate Committee of Online Education

Head of Acute Care Surgery

Journal Articles

Publications

If you have a healthcare related research question or proposal regarding research and the development of educational resources around these topics, then contact me via e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you. 

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Education

Qualifications

  • Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health – Coursera Course Certificates, Aug 2020
  • Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials – Coursera Course Certificates, Sep 2019
  • Building Deep Learning Applications with Keras 2.0 – LinkedIn, Sep 2018
  • Mathematica 11 Machine Learning – Lynda.com, Jul 2018
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Coursera, Jun 2018
  • Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra – Coursera, Mar 2018
  • Meta-analysis for Data Science and Business Analytics – Lynda.com, Nov 2017
  • Learning Microsoft Power BI Desktop – Lynda.com, Sep 2017
  • SPSS Statistics Essential Training – LinkedIn, Feb 2017
  • Mathematica 10 Advanced Analysis – Lynda.com, Dec 2016
  • Up and Running with Mathematica 10 – lynda.com, Jun 2015
  • The Neuroscience of Learning – lynda.com, Nov 2014
  • Up and Running with Octave – lynda.com, Mar 2014
  • Data Management for Clinical Research – Coursera, Oct 2013
  • MMed(Surg)(UFS)Cum Laude – University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat 1997 – 2002
  • MBChB – University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria, 1988 – 1993

     

Research

Project Supervision

1. Predicting upper gastrointestinal rebleeding

2. The outcome of appendicitis in HIV and non HIV patients

3. The Modified Alvarado Score in acute appendicitis

4. Comorbid disease in acute care surgery

5. The technical experience of women trainees in general surgery

6. HIV in trauma

7. The impact of diabetes mellitus in acute care surgery

8. Pyogenic liver abscesses in a tertiary setting

9. The outcome of acute appendicitis in an acute care surgery setting

10. Surgical resources in South Africa

11. The use of an enduring in endoscopy

12. The outcome of patients managed by percutaneous cholecystectomy

13. The use of the tromboelastogram in trauma

14. Core needle biopsy and the outcome of suspected liver lesions

15. The outcome of emergency laparotomies in trauma

16. Audit of the final examination in General Surgery of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

17. Comparing endorectal surgery in an academic and a private unit

18. An analysis of breast milk mucins in HIV

19. Findings at intraoperarive cholangiography and its effect on outcome

20. The outcome of damage control laparotomies in an academic unit

21. The outcome of cases of necrotising fasciitis

22. Life expectancy after lower limb amputation

23. Gastric mucins in HIV

24. The outcome of surgical intervention for gastroesophageal disease in childhood

25. Trainee workloads in general surgery

26. Dysglycemia in a defined religious population

27. Short-term outcome of lower limb amputations

28. The use of opioids in postoperative care

 

29. Postoperative complications in acute care surgery

30. Breast clinic referrals in an academic community hospital

31. Outcomes of hernia surgery in an acute care surgery settings

32. Colorectal cancer survival in Cape Town

33. Outcome of acute care surgery in the elderly population

34. The outcome of Delorme procedure in an academic setting

35. An audit of femoral artery injuries in a trauma unit

36. The outcome of emergency oncological surgery

37. The management and outcome of minor burns

38. Perceptions and experiences of female general surgeons in training

39. The findings and outcome of second look laparotomies in acute care surgery

40. Salivary mucins in HIV

41. Morbidity and mortality in acute care surgery

42. Audit of the examination in Orthopaedic Surgery of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

43. The outcome of gunshot wounds to the abdomen in an academic trauma unit

44. The management and outcome of lobular carcinoma in situ

45. The outcome of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in an academic centre

46. The outcome of renal transplants in the Western Cape

47. Disease distribution patterns of peripheral vascular disease in the Western Cape

48. The effectiveness of arthroscopic knee surgery training simulation

49. Accuracy of the clinical evaluation of knee

50. Verification of a squat and smile scoring system in knee pathology

51. A knee osteoarthritis outcome score short form development

52. Verifying shoulder score tests in the local setting

53. The outcome of craniocervical junction fusion

54. A comparison of abscesses and tuberculosis of the spine

55. Validation of a video-assisted knee score