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Michael Issah

@michaelissah

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Senior data scientist specializing in healthcare analytics and provider performance.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a mission-driven role applying healthcare analytics and ML to improve patient outcomes, with cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership, and opportunities to mentor and scale validated, HIPAA-compliant analytics solutions.

I am a senior data scientist with over eight years of experience building predictive models, rules-based systems, and scalable analytics platforms focused on healthcare claims, provider performance evaluation, and patient outcomes optimization.

At Novo Nordisk I led analytics work across 47M patient records, developing machine learning and rules-engine solutions with Python and AWS that improved risk identification by 35% and cut document analysis time by 90%, while establishing data quality frameworks and mentoring junior staff.

I bring cross-functional collaboration experience with product, clinical research, and business stakeholders, strong data engineering skills for HIPAA-compliant pipelines, and a mission-driven approach to improving healthcare delivery through reproducible, validated analytics.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Data Engineer

Merck

Mar 2025 - Oct 2025 (7 months)

Led implementation of analytics infrastructure for bioprocessing data and created interactive Python dashboards (Plotly, Streamlit) to help scientists identify optimal conditions and improve operational efficiency.

Data Engineering Python Plotly Streamlit Analytical Infrastructure Data Quality

Senior Data Scientist

Novo Nordisk

Mar 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Led development of an analytics platform processing 47M claims to evaluate provider performance across diabetes and CKD populations, building rules-based systems and ML models that improved high-risk patient identification by 35% and reduced analysis time by 90% for document extraction.

Healthcare Analytics Python scikit learn XGBoost SQL AWS Data Quality

Data Engineer

Novo Nordisk

Jun 2020 - Feb 2022 (1 year 8 months)

Built automated ETL pipelines using AWS (Glue, Lambda, S3, Athena) to ingest and transform healthcare claims and provider data, ensuring HIPAA-compliant scalable architecture and supporting modeling efforts for provider performance and outcomes analysis.

AWS Glue AWS Lambda S3 Athena ETL SQL Data Architecture HIPAA Data Wrangling

Python Developer

Bank of America

Jul 2019 - May 2020 (10 months)

Developed automated reporting solutions for trade transactions that improved data accuracy and reduced manual processing time in a high-volume trading environment.

Python Automation Reporting Data Processing SQL Git Scripting Data Validation

Software & Advanced Analytics Developer

Berkley Life Sciences

Apr 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 9 months)

Developed rules-based systems and predictive models for insurance risk assessment, automating analytics tools that reduced manual research time by 80% and informed portfolio risk management decisions.

Predictive Analytics Python Data Automation Risk Assessment Statistical Analysis

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Vanderbilt University

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics

Postdoctoral research in physics focusing on advanced statistical modeling and analysis of large-scale experimental datasets.

Stony Brook University

Doctor of Philosophy, Chemical Physics

PhD in Chemical Physics; dissertation involved systematic analysis of particle flow patterns from petabyte-scale collision data using statistical modeling.