Curriculum Vitae

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Interests | Current Affiliation/Position | Education | Publications & Posters | Relevant Employment | Certifications, Honors, etc.

Interests

Actionable data structuring for genomic precision medicine, clinical natural language processing (NLP), and consumer health-oriented NLP.

Current Affiliation & Position

Clinical Architect (Client Project Director), Translational Sciences, Clinical Architecture, LLC (Carmel, IN, USA)

Education

Doctorate Studies
(Completed 2019)

Indiana University
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
Department of BioHealth Informatics

Degree completed: PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in Informatics
Major/Specialization: Health-Biomedical Informatics
Minor: Information Architecture
Dissertation Topic: Determining the utility of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) patient-generated information over public social media in describing clinically-relevant signs, symptoms, treatments, and environmental factors.

Master-Level Studies
(Completed 2014)

Indiana University
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Department of Information & Library Science

Degree completed: Master of Information Science (MIS)
Project Topic: Design and application of a translational biological-to-medical natural language processing (NLP)-oriented dictionary for identification of actionable clinical concepts in biological neuroscience research literature.

Undergraduate Studies

Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Degrees completed:
Bachelor of Science in Biology (Molecular), magna cum laude
Bachelor of Arts with a major in German (Language), magna cum laude
Minors: Chemistry & Psychology

Doctoral Dissertation

Kulanthaivel A (2019). Studying Rare Patients with Commonly-Available Information: Social Mediomics for Researching Patient Histories in Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) Indiana University ScholarWorks | Available free at IU ScholarWorks

Accepted Publications

Kulanthaivel A, Fogel R, Lammert CS, Jones JF. (2017). Digital Cohorts within the Social Mediome: An Approach to Circumvent Conventional Research Challenges. Clin Gastroenterology Hepatology 15(5):614-618 | Available free on PubMed Central

Kulanthaivel A, Light RP, Borner K, Kong C, Jones JF (2014). Neurological disorders and publication abstracts follow elements of social network patterns when indexed using ontology tree-based key term search Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2014;6:278-288 | View Publication

Jones JF, Hosseini M, Kulanthaivel A, Pradhan M, Hosseini M. (2018). Novel Approach to Cluster Patient Generated Data into Actionable Topics. J Med Internet Res 20(7).

Holden RJ, Kulanthaivel A, Purkayastha S, Kripalani S, Goggins K. (2017). Know thy user: Personas for Health IT design. Int'l J Med Informatics. 2017 Dec;108: 158-167

Jones JF, Zhang E, Kulanthaivel A, Katta S. (2017). What do they mean by 'Health Informatics'?MEDINFO 2017.

Holden RJ, Voida S, Kulanthaivel A, Jones JF, Savoy A, et al (2016). Human Factors and User Centered Design (Book Chapter). In Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Text & Review, 1st Edition (ed Finnell J & Dixon B) Publisher: Springer

Conference Posters

Kulanthaivel A, Lammert CS, Jones JF. (June 2018). Online consumer surveillance for surveying the demographics and topics of discussing autoimmune hepatitis. Washington, DC, USA: Digestive Diseases Week 2018.

Kulanthaivel A, Kshirsagar MM, Alarifi M, Oklak MN, Jones JF. (28 March 2017). Almost Zero Error Basepair-based Record Alert (AZEBRA): A genomic-based clinical decision support system. San Francisco, CA, USA: American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Joint Summits 2017, 28 March 2017.

Kulanthaivel A, Zhang E, Katta S, Jones JF. (16 November 2016) Mapping health informatics (HI) competencies to curriculum requirements: Towards the development of a novel curriculum assessment instrument. Chicago, IL, USA: AMIA Annual Symposium 2016, 16 November 2016.

Relevant Employment

Past Internships & Employment: Medical College of Georgia (Augusta, GA); Quidel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA); Roche Pharmaceuticals (Palo Alto, CA); Eli Lilly & Company (Indianapolis, IN)

Teaching & Mentorship Experience

(All at the Indiana University School of Informatics & Computing, Indianapolis, Indiana.)

Teaching Experience

Mentorship & Degree Committees

Certifications, Honors, Awards, Extracurriculars/Memberships (2003-Present)