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Mithilesh Dronavalli

Medical Statistician for Science and Social Transformation

Employed Available
I want to help prevent and alleviate suffering in the poorest, sickest, most vulnerable and discriminated people.

I have over 7 years' experience in statistics applied to public health / medical research and 4 years in clinical psychiatry.

I have researched areas of poverty, Aboriginal health, communicable diseases (influenza-oseltamivir prophylaxis, Tuberculosis, syphilis, HIV, sexually transmitted infections), mental health, addictions, crime, cancer, heart disease, smoking cessation, breastfeeding, health and well-being, health education, aged care and for children with disabilities.

This resume is upto date as of 29th April 2023.
Education

Masters of Biostatistics and Ongoing Learning

Monash University

January 2007 to June 2008
Biostatistics: Generalised Linear Models, Survival Analysis, Longitudinal and Correlated Data (including multi-level modelling), Advanced R, Stata, Meta-regression, Study Design, Sample Size Calculation, Logic, Variable Selection, Data Linkage, Clinical Trial Design, Probability & Statistical Inference, Pharmacoepidemiology, generating and simulating data, multiple imputation for analysis with missing data and an overview of Machine Learning

Causal Inference: Directed Acyclic Graphs, Propensity Scores, Inverse Probability Treatment Weights, Regression Discontinuity, Differences in Differences, Instrumental Variables, Mendelian Randomisation

AStat (Accredited Statistician)

Statistical Society of Australia

Since December 2022
Member Profile: https://www.statsoc.org.au/Sys/PublicProfile/48202292/4702721
Criteria for Accredited Statistician:
A Degree in Statistics +
6 years of progressively advanced Statistical Experience +
Submission of Major Works +
Maintaining Continual Professional Development + 5 yearly re-accreditations

Training in Public Health Medicine

Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine

November 2014 to October 2022
Rotations: Rural and Indigenous Health, HIV, Public Health Unit (Communicable Disease and Environmental Health), Childhood Disability, Addiction and Pharmacoepi (TGA)

Coursework: Environmental Health Risk Assessments | Framing Indigenous Health| Health Promotion| Health Policy| Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Disease| Qualitative Research Methods| Environmental Health Risk Assessments | Introduction to teaching and supervision | Grant Writing | PRINCE 2 : Foundations and Practitioners | Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Certified as of 2022 Oct

Conference Presentations: National Rural Health (Oral) | Asia Pacific Heart Failure (2 Posters) 2008 | RACP 2016 (Oral: Gerry Murphy Prize) |Australian Public Health 2019 (Oral)

MPhil(Epidemiology)

University of Sydney, NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre

September 2011
Risk and Treatment Factors of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lip

MBBS BMedSc First Class Honours in Biostatistics

University of Melbourne

January 2002 to December 2010
A Pharmacological mechanism for the Clinical Benefits of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: Analyses of randomised controlled trials

High School Certificate

Fort St Selective High School

2001
Taught me broad content and diverse perspectives in a multicultural environment and how to LEARN and THINK.
Experiences

PhD Student

Western Sydney University
Since October 2022
  • Evaluating Mental Health Services for the Socially Disadvantaged
  • Predictors and outcomes of change in socio-economic position over time.

In-house Biostatistician

Ingenu CRO
Since January 2023
  • Statistical Analysis Plans
    Data Analysis
    Sample Size Calculations
    Innovation in Data Related Planning and Tasks
    Advising Sponsors in Sponsor Meetings

Medical Biostatistician

Western Sydney University
Since May 2022
  • Perinatal Drug Exposure and short term /long term health / education / out of home care outcomes and service utilisation for babies and their mothers. Results of a population birth cohort 'Joining the Dots' of 1.8 million babies and their mothers in NSW between 2001 and 2020.
  • Supervising Clinicians and Honours Research Students as a Medical Statistician and co-supeervisor.

Medical Advisor (Pharmacoepidemiology)

Therapeutic Goods Administration
September 2021 to April 2022
  • Approving and Regulating Medical Devices

Senior Public Health Medicine Registrar in Communicable Diseases (Sydney COVID Lockdown)

Liverpool Public Health Unit
March 2021 to September 2021
Australia
  • Leading the external communications team for answering questions from the public regarding the Sydney COVID Lockdown
  • Leading a team in the management of Adverse Effects following Immunisation for COVID
  • Contributing to the containment of a COVID outbreak in Lockdown
  • As an Investigator, designing and overseeing a real world implementation RCT of Co-designed Universal Micro-messaging Health Education Videos for Breastfeeding in Rural Mothers in South Africa.

Research Fellow in BIostatistics

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (WHO Collaborating Research Centre), UNSW
January 2020 to December 2020
Sydney
  • Investigating the role of Social Disadvantage in Criminal Trajectories of those using Drugs as the index offence.
  • Evaluation of an Aboriginal Cultural Competency Program for non-Aboriginal Drug Rehabs
  • Supervising an Aboriginal PhD Student in research for a Continuous Quality Improvement of Aboriginal Residential Drug Rehabs
  • RCT Evaluating Health Education Videos for Breastfeeding delivered by "Mentor Mothers" for Poor Mothers in South Africa. In collaboration with Stanford University and Heidelberg University

Public Health Biostatistician

Liverpool Hospital
February 2019 to January 2020
Sydney
  • Assessing the effectiveness of oseltamivir prophylaxis in preventing Influenza outbreaks in Aged Care Facilities.
  • Estimating Childhood Disability in Southwest Sydney and advocating a state-wide Child Disability Register
  • Outbreak Control (eg Measles; Gastro in a school, child care or aged care facility; Influenza in an Aged Care Facility)
  • Educating district aged care facility managers ad nursing staff on managing and preventing the spread of influenza outbreaks in a one day teaching session
  • Environmental Health Risk Assessments (PFAS, M12 noise and vibration, Establish Surveillance for Lead Notification with a high-risk Lead Battery Manufacturer, Mercury in Fish)
  • Speeding up the management of Syphilis notification through automating repetitive data entry tasks using R and Adobe Optical Character Recognition for data extraction and processing.
  • Teaching and upskilling staff in research methods and assisting the Medical Epidemiologist in reporting and surveillance work (Annual STI report | Published Meta-Analysis of Gonorrhoea prevalence and antibiotic resistance for studies in the past 30 years in Australia and New Zealand)
  • Assessing the need for screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection for refugee children under 2 years

Psychiatry Registrar

North Shore Psychiatry Training Network
September 2016 to October 2018
Sydney
  • Worked in a high turn over Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre attached to an Emergency Department.
  • Worked in Addiction Dual Diagnosis, Old Age Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry.
  • Completed 3 year Education Program in Psychiatry at the Brain and Mind Research Institute
  • Completed the Opioid Substitution Treatment Accreditation Course

Medical Advisor (Pharmacoepidemiology)

Therapeutic Goods Administration
July 2016 to September 2016
Canberra
  • Systematic Review, Meta Analysis and Safety Filter

Medical Biostatistician

The Albion Centre - (WHO Collaborating Research Centre)
February 2016 to July 2016
Sydney
  • HIV research and gaining exposure to HIV medicine as well as training and enabling staff in research methods.
  • HIV Complexity - Described the increasing burden of comorbidities in patients with HIV, where care needs a multi-disciplinary team approach. Used directed acyclic graphs.
  • HIV Smoking Audit - Predicting which patients will benefit most from a smoking cessation intervention
  • Completed the HIV Prescriber Course

Research Fellow in Biostatistics

Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, University of Western Australia
November 2014 to January 2016
Geraldton
  • Systematic Review as the first author to assess measurement tools of general health and wellbeing.
  • Commissioned review of Sexual Health Services in Western Australia by the Department of Health in a team.
  • Designed and Delivered Seminars: 1. Understanding and Evaluating Advanced Quantitative Methods 2. Use of Social Media for Public Health
  • Co-ordinating principal investigator on a complex GP Audit of patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome after discharge from hospital
  • National Finalist for Gerry Murphy Prize at RACP Congress

Psychiatry Registrar

Top End Mental Health Services
January 2014 to November 2014
Darwin
  • Worked in Psychiatry treating Aboriginal People with mental illness from remote areas.
  • Took the history and mental state of patients and liaised with the multidisciplinary team. Prescribed medication, performed on-call duties, did ECT under supervision
  • Taught Medical students about psychiatry regularly by teaching them psychiatric theory and interview skills

Research Fellow (Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology)

NCEPH, ANU and TGA
July 2012 to December 2012
  • Developed a Quantitative Data Analysis Plan for the 45 and Up study in the pharmacoepidemiology field.
  • Investigated a New Indication for a cholesterol-lowering agent.

Psychiatry Registrar

Cumberland Hospital
January 2012 to June 2012
  • Worked empathically under pressure, Treated quite severe mental illness
  • Caring for mentally ill patients under consultant psychiatrist supervision
    o Elicit History and Mental State to adjust medication. o Communicate with the multidisciplinary team and family+carers of the patient. o Clozapine and Outpatient Clinics

Medical Internship

Westmead Hospital
January 2011 to January 2012
Skills

Public Health / Research / Mental Health / Clinical

  • Addressing Public Concern in Disasters (COVID Lockdown)
  • Outbreak Management including COVID
  • Caring for Aboriginal patients with addiction and mental illness and providing support for their families
  • Environmental Health Risk Assessments
  • HIV Treatment s100
  • Article Writing and Oral Presentation of Research
  • Advanced Statistical Analysis and Research Methods
  • Expert Programmer in R and Stata
  • Completion of a three-year formal education program in psychiatry (Brain and Mind Institute, University of Sydney)
  • Opioid Substitution Therapy s100
  • Clinical History Taking esp. Mental Health
  • Prescribing Mental Health Medication
  • Project Management

Major Works: 18 Publications in PubMed | 513 Google scholar citations