Dr. Thomas Carlough
CTO and SVP for Data, Engineering and Product at Wider Circle- Claim this Profile
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Credentials
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Six Sigma Green Belt
-Nov, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
Process Improvement: PDSA and More
IHIOct, 2012- Nov, 2024 -
Pharmacist License
NJ Board of PharmacySep, 2009- Nov, 2024 -
Pharmacist License
PA Board of PharmacySep, 2009- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Wider Circle
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United States
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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CTO and SVP for Data, Engineering and Product
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Oct 2022 - Present
Leader of passionate and expert individuals across product, data and engineering.Responsible for the creation and adherence to a multi year roadmap at a healthtech startup navigating the shifting community health landscape.Senior expert in MCO, health plan, and population health strategy especially within the context of value creation.Firm believer in consumer empowerment and responsible for the technology and products that lean on individual behavior to accomplish health goals.
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Vice President, Data Science and Analytics
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Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Wider Circle is a startup in the SDoH space that uses a proven model of community building to created trusted relationships to promote health. It works by weaving social networking features and data with trained and culturally competent community facilitators. The result is a high touch neighbor-to-neighbor model that enables good conversations, promotes individual responsibility and has a marked impact on care gap closures, health service utilization and the roots of health disparities.https://www.widercircle.com/- Data and technology enablement for a series B startup. Design and deliver of multi year roadmap to ensure scaling of this organization nationally.- Individual contributor on data science and advanced analytic projects in population health, recommender systems and statistical analysis.- lead projects in applied statistics to evaluate behavior change analytics in social networks.- Evaluation of financial risk models in healthcare economics including analysis of utilization, value performance and optimization.- Originated team and recruited 9 full time employees across analytics, engineering and data science. Show less
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Atlantic Health System
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Director of Clinical Analytics and Data Science
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Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
• Organized product suite specific to risk analytics in accountable care organizations and alternative payment models to highlight opportunity, performance and outcomes.• Built a novel department to support business critical data science using a mix of talent (healthcare domain experts, data engineers, architects, devops engineers, statisticians and data scientists) all working together for a common goal. • AWS - Lead and coordinated analytic efforts on the build of a big data architecture solution in the Amazon Web Services platform utilizing S3, Redshift and the development of a common data model (CDM) for semantic searching.• Predictive/ML solutions - Deployed predictive solutions using R and Python (Scikit-learn, keras) such as predicting patient attrition from clinical networks, physician relationships, cost utilization, care management priority and risk impact.• Spotfire, Tableau - Produced dozens of visual products to depict simple and complex analytics with visualization tools including self-service analyses designed for executive information management and strategy.• Agile Product Management - Maintained a disciplined and self-driving team of creative developers using platforms such as Trello (Kanban card management), Atlassian Jira/Confluence (1-week sprint cycles), and Gitlab for code review.• Partnerships - Integrated academia and technical consulting to augment a multimillion-dollar budget with collaborative agreements and provisional support for projects maintaining financial efficiency.• Healthcare Strategy – Combined analytic strategies for novel solutions in healthcare settings including risk populations, physician relationships and clinical care delivery. Show less
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Manager of Clinical Analytics; Pharmacy and Quality Departments
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Oct 2014 - Sep 2016
• Developed products (Spotfire, Tableau, R) to align operational efficiency with clinical outcomes including and in depth analysis of medication errors, employee performance, and payor penalty programs (Readmissions, Mortality, Infections) • Architected and maintained multiple integrated databases for analytic readiness and layered analysis.• Lead enterprise wide analytics projects including analysis of insulin safety in acute care facilities for the federal government (Joint Commission Center for Transforming Health Care). Presented nationally at conferences. Show less
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Lead Informatics Specialist and Operations Supervisor
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Nov 2011 - Oct 2014
• Managed a direct reporting relationship of 22 pharmacists including annual, quarterly and disciplinary reviews.• Implemented enterprise wide technology in high risk areas such as CPOE in critical care, barcoding in subacute facilities, and the migration between robotic solutions. Provided support for integration of new hospitals and mergers.
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Hospital Pharmacist
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Nov 2009 - Nov 2011
• Experience working in complexity clinical settings such as emergency medicine, neonatology, pediatrics and oncology.• Clinical recommendations on multidisciplinary teams in emergency situations for administration of critical and narrow therapeutic medicines for emergent stroke care and infectious diseases. Contributed to life saving interventions.
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Fairleigh Dickinson University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Adjunct Professor of Informatics and Analytics
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Dec 2013 - Jun 2020
While working as an adjunct professor I developed or mastered skills in presentation, instruction design, curriculum development, student development, pedagogy, and instructional technologies.Incredibly rewarding opportunity to develop new colleagues in medical informatics and data science. Developed novel curriculum for the university and currently teach three master's level courses for doctoral students: "Introduction to Informatics and Information Systems", "Health Information Exchange and Security" and "Applied Clinical Data Analytics". Topics covered include clinical ontology, data standards, R, clinical data analytics, OSI layers/network security, information exchange, interfaces and much more.In addition to working as a professor, also paid to consult on the curriculum to develop the master's degree further including the establishment of a clinical technology lab, experiential opportunities and practicals. Curriculum is updated yearly with new informatics and analytics topics through seminars. All coursework is original. Show less
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Curriculum Coordinator
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Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
Graduate studies: Master in Health Science, Informatics. As a coordinator of curriculum my role is to establish the taught content over the informatics courses for the master's degree. This includes coordination of all classes, lecture and material authorship, teacher mentoring, student experiential design, hiring of new professors and establishment of competencies and assessment material. This is a new curriculum with the first graduating class in 2016 which was developed in part through three courses that were originally authored and taught. Show less
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Hahnemann University Hospital
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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500 - 600 Employee
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Pharmacy Specialist
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Nov 2006 - May 2009
Performed a variety of pharmacy services for the inpatient pharmacy department. Developed procedural routines to increase efficiency (reduce waste) in mixable pharmaceuticals for intensive care units. Participated in cardiovascular event codes in the CCU by procuring and preparing lifesaving pharmaceutical interventions. Performed a variety of pharmacy services for the inpatient pharmacy department. Developed procedural routines to increase efficiency (reduce waste) in mixable pharmaceuticals for intensive care units. Participated in cardiovascular event codes in the CCU by procuring and preparing lifesaving pharmaceutical interventions.
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Temple University - Lewis Katz School of Medicine
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United States
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Higher Education
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500 - 600 Employee
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Genetics Researcher
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2007 - 2008
Utilized the NCBI Genomic database to create an organized visualization of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in multiple genes responsible for the expression of proteins that may have an impact on neuropathic pain. Created a novel genomic database to catalog the locus of SNPs with introns and exons allowing for richer analysis by senior researchers. Utilized the NCBI Genomic database to create an organized visualization of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in multiple genes responsible for the expression of proteins that may have an impact on neuropathic pain. Created a novel genomic database to catalog the locus of SNPs with introns and exons allowing for richer analysis by senior researchers.
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Education
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2005 - 2009
Temple University School of Pharmacy
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Drug Safety -
2001 - 2004
Rowan University
Computer Science
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