Dr. Kat is an academic turned product designer, specializing in creating apps geared for complexity management and automated analytics reporting. She lives in NYC and sometimes speaks and writes about design, code, and scientific methods...
Once upon a time, I worked in cancer research digitizing the qualitative survey workflow of capturing patient reported outcomes and calculating real-time morbidity rates for oncologists. Before that, I published leading informatics research about online patient support communities and platforms. Nowadays my primary focus is on evaluating and improving user research methodology for improving expert decision support systems; mainly helping folks from all walks of life more efficiently make sense of large quantities of information. I work with a downtown Manhattan consulting firm in developing web-based analytical software solutions for Fortune 500 companies.