Bethany Percha
Adjunct Assistant Professor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBethany Percha is a healthcare data leader and machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience applying NLP, statistics, and data science to transform health systems and health technology companies. Currently Chief Data and Analytics Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia, she bridges operational leadership with academic research and teaching. Her background includes building semantic graphs and biomedical relationship networks, directing precision health technology at Mount Sinai, and scaling enterprise data teams through acquisitions at Summit Health and VillageMD. She combines hands-on technical depth—from biomedical NLP and causal modeling to data governance—with executive experience running data engineering, QA, and analytics across large clinical organizations. Known for translating complex research into production tools and partnerships, she has a PhD in Biomedical Informatics and a history of creating widely reused research resources. Based in New York, she’s equally at home mentoring students and negotiating enterprise-level data strategy.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health - MPH, Biostatistics, Hospital & Molecular Epidemiology, Master of Public Health - MPH, Biostatistics, Hospital & Molecular Epidemiology at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University
Github Skills (6)
ontologies3
database2
parsing2
graph2
dependency-parsing2
counting1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
blpercha/mcds-notes
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:94 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
blpercha/ebc
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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