Summary
Garrett Eickelberg is a Senior Data Scientist with over a decade of experience turning electronic health data into actionable clinical insights, currently applying his expertise at Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Healthcare Service Corporation). He holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Northwestern and blends rigorous academic research—11 publications and extensive journal-club leadership—with hands-on skills in Python, R, SQL, and data engineering. Garrett has led translational projects across oncology and molecular diagnostics, operationalizing predictive models and harmonizing diverse clinical datasets from dozens of sources. He’s known for maintaining data quality at scale—profiling cohorts across 100+ datasets and mentoring 100+ professionals in data cleaning and analytics. A self-taught programmer since 2015 who started in academia and moved into payer-side impact, he pairs domain depth with practical model deployment experience to improve healthcare delivery. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous collaborator who translates complex stakeholder needs into reproducible, clinical-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics, 4.0 at Northwestern University
Bachelor of Arts in Science (BAS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts in Science (BAS), Chemistry at Willamette University