Laura Qualls
Project Leader at Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Qualls is a project leader with about 8 years in her current DCRI role and a total of two decades driving healthcare analytics, program design, and clinical research operations. She combines hands-on project management with deep expertise in population health and informatics developed across long tenures at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Duke Clinical Research Institute. Laura has led cross-functional teams to translate complex clinical and claims data into actionable quality-improvement programs and pragmatic research initiatives. Her background includes progressive leadership from project manager to director-level roles, reflecting an ability to scale process, measurement, and stakeholder engagement as work grows in scope. Based in Durham, NC, she is comfortable navigating both payer and research environments, bridging operational rigor with analytic insight. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and data-driven, with a knack for turning messy healthcare data into programmatic decisions that improve patient outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., M.S. at University of Alabama at BirminghamB.S., B.S. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (5)
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data-model2
lists2
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
PCORnet-DRN-OC/Medicare-Data-Transformation
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
PCORnet-DRN-OC/PCORnet-Data-Curation
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
PCORnet Data Curation Query Package
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year
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