Nicholas Brazeau
(Intern) Resident Physician at Duke University Hospital
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Brazeau is a physician-scientist and resident at Duke University Hospital with 11 years of research and clinical experience bridging infectious disease epidemiology and patient care. He holds an MD from UNC Chapel Hill and a PhD in Epidemiology from UNC Gillings, plus a magna cum laude BA in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard, reflecting a strong foundation in both clinical medicine and population health. His work history includes translational research roles at Imperial College London and UNC Gillings, focusing on infectious disease dynamics and public health interventions. At Duke he combines frontline clinical training with ongoing research interests characteristic of physician-scientist training pathways (PSTP). Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable with bedside diagnostics and complex epidemiologic analyses, often translating population-level insights into patient-centered practice. He maintains a professional web presence (nicholasbrazeau.com) that underscores a commitment to communicating science beyond academia.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Human Evolutionary Biology, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors, Bachelor of Arts, Human Evolutionary Biology, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Spanish, English
Github Skills (38)
infer8
coefficients8
markov7
pairwise7
transmission7
meta-analysis7
spatial6
systems-biology6
genetic6
markov-chain6
monte-carlo5
deep-learning5
sbml5
agent-based-modeling5
simulations5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nickbrazeau/HMMERTIME
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Infer blocks of identity by descent between samples using unphased haplotype data
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 11 months
identity-by-descentdescentinferidentity
IDEELResearch/vcfRmanip
Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
Various interactive tools for wrangling vcf data with a focus on malaria (dependent on vcfR).
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
wranglingmalariavcfvcf-data
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