My name is Frank Farach, and I am a Senior Consultant at Slalom Consulting in the greater Seattle, Washington area. I love helping people and organizations use data, information, and knowledge to understand and solve meaningful problems, particularly in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
I have long enjoyed programming with open-source software and contributing to open science. I’ve been using R for statistical analysis since 2004, and am the author of npi, an rOpenSci-peer-reviewed R package for accessing the U.S. National Provider Identifier Registry. My interest in open science led to my involvement with the Open Science Collaboration, which included blog posts and, ultimately, co-authorship on a landmark paper in Science examining the reproducibility of psychological science research.
Before I became a full-time consultant, I served as a staff scientist, product manager, and program manager at Prometheus Research, an IQVIA business, a Connecticut-based biomedical informatics company that develops open-source clinical data registry solutions for biomedical researchers, healthcare providers, and professional medical societies.
Prior to my career in industry, I was a research scientist and postdoc at the University of Washington, a psychology intern providing full-time mental and behavioral healthcare in the Veterans Health Administration, and a graduate student in clinical psychology at Yale University, where I received a Ph.D. in 2010. For more information about my academic work, please see my CV and publications. For more detail about my professional work and credentials, please visit my LinkedIn page.
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