Simran Kanal, MS
Biostatistical Specialist
Epidemiology
Biography
Simran is a biostatistical specialist in the Division of Epidemiology. Her research focuses on health disparities and cancer outcomes, leveraging large scale datasets to uncover multilevel determinants of treatment and care. As a biostatistician, she applies advanced statistical modeling and data analysis using R and SAS to health databases such as SEER to inform evidence based, health care outcomes.
Education
- MS
- Medical Informatics (Health Data Science), University of California, San Francisco, 2024
- BS
- Kinesiology (Movement Science), The Pennsylvania State University, 2022
Research interests
Health disparities and multilevel determinants of cancer, statistical programming and data science applications to advance health outcomes, advancing health equity through data driven research
Select publications
- Kanal, S.A., Bailey, J.F., Lotz, J., Scheffler, A., & Peterson, T.A. (2024). Decoding pain chronicity in electronic health records: Feasibility of automated annotation of pain chronicity in chronic low back pain patients. The Journal of Pain, 25(4), Supplement, 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2024.01.233