Our Goals
- Support surgical faculty and trainees interested in Surgical Research and provide the resources and skills to engage in outcomes research.
- Engage in quality research to advance studies of surgery outcomes.
- Provide study design, biostatistical, and machine learning support services to assist surgeons in building the capacity for research, with a particular focus on developing funded studies.
- Maintain a database library to empower surgeons and collaborators to utilize large datasets, assist users with the process of complying with all training and regulatory requirements for those datasets, and streamline the research process by preparing analysis-ready data extracts.
- Provide expertise in study design, database analysis, biostatistical methods and artificial intelligence (including machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing).
- Provide a centralized service to support the computational needs of researchers within the department.
- Mentor residents, fellows, and junior faculty with the aim of developing well balanced researchers.
Our Team
Mehmet Akcin, Ph.D.
Program Director MiSORP
Data Scientist, Adjunct Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Miami
Onur Kutlu, M.D.
Medical Program Director MiSORP
Associate Professor of Surgery
Banh-Chen Chen, Ph.D.
Principal Data Scientist
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Miami
Adam Meyers
Principal Data Scientist
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Miami
Yujie Wang
Principal Data Scientist
PhD Student Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Miami
Advisory Members Club
Carl Schulman, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Professor of Surgery
Danny Sleeman, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
John Lew, M.D., FACS
Professor of Surgery
Laurence Sands, M.D., MBA
Professor and Chief, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department Surgery
Core Capabilities
We recommend involving one of our epidemiologists/biostatisticians from the very beginning of the project (prior to data collection or extraction). This will facilitate optimal study design and analysis.
- Database queries
- Data management, cleaning, and manipulation
- Assistance with study design
- Statistical analyses
- Preparation of tables and figures
- Power and sample size calculations
- Writing of statistical analysis sections of grant proposals, manuscripts, and abstracts
- Writing and editing results sections of manuscripts and abstracts
- Reviewing and editing final abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and grant proposals prior to submission
- Responding to grant and manuscript reviewers’ comments
Contact Us
Mehmet Akcin, Ph.D.
Program Director MiSORP
Email: mxa564@med.miami.edu