About our team
As a team, we are committed to supporting friendly, open, and collaborative data science efforts. Our team is a collection of staff with data related expertise from a wide variety of areas who collaborate on cross-functional projects that build resources, supports and ongoing collaborations across many departments at Fred Hutch.
Jeff is Chief Data Officer, Vice President, and J Orin Edson Foundation Chair of Biostatistics at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He leads the group in building a data environment that is both cutting edge and friendly, supportive, open, and collaborative.
Amy is the Deputy Chief Data Officer and Associate Vice President. She is co-leading the group to support democratization of data, expertise and technology across the spectrum of our merged institution. She has a background in translational data science, connecting the clinic to laboratory research, as well as open science efforts and data community building.
Our Staff
Data Science Domain Leadership
Jenny has a background in business analytics and compliance. She leads our growing data governance effort including development of cross-institutional data governance processes as well as internal department coordination and process development around patient and research data governance.
Brian has more than two decades of experience in a variety of roles at the intersection of data science, biomedical research, and technology. He functions as a liaison between subject matter experts in order to develop and implement ethical data ecosystems that advance biomedical research and clinical care.
Sean Kross is interested in building better tools and workflows for data scientists. His background is in computer science, cognitive science, and design. He leads our Human Computer Interaction (HCI) effort as part of our Translational Data Science and Software team.
Monica has a background in biostatistics and epidemiology. She’s interested in helping translational staff implement reproducible workflows for statistical analysis, working on ways to pair technical shifts with cultural shifts to advance science, and building inclusive data science communities. She leads our Clinical Data Science efforts as part of our Translational Data Science and Software team.
Taylor’s background is in computational biophysics, clinical bioinformatics, and high-performance computing. His work is focused on generating open source bioinformatics software tools for the Fred Hutch research community while fostering a spirit of collaboration through data consultations and community building. He leads our Research Informatics efforts as part of our Translational Data Science and Software team.
Ted Laderas has worked with lots of different data types and knows his way around a workflow. He champions building learning communities of practice in science and research that are psychologically safe and inclusive. Ted leads our training and community efforts.
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Abby has experience in program, product, and project management for bioinformatics software products and tools. She manages the Fred Hutch Data Initiative portfolio for translational data product and tooling development as the lead for our Data Product Management team.
Administration and Operations
A northwest native, Sandy began working at Fred Hutch in 1984. In her tenure, Sandy has worked in the PHS Division office, the epidemiology program, PHS Labs, and since 2000 in the Biostatistics Program before joining the group.
Sana has been working at Fred Hutch since 2019. Prior to joining the group, she supported implementation of clinical trials in the Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic as a project manager in the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center Project Management Office (IIRC PMO).
Maleah has a background in Grant Manager with a focus on federal and foundation grants. She ensures grant compliance and manages all financial aspects of grant funded programs.
Maria has a background in higher education administration and public health grant initiatives. She works with our Data Governance team to facilitate coordination across our governance collaborations across external and internal partners.
Team Members
Scott has a background in ecology and evolutionary biology and software development. He’s interested in developing reliable software to solve user needs across Fred Hutch, and in helping those users build better software themselves.
Sonu is a UX researcher interested in building impactful systems that meet user needs. Her background is in health behavior change intervention design and health informatics.
Sita’s research background is in cancer biology, genetics, and genomics. Her experience spans a breadth of projects across multiple cancer types including leukemia, lung, breast, prostate, and gastric cancers. Sita has hands-on experience, ranging from conducting intricate bench experiments in molecular-cellular biology and genetics, to analyzing complex data from whole genome, exome, and single-cell sequencing. She is enthusiastic about creating efficient workflows and systems that bridge the data chasm, enabling fellow scientists to focus more on the research at hand, and less on the data gap. Sita works with our Translational Data Science and Software group.
Sindiya is part of our growing Engineering team, supporting the development of our Tools and Applications as well as providing data engineering expertise to a variety of translational data infrastructure projects and data product development efforts.
Vivek has a background in biomedical informatics, statistics, and computer science. His work focuses on developing and productizing statistical and machine learning systems for electronic phenotyping and cohort identification across the Hutch. He is passionate about simplifying the medical discovery process from bench to bedside.
Tyreesha has a background in privacy and compliance. In her role she will manage governance activities related to AI governance and research data stewardship. Prior to joining the team, she worked at Amazon and Delta Dental of Washington.
Chris Lo is a data science trainer who is passionate about helping biomedical and clinical researchers learn new tools to be effective at their research. He has a background in biostatistics and computational biology and has taught students of various backgrounds in biomedical data science.
Gina has a background in healthcare analytics, with expertise in data quality management, regulatory compliance, and decision-making to improve health outcomes. As part of the data governance team, she focuses on ensuring the integrity, privacy, and accessibility of patient and research data.
Sean has experience in project management spanning multiple industries and functions including Higher Education, Insurance, and Data Science, and has an MBA with a focus in Data Analytics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sean works with our engineering team to implement translational data product and infrastructure development.
DaSL Research Affiliates
We have a group of affiliated researchers and training staff who focus on a variety of different data science education efforts externally to the Fred Hutch. You can find more about them and their work on our hutchdatascience.org.
Jobs
Come work with us!
We are very excited to have the opportunity to bring on another leader to lead our newly minted Engineering team! This role will help me build a team that will focus on translational data applications and data infrastructure. They will be hugely impactful in building the way to enabling AI and data science in the clinic and in research.
Engineering Manager - Apply here!
We are hiring a cloud engineer who’ll work on our Engineering team to develop our cloud based application deployments, cloud architecture and role based access frameworks. This is such a critical role for enabling access to data for our translational staff who span the clinic and research spaces.
Cloud Data System Engineer - Apply here!
We’re on the hunt for a data engineer who’ll work on our Engineering team to help build translational multi-modal data ingestion pipelines and lakehouse components in Databricks!
We are looking for an Executive Assistant to the VP/CDO, which involves providing high-level administrative support, managing complex schedules, coordinating events, handling sensitive information, and facilitating effective communication within our team. This position requires exceptional organizational skills, discretion, and adaptability.
Executive Assistant - Apply here!
Fred Hutch Jobs
Check out the Fred Hutch Cancer Center Careers page for more info on current data oriented jobs across the Center.