Sarah Mullin

Biography:

I joined the faculty of the Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Department at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as an Assistant Professor of Oncology in October 2022.

I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics after earning my PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the SUNY University at Buffalo (UB) and a MS in Statistics from the Ohio State University. In between my degrees, I worked in rehabilitation medicine and clinical psychology as a data manager and statistician. I also earned a BA degree in Mathematics and Statistics and English Literature from Canisius College.

My research focuses on modeling information contained in the electronic health record and health data repositories. I am primarily interested in using machine and deep learning in conjunction with terminological and ontological information to pursue precision medicine, focusing on the use of patient-specific data combined with evidence-based medicine to tailor prediction and treatment to an individual. I have a special interest in using multiple sources of data and heterogenous data formats (free text and structured data elements) to improve outcomes and modeling. When using free text, I have focused primarily on entity extraction and normalization to ontologies and terminologies and relation extraction.

I'm passionate about creating useful tools and algorithms with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, health care professionals, patients, and data scientists that will help to eradicate cancer and improve the patient and clinician experience.