Eric Chou

Eric Chou

Portfolio

Modeling the Effect of Public Transit Accessibility on Diabetic Health Outcomes in Georgia

With DFU-related lower extremity amputations as the adverse outcome, we aimed to model geographic associations between amputations and measures of public transit usage and accessibility […] Across both the whole state of Georgia and within metro-Atlanta, accessibility of public transit and overall walkability of communities were significant predictors for observing fewer amputations, after adjusting for each ZCTA’s poverty level, personal vehicle availability, health insurance coverage, and primary care travel distance.

Natural Product-Drug Interaction (NaPDI) Research Data Repository

An open-source, publicly accessible data repository where researchers can access scientific results, raw data, and recommended approaches to optimally assess the clinical significance of pharmacokinetic natural product-drug interactions (PK-NPDIs).
My role in developing this site with a multidisciplinary team involved curating and designing its backend PostgreSQL database. I also conducted user testing interviews with pharmacology experts to identify UI-related preferences, and helped implement new use cases and information needs based on these interviews. Features I contributed included leveraging my SQL knowledge with Node.js implementation toward representing natural product experiment results through transforming principal component analysis (PCA) model results into 3-dimensional plots.