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Professional Journey
From bioinformatics research and hospital operations to graduate informatics and healthcare consulting
My professional path is not a single straight line. It moves through bioinformatics research at ITB, molecular laboratory work in Jakarta, hospital network strategy at Siloam Hospitals, graduate training in biomedical informatics at Penn, and consulting work through the Penn Graduate Consulting Club.
Each chapter added a layer of understanding that the previous one lacked. The laboratory gave me clinical grounding that research alone does not. Operations gave me an appreciation for what analytical work has to produce to actually change a decision. Informatics gave me the methods to build rigorous evidence at scale.
Selected impact
18.5M+
FAERS records harmonized
Pharmacovigilance
216%
Referral revenue growth
Healthcare Operations
45.5%
Reduction in EMR-related processing time
Workflow Efficiency
70%
Reduction in laboratory analysis time
Laboratory Analytics
Research
2020 - 2023
Bioinformatics Research
Bioinformatics Research Analyst
School of Life Sciences & Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung · Bandung, Indonesia
Conducted bioinformatics research at the School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, working on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics projects that characterized microbial communities from environmental and clinical samples. Applied computational tools to process, align, and annotate sequencing data, building the technical foundation for later applied analytical work in healthcare settings.
- Conducted metagenomics and metatranscriptomics analysis characterizing microbial communities from environmental and clinical samples
- Applied Mothur for amplicon-based microbiome analysis and community profiling
- Developed bioinformatics analysis scripts using Biopython and R
- Contributed analytical support across multiple concurrent study workflows
- Co-authored a peer-reviewed publication in Agricultural Research on microbial-community changes during banana ripening and chitosan treatment
MothurBiopythonR
Laboratory
2021 - 2022
Diagnostic Laboratory
Biotechnology Analyst
Siloam Hospitals · Jakarta, Indonesia
Supported molecular and diagnostic laboratory operations at a major Jakarta oncology and cancer care center. Managed COVID-19, HBV, and HCV testing workflows during a period of high demand, and initiated an automation improvement to an extraction and analytical workflow that substantially reduced processing time.
- Managed COVID-19, HBV, and HCV diagnostic laboratory workflows
- Supported molecular laboratory operations at a high-volume oncology center
- Automated an extraction and analytical workflow, reducing laboratory analysis time by 70%
70%
Reduction in laboratory analysis time
Automated extraction and analytical workflow
Operations
2022 - 2024
Healthcare Operations
Network & Relation Executive (Healthcare Analytics & Strategy)
Siloam Hospitals · Jakarta, Indonesia
Led referral network development and provider partnership strategy at Siloam Hospitals, one of Indonesia's largest hospital networks. Focused on expanding partner agreements, developing specialized referral pathways including heart-surgery referrals, and improving internal workflow efficiency. Analytical work on referral patterns and provider performance directly informed network strategy and supported measurable growth outcomes.
- Developed referral growth strategy and managed provider and partner relationships across the network
- Added more than 200 partner agreements in 2024, expanding the hospital's regional referral reach
- Referral revenue grew 216% in 2024, supported by network expansion and pathway development
- Initiated an EMR-related workflow project that reduced processing time by 45.5%
- Developed specialized referral pathways, including heart-surgery referral coordination
216%
Referral revenue growth
2024, Siloam Hospitals
200+
Partner agreements added
2024, network expansion
45.5%
Reduction in EMR-related processing time
Workflow improvement initiative
SQLPythonTableau
Informatics
2026
Biomedical InformaticsLPDP Scholar
Master of Biomedical Informatics
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
As an LPDP Scholar, supported by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, I pursued the Master of Biomedical Informatics at Penn to build the technical depth needed to translate clinical context and operational experience into rigorous analytical work. Graduate study brought together epidemiology, clinical data science, health data standards, and machine learning alongside the analytical frameworks used in real-world evidence generation.
- LPDP Scholar, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia
- GPA 3.81 / 4.00
- Coursework in real-world evidence, pharmacovigilance, clinical data science, and AI in healthcare
- Applied machine learning to public health surveillance data (NHANES, FAERS)
- Studied OMOP Common Data Model for standardized cohort design
- Developed an analytical product concept for real-world evidence generation (RWE Studio)
PythonRSQLPostgreSQLSAS
Consulting
2026 - Present
Healthcare ConsultingGraduate Consulting
Business Analyst - CIRCA
Conversational AI for early pregnancy care
Penn Graduate Consulting Club · Philadelphia, PA
Contributed analytical work to the Penn Graduate Consulting Club's engagement with CIRCA, an early-stage conversational AI platform focused on early pregnancy care. Applied economic modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate healthcare delivery pathways, assess payer and enterprise customer segments, and communicate business case findings to stakeholders at varying technical levels.
- Built an economic model comparing emergency-department and ambulatory-care pathways and documented assumptions for decision-makers
- Evaluated payer and enterprise customer segments, translated value drivers into prioritized recommendations, and produced client-ready decks and written reports
- Ran sensitivity analyses across unit costs, utilization, adoption, and diversion rates to communicate findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Selected Publication
Peer-reviewed research
Capabilities
What working across these domains produced
Real-World Evidence
Cohort design on OMOP CDM, propensity score methods, and pharmacovigilance signal detection using FDA FAERS data.
Healthcare Operations
Referral network strategy, provider relationship management, and workflow analytics in a hospital system context.
Clinical Data Science
Applied machine learning to public health and clinical datasets including NHANES survey data and FDA adverse event records.
Healthcare Consulting
Economic modeling, payer and customer segment analysis, and sensitivity analysis for healthcare technology decisions. Consulting through the Penn Graduate Consulting Club.
Analytical Product Thinking
Designed analytical tools that translate clinical questions into structured cohort definitions, generated queries, and interpretable evidence outputs.
Laboratory and Bioinformatics
Molecular laboratory operations, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics analysis, and bioinformatics pipeline development.
The turn toward informatics
Why biomedical informatics
The decision to pursue graduate training in biomedical informatics was not a departure from healthcare operations. It was a response to what I observed within it. Working in hospital settings, I consistently encountered the same structural problem: data existed, but the infrastructure to make it useful for decisions did not.
Referral data that could have guided network strategy sat in systems that no one had time to query. Laboratory workflows that could have been automated ran manually for years. The gap was not a data problem. It was an infrastructure problem, and addressing it requires both the clinical understanding to know what matters and the technical skills to build something usable.
The LPDP Scholarship from the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia made graduate study at Penn possible. It brought together epidemiology, clinical data science, real-world evidence methods, and the analytical product thinking needed to close that gap at scale.
Graduate Focus Areas
- Real-world evidence and cohort design
- Pharmacovigilance signal detection
- Clinical data science and machine learning
- Health data standards: OMOP CDM, FHIR
- AI in healthcare
- Biomedical data engineering
LPDP Scholar
Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia
Master of Biomedical Informatics · GPA 3.81 / 4.00
Projects
See the analytical work
Project case studies document the methods, data sources, analytical decisions, and outputs across pharmacovigilance, real-world evidence, healthcare operations, bioinformatics, and public health.
Interested in working together?
Whether you are exploring collaboration, have questions about my analytical work, or want to discuss how these methods could apply in your context, I would be glad to hear from you.