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Dr. Bruce is a Senior Research Data Scientist with Somatus. Research interests include chronic disease prevention and management, veterans’ and military health, scale development in pain and social functioning, biostatistics, health economics, patient safety, and value-based decision making. Passionate about data, she uses SAS, R, SQL, Python, Teradata, and Tableau, along with reproducible research and automation techniques in Agile teams, to wrangle, build, curate, visualize, report, and document data warehouse resources for translation into actionable insights.
Dr. Bruce earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Services Research at the Cecil G. Sheps Center, University of North Carolina. She has a Masters of Health Policy and Administration and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Editor-In-Chief of Patient Related Outcome Measures, Dove Medical Press, part of Taylor & Francis Group. Impact Factor 2.1
Principal Investigator of longitudinal observational study NCT00954564
Developer of the Patient-Reported Arthralgia Inventory (PRAI), licensed through FACIT.org
Special Commendation Award, United States Government Accountability Office (US GAO), Veterans and Military Health Issue Area
Cigna Quarterly Champion Award, Journal of Spine Surgery article on narcotics and opioid utilization following lumbar fusion surgery.
Paper of the Year Award, SAGE/HERO Publications, Loneliness in the United States of America: a 2018 National Panel Survey of Demographic, Structural, Cognitive, and Behavioral Characteristics, American Journal of Health Promotion