Matthew Hoctor

About Me

• 🔭 I’m currently working on: coursework & practice experience for my masters in public health; I work as a clinical pharmacist as my day job
• 🌱 I’m currently learning: R, epidemiology, biostatistics, python
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on: projects related to the epidemiology of chronic disease
• 📫 How to reach me: hoctor@mail.mcgill.ca
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him/his
• ⚡ Fun fact:s I enjoy editing wikipedia, and my CV is written in R markdown, and can be found in this repository

Current Projects & Courses

• MPH Practice Experience
• My blog
• Statistical Rethinking Bayesian statistics online course
• Updating the R Healthy Eating Index script
• UW’s National STD Curriculum

Past Projects & Courses

• Mock LOI for a P3 pragmatic RCT of thiazide-like diuretics for Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
• Four Futures of Primary Care for Health Systems Forecasting course
• Environmental Health:
  • Reducing the Warming Effect of Asthma Care in the U.S.
  • Weekly blog on environmental health topics
• Statistical Learning & Data Science
• Qualitative Methods: Yoga Practice Among Veterans: A Qualitative Study of Provider Perspectives
• Health Systems Organization: A Cybernetic Analysis of the Indian Health Service
• Budesonide vs nedocromil using CAMP data, a course project for Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS: Smoking Harm Reduction in PLWH
• Chronic Disease Epidemiology: Resistant HTN - Directions for Further Research
• Effect of cannabis use on BP, an Analysis of NHANES Data, a course project for Epi Data
• Mediation analysis of the effect of maternal smoking on birth weight
• Risk factors for multiple falls in men in the MrOS study
• Causal Inference: Destructive Scheduling Practices & Sleep
• Post-Mifeprex Medication Abortions? a brief presentation for Portland DSA health justice working group
• Notable/recommended CEs: UW IDEA’s HBV Online, HCV Online, & National HIV Curriculum