Collaborative network

Built with clinical, methods, and platform collaborators

The Tao of RWD is meant to behave like a shared workspace: causal questions are specified with domain experts, translated with methodologists, and handed off through practical run-at-home analysis workflows.

Question first
Collaborative by design
Evidence before automation

Stewardship

Maintainers

Aimee Harrison

Aimee Harrison

Co-founder & Co-maintainer

ProductDesignStewardship

Aimee Harrison holds a BS from MIT and an MFA from the University of Washington. She is currently a product manager at Navidence.

Andy Wilson

Andy Wilson

Co-founder & Co-maintainer

Causal roadmapRWETeaching

Founder and Principal of The Tao of RWD and Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Andy bridges causal inference methodology with practical application in regulatory and healthcare settings, with a focus on making rigorous real-world evidence workflows usable.

Applied scientific partners

Faculty and Clinical Collaborators

Clinical and faculty collaborators help stress-test the Navigator against real scientific questions, data constraints, and interpretation needs.

Jenny Alderden, PhD, APRN, FAAN

Jenny Alderden, PhD, APRN, FAAN

Associate Professor, Boise State University

Critical carePredictionImplementation

Nurse scientist and Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, nationally recognized for applying machine learning to pressure injury prevention in critical care. We are collaborating with Dr. Alderden to develop predictive models for pressure injury risk stratification using real-world clinical data.

Collaboration

  • Pressure injury risk stratification with machine learning
Igor Shuryak, MD, PhD

Igor Shuryak, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Radiation oncologyMechanistic modelsCausal ML

Radiation oncology researcher at Columbia Center for Radiological Research whose work connects radiation biology, oncology, mathematical modeling, machine learning, and causal inference, with more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. His collaboration helps ground the time-to-event and run-at-home analytics workflow in a real scientific use case.

Causal methods community

Methods and Learning Collaborators

Methodologists and educators help keep the tool grounded in identification, sensitivity, targeted learning, dynamic treatment regimes, and accessible teaching.

Justin Belair

Justin Belair

Causal Inference Expert, HEC Montreal & ETS Montreal

Causal inferenceTeachingStatistics

International expert in causal inference and data science based in Montreal, Canada. Justin focuses on moving beyond correlation to identify true cause-and-effect relationships and supports the teaching backbone behind the Navigator.

Kathryn Morrison, PhD, PStat

Kathryn Morrison, PhD, PStat

President, Precision Analytics

BiostatisticsClinical researchR community

Accredited statistician and founder of Precision Analytics, a Montreal-based health and life-science analytics firm. Kathryn has more than twenty peer-reviewed publications, consults across areas from genomics to clinical research, leads statistical technology development, and co-organizes Montreal R-Ladies.

MaryLena Bleile, PhD

MaryLena Bleile, PhD

Causal RLDynamic regimesIdentification

Researcher specializing in causal inference and reinforcement learning. Her work on bridging these fields inspired our reformulation of the Causal Navigator around identification, decisions, and dynamic strategies.

Yunzhe (Jeffrey) Zhou, PhD

Yunzhe (Jeffrey) Zhou, PhD

Reinforcement learningDTRsCausal methods

Researcher in reinforcement learning and causal inference, with a focus on novel methods for identifying optimal treatment strategies in dynamic treatment regimes.

Carlos Garcia Meixide, PhD

Carlos Garcia Meixide, PhD

Targeted learningImplied interventionsTools

Causal inference researcher and creator of Variacle, an interactive tool for exploring causal methods. His work focuses on causal inference with implied interventions and targeted learning approaches.

Brian Knaeble, PhD

Brian Knaeble, PhD

Coordinator, Computational Data Science, Utah Valley University

Sensitivity analysisData scienceMathematics

Mathematician, statistical consultant, and professor of computer science. Brian coordinates the computational data science program at Utah Valley University and contributes perspective on sensitivity analysis for causal inference.

Implementation partners

Applied AI and Platform Collaborators

Platform collaborators help translate rigorous causal ideas into workflows that can be tested, taught, and eventually deployed responsibly.

Alexandra (Lexi) Pasi, PhD

Alexandra (Lexi) Pasi, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder, Lucidity Sciences

ML systemsHEORPlatform R&D

Data scientist and entrepreneur whose work bridges novel mathematics with practical machine learning. Through Lucidity Sciences and the Lumawarp engine, we are exploring next-generation ML approaches for real-world evidence problems in health economics and outcomes research.

Contact

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Questions, collaborations, and suggestions for the Navigator are welcome.