Félix Morales
Research Specialist
Bio
I was born and raised in Panama. After working in microfluidics and tissue engineering, I decided to get busier with computers and data. As such, I was a student in the Quantitative and Systems Biology master’s program, working in the Amaral Lab on clustering clinical courses of severe pneumonia patients using their electronic health records and integrating those records with the Human Phenotype Ontology.
I am now a Research Specialist (again!) at the Amaral Lab and I am working in improving automated diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) using machine learning on radiologist reports, with the aim of assessing clinician recognition of ARDS. I aim to implement this approach in a real clinical context, while using it to explore patterns of ARDS underrecognition on multiple ICU sites across the US.
Education
- M. Sc. Quantitative and Systems Biology, Northwestern University (2022)
- M. Sc. Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (2017)
- B. Sc. Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (2015)
Appointments
- Data Scientist, Vizient, Inc. (2023-2024)
- Informatics and Data Science Fellow, Vizient, Inc. (2022-2023)
- Research Specialist, Northwestern University (2022)