Ishan Suthar

About Ishan Suthar

Clinical epidemiologist who specializes in causal inference methods applied to real-world healthcare data (EHR + claims) to generate evidence for treatment effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and health outcomes, with the clinical credibility to translate findings to medical and policy audiences. My skills are specific enough to be differentiated and broad enough to apply across therapeutic areas.“Driven by growth - my own, my team’s, and the communities we serve.”

Experience

1. Graduate Research Assistant

   Prisma Health

   Jan 2024 — Present · Columbia, SC, US

   Assistant to Director and Program Evaluator for a federally funded $5M HRSA Maternal & Child Health Program (Healthy Start SC) supporting women, children, and families.• Lead program evaluation, analytics, and reporting for maternal & child health services, ensuring data accuracy, compliance, and on-time submissions to HRSA and Prisma leadership.• Supervise, train, and support a 22-member multidisciplinary team (nurses, social workers, data collectors), improving data quality, workflow efficiency, and care coordination.• Designed and implemented a longitudinal REDCap data infrastructure for participants across pregnancy, postpartum, and infant follow-up, including user roles, dictionaries, branching logic, deduplication checks, and audit trails.• Created and standardized 11 protocols for onboarding, training, QA/QI, and data management, reducing reporting errors by 30%+ and improving compliance across all sites.• Conduct advanced analyses in SAS and R (logistic regression, longitudinal modeling, missing-data methods, sensitivity checks) to evaluate maternal outcomes, SDOH indicators, and program performance.• Built automated weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and dashboards to support strategic decision-making for clinical, administrative, and HRSA leadership.• Led QA/QI initiatives, decreasing misclassified and missing data by 20%+ through system-level validation checks and staff retraining.• Presented analytical findings and program outcomes at APHA and HRSA national meetings.

Education

• University of South Carolina

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiology

• University of South Carolina

  Master of Public Health - MPH, Epidemiology

• GCS Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre

  Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Medicine

  2013 — 2018

• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's

  High School