“Nothing is lost, nothing is created … all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.” – Antoine Bechamp Ever heard of the saying …
Category: Research
True Health – A Prelude
It’s inspiring to read the work of Dr. Harvey Bigelsen (1940-2019) who discovered meaningful holographic images in live blood using dark-field microscopy. Dr. B dedicated 40 years of his life …
100 Years Later “医”百年之后
我没有医学背景,但在探索生命奥妙之路上,已走了将近十年。不知是初中时代对于生物学强烈的好奇心使然,还是对健康经济学这一新兴研究领域的兴趣所致,我很幸运地成为了同门师兄弟中唯一从事药物经济学研究的学者。 由于没有现有医学教育体系的束缚,我林林总总研究过包括心血管疾病,糖尿病,代谢综合症,营养不良,眼科疾病,预防医学,医学美容,疼痛管理,细胞治疗,自免疫疾病,还有传染疾病在内的多个治疗领域。在设计真实世界科研项目的工作过程中,也综合运用了生物统计,经济学建模,大数据分析,问卷调查,和临床试验研究等多学科理论框架。对医疗行业的监管,以及医保政策,药品研发及营销模式也有了较为全面了解。 但这十年中,我始终没有找到一种能够将现代医学治疗手段与生物医学信息转化为健康的成功之道。在反复的思考与研究之后,特别是最近新冠病毒的全球流行,使我利用空余时间学习到了很多免疫系统与微生物相关知识。这让我隐约意识到,现代医学已经在错误的道路上走了太久太久,依靠现有的理论与实践,是无法攻克疾病,改变人类命运的。(我们甚至无力抵抗区区一个coronavirus。) 若要创造健康,我们需要从头再来。 “Looking back over the hundred-year history of modern medicine, I realized that not one cause of or cure for a single chronic disease had been found. …
My poster presentation at ISPOR Tokyo 2018
Presenting at the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) conference last week in Tokyo marked the first debut of my brainchild in health economics pertaining to the optimal …
Health as Human Capital : an investment for life
This is a non-technical reader-friendly analysis on Human Capital, Health Capital, Longevity and Aging. It is part 2 of 7 in my work summary: Who’s who in interdisciplinary research Human …
The Big Short and Demolition: where to go from here
I want to share some thoughts on two movies I’ve watched recently. The Big Short – a comedy that’s based on real stories during the housing crisis in 2007, and …
Big Data and Machine Learning – a glass only half full
An article written by Mitch De Felice from CIO – “Big Data and Machine Learning – is the glass half empty?” which appeared also on Bloomberg for Enterprise have made some great points on why …
Self-reported Health Outcomes (2) – Data Exploration
In this section, I will begin to show preliminary results from an exploratory data analysis using both statistical and machine learning techniques based on the Medicare HOS 2012-2014 PUF dataset as previously mentioned here. …
Self-reported Health Outcomes (1) : Summary Statistics
In many health economics and outcomes research studies, patient outcomes are typically measured by three general indicators – morality rate, length of hospital stay, and xx-day re-hospitalization rate with xx varying …
Back To The Start Where It Has All Begun
I was a bit embarrassed today when a recruiter asked me for a recent writing sample. I was embarrassed to know that I have no publications to show for besides tons …