Resume
Contact Details
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Name: |
Mithilesh Dronavalli |
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Address: |
Unit 2/8 Tyrone St North Melbourne VIC 3051 Australia |
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Mobile |
0422895837 61422895837 (for
international callers) |
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Email Address: |
mithilesh@live(d.o.t)com(d.o.t)au Replace (d.o.t) with . in the normal manner of email
addresses. |
Education/Qualifications
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Institution: |
Melbourne University |
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City/Country: |
Melbourne |
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Qualifications: Result: Project Work: |
Bachelor of Medical Science in July (Honours in Biostatistics) First Class Honours 84% (H1) Honours Project: Investigation of
the mechanism of action of cardioprotective effect of ACE inhibitors. Two clinical
trials were analysed in a novel manner. One randomised control trial carried
out in Adelaide was the administration of ACE inhibitors for 3 months with
the measurement of key biochemical markers at baseline before treatment, week
4 and week 12. Also baseline patient features were recorded. I initially did
baseline multiple linear regression models modelling the biochemical markers
with other features from patient history etc. I then did repeated measures
analysis to see if ACE inhibitors had an effect on the biochemical markers. The second trial was the large SOLVD dataset (13000 observations) which had many of the variables at baseline as did the Adelaide trial. I developed baseline prediction models containing variables common to both trials. I used these models to predict the value of these markers in the larger trial where they were not measured. The values were based on patient history etc.. I then used these value in a recurrent event model looking at cardiovascular hospital readmission. I found that the biomarkers were clinically significant in predicting cardiovascular hospitalisation and that ACE inhibitors worked more effectively in certain quartiles of these markers, thus further elucidating the mechanism of action. |
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Completed: |
2006 July |
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Institution: |
Adelaide University |
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City/Country: |
Adelaide |
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Qualifications:
Results:
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3 years of MBBS, equivalent to Bachelor of Health Sciences. 1 year of research coursework Maths 1st year, Stats 1st year, Logic 3rd Year, Macroeconomics 1st year, Foundations to Public Health (Masters subject), Biostatistics (Masters subject) Top 15% of all University Graduates, see Academic Transcript for individual subjects |
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Completed: |
2004
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Institution: |
Monash University |
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City/Country: |
Melbourne |
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Qualifications:
Project Work: Commencement: Expected Completion: |
Completed Masters of Biostatistics (MBios) 3 Subjects credited from previous work (Epidemiology, Data
Management and Mathematical Background) Completed Subjects: Principles of Statistics
Inference, Clinical Biostatistics, Linear modelling and Regression,
Probability Distribution Theory, Categorical Data Analysis and Design of
Experiments and Randomised Control Trials, Survival Analysis, Work Placement
Project. Work
Placement Project:
A high impact investigation of the survival and readmissions of heart failure
patients in the last 10 years at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The predictors
of readmission and survival will be investigated using multivariate survival
analysis with recurrent event (readmission), single event (death) and time
varying covariates (changing patient covariate values with each admission).
Clinical risk models were developed to classify patients into risk groups
based on their baseline features and readmission features for survival and
readmission. Bootstrapping methods were used to obtain comparative models
(compared to normal modelling) to determine the effect of overfitting the
data. The bootstrapped models were used as clinical risk models as they are a
better reflection of the general population. Also a smaller project was carried out to
identify the selective effectivity of ACE inhibitors and Beta-Blockers
depending on whether they were renally compromised or not in their treatment
of heart failure. This was done via a pooled meta-analysis (using individual
patient data generated from data summaries) of the relevant large randomised
control trials. This has been displayed in the Asia Pacific Chronic Heart
Failure Conference APCHF Jan 2008. January 2007 July 2008
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Institution: |
Inuom soft |
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City/Country: |
Hyderabad, India |
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Qualifications:
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Certified SAS course with following modules: BASE SAS, ADV. Programming, SAS GRAPH, SAS MACRO, STATS, OR, ETS, ETL, OLAP, EIS
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Commenced: |
2006 (40 Day course) |
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Institution: |
University of Sydney |
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City/Country: |
Sydney |
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Qualifications: Project Work: Commencement: Expected Completion: |
Enrolled in Masters of
Philosophy (MPhil) Research on various treatment
modalities of lip cancer and their effectiveness in preventing relapse and improving
survival using survival analysis and also the other predictors of relapse and
survival. A 27 year longitudinal dataset (retrospective and prospective) with
208 patients and 50 clinical covariates are being analysed. Clinical risk
score models were constructed to classify patients into risk groups that
identified their likelihood of relapsing and surviving. Also a systematic
review and meta-analysis of lip cancer survival is being carried out looking
at around 100 studies. July 2007 July 2008 |
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Institution: |
University of Melbourne |
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City/Country: |
Melbourne |
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Qualifications: Commencement: Expected Completion: |
Completing a Bachelor of
Medicine Bachelor of Surgery enabling me for medical practice. A gap was taken
halfway through to pursue research in the form of Honours and MPhil and also
Masters in Biostatistics where all extra study had a major biostatistical and
cardiovascular focus. Jan 2002 (started in Adelaide
University) Dec 2010 |
Employment History
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
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Start Date: |
Nov 2003 |
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End Date: |
2006 July (1year full time, remaining part-time) |
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Position/Title: |
On Call Junior Statistician/ Clinical Trial Analyst |
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Responsibilities/ |
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ATSIC
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Start Date: |
Jan 2003 |
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End Date: |
Dec 2005 |
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Position/Title: |
Medical Tutor for Aboriginal Students |
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Responsibilities/ |
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Private Tutoring
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Start Date: |
Jan 2008 |
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End Date: |
ongoing |
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Position/Title: |
Biostatistics Tutor |
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Responsibilities/ |
1 to1 tutoring in biostatistics for health professionals |
Consulting in Biostatistics
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Start Date: |
Nov 2007 |
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End Date: |
ongoing |
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Position/Title: |
Biostatistics Consultant |
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Responsibilities/ |
Projects done so far: Pharmacogenetics: assessing the interaction between genes and metabolism of drugs (azathioprine) and looking at intermediary biomarkers. (Details classified) Neurosurgery: Testing – retesting issues with normal pressure hydrocephalus patients. Whether improvements in testing reflected real improvement or learning effect. Repeated measures analysis was used with random effects. |
Skill Summary
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Non Technical Skills: |
Stage performer of keyboard and singing, Chess, Table Tennis, Cricket, Badminton Drama, Debating, Public Speaking, Multi-lingual. I do occasional tutoring for children and adults in Carnatic music both vocal and keyboard. |
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Computer Skills: |
MS Word; Advanced |
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Stata Advanced, SPSS Intermediate, SAS Intermediate, Excel(Advanced), Powerpoint (Advanced) |
Awards
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National Heart Foundation Vacation Scholarship Masters Scholarship for work placement project |
Languages
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English Telugu Hindhi |
Interests
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Table Tennis, Badminton, Cricket, Soccer, Chess, Drama,
Debating, Public Speaking, Carnatic Music (Vocal and Keyboard), Consulting in
Palmistry and Biostatistics. My resume in word doc 1997- 2003: A link to my biostatistics consulting webpage: A link to my research on the exact pitch of the notes used in carnatic music: Excel version 1997 - 2003 Excel Version 2007 |
University Subject List
3 yrs MBBS top
15% Graduates
1 yr Honours First
Class 84%
Year Load
(3/24) Macroeconomics
1st year 72%
(6/24) Maths
1m First yr 78%
(4/24) Maths
2m Into to 2nd yr 88%
(2/24) Logic
3 Maths 3rd yr 67%
(3/24) Stat
Prac 1st yr Stats 80%
(6/24) Biostatistics
Third Year 69%
(3/24) Foundations
of Public Health 67%
Masters
of Biostatistics (from the BCA)
Credited
3/24 Epidemiology
3/24 Data
Management
3/24 Mathematical
Background
Completed Subjects
3/24
Principles of Statistics Inference 75%
3/24 Clinical
Biostatistics 62%
3/24 Linear
modeling and Regression 61%
3/24
Probability Distribution Theory 55%
3/24
Categorical Data Analysis 72%
3/24 Design
of Experiments and RCTs 72%
3/24
Survival Analysis 78%
6/24 Work
Placement Project Completed
Reference
Westmead Gentle Dental
Dr. Nancy Chu
16/24 Railway Pde
Westmead NSW 2145
To Whom It May Concern:
Re: Mr. Mithilesh
Dronavalli
As a postgraduate dental
student, I have asked for Mithilesh's help in biostatistics and medical
epidemiology.
He is extremely
knowledgeable and detailed in this field, with a step-to- step guidance which
helped me
to learn the subjects
easily. He is dedicated to his student, and is always trying to find all
possible references
for the biostatistics. In
addition, he is extremely competent with most of the statistics softwares
including
Microsoft Excel, and Stata.
I would highly recommend him
as a biostatistics tutor and biostatistician in general, and wish him well in
the future.
Sincerely yours,
Nancy Chu
80S, Post Grad Dip Dent
(Adel)
0412587301
(02) 96335704
ihsunchu(at)hotmail(dot)com
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