Ken Carson - Using big data to help patients
Treating patients at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center led Ken Carson, MD, PhD, to investigate questions about racial disparities in treatment of patients with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.\n\nHe still sees patients once a week, and his success as a researcher has led him to Flatiron Health, where he serves as senior medical director and focuses on real-world evidence generation.\n\n1:15 \u2013 On his ACS-funded research on \u201cracial disparities in outcomes among patients who have a common form of lymphoma\u201d \n\n4:50 \u2013 On transitioning to doing big data work and his work at Flatiron Health \u2013 \u201cThe ultimate objective is having every patient\u2019s experience help inform the next patient\u2019s experience.\u201d\n\n11:10 \u2013 Advice for his younger self \u2013 \u201cYou don\u2019t have to follow the traditional academic mold\u201d\n\n13:20 \u2013 What he\u2019s most excited about \u2013 \u201cAs we better understand how to capture adverse events and treatment toxicities with big data, we\u2019ll be able to explore that further with the ultimate goal of improving\u2014not just response, progression-free survival, and overall survival\u2014but also patient quality of life during treatment.\u201d