User:JSailor

About me

My name is Jennifer Sailor. I am a senior at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Data Science and a Minor in Mathematics. My mentors are Ms. Olga Kozlova & Dr. Praveen Madiraju for the Summer 2021 REU. The research topic is Predict Likelihood of Completion for Future Lifestyle Medicine Program.

Work Log (2021)

Week 1:

Tuesday (6/1)

• Meet with REU students and mentors
• Attend REU Orientation
• Attend Data Science Boot Camp Day 1 by Dr. Praveen Madiraju

Wednesday (6/2)

• Attend Data Science Boot Camp Day 2 by Dr. Praveen Madiraju
  • NLP Introduction by John Fields
• Discussed the project with mentor Dr. Praveen Madiraju

Thursday (6/3)

• Attended Talk on Good Research Practice by Dr. Dennis Brylow
• Learned about Wiki and updated my Summer 2021 project and my page
• Set milestones and goals for the project duration
• Consolidated question for a future meeting on the project
• Started research

Friday (6/4)

• Studied literature focusing on the results of Lifestyle Medicine with prevention of target conditions

Week 2:

Monday (6/7)

• Attended Part 1 of Responsible Conduct of Research
• Looked over previously studied literature for further analysis

Tuesday (6/8)

• Researched literature focusing on the implementation of Lifestyle Medicine Programs
  • The cost, percent completion of the program, and effectiveness of the program.
• Attended Data Lab Research Meeting
  • will need to start CITI modules
  • and start doing some comparisons of the research I have found thus far.

Wednesday (6/9)

• Attended REU Group Meeting
  • Technical Writing Presentation by Dr. Dennis Brylow
• Completed RCR Session 1 of CITI
• Started Biomedical Research Modules through CITI
• Attended REU Lifestyle Medicine meetup

Thursday (6/10)

• Completed Biomedical Research Modules through CITI
• Started RCR Session 2 of CITI

Friday (6/11)

• Completed RCR Session 2 of CITI
• Completed RCR Session 3 of CITI
• Completed RCR assignments (1-3)

Week 3:

Monday (6/14)

• Researched literature focusing on the implementation of Lifestyle Medicine Programs
  • The cost and effectiveness of the program.

Tuesday (6/15)

• Researched literature focusing on the business side of Lifestyle Medicine Programs
  • The cost with and without L.M. implemented.
  • How L.M. would benefit the company and employees.
• Attended Data Lab Research Group Meeting
  • Went through projects
  • Priyanka presented a PowerPoint on the dataset to better understand the setup.

Wednesday (6/16)

• Attended REU group meeting
• Formulated research ideas into a beginning presentation
• Found what ICD-10 codes (diagnosis codes) match the chronic diseases lifestyle medicine focuses on

Thursday (6/17)

• Started working on the Related Work section of the final paper
• Listened to podcasts on Lifestyle Medicine
  • Learned about the 6 pillars of LM in depth
  • How lifestyle programs are shaped to the patient

Friday (6/18)

• Attended Lifestyle Medicine REU meeting
• Started exploring a possible Data Set

Week 4:

Monday (6/21)

• Worked with the Data Set
• Attempted to get access to the dataset

Tuesday (6/22)

• Downloaded Data Set
• Attended Data Lab Research Meeting
  • Need to research Opioid Use Disorder and LM
  • Continue to learn more about Data Sets

Wednesday (6/23)

• Attended REU weekly meeting
• Literature Reviews
  • Cancer & LM
  • Opioid Use Disorder & LM
• Emails

Thursday (6/24)

• Literature Reviews
  • Cancer & LM
  • Opioid Use Disorder & LM
• Mini Presentation

Friday (6/25)

• Attended Lifestyle Medicine REU meeting
• Mini Presentation
• Literature Reviews
  • Pain Mitigation

Week 5:

Monday (6/28)

• Attended REU weekly meeting
  • Dr. Brylow presented on good research presentations
• Literature Reviews
  • Pain Mitigation
• Mini Presentation

Tuesday (6/29)

• Mini Presentation
• Literature Reviews
  • LM in the prevention or reversal of PTSD
• Attended Data Lab Research Meeting
  • practice run of Mini Presentation

Wednesday (6/30)

• Attended REU group meeting
  • Mini Presentations
• Literature Review Organization
• Literature Review
  • LM in the prevention or reversal of PTSD

Thursday (7/1)

• Organized Research Articles
• Literature Reviews

Friday (7/2)

• Emails
• Organized research Articles
• Attended LifeStyle Medicine EMS meeting with Dr. Jacobsohn.

Week 6:

Monday (7/5)

• Observed the Fourth of July

Tuesday (7/6)

• Attended Data Ethics Talk
• Summarized last Friday's meeting with Dr. Jacobsohn
• Attended Data Lab Research Meeting

Wednesday (7/7)

• Attended REU group meeting
  • Creating Posters
• Attended check-in meeting with Praveen
• Emails

Thursday (7/8)

• Emails
• Summarization of work so far
• Research on descriptive analysis in python

Friday (7/9)

• Emails
• Attended REU Lifestyle Medicine Meeting
• QRF Data Set
  • Started looking through codebook and formulate questions

Week 7:

Monday (7/12)

• Look into free Lifestyle Medicine Data Sets
• Attend REU group meeting
• Meeting with Nutrition Specialist Robin Cook
• Meeting with Priyanka to go over QRF data set

Tuesday (7/13)

• Researched possible Data Sets
• Made pro and con list for current data sets
• Explored new research questions
• Attended Data Lab group meeting

Wednesday (7/14)

• Attended REU group meeting
• Emails
• Exploring new data sets
• Starting to analyze QRF data set

Thursday (7/15)

• Sick Day

Friday (7/16)

• Started initial analysis on health risk data set
• Attended REU Industry Panel
• Attended Lifestyle Medicine Meeting

Week 8:

Monday (7/19)

• goal planning & emails
• Start data analysis, YAY!
  • Answering did coaching affect PHRS or BMI? Is there a Correlation between gender?

Tuesday (7/20)

• Data Analysis
  • Answering are men more likely to participate in health coaching than women?
  • Descriptions/understanding the results
• Attended Data Lab group meeting

Wednesday (7/21)

• Attended REU group meeting
  • Graduate School Information
• Data Analysis
  • Answering are men more likely to participate in health coaching with subcategory BMI than women?
  • Answering are men or women more likely to participate in longer amounts of health coaching?

Thursday (7/22)

• Completed 90% of the final presentation
• Outlined final Paper
• Completed 30% of final Poster

Friday (7/23)

• IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
• Data Analyze
• REU Lifestyle Medicine Meeting

Week 9:

Monday (7/26)

• Data Analysis
  • Finish up graphs, tables, & box plots
• Poster
  • methodology
• Slides for Result analysis

Tuesday (7/27)

• Finish slides for result analysis
• Finish data analysis R notebook
• Finish the results section in poster & presentation
• get ready for presentation submission
• Attended Data Lab group meeting

Wednesday (7/28)

• Attended REU group meeting
• Submit a draft of the final poster
• Submit a draft of the final presentation
• Finish introduction of the final paper

Thursday (7/29)

Friday (7/30)

• REU Lifestyle Medicine Meeting