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)

Wednesday (6/23)

Thursday (6/24)

Friday (6/25)