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Background in research project coordination, biostatistics, and population health data science. Proficiency with data formatting and handling.

Research interests: environmental toxicants, traumatic stress disorders, community-level deprivation, spatial epidemiology.

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Ivan Castro

Education

Syracuse University

MSPH in Biostatistics

Syracuse, NY

2018

SUNY Oswego

BA in Psychology

Oswego, NY

2013

Experience

Research Coordinator

VISN 2 Center for Integrated Healthcare

Syracuse, NY

2018 - present

  • Manage an NIH R34 (treatment development) grant
  • Coordinate behavioral clinical trial
  • Write data analysis pipelines
  • Write reproducible workflows for processing monthly recruitment data across multiple projects
  • Create ad hoc data wrangling solutions for national program evaluation

Project Manager

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2015 - 2019

  • Managed NSF-funded training program in trauma research (Grant No. 1559793)
  • Assisted in the design of social science research studies
  • Created cloud-based data collection surveys
  • Responsible for data management

Research Assistant

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2016 - 2018

  • Graduate RA in the Dept. of Public Health
  • Actively involved in several public health research studies:
  • Syracuse Lead Study
  • Vacationing and Health
  • College Football Injuries
  • Conducted statistical analysis in R and SPSS
  • Conducted spatial analysis in R and ArcGIS
  • Wrote analysis pipelines for modelling environmental exposures to toxicants.
  • Created research databases (MS Access)
  • Conducted semi-structured interviews
  • Wrote research reports

Publications

Variability in the spatial density of vacant properties contributes to background lead (Pb) exposure in children.

Environmental Research, 170, 463-471.

N/A

2019

Castro, I. E., Larsen, D. A., Hruska, B., Parson, P. J., Palmer, C. D., and Gump, B. B.

Presentations

A Delphi study to integrate Prolonged Exposure for Primary Care and Motivational Enhancement Therapy for heavy alcohol use.

ISTSS Annual Meeting

Boston, MA

2019

Castro, I. E., Crinnin, C., Mastroleo, N., King, P., Balderrama-Durbin, C., Rauch, S., & Possemato, K.

The implications of social support and resilience in a Veteran’s wellbeing.

Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting

New York, NY

2016

Castro, I. E. and Dykas, M. J.