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Valdery Moura Junior

Research Student

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Management

Contact

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Bunhill Row

Postal address

Bayes Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Valdery is a PhD Candidate in Management Sciences at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London and Director of Data Science Technology at the McCance Center for Brain Health at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA.

He is currently working on research projects that uses new computational techniques that are employed to acquire, convert, analyze and store large amounts of clinical data and medical records. He is interested in understanding how analytics tools and models can maximize clinical data’s value and makes a real impact on healthcare management.

Research Interests: Data-driven Healthcare Management, Project Management in Clinical Research, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Big Data, Data Analytics, Medical Device Data.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University of London, United Kingdom, 2016 – 2023
  • MS in Knowledge Management and Information Technology, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brazil, Jan 2010
  • MBA in Strategic Management of Information System, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 2006
  • BS Computer Science, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, Jan 2004

Postgraduate training

  • Exec Certificate in Management and Leadership, MIT Sloan, Cambridge, United States, 2011 – 2012
  • PMI Leadership Institute Master Class, Project Management Institute (PMI), United States, Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
  • Project Management Specialization, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 2005

Employment

  • Research Associate, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Feb 2022 – present
  • PhD Candidate, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), 2016 – present
  • Director, Data Science Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Jan 2013 – present
  • Project & Service Manager, Level 3 Communications, 2009 – 2012
  • IT Manager, Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Prevention of Brazil, 2008 – 2009
  • Project Manager (PMO), Indra (formerly Politec), 2004 – 2007

Memberships of committees

  • Subject Matter Expert Reviewer, PMI EMEA Congress 2018 Paper Review Committee, Sep 2017 – present
  • Advisor/Member, PMI Communities of Practice Member Advisory Group (CoP MAG), 2012 – 2015

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 2013 – present
  • Project Management Institute (PMI), 2005 – present

Awards

  • Project Management Institute (PMI) (2013) PMI Community of Practices Tiger Team Excellence Award
    Award given in a special ceremony for recognition of the excellent business case developed to transition 30+ communities of practice into an integrated online community.
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) (2012) PMI Community of Practice of the Year Award
    Award given in a ceremony for the best community of practice results over the year.

Languages

English and Portuguese.

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Information Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Information Systems
  • Technology Management

Additional topics

  • Management Systems & IT
  • Service Management
  • Strategic Information Systems

Industries

  • biotechnology
  • health care
  • information technology

Geographic Areas

  • Americas - North
  • Americas - South
  • Europe - Western

Publications

Conference papers and proceedings (2)

  1. Nagaraj, S.B., Biswal, S., Junior, V.M., Purdon, P.L. and Westover, M.B. (2016). Personalized Sedation Level Monitoring in ICU Patients using Heart Rate Variability.
  2. An, J., Jonnalagadda, D., Moura, V., Purdon, P.L., Brown, E.N. and Westover, M.B. (2015). Spatial variation in automated burst suppression detection in pharmacologically induced coma.

Journal articles (15)

  1. Kim, J.A., Zheng, W.-.L., Elmer, J., Jing, J., Zafar, S.F., Ghanta, M. … Westover, M.B. (2022). High epileptiform discharge burden predicts delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical Neurophysiology, 141, pp. 139–146. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2021.01.022.

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  2. Moura Junior, V., Westover, M.B., Li, F., Kimchi, E., Kennedy, M., Benson, N.M. … Hsu, J. (2022). Hospital complications among older adults: Better processes could reduce the risk of delirium. Health Services Management Research, 35(3), pp. 154–163. doi:10.1177/09514848211028707.

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  3. Chen, H.Y., Elmer, J., Zafar, S.F., Ghanta, M., Moura Junior, V., Rosenthal, E.S. … Kim, J.A. (2022). Combining Transcranial Doppler and EEG Data to Predict Delayed Cerebral Ischemia After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurology, 98(5). doi:10.1212/wnl.0000000000013126.

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  4. Zafar, S.F., Rosenthal, E.S., Jing, J., Ge, W., Tabaeizadeh, M., Aboul Nour, H. … Westover, M.B. (2021). Automated Annotation of Epileptiform Burden and Its Association with Outcomes. Annals of Neurology, 90(2), pp. 300–311. doi:10.1002/ana.26161.

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  5. Tabaeizadeh, M., Aboul Nour, H., Shoukat, M., Sun, H., Jin, J., Javed, F. … Zafar, S.F. (2020). Burden of Epileptiform Activity Predicts Discharge Neurologic Outcomes in Severe Acute Ischemic Stroke. Neurocritical Care, 32(3), pp. 697–706. doi:10.1007/s12028-020-00944-0.

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  6. Ghassemi, M.M., Amorim, E., Alhanai, T., Lee, J.W., Herman, S.T., Sivaraju, A. … Westover, M.B. (2019). Quantitative Electroencephalogram Trends Predict Recovery in Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy*. Critical Care Medicine, 47(10), pp. 1416–1423. doi:10.1097/ccm.0000000000003840.

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  7. An, J., Jonnalagadda, D., Moura, V., Purdon, P.L., Brown, E.N. and Westover, M.B. (2018). Variability in pharmacologically-induced coma for treatment of refractory status epilepticus. PLOS ONE, 13(10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205789.

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  8. Shenoy, E.S., Rosenthal, E.S., Shao, Y.-.P., Biswal, S., Ghanta, M., Ryan, E.E. … Westover, M.B. (2018). Real-Time, Automated Detection of Ventilator-Associated Events: Avoiding Missed Detections, Misclassifications, and False Detections Due to Human Error. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 39(07), pp. 826–833. doi:10.1017/ice.2018.97.

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  9. Kim, J.A., Rosenthal, E.S., Biswal, S., Zafar, S., Shenoy, A.V., O'Connor, K.L. … Westover, M.B. (2017). Epileptiform abnormalities predict delayed cerebral ischemia in subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical Neurophysiology, 128(6), pp. 1091–1099. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2017.01.016.

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  10. Moura, L.M.V.R., Carneiro, T.S., Kwasnik, D., Moura, V.F., Blodgett, C.S., Cohen, J. … Westover, M.B. (2017). cEEG electrode-related pressure ulcers in acutely hospitalized patients. Neurology: Clinical Practice, 7(1), pp. 15–25. doi:10.1212/cpj.0000000000000312.

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  11. Shenoy, E.S., Rosenthal, E.S., Biswal, S., Ghanta, M., Ryan, E.E., Shao, Y.-.P. … Westover, M.B. (2017). Real-Time Automated Surveillance for Ventilator Associated Events Using Streaming Electronic Health Data. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 4(suppl_1). doi:10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1681.

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  12. Moura, L.M.V.R., Schwamm, E., Moura Junior, V., Seitz, M.P., Hsu, J., Cole, A.J. … Schwamm, L.H. (2016). Feasibility of the collection of patient-reported outcomes in an ambulatory neurology clinic. Neurology, 87(23), pp. 2435–2442. doi:10.1212/wnl.0000000000003409.

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  13. Moura, L.M.V.R., Schwamm, E., Moura Junior, V., Seitz, M.P., Hoch, D.B., Hsu, J. … Schwamm, L. (2016). Patient-reported financial barriers to adherence to treatment in neurology. ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, Volume 8, pp. 685–694. doi:10.2147/ceor.s119971.

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  14. Wickering, E., Gaspard, N., Zafar, S., Moura, V.J., Biswal, S., Bechek, S. … Westover, M.B. (2016). Automation of Classical QEEG Trending Methods for Early Detection of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 33(3), pp. 227–234. doi:10.1097/wnp.0000000000000278.

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  15. Biswal, S., Nip, Z., Moura Junior, V., Bianchi, M.T., Rosenthal, E.S. and Westover, M.B. (2015). Automated information extraction from free-text EEG reports. 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). doi:10.1109/embc.2015.7319956.

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Thesis/dissertation

  1. Moura Junior, Nível de maturidade em gerenciamento de projetos de TI : um comparativo entre o cenário brasileiro e canadense. (Master's Thesis)

Professional activities

Events/conferences (2)

  1. IRNOP (International Research Network on Organizing by Projects). (Conference) Boston, MA (2017).
    Paper: Value-Based Project Portfolio Management
    Author: Moura Junior, Valdery
  2. Project Management in Practice Conference. (Conference) Boston University, Boston, MA (2013). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Understanding the PgMP Credential
    Author: Moura Junior, Valdery