Ed Flinchem is a Principal Data Scientist with the Davita Medical Group, a major provider of primary and specialty care in six states. Ed's focus is on developing predictive machine learning models to optimize value based care delivery with an emphasis on forecasting high risk, high complexity outcomes. Ed leverages both the structured and unstructured data (free text) of electronic health records, in the service of providing better healthcare, for more people, at lower cost. Ed has served the Davita Medical Group and its subsidiary, The Everett Clinic, since 2017.

Over his 27 year career, Ed has served in industry, government, academic, and startup roles. As Chief Data Scientist at TurboPatent, Ed applied machine learning to the text of patent applications to predict rejections by the US Patent Office. Ed co-invented the predictive text input method, T9, a product based on machine learning and one of the most widely distributed pieces of software in history, used daily by billions of persons texting on their mobile phones. Prior to developing T9, Ed served in academic and government labs developing software to advance research and teaching in physical oceanography and geophysics, acquiring expertise in large scale data analysis, statistics, geographical information systems, satellite remote sensing, fluid dynamics, and digital signal processing.

Ed earned his B.A. in physics at Brown University in 1985, followed by graduate study in physical oceanography and geophysics at the University of Washington. He has authored over 20 publications, including 5 journal articles and 15 patent applications.
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honors


National Merit Scholar
Boeing corporation sponsored 4 year college scholarship

Brown University Faculty Scholar
An award given annually to 4 sophomores selected by the faculty for their outstanding intellectual promise

ONR Graduate Fellowship
Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense
The NDSEG Fellowship Program is a joint program of the United States Army, Navy and Air Force within the University Research Initiative (URI), designed to increase the number of U.S. citizens trained in disciplines of science and engineering important to defense goals. DoD awards approximately 100-150 new three-year graduate fellowships each year to individuals for study and research leading to doctoral degrees in, or closely related to, the disciplines of aeronautical and astronautical engineering; biosciences, chemical engineering; chemistry; cognitive, neural, and behavioral sciences; electrical engineering; geosciences; civil engineering; computer and computational sciences; materials science and engineering; mathematics; mechanical engineering; naval architecture and ocean engineering; oceanography; and physics.

NASA Graduate Fellowship
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Project awards fellowships for graduate study leading to master's or doctoral degrees, related to NASA research and development, in the fields of science, mathematics and engineering. This 12-month award includes a required internship at the NASA center affiliated with the NASA-sponsored research. The award may be renewed annually, for a maximum of three years.
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