E488 Russ Sacks, Co-Founder & EVP of Data Science and Special Projects at Kythera Labs

Today's guest is Russ Sacks, Co-Founder & EVP of Data Science and Special Projects at Kythera Labs. Founded in 2019, Kythera Labs' data scientists, engineers, statisticians and domain experts are dedicated to building solutions that efficiently collect, organize, standardize, improve and transform data. The company are empowering the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries to uncover insights that lead to better patient outcomes.

Russ leads the Data Science and Operations Research team at Kythera Labs. He has over 20 years of experience in operations research, process excellence, data science, and software development. He has implemented data science models and predictive analytics to manage diseases, utilization and revenue cycles at numerous healthcare organizations. Russ is also a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

In today's episode, Russ talks about:

An overview of Kythera Labs,

Challenges in working with Healthcare data,

Problems the Data Science team are solving in this space,

What the near future looks like for Kythera Labs,

Why Kythera Labs is a great place to work