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Onyedikachi Onwurah
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The Clinical Translator: An Overlooked Role in Healthcare ML

Healthcare ML pipelines often emphasize:

• Feature engineering
• Model selection
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Validation metrics

But few address decision translation.

Consider a deterioration prediction model.

Technical performance aside, deployment requires:

Threshold determination

Alert routing logic

Workflow integration

Capacity assessment

Monitoring and retraining

Without structured translation, prediction outputs remain detached from operational impact.

A clinical translator in ML bridges:

• Statistical output
• Clinical interpretation
• Resource constraints
• Governance requirements

My work focuses on building these translational bridges.

Background:

Pharmacist (12 years)
MPH
MSc Data Science – Precision Medicine

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