Dr Lara Kim Davson
London
Summary
Solution-focused product manager and medical doctor. Passionate about delivering high-quality health and wellness empowerment through data and digital solutions. Leads and motivates high-performing cross-functional teams to achieve product objectives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
Work history
Data Product Manager - Link
Veeva Systems Inc
London
07.2023 - Current
- Owned delivery of the data product roadmap for Link Medical Insights, collaborating closely with product and strategy leads to achieve product-market fit.
- Directly engaged with customers and end-users to understand needs, respond to support requests, run user research, and demonstrate features.
- Developed sentiment analysis feature from product concept to testing and validation phases, collaborating closely with data science to deliver version one of market differentiating feature within competitor landscape.
- Managed specialist curator team of 8 curators, team manager, and operation lead: set quality and performance objectives and KPIs, continually gathering data to ensure most valuable insights were extracted.
- Owned and developed clinical trial data entity of 380k trials across US, EMEA and Japan. Prioritised data sources, defined logical models, collaborated with engineering and data curation teams to create holistic trial data schema for application across clinical products.
- Collaborated with experts to build and enrich central drug product entity, which enabled multiple products to derive insights, build features, and simplify complex data.
Senior Clinical Product Manager - Member Engagement
Babylon
London
01.2022 - 07.2023
- Identified company-wide duplicative effort in creating complex clinical definitions for population segments. Drove development of segmentation product atop data platform, leveraging rich normalized health data set. Decreased toil from 1 month to less than 1 day per definition.
- Initiated development self-service SAAS-first population segmentation product, which empowered clinical operations to prioritise patient outreach by leveraging signals from predictive machine learning models, clinical & financial data.
- Fostered cross-functional collaboration within Agile product-engineering team to drive innovation and efficiency. First iteration was delivered within 1 quarter.
- Proved end-to-end business value by producing targeted outreach campaigns with measurable engagement metrics using rule-builder logic and comprehensive library of canonical cohorts.
Senior Clinical Product Manager - Data Platform
Babylon Health
London
05.2022 - 12.2022
- Led cross-functional team of 5 developers, 2 knowledge specialists, and 1 clinical informatician in unifying data for increased understandability and discoverability of data platform data. Increased data platform data patient record recall from 55% to 100%.
- Consulted on client clinical terminology requirements and delivered point-of-code coding solution in under two weeks, exceeding customer expectations.
- Applied data platform and clinical informatics expertise to include customer requirements to send SNOMED-ICD mappings (available in federated graph) within BUPA payload. Leveraged business backing of above investment to unblock and enable decommissioning of legacy terminology service in multiple regions {UK and Canada}, with measurable return on investment for business.
- Undertook user research to iterated on internal
standard-compliant schema-building products and databases to
enable efficient health data normalization into Fast Healthcare
Interoperability Resources (FHIR). - Delivered up-versions of these products and processes to reduce deployment time of standard-compliant models for data platform by 95% and continuous integration (CI) test run-time by 75%. This effort contributed to reduction of time for data into data platform from 50 days to 5-10 days.
Clinical Digital Health Manager - Data Platform
Babylon Health
London
05.2022 - 12.2022
- Guided development of existing internal tool - that enabled clinicians and other stakeholders to view test data within with reduced reliance on raw spreadsheet data exports or engineering support (100 % by end Q4 2020).
- Trained and practised in SNOMED CT. Experience with other terminology standards, such as ICD, RxNorm, and LOINC.
- Managed team of two clinical informaticians to drive data quality across platform - consistency, improvement, and maintenance.
- Facilitated Digital Health Curriculum with company-wide audience helping share clinical knowledge across growing company for 3 years.
Clinical AI Product Manager
Babylon Health
London
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Leveraged existing bespoke auditing tool design and architecture to deliver self-service data visualisation tool that enabled proactive business responses to user complaints and feedback, removing need for manual data extraction via business intelligence.
- Developed novel, clinician-facing statistical contingency procedure that allowed aggregate production data to be used for safety audits for first time.
- Delivered audit tool feature that incorporated differential disease annotation into post-market safety process, closing product feedback loop, improving in-app flow accuracy by 10%.
NHS doctor Locum
Various hospitals in the UK
London
09.2020 - 12.2021
- NHS clinical practice: Royal Free Hospital and Royal Berkshire Hospital A&E locum.
Clinical AI fellow
Babylon Health
London
12.2018 - 11.2019
- Used in-house tools to directly build deterministic symptom checker. Delivered probabilistic graphical model overlay within 1 quarter as part of Scrum team, improving end-user experiences.
- Worked with customer medical team to localised symptom checker product to two new global markets under tight deadlines while maintaining clinical safety and effectiveness, achieving customer success.
Medical doctor
Department of Health South Africa
01.2011 - 07.2018
- Medical Officer - Ear Nose Throat, Feb 2017 to July 2018
- Medical Officer Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Oct-Dec 2017
- Medical Officer General / Obstetric and Gynaecology Surgery,
Mar-Oct 2016 - A&E and General Practitioner, Jan 2014 to Feb 2015
- Community Service Medical Officer, Jan 2013 to Dec 2014
- Internship rotation, Jan 2011 to Dec 2012
Education
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Medicine
University of Cape Town
01.2004 - 12.2010
Skills
- Clinical Experience
- OKR and KPI development
- SQL
- Clinical Coding Systems
- Clinical Governance
Certification
- Imperial Business Analytics: From Data to Decisions July-Oct 2020
- SNOMED Foundation Course Feb-March 2021
- SNOMED CT Authoring Level 1 Course Mar-Jul 2022
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) conference Jan 2021
- Advanced Life Support Course July 2021
Timeline
Data Product Manager - Link
Veeva Systems Inc
07.2023 - Current
Senior Clinical Product Manager - Data Platform
Babylon Health
05.2022 - 12.2022
Clinical Digital Health Manager - Data Platform
Babylon Health
05.2022 - 12.2022
Senior Clinical Product Manager - Member Engagement
Babylon
01.2022 - 07.2023
Clinical AI Product Manager
Babylon Health
05.2021 - 04.2022
NHS doctor Locum
Various hospitals in the UK
09.2020 - 12.2021
Clinical AI fellow
Babylon Health
12.2018 - 11.2019
Medical doctor
Department of Health South Africa
01.2011 - 07.2018
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Medicine
University of Cape Town
01.2004 - 12.2010
Professional Associations
- General Medical Council, 10/01/20, Present
- Health Professional Council of South Africa, 12/01/10, Present
- Golden Key International Honor Society membership, 01/01/05, Present
Professional Associations
- General Medical Council, 10/01/20, Present
- Health Professional Council of South Africa, 12/01/10, Present
- Golden Key International Honor Society membership, 01/01/05, Present
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