Samuel Kellum

Vial Calculator

This project began when my mother (a PharmD at Tulane University’s School of Medicine) asked me a “simple” math question to help fill prescriptions for her hemophilia patients while she was working from home. This process of determining the optimal filling of prescriptions has been manual and iterative for pharmacists – wasteful of both time and potentially expensive medications.

Instead of solving the problem by hand, I applied what I learned in my “Introduction to Business Analytics” class and devised an algorithm that eliminated this laborious process and achieved a new level of accuracy. I worked with MicroHealth Inc., the market leader in hemophilia digital health, and helped develop an online calculator accessible for any pharmacist to use. They (MicroHealth) provide an app for patients and a professional dashboard that is free for any patient or healthcare provider to use, with the goal of improving health outcomes.

After discussion with other hemophilia organizations and the Tulane Intellectual Property Department, I decided to provide the program for free, allowing easy access to anyone who could find it useful. So far, the tool has received positive feedback from physicians and pharmacists at top medical institutions.

Division I Cross-Country Analysis

I aggregated and prepped athlete information from 319 Division I cross-country rosters using web scraping techniques. I analyzed average athlete height as a predictor of team success, and found that height was not a predictor of team performance.