Hello everybody! I’m Daniel Teixeira dos Santos, a neurologist specialized in Headache and Movement Disorders with a great appreciation for clinical research and data science!
I’m a Brazilian currently living in the city of Porto Alegre (south Brazil) and conducting research filliated to the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, which is an important clinical and research institution in my country.
I’ve recently obtained my Master’s degree and aim to being my PhD with a project that aims to derive biology-driven subtypes of PD suitable for clinical prediction using a machine-learning approach. This project will use PPMI and PDBP to obtain this information.
I also have some prior experience with systematic review with meta-analyses and my most preferable topics of study are PD subtyping, non-motor symptoms, epidemiology, environmental risk factors, clinical-genetic associations and studying underrepresented populations.
I think that applying data science in PD research is crucial for the progression of our knowledge in the field and to identify new targets for effective treatments in patients with PD and I’m very thankful to be a part of this community!