Ben is a medical doctor with an MSc in epidemiology and biostatistics, and has become somewhat of an MD/data-scientist hybrid. He’s doing a PhD in clinical pharmacology and data science, trying to leverage longitudinal electronic patient records and registry data to give actionable answers to substantial pharmacovigilance questions. He’s R fluent, proficient in Python and SQL, and learning Julia. Likes to play floorball, speaks Italian and loves coffee.