Founder and Medical Advisor & Data Strategist

Insured Insight Ltd – Estonia

• From specialist to visionary.
• From programming to medical advisory.

Apr 2025 – present

Head of Analytics

Estonian Health Insurance Fund – Estonia

• As team leader, I built a multidisciplinary team and served as a subject matter expert on all matters related to digital analytics and measurement strategy.
• Served as bridge between data science and medical information enabling data reporting serves as business insight.
• Established processes for analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing large datasets in compliance with handling confidential information.
• Recommended data analysis tools to address business issues, secured direct access to the data warehouse, enabling real-time analytics, and automated dashboards (Power BI, R, Python).
• Created dashboards and reports that provided insights into treatment and outcomes trends.
• Performed ad hoc analyses as needed to answer specific questions about population health or service trends.
• Identified opportunities to leverage AI and ML technologies for improved decision-making capabilities. I bridged data science and healthcare by identifying cases where analytics are beneficial.
• Invited speaker at Experience Exchange1 3th EHFCN (European Healthcare Fraud & Corruption Network) Conference Berlin · Oct 31, 2019
• Conducted data mining, predictive modeling, and segmentation analyses to optimize healthcare resources. These included developing bundled-payment plans.

Jan 2019 – Mar 2025

Data Manager – Statistician

Quretec Ltd – Estonia

Quretec helps organizations succeed with creating secure and reliable information systems

• I contributed as a statistician in clinical trials, developing and implementing analysis plans.
• Managed data cleaning and quality evaluations.
• Detected and resolved data quality issues and discrepancies for integrity and quality control.
• Designed and optimized data capture models on electronic platforms.
• Automated reports and dashboards to capture adverse effects.
• Executed comprehensive statistical analyses.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018

Trusted Physician

Estonian Health Insurance Fund – Estonia

• My role involved overseeing the review of medical records to validate the payment of medical claims.
• Evaluated existing systems and recommended improvements to ensure maximum efficiency detecting trends but also waste and fraud.
• I initiated the use of statistical analysis and demonstrated the impact of applying analytics, which drove the development of a new department.
• After a year of planning and preparations, I was selected to lead this department.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017

Scientist

University of Tartu – Estonia

• I investigated autoimmune mechanisms in diabetes and human fertility.
• Managed laboratory inventory and ensured compliance with safety regulations.
• Maintained accurate records of experimental protocols and results in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Developed new hypotheses based on experimental results and relevant scientific literature.
• Designed and conducted complex experiments following established scientific protocols.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to advance research projects.
• Developed and validated a new ELISA-based test for identifying treatable infertility conditions.
• Performed hypothesis tests to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between two groups of data points.
• Analyzed data using descriptive and multivariate statistical analysis processes, using R programming.
• Built predictive models using machine learning algorithms, such as linear regression and logistic regression.
• Prepared detailed reports summarizing research findings for publication in scientific journals. Published more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
• Conducted literature reviews to support research projects and identify new areas of exploration.
• I lectured and co-supervised master’s students.

May 2007 – Dec 2017

Leadership and soft skills:

visionary leadership, team management, excellent communication and interpersonal skills (listening, verbal and written) with ability to maintain confidentiality while working with colleagues or medical data, critical thinking, problem solving skills, highly organized, attention to detailes with ability to integrate these into big picture, ability to work independently and motivating interdisciplinary innovation, experienced in project management tools (Jira, Confluence)

Analytical skills:

data strategy, dashboard creation, analytics and data science, reporting data and analyzing results, data visualization statistical software (MS PowerBI), data integration, predictive analytics, RDBM tools (HANA Studio, MySQL server etc) and SQL skills, statistical modeling, AI prompting, programming skills (Python, R), MS applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), graphical tools (Canva, draw.io, Bizagi etc)

Medicine and science:

healthcare integrations, databases, data models, molecular clinical immunology, health insurance, clinical trials, laboratory skills (ELISA, PCR, etc.), general practitioner, human reproduction, autoimmune mechanisms, scientific publications

Languages:

• Estonian (native speaker)
• English (fluent) – EF SET English Certificate 64/100 (C1 Advanced) – Aug 2024

University of Tartu 

Master Studies of Data Science (Selected courses completed*)

Sep 2022 – Mar 2023*

University of Tartu 

Residency of Obstetrics and Gynecology (training discontinued*)

Sep 2008- Sep 2010*

University of Tartu 

PhD – Molecular Medicine, Immunology of human reproduction and autoimmunity

May 2002 – Feb 2007

Tartu University Hospital

Internship – General practician

Sep 2000 – May 2001

University of Tartu  

MD – Doctor of Medicine

Sep 1994 – May 2000

University of Michigan – Michigan, USA  

Inspiring and Motivating Individuals    

Feb 2025

ACS – Training & Technologies  

Healthcare Fraud Detection Using Data Analytics, AI and Machine Learning 

Oct 2024

University of Tartu – Estonia  

Statistical Practice in Epidemiology Using R  

July 2016